So this weekend was crazy. As I mentioned last week, we were prepping the house for new floors! Yay! The flooring came in Friday and dad came over to help us get it in the house. It needed to sit inside our house for a couple of days to acclimate. We had already pulled up the carpet in the hallway, so that's where we put the majority of the boxes. ...
Today I have a tutorial to post! I'm planning on wearing my Queen Amidala parade dress soon, and it's been YEARS since I wore it (late 2005 was the last time I wore it with long hair; 2010 with short hair), so I figured I needed to practice the hair since it's been a while. Back in 2005, my hairstylist helped me come up with the way to do this with my own ...
Here's everything so far. I'm only missing 3 actually so maybe I should have waited, but our server is down at work and I'm bored. Belldandy and Urd from 2003 and 2002, respectively. These two costumes have really stood the test of time. I knew Belldandy was in good shape since I wore her to Momocon earlier this year, but Urd has been packed in a bag for several years. The cape's a ...
(This post may seem a little repetitive - this was ported over from my livejournal and recapped a lot of stuff I'd recently posted on my blog. Now that my LJ posts are part of my blog, it's very redundant!) A recap of recent costume-y stuff... MTAC came and went and we got stranded there an extra day because of the flood. It was all pretty icky, for everyone involved. ...
It's been over a week since I last posted!! Been busy. Working on getting stuff ready for Huntsville this past weekend! Huntsville was half awesome and half sucky. The sucky: My mom fell in the driveway before we left and sprained her wrist, my dad got some kind of bug bite on his arm that got continually worse throughout the weekend, between my Parade Amidala and Leia ceremonial shoes I ...
Since I did the Wonderfest post over at my other journal, I'll do the COSI one here! A strange crew on the falcon... Friday! Ash and I left Chase's apt and took a cab to the airport. The cab showed up 20 minutes earlier than it was supposed to, so we got to the airport waaaaaaay early. Flight was uneventful, and short. Columbus weather? Not so great. It was pouring and ...
Well, I'm back from Wonderfest. Unfortunately I didn't get to go to the Ren Faire as I woke up sick on Monday :( But we decided to definitely go next year, and to go earlier in May when it's cooler. Anyway here's pics and new costume stuff: Chase and I drove up Friday night - it was an easy drive, only about 2 hours through the countryside. We got there around 9:30. The ...
I ran across my original 2005 costume list on the Jedi Council boards, did I get it all done? I said I'd do: -Padme ep 1 Parade gown Done! Besides the Princesses, this was my biggest project of the year, and the one I worked on longest. I'm still quite proud of it -Qui-Gon Jinn for my father Done! It wasn't perfect, far from it, but everyone recognized him as Qui-Gon. I ...
I finally put batteries in the little camera yesterday, to take a pic of my finished Belle costume, and I found some old pics on the memory card I don't think I ever took off. Indy asleep!! Awwww. My Amidala petal cape in progress - I was pinning them on here! At this point I thought I had enough, but that night I discovered I needed MOOOOOOORE hahaha. The parasol ...
Jupiter isn't going to be ready for A-Kon. Why? Because it's about two weeks til A-Kon and I haven't bought a single thing for it. Which wouldn't be a giant problem except I got so much left to do on Yuuko, there's no time to worry with Jupiter. :( Oh well - I'll do it for MTAC next year! Speaking of Yuuko - I finally got the extensions so I started ...