tfa blue dress leia
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my General Leia (The Force Awakens) blue dress - as of June 2017, this costume is in-progress.
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YAY it’s done!
Despite that title, I’m starting with art today just because I have a bunch to untangle from last week. Including a HOUSE INTRUDER, a LOT OF SEWING, some MOVIES, and DOG-SITTING! Since last post I’ve only focused on knocking out Clone Wars stuff. Here’s what I kept calling “Loyalist Committee Lite” I totally just used the skirt embellishment from my…
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Happy New Year!
GUESS WHAT! My blog is 20 years old now. It’s in college. My earliest blog posts were late 97/early 98 and the oldest post I was able to track down to reupload was from January 8, 1998. I think next week I will do a big post about it for its birthday! So anyway, this weekend was rather lazy. Mostly…
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I have gazillion things to post
Wow I didn’t realize it had been so long since I last posted. Almost 2 weeks ago! So where to start… We saw TLJ again on 12/17 with Ash and Gabe. I wore my Hoth Leia vest and boots and wore my hair braided up. I was sitting on a bench in the lobby waiting on Chase and this little…
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2017 Year in Review
It’s that time of the year again… time to see what I accomplished this year, what I didn’t get to, and what I did instead of doing the things I said I was going to do. So last year I said my goals for 2017 were: 1. Georgian Belle – as I said above, finish it up for Visioncon. Did…
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TFA Leia Pics!
Last bit of photoshoot! THAT WIG *_* I have the portfolio all updated, everything from Dragon Con is now finished. Yay! I have to go to Vegas for work next week. Boo. Then I’ll be swinging into Halloween stuff!! Making a nun costume for a friend! And also helping out with the set for a Christmas play (shows are in…
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MCX, photoshoot, Young Frankenstein, etc
So my high school reunion is coming up. Am I going? Anyway lots to talk about from this weekend!! Friday night Chase & I had tickets to go see Young Frankenstein at Elmwood Cemetery. Coolers were welcome so we packed up sandwiches and soup and camp chairs and headed down there. I thought it might be chilly at night by…
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dragoncon 2017
Uggggggggh I’m back at work today and feel like a zombie. Came back to a TON of stuff too so double Uggggggggh. BUT! It’s time for this year’s Dragon Con recap. So Chase had originally planned to be doing a scooter trip that weekend, so we were both going to be out of town – but Hurricane Harvey put a…
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i wanna go
Where’s my Joey “I Wanna Go” gif? There it is. The past two years when we haven’t been doing a “full” Dragon Con I’ve been totally fine with it up until it’s upon me. I’ve been totally fine with not being there today. Up until today. Now I’m not ok! Especially since I’m sitting at work. 1.5 hours down, 6.5…
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we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
Finished up a few things last night. Got it all packed up. Still working on Lucy’s headdress — but I think that’s about it at this point. I’ve got to finish the handsewing on that and it’s taking forever and making my fingers ache. Everything is packed except for that lower part of the headdress (that I’m still sewing on),…
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rock and roll
So this weekend was…strange. Thursday I had a hair appointment after work — to get my Mon Mothma wig trimmed! This was the before. I didn’t think to take an after. He cut a lot off to thin it out! Looks much better! And also my ribbon for the white medieval dress came in: So pretty! I got some more…
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whooooooooa
Hi! First up is the great news that my international shipment of stuff for the Pink Thing IS IN THE US!! It went through customs yesterday!! The projected delivery date was 8/8-8/22 and 8/22 was pushing it WAY too late so I’m so relieved that it’s here in the states and hopefully will start moving my way later today/tomorrow. I…
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get to work
So I had a long weekend; had friday off. Wednesday and Thursday I finished up my Bespin updates. Thankfully it ended up being easier (and quicker) than I expected. I took the trim off the tunic, opened it up at the back seam, flipped it and cut off three inches. Flipped back around, pressed it, tried it on – I…
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in which I think about dragoncon
Didn’t get a whole lot done last night. Well maybe kinda. Finished painting my shoes, got the lowest ruffle sewn on. Got the sequins sewn onto the straps and got the first line of sequins sewn across the top of the bodice. Had to handsew those so it took a little longer – I have to do one more line…
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this week
Guess who ruined more fabric with dye and is going to have to go buy more fabric again? I have no idea what happened. This was the weirdest dye experience I’ve ever had. I’d done tests on this fabric and they’d all turned out fine. I staggered the dyeing — a few panels of the dress in for 10 minutes,…
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productive weekend was productive
It was a really good work weekend! I got a lot done! Instead of going in order I’m going to go by project… Friday night started off with another round of dye on the TFA Leia linen. Saturday I decided to go one step darker and one step more saturated which really helped. I’m like, 90% happy with it so…
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what’s up
I don’t have a lot to post about this weekend. Sewing-wise, I was mostly working on a commission if I was in my sewing room and I don’t have anything to show of that. I did finally get my linen cut and dyed — Nice colour fresh out, but it dried much lighter — but it’s a good base so…
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To-Do List
My to-do list for this (4 day!) weekend: Bespin Leia: -Repleat the front so the front embroidery shows better -take tunic apart, take up, shorten, sewing trim back on Pink thing: -Get bodice lining pieces cut -Get bodice basically put together -Make panniers -Get skirt panels put together -Start piecing out organza Mon Mothma: -Do embroidery floss through braid pieces…
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wigs and dye and spider
Ugh… so over a year ago — almost two years ago now — I voluntarily changed my work schedule so I could be home earlier in the day but it meant getting up earlier. It was hard at first to get up an hour earlier than I normally did, but I figured I’d adjust. I have never adjusted. Every morning…
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Sunday
This is also some non-Sunday stuff, but it’s mostly Sunday. I spent the morning being lazy because I was so tired (and sore) from Saturday. Chase actually got out and did some yard work. Then we went and had lunch, picked up stuff for dinner, ran some of dad’s equipment out to him (we loaded up in both our cars…
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A giant art post
Yes it’s a huge art dump. Well huge by today’s standards, not so much by like… me circa 2001 standards. First up is a Amidala picture I’ve been working on for a while… I got bored after I finished the face so I’d do just a little bit each day because I didn’t really feel like doing the rest LOL…
