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Well, I do have a lot to post today. But none of it is picnic Padme progress related, because that got completely derailed momentarily. Skip the next 2 paragraphs if you don’t want to read about dentist stuff.

Had a dentist appointment Wednesday afternoon. I thought it was just going to be a slap on the hand for not coming in for a cleaning last year and never wearing my retainer and now one of my front teeth has moved. Turns out it was much worse. I was able to get in with a specialist the very next day. Still bad news, but they were able to work me in for the first round of treatment on Friday, so I had 3 back to back appointment days. A lot of panicking, grieving, crying. I’m still very upset, but I do like the specialist I’m working with and we have a plan. I just want to get on with it and get it all fixed and move on. I’m still angry and replaying in my head over and over everything I should’ve done different every time I have a quiet moment — but I had no pain prior, and no warning signs something was as wrong as it was, and what’s done is done, so all I can do is move towards fixing it. Interestingly, my specialist thinks its systemic, possibly hormonal, which did make me feel better that what’s going on isn’t completely my fault.

I was warned Friday’s appointment would be pretty rough. They gave me a valium to take beforehand, got a bunch of novocaine shots and the gas… and it really wasn’t bad at all. I was swollen and numb afterwards, and today my mouth is still a little bit sore only when I eat, but otherwise felt normal by Saturday morning.

Which was good because we already had a weekend away planned! We left the dentist office and got right on the road and drove to Birmingham for the night.

We stayed at a hotel that night called The Kelly which was a nearly 100 year old insurance company building.

Our room was so strange. You came into this weird little liminal area with hardly any decoration or furniture.

But then the next room was this, which was nice!

The bathroom was also really nice, all this black and white tile.

We dropped our bags off and then found a pasta place within walking distance. Placed an online order, walked down and picked it up, and brought it back to eat in the hotel room. Glad we did because me eating while still a little numb was not for public viewing LOL After that we found a gelato place within walking distance so we walked down there and got gelato, then came back and chilled in the hotel room the rest of the night.

I had planned to bring my embroidery with me to work on in the car but after all that, I didn’t. I brought my ipad and drew instead – results at the end of the post.

Next morning we were up at 6am to hit the road again.

Quick stop at Buc-ee’s for breakfast.

First stop in Atlanta – Gail K for the rest of my Morticia fabric.

It’s nothing exciting, just a lot of black fabric I was tired of getting swatches for – one of those things it’s easier to walk in, feel the fabric and say “that’s it give me 6 yards”.

Got done there and headed to SCAD for the Dior exhibit! There’s a ton of pics I won’t bore you with, I’ll post the link to the whole exhibit at the end. Here’s a few favs:

It was neat to see the mock-up versions.

Like this!

This room of the exhibit was incredble.

Obsessed with this

Not a great pic of this dress, but it was worn by Natalie Portman, and in the photo of her in it on the red carpet, all of the beading looked silver. Then when I looked at the photo I took, it looked silver there too. In person it was way more gold!

Anyway it was a great exhibit and worth going to if you like that sort of thing.

We went to Varsity for lunch, which we see every year coming into Atlanta and Chase always brings it up as a food option but we’ve never gone, so we finally went this time.

Got some coffee and found a few vintage stores to look through. Chase and I each got a shirt.

Hello home! Our room was ready. Second floor and we didn’t have to pay extra for it?? LOL
I had enough Marriott points to pay for this night, so that was nice.

LMAO will these still be up at Dragoncon?

I think I said this after dcon last year, or maybe the year before, but the hotel is looking like shit. I hated this room redesign when they came out in 2016 – it looked cheap then, and it looks even worse now. Everything is scuffed and dirty, the carpets are GROSS, both in the rooms and in the halls. They really need a full reno if they want to charge the prices they do.

Anyway, we took a little nap and then headed out to Perimeter mall because Chase wanted to go to the Lego store. He got the new Disney Main Street set – we’re going to put it under our Christmas tree with the monorail. Make little mini-figs of us and our friends to add to it. Also stopped in Popmart and got a couple of Chip and Dale blind boxes he’d seen online, and I got one of those plush Mickey & friends keychains — I got Minnie!

Then we met friends to see the Masters of the Universe movie! It was nice seeing this at a “real” theater chain that actually gets the cool popcorn buckets and stuff!

I went to this movie with low expectations… and I loved it. It was so fun. It hit all the right notes for me. Loved the way they handled the characters, the humor, the nods back to the cartoon, the costumes, the colors. I kinda want to go see it again, take Kevin? But he also wants to see Mario, Backrooms, and now Supergirl coming up too. Lots of movies to see. I’m off a few days next week, I’ll let him pick what he wants to see and take him to a matinee.

Got back to the hotel and crashed, we were exhausted! Sunday morning we were up early and just grabbed breakfast at the Starbucks in the lobby and headed out. Took a detour to Florence AL — we had planned to do this the Sunday after HSV Expo back in April but decided to skip it then, so now was the time!

The Frank Lloyd Wright Rosenbaum house!

And as you can tell in that photo, it was RAINING. Chase got drenched coming out of the ticket office.

Ugh it’s so gorgeous

Cozy little study

Our tour guide knew the family and even lived in the house for a while, so it was nice to hear him tell stories of what this used to be like/what this was used for/how the family lived there.

A fiber arts room!

The addition

And since it was pouring rain the entire time, we even got to see — as the tour guide called it – a real authentic Frank Lloyd Wright roof leak LOL

Stopped at Culver’s for lunch afterwards (since we don’t have those here and I love their fries) and then headed on home, got home around 5.

HERE is my folder of photos from the whole weekend, including all the Dior photos and Rosenbaum house photos.

So now here’s the art portion of our post. Since Monday I’ve done a lot more Leias. I told you I could do these fast — and not having the mental bandwidth for embroidery, I drowned myself in drawing instead because it turns off my brain better than embroidery.

Lothal Leia

“Adventure” Leia – I don’t know if I want to just redraw parts of this one as the vest/braid version or do that version as an entirely different thing. I can tell you what I’m tired of drawing this quilted Bespin suit over and over. LOL Why do artists use that so much??

Speaking of…

Boushh. And if the costume details are wrong, it’s because I’m using my own costumes as reference LOL

But in cases where my costume is just way off, I did correct, like the vest here on rebel briefing room!

Endor

Ewok

Wedding – this is the one I was working on all weekend in the car. I discovered that drawing (or even coloring things in) in Procreate is not a car activity, the pen is too sensitive to every little bump, so this took way longer than I expected!

Honeymoon

Jedi Training

Cato Neimoidia

TFA Blue Dress

Raddus

I’ve got the line work for Crait finished. I still need to do the TFA jumpsuit and the ROS dress – do I do force ghost? I’m not doing the hospital gown. And then for non-screen costumes, the vest/braid version of the adventure suit, EU jedi Leia with the blue tabards, Shadows of the Empire blue outfit, Splinter of the Minds Eye, that red Naboo dress from the comics, maybe the old doll outfits and the concept art (not the one Lothal was based on, the other one with the giant 70s Farrah hair)