queen amidala
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Queen Amidala (Star Wars) Parade costume, constructed in 2005.
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C3, Queen Amidala, Mara Jade, and A-Kon
C3, costume wise… I wore my Imperial Officer on Thursday morning – not much to say there, except I still want new pants and a new rank insignia thingie. I wore Padme lake dress for a while after that – and the necklace completely fell apart. LOL. That’s what I get for wearing a 3 year old costume and not…
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Star Wars celebration 3 pics!!
First things first: -Got my midnight Star Wars tickets. Yay! -Got tickets to see Phantom of the Opera in Atlanta Sept 1, night before Dragoncon -School is finished for the semester, whee. C3 was at an awful time of the year. Both Ash and I had so much school stuff due because it was smack at the end of the…
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Queen Amidala costume photoshoot!
Yeah it’s finished and I have nice pics!! In other news, everything has been CRAZY the past week or so… I know I’m backed up on comments and mails and stuff so I’ll try to get to them tonight or tomorrow. Right now, I’ve got a paper due monday that I must go work on…
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MidSouthCon 2005 pics!
Ok, I’m just posting my favourite pictures here, real quick like before I go to bed (otherwise I won’t post them until like wednesday) All of them are here! I didn’t take the camera with me to the con friday – I wore my officer uniform. Then I headed home and got changed for the TRU midnight star wars thingie.…
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Today… Amidala Parade dress progress
I’ve already been up to MidSouthCon today – just for a bit, I picked up my badge and looked around, and then I decided I better come on home so I could finish parade for tomorrow, haha. Here’s some random things I’ve done lately: -Sewed all Anna’s buckles on – one came off, so I put that one back on…
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when i finished the cloak
My cloak is done!!!!!!!! YAY!!! still got stuff to do on it though.
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Yuck
I hate sewing on netting. That is all.
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Some parasol pics of interest
Here’s some pics of the parasol before it got covered with the fabric.
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Amidala petals again…
Newly dyed petals – and my bike earning its keep! hehe. I finished all the petals, finally. They’re just pinned on here, because I started putting them all on to see how many I needed before I finished the rest of them. I don’t plan on dying the undyed ones – I’m just going to mix them in with the…
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Amidala Petals everywhere
have been spending a lot of time making petals, dyeing petals, pinning petals and sewing petals.
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Queen Amidala Parade Petals
Don’t take a picture of me! The dying! Take a picture of the dying! It was nice out yesterday, so I did my dying outside. Here’s what the petals looked like BEFORE… And right after dying, still wet. After they were all dry today, I pinned some onto the cloak, just to get a feel for how they were looking.…
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Queen Amidala Parade Dress Progress
I got quite a few more petals done this weekend, and today I finished the base cape. I worked on the dress a little more, too. Here’s the base cape for my Padme Parade dress… this was on sunday morning, when I was just pinning it together and stuff. I finished it today, as I said. Here’s the workstation for…
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Amidala Shoes, Parasol, Progress & Plans
I’ve actually been working on stuff! Yay, me. I finally got the serger correctly threaded to do the rolled edges for the petals, and have since made about 30 petals… and it was SO FAST!! *_* It would have taken me Iforever/I to do it on the regular sewing machine. I think I’m in love, haha. I painted my shoes…
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Lots of updates and plans
I haven’t updated in a month! Good grief. Costume updates: Qui-Gon: No progress whatsoever. Ha, ha. Padme: I bought some more stuff (see below), and finally got the serger threaded correctly for doing rolled edges as of yesterday… but otherwise, nothing! Mara: I bought my fabric, shinguards, and goggles. I’m still trying to decide whether or not I want to…
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when it was quiet
My little friend is gone, there’s nothing else to do now but move on and remember all the good times I had with him. Still, this house is very sad right now. Mum keeps crying and blaming herself. Dad is just quiet. I’m going out to lunch with my grandmother. That will be nice. I have no idea what do…
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My new Serger! And Qui-Gon updates
As of yesterday morning I became the proud mom of my very own serger 🙂 I’m so excited! I can’t wait to start learning to use it. I have an appointment for weekend after next, the lady at the store is going to show me the basics. I saw Phantom of the Opera last night. Before I left the house,…
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when livejournal was down
Remember how I posted about that church with the sign, and I was trying to describe the kind of things they put on there? I used “Seven days without prayer makes one weak” as an my example… Guess what their sign says this week? Weeeeird. Are they like, stalking me? LJ is down which kinda cancels the post I was…
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Possible Costume Lineups
tentative schedule for next year: Shadowcon (jan 7-8, Memphis) nothing new – only going on saturday, will probably just wear Ozma. MidSouthCon (April 1-3, Memphis) Padme Parade gown (which is what I’m working on now – I have 3 months to finish it, so it *should* be done… if not, it’ll be at CIII) Celebration III (April 21-24, Indianapolis) Qui-Gon…
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Capes, X-Wing Boxes, dogs
the workroom with pictures of what I’m working on now (plus a picture of arwen’s hope dress, which I’m NOT working on), and you can see my padme and quigon fabric on the far left. Ash’s nasty workspace!! all that styrofoam! Ash’s X-Wing Pilot chestbox in progress- looking awesome. My workspace – cutting padme petals for the cape. The cloak…
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Qui-Gon and Amidala updates
In the past week I had to make a few last minute, extremely cheap (they had a v. tight budget) costumes for the play I was involved: An “Acrobatman” shirt (blue shirt with a yellow triangle and a red “A” on the front ala Superman), 3 Devo hats, and an Elvis shirt (with attached belt so the 2 actors that…
