Before I jump into the weekend photos, I'll cover the few things from the week before... I'm going to have to get more fabric to finish the mock-up for Padme. I do think I finally figured out the hood pieces -- I transferred the hood and cape mockup pieces to paper. I still need to figure out fitted sleeves, the bodice pieces and the skirt of course... all the fabric ...
Let's start out with Seven progress this week because looking back at my last post... dang I finished a lot since then! It didn't feel like that much but it was. I did finish getting all of the HTV sewn on and FINALLY got to start sewing everything together. The back panel It took me a minute to remember how the sleeves worked on the TNG uniform -- the yoke ...
Well it took me longer than I thought to get the rest of these cropped and uploaded but here they are at last. Started the shoot with Dapper Leia because I wanted my "real hair" costumes to go first. I forgot to do any pics with my sunglasses but not too upset about it because I really didn't like the sunglasses I bought for these, they were too skinny. Next ...
I generally don't make New Year's resolutions anymore, but I saw somebody say their resolution is to "pet more dogs" and that's what I'm going to use from now on if anybody asks about my new year's resolution. I didn't post last week which was not great because now I have to try to remember everything that happened Christmas weekend. Work just ended up being super busy the day I ...
I want to do my wrap-up today instead of a regular post. I may still do a mini update post later today. So as usual let's start out by seeing what I said I wanted to make in 2022 back in December 2021. 1. Finish Utena - YES! 2. Lady Jessica - YES! 3. Padme’s Packing Gown - YES! 4. New Leia Dapper Day Look - YES! 5. Endor Leia - nah 6. Jedi Training Leia - ...
Ok let's get this thing over with! Wednesday morning we were up before the sun, headed over to Ash's house to pick her up. This was absolutely the tightest packing job we've ever had... That's my purple duffel bag shoved in sideways in the front, which resulted in my (somewhat pricey) makeup remover spilling everywhere. Thankfully I keep all spillables in a bag but i had to wash everything else ...
This morning was the first time my feet HAVEN'T hurt going up and down the stairs in our house, and I've regained feeling in the little toe on my left foot. Unexplained bruise, scrape on my ankle, and spots of eyeliner i still can't get off are still hanging around, along with a non-stop migraine I've had since before dragoncon. Anyway, this will not be my recap post -- I'll ...
T minus 2 days and... we are done. Chase was going to do one more little detail thing to his Leto armor but decided not to. We are at that point. I had one more little beaded chain thing I should have added to Jessica (the part that goes around the fingers on the sleeves) but I was like eh fuck it. I want to be done LOL This last consisted ...
Here we are again, another Monday of Dragoncon progress and nothing else to talk about. Seriously we're in con crunch mode now so neither of us have done anything but eat, sleep and work on dragoncon stuff. I was mostly churning out the Jessica headpiece. Here's what I started with. It's built around a headband with kobracast and worbla parts. (I started with kobracast, it was too flimsy, switched to ...
Coming down to the wire. I'm in much better shape this year than I was last year but still have a few major hurdles to get over in the next 2 weeks. Out of curiosity I had to go look at where I was this time last year and... uh, yeah I'd say I'm still in a slightly better place this year than last but not by much LOL At least ...