It's that time of the year again... time to see what I accomplished this year, what I didn't get to, and what I did instead of doing the things I said I was going to do. So last year I said my goals for 2017 were: 1. Georgian Belle – as I said above, finish it up for Visioncon. Did I?! Not really. I redid the wig, twice - once for Visioncon, and ...
So my high school reunion is coming up. Am I going? Anyway lots to talk about from this weekend!! Friday night Chase & I had tickets to go see Young Frankenstein at Elmwood Cemetery. Coolers were welcome so we packed up sandwiches and soup and camp chairs and headed down there. I thought it might be chilly at night by the time this rolled around by temps are still high ...
Uggggggggh I'm back at work today and feel like a zombie. Came back to a TON of stuff too so double Uggggggggh. BUT! It's time for this year's Dragon Con recap. So Chase had originally planned to be doing a scooter trip that weekend, so we were both going to be out of town - but Hurricane Harvey put a stop to his trip, so he stayed home all weekend. ...
Warning you now, I have a ton of photos today. Going to start with probably the least interesting thing. Sims screencaps. And they're not even screencaps. I literally just took photos of my monitor, because I'm lazy. It never fails that anytime I'm in the final crunch of finishing stuff before a deadline, my brain is like, "Ok, let's play the Sims now." I started up a new game this ...
LOL I have apparently already had 10 other posts named "Blah." This is "blah 11." I am almost done with everything. Should be finished up this weekend... in fact everything is looking good enough that I'm switching my days off around. I'd originally put down I'd be off next Thursday and Friday (even though we aren't leaving til Friday). I'd planned to have that Thursday off to finish up last minute stuff, ...
Didn't get a whole lot done last night. Well maybe kinda. Finished painting my shoes, got the lowest ruffle sewn on. Got the sequins sewn onto the straps and got the first line of sequins sewn across the top of the bodice. Had to handsew those so it took a little longer - I have to do one more line of them tonight. Also finish hand-sewing the top ruffle, and ...
Guess who ruined more fabric with dye and is going to have to go buy more fabric again? I have no idea what happened. This was the weirdest dye experience I've ever had. I'd done tests on this fabric and they'd all turned out fine. I staggered the dyeing -- a few panels of the dress in for 10 minutes, then took those out to dry while I did another set ...
My to-do list for this (4 day!) weekend: Bespin Leia: -Repleat the front so the front embroidery shows better -take tunic apart, take up, shorten, sewing trim back on Pink thing: -Get bodice lining pieces cut -Get bodice basically put together -Make panniers -Get skirt panels put together -Start piecing out organza Mon Mothma: -Do embroidery floss through braid pieces -play with wig TFA Leia: -Buy new fabric -wash new fabric ...
Ugh... so over a year ago -- almost two years ago now -- I voluntarily changed my work schedule so I could be home earlier in the day but it meant getting up earlier. It was hard at first to get up an hour earlier than I normally did, but I figured I'd adjust. I have never adjusted. Every morning is like death. But I won't go back, I like ...
Last night I re-did Mon Mothma's sleeves because I realized I'd done them a little wrong - thankfully nothing difficult to fix. I don't feel like figuring out the necklace thingie D: I am lazy. I don't want to do any crafting. I just want to sew. NO CRAFT ONLY SEW So since I didn't feel like messing with that I did a dye test on the linen blend I ...