hello world

Ok quick post today because I need to get back to work and also because I apparently destroyed my thumb sewing last night and I'm still in pain today and it hurts to type. I started stoning the boots last week: End of Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: You can't tell in the Friday photo but the stones go all around the foot area up around the ankle on the ...

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you exist in the context

oh hi. It's getting close to panic time for dragoncon. A while back Jess made a comment about my the Taylor Swift game mastermind in relation to my dragoncon line-up - so I had to do my dragoncon line up that way: Those 10 are pretty much confirmed. Left off the 2 unconfirmed for now. Here's where we stand at the moment: 1. Seven of Nine with her updates from December I need ...

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lingering in the ocean blue

So for the past few months, Luna has decided her sleeping spot is my underbed storage container. It's soft-sided thing from ikea and I keep like my swimsuits and tights and stuff I don't need often in it, and I left it unzipped and she claimed it. She's always gone through phases of where she sleeps, she'll sleep in her cat condo for a month, then the back of the ...

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life was a willow

Sorry for no Monday morning post yesterday. I've been dealing with a lot of anxiety the past week. Not much more I can say at the moment. Been trying to keep my nose to the grindstone and my mind on other things. So the good news is I'm officially done with SEWING on 3 out of 5 of my Dragoncon costumes. Let's recap! Tatooine Padme: First up, I finally bit the bullet ...

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it was maroon

Even though I said "no" to April Fool's Day last week, I did make something for it: It cracks me up how well this went together for 5 seconds in photoshop LOL Monday I got my Padme lake dress cardigan from maxxmerch! I love it!! Plus it came with a pin, a print and a keychain!! I filmed an unboxing video, got it edited and uploaded to tiktok... where it stayed ...

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half way to dragoncon

We're back from Atlanta! We went down to celebrate Chase's birthday. But, as usual, let's start at the beginning. Finished Honeymoon Leia FINALLY. Just got to put a closure on the belt and add the 3d printed pieces Chase is working on. And it needs steamed really bad because it's been manhandled like crazy the last few weeks. Luna says hi I've been wanting this bag for a while and ...

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2023 Costume Wrap-Up

All rightie it's that time of the year when we compare last year's to-do list and see what I got done. At the end of 2022, here's what I said I wanted to accomplish in 2023... 1. Finish Wedding Leia -- YES! I did finish wedding Leia! 2. Rebels Leia -- YES! I have been saying I was going to do this for a few years and I can finally mark it off now. 3. ...

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