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Finished!
Chase took some photos of my finished Belle dresses last night. We just set them up in the hallway (under the Belle portrait!) on the dressform. The blue dress: After I sent it in for a final try-on, I found out I was going to have to lose about 4 inches of length when I hemmed it. I tried to…
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Almost there…
I finished the ballgown over the weekend! Now where did I leave off.. First up, the real hoopskirt came in so I was able to switch out my stand-in for the real one…. it came just in time, they are shaped differently so that helped me gauge the gathering in the seams, and pinning the hem, Getting the two skirts…
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Ballgown skirt
I was supposed to work on the shoulder pieces last night but I didn’t. Instead I came home and sewed all the skirt panels together, gathered it (just as a test, I’ll probably have to re-gather it later), and then got all of the skirt poof panels cut and sewn together (well, mostly, I still have two more in the…
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Belle ballgown bodice progress!
Some more updates on the school play Belle costumes… I strugged with the bodice for the ballgown the past two nights – trying to get all 5 layers even and sized the same way was a nightmare. I also made the mistake of buying plastic boning for it – because obviously our stores here don’t sell the spiral steel I…
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Disgust, and other randomness
I have a whole ton of random pictures in my photo stream, and some personal costume updates that I decided to separate from the Belle post I just did! Kevin was with us for a whole week, so we had some fun: It’s amazing how much easier Leia buns are to do on somebody else’s head. On our way to…
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Belle Costumes
Yay new projects to talk about! I’m currently working on two Belle costumes for a production of Beauty and the Beast! My mom is doing the 3 dresses for Gaston’s silly girls, and I’m doing the Belle village dress and ballgown. Week before last, we went shopping… starting with a disappointing trip to Hancock Fabrics. 4 in the afternoon, lines…
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Southern Fried Pics
I was really looking forward to this past weekend; the con looked fun, I was excited to take Kevin, to spend the weekend with my grandparents, and best of all the weather was going to turn out great – it got up to nearly 70 degrees. Well I forgot what comes along with a change in the weather like that;…
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Lots of art stuff today
Sorry I haven’t posted recently, I’ve really been buckled down trying to finish up the website! I’m almost there! First off, here’s some more from the SW art project… POE! I was blessed with a good reference for this for his face. I really like how it came out. BB8! I said I wasn’t going to do the droids but……
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Bespin Leia progress
I got my main fabric last week, and over the weekend I pulled it out and tested to see how it was going to look, opacity-wise. It’s going to be a little less see-through than I’d like if I want to not have so much of the red chiffon lining show through it, but it’ll work. I got my embroidery…
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Where did I leave off?
Let’s see, what art have I not posted yet? Han! I’m pretty pleased with this one. Oola. I’m ambivalent. It was hard to find good, clear references at the angle I wanted. Aayla! I like this one. It was fun. Anakin… not crazy about it. I left it alone for a couple of days before coming back to finish it…
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Some jedi, and a traitor
Last night I drew up old Obi-Wan… Then Qui-Gon… this one is another fav. Ahsoka! I used a shot of the Disneyworld Ahsoka as a reference. And Finn! Lastly, I had started on an Anakin but I’m not terribly happy with it, I may start all over on it.
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More Art!
A little more refined today. When I did the first two night before last (Leia and Rey) I was just enjoying sketching and colouring quickly. I slowed down a little on the two last night and they look a little more finished. Padme is my favourite so far. I’m very happy with how this turned out. I wanted to do…
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some more art
Last night I sat down, turned on netflix, got my tablet plugged in, ready to finish up my Bespin embroidery design… but I opened and realized it was pretty much done. Hooray! So since I was already there, I did some rough sketchy drawings of Leia and Rey. Added some colour. I’d like to do some more like this. They…
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Starman
I’m here working on my website today… I’m avoiding social media, because it keeps reminding me that David Bowie has passed, and it’s too upsetting. We lost him far too soon. So I’m focusing on working on my website and trying to get this revamp finished. And since I haven’t posted much recently, I have a backlog of photos to…
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Building a shelf
So this past weekend after Christmas, Chase and I finally got the ikea shelf put together – we bought when we were in Atlanta for Dragoncon and the four massive boxes have been sitting in our hallway ever since, driving me crazy. It was a butt to put together. Throughout the week we’ve been working on it in the evenings.…
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Christmas pics!
Yay Christmas! Thursday was Christmas Eve day in Jackson. Lunch with present openings! Got Disney gift cards, cute shirts and jacket, a calendar, etc. One of my fav things was this lightsaber (picture over the cool Marvel shirt I got) Ok so it’s not really a lightsaber, it’s a flashlight with an emergency window-breaking hammer on the end for your…
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TFA Pics!
Finally got my TFA pics uploaded – most of these are just from my iphone. These are from both Thurs night and a 2nd showing we trooped Saturday morning. Thursday night – the girls! [pic url=https://kelldar.smugmug.com/501stRebel-Legion–Local-Events/The-Force-Awakens/i-NJ3Br7S/0/S/4-S.jpg align=center] Recreating our post-Attack of the Clones IHOP photo… ALL THE LEIAS! Back in the heyday of Star Wars prequels, Harry Potters and Lord…
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2015 Year in Review!!
Maybe the morning after Star Wars isn’t the best time to do this. I went to bed hours after I normally do and still had to get up at 6:30 for work today so I am beyond fuzzy. BUT I realized I hadn’t done this yet and got all excited to type up the post, so here we go, fuzzy…
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This week
Work is pointless this week. I just want it to be Star Wars, and then I just want it to be Christmas. I feel like I didn’t even get a Christmas last year, what with Indy being sick and all. It’s CHRISTMAS! And STAR WARS! And I want work to just be quiet so I can STAR WARS but noooooo…
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Memphis Grizz Pics
Chase gave me his pictures from the Grizz Star Wars Night! Before the crowd… Photo-ops (the X-Wing pilots were the Grizz Spirit Squad) Yoda selfie Got to get pics with some awesome people Group pics After the game, couple of shots on the way to the car. Yay.
