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FAQ Friday: Repair Kit
Today’s question is… What’s in your repair kit? My repair kit is pretty subjective to the costumes I’m taking; I tend to think of what can go wrong on this costume, and make sure I bring stuff to repair it if need be. My husband also carries a completely separate repair kit of his own, and I never know what’s…
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Organization
Trying to get my sewing room clean; it’s slow going. I’ve been trying to tackle it for over a month now. I did have to rearrange my patterns. I was bursting at the seams – I used to keep them in 3 little fabric square drawers, with some oversized ones stuffed under one of my chest-of-drawers and more in plastic…
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Me at Disney World:
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Donna wig
I got my new Donna wig in!!! It was so cold out yesterday that when I got it out the mail and opened it up and put it on my head, it was like putting a block of ice on my head. I trimmed the bangs up real quick, and straightened it a bit. The bangs still need some clean-up…
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FastPass Barf
So this morning I got to go make our FastPass+ reservations and I was all excited… until I actually started trying to make reservations. Part of this I’m going to chalk up the fact I didn’t completely do my research. I read about it partly; and I made some assumptions on how it worked. Some of it is just the…
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Christmas, again
Christmas day was fun but exhausting! Woke up at 6:30 because poor Indy had wet her bed. Clean-up and a quick bath ensued – she was ticked off about having to have a bath. We watched the Disney parade and then headed over to my parent’s house for breakfast and gifts, before going to my aunt and uncle’s for a…
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Also
Paying Disney off this weekend…….. 2 months to go…….
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Christmas!
Got to leave work an hour and a half early yesterday, so spent a nice night just finishing up presents. Indy was being snoopy as usual: The tree last night… And Chase made these pan smores last night and they were GOOD: Then spent today at my Mema’s house for Christmas! My little American Girl doll-sized dresses thankfully fit. Here’s…
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Christmas Cards
More art stuff! Wow! Well a few weeks ago I was trolling around on ebay looking for Disney-themed Christmas Cards to buy. I came across an auction for a 1962 Walt Disney staff Christmas card (which is still on ebay right now if anyone has $55 to spare). I thought it was really cute and sent it to Chase saying,…
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More reworked princesses
Here’s my next set of reworked 365 artwork. Alice: fixed eyes, dress and feet Wendy: fixed proportion issues, skirt hem, eyes Mary Poppins: pretty much a completely new image. everything was redone. Jessica Rabbit: hair colour and eyes Meg: eyes Esmerelda: eyes Giselle: eyes Charlotte: eyes Blue Fairy: fixed torso proportions, eyes and nose. Jane: fixed eyes and umbrella, and…
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2013 Year in Review
2013 on its surface looks like I was a lazy bum on the sewing front this year. So, first, let’s look back at what I said I wanted to accomplish in 2013: Romana I Yes! I actually did this one! Yay! an Edwardian dress No. I did a ton of planning for it, got fabric samples, and then decided it…
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Artwork stuff
I revisited some of my 365 princess pics from a couple of years ago and fixed some things I didn’t like. Here’s the first of the fixed versions: Snow White still looks a little awkward but I fixed some of the problem with her neck and eyes. Cinderella got a head-reposition, hair colour fix, etc. Aurora’s dress colour got changed,…
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Oooh Disney stuff!!
What is this?? A disney box in the mail?? But it’s too soon for our magic bands! Hmm. A Mickey Mouse flash drive!! It lights up!! A message from Edna Mode about MyMagic+ And the back of the book has a magnet with all of our important dates on it! Very nice. Now I want my Magic Bands.
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New Photos!
I’ve been adding a lot of new photos over the past few weeks! I’ve got new pics for Batgirl, Ripley, Utena, and Belle’s blue dress! And I finally finished adding pics from Halloween to that set in the events section.
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2 spooky m8
Last night I woke up at 12:30 in the morning and there was a light on in the hallway. It freaked me out, because we’d had people over that evening, and left the front door unlocked while people came and went. My paranoid mind immediately went to, “someone snuck into the house and hid” so I woke Chase up, but…
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Happy Thanksgiving
I had a very nice Thanksgiving break. Chase and I cooked ourselves a mini Thanksgiving dinner for just the two of us that night (after family lunch earlier in the day). It was really good and we still have leftovers after eating on them all weekend. The rest of the weekend was cleaning, errands, and our “Friends-giving” yesterday night which…
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FAQ Friday: Cleaning your costumes
Today’s question is… How do yo keep your costumes clean? I’m going to start this off with a story. Several years ago, I bought a used costume piece from someone. I figured it would make things easier and cheaper than buying it new/making it myself. Well, first it was like pulling teeth to get this person to mail it to…
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Random thoughts
So, pretty much all the time I’m wearing a costume dress or skirt, I’ve probably also got shorts or pants on underneath it. Or, sometimes, for whatever reason, wearing jeans or something over a superhero costume. Exhibit A, B, and C: And for whatever reason, guys tend to want to comment on this in a condescending, snarky way. (I haven’t…
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Batgirl Pics
I’m in love with the shots we took on the white back drop after MCFC! There were so many I liked I had trouble weeding them down to pick out which ones to post. But here’s a few. My favourites are up in my portfolio and the rest are over at my flickr account.
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Um, no
Several several years ago, our local newspaper posted an article about one of our local cons. I found it by happenstance, just from googling around afterwards looking for pics. Well, they had used an AP photo from San Diego Comic Con for the article. That was the only image for the whole article. And I’m like, as long as this…
