Another weird week. Didn't go out for New Year's - that's not new, we haven't gone out in years - but we also still didn't have Christmas because half the family is still covid positive. My mom finally tested negative this morning. Last week we had Cath & family staying with us for a couple of days. We really need to roll back the carpet in Kevin's room, tighten 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. ...
Ok so to keep my Dragoncon recap free of long paragraphs about costume minutiae, I decided to just make a separate post. 1. 18th Century Barbie Like I said in the main recap post, it was really nice to get to bring this costume back after it had such a disastrous debut at Dragoncon 2015. Literally I nearly had a panic attack wearing it at dcon 2015 - it was too hot, it ...
Well another Dragoncon has come and gone. It was a good year and somehow I didn't come home feeling like absolute crap? LIke my feet are still sore and my little toes are still slightly numb but otherwise I don't feel as exhausted as I usually do. Anyway let's recap it all.... I can't remember if I posted our badge ribbons we were handing out? I was giving out bun ...
Well not quite but it's close enough. I'm in good shape. Here's a random pic I took of the jedi Leia tunic last week just for IG. No updates here. Got a new button cover kit last week, so I replaced Padme's cuff buttons for a 3rd time. Please I never want to do this again. Luna supervised. Finished all my little updates on wedding Leia. Since the April photoshoot ...
Hey look I actually titled a blog post what it's actually about. Yeah a couple of days late with this. Wanted to gather up all the pics first including the ones from Chase's camera. So Thursday I get off work and go to take a nap and as I lay down, I get an idea. And I have to go do the idea right then and there. I WAS going ...
i just managed to spray myself in the face with an open coke can. Welcome to monday. How so? Well I didn't realize my mouse cord was behind my coke can and when I went to pull out the lower portion of my desk to set my laptop on, the mouse cord got yanked and it propelled the coke can right at me. Thankfully it was only about half full ...
Let's start with costume stuff for this week. Here's my Star Trek dress as of a week ago, still had to put the collar on which I thought would be easy but... the pattern had very sparse directions for doing this. there was no pattern piece included, just "measure the neckline and cut a length of black fabric and sew on" So that's what I initially did and immediately was ...
Nothing like a slightly different angle of morning sun (like time change) to really show you how dusty your work desk is. Gotta get the swiffer up here. I spent last week working on my Star Trek skant. Got the panels put together It was overall way too big so spent one afternoon sitting in just the new bra getting it fitted down, especially through the shoulders and sleeve openings. ...
Let's jump right in - my undergarments for my star trek dress came in Tuesday! Yay! Unfortunately did not fit. Boo. Ok so the cincher is just a little bit big and doesn't seem to do anything, I think I should have sized down, but I'll just take up the back seam, nbd. But the bra... ok so the bra fit great through my underbust/ribcage/shoulders which is saying ...