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Ms Marvel Updates, Spamalot!
This weekend was busy! I had Friday off and worked on Ms Marvel/Moonstone off and on – I had a sinus headache thing going on so I slept when i wasn’t working. We went out with Ashley & Kevin friday night and saw Thor – it was great. Saturday Chase was at the Grizz game allll day, from around 12:30…
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Ms Marvel & Donna Noble Progress
My Donna Noble jacket is finished, except for finding buttons. Chase cut out the leather pieces of the belt for me, once he’s got those shaped right I’ve got to dye them and get them attached to the elastic and get the buckle put on. I’m really not happy with the tank top I got – it doesn’t even look…
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DUDE
called to find out what time my dr appt tomorrow was, because I couldn’t remember. they didn’t have an appt for me on the books at all. And I was like
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All Clear
I finished reading Connie Willis’ “All Clear” last night. It was SO GOOD. Seriously I know people who have read the first book, Blackout, but nobody else has read All Clear yet so I have no one to talk about it with!! I wanted to send the author a message saying how much I enjoyed it but she doesn’t appear…
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weird day
today was my dad’s birthday! 🙂 We got up and and met my parents for lunch, after giving dad his present (ipad). After lunch we headed back to their house for dessert where we got stuck by strong thunderstorms. Didn’t get home til around six. And now Chase is already in bed! He has a photoshoot at 3AM! Some party.…
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Donna Noble Jacket progress
Here’s my pics of the donna jacket, start to finish so far.
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our anniversary… zoo trip!
Yesterday was a lot of fun. We went to the zoo in the morning. Luckily the weather was nice in the morning and we had a good time. The bears were playing in the water right by the windows, we saw the sealion show and the zebras were actually running around. Chase got me a couple of penguins in the…
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whoo hoo! Lady Blackhawk nearly done
One week worth of work: It’s almost done! I’m actually on schedule to have 2 costumes done for dragoncon by the end of this month. I can’t believe it LOL Tomorrow I am OFF work and I’m going to the zoo with my awesome husband of THREE years (as of tomorrow!). I’ve been looking forward to this for months so…
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Lady Blackhawk updates, old pics
Like I said last post, I am powering through Lady Blackhawk – I actually think I’m pretty well on schedule to have both Donna and Lady Blackhawk done by the end of the month, which would mean TWO costumes down for Dragoncon already. Here’s Lady Blackhawk as of Sunday night: Tonight I’m putting the zipper in, and getting the waistband…
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shall i embarrass myself some more?
Digging through my old hard-drive for that Sailor Moon pic yesterday, I came across quite a few “lost” costume pics from a decade ago. I don’t have a date on this one, though I’m thinking it’s sometime in 2001 also, very early on in my costuming making. I bought this costume off ebay – Sailor Mars: I tossed on a…
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random memory
Here’s a random memory of a costume I never did. Back in the dark ages, I used to look around on ebay pretty often for costumes. This was way before the influx of chinese commissioners, and the search term “cosplay” would only bring up about a page or two of results, if that. I would go search just to see…
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puzzle puzzle + Donna updates
Have I ever mentioned how much I love uploading puzzle photos to flickr? I know probably about 70% of the people who follow me on flickr are creepers only following me for pics of girls in costume, so I love to be like, “HERE LOOK AT MY PUZZLES” I finally got some puzzle glue to glue Ophelia together – they…
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Sketchblog: Rogue and Emma
Costume sketches for my upcoming Rogue (Shi’ar suit) and Emma Frost (original dress) projects.
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Donna Noble jacket + Sewing Room
I wasn’t happy with ANY of the fabric samples I got for fabric for my Donna Noble jacket. And I couldn’t afford leather. So – I found a vintage leather jacket on ebay and got it. It’s not bad. The colour isn’t 100% there, but it’s not NEARLY as orange as it looks in this pic. I think the tone…
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April Costumes
I’ve got 2 costumes I’m supposed to be tackling this month: Donna and Lady Blackhawk. I got a fabric sample for Donna that I’m mulling over, for the jacket. I can’t decide if I like it not. I have a pattern that should be easy enough to mod. Found shirt fabric I like. Hair is a work-in-progress 🙂 Should be…
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a few more MidSouthCon 2011 pics
Here’s some pics I found from friends from this past weekend. (pic by Glenn) my hair looked great friday. too bad it didn’t stay that way. I was really surprised by how many people knew who I was supposed to be – better than at Anaheim or Dragoncon, even. (At dcon people kept asking if I was a steampunk person.)…
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Hippolyta thoughts
Only got 3 pics of Hippolyta at the con and I look dead on my feet in everyone of them LOL But anyway – I’m really surprised it came together as well as it did, considering Chase didn’t finish the tiara, shoulder pieces, gauntlets and chestpiece until the night before, and we had to figure out the attachments in the…
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MidSouthCon 2011 wrap-up!
MidSouthCon kicked my butt! But it was a great weekend. Didn’t get a lot of pics. Most of the pics we took were Chase’s he took in his photo booth, so I can’t post those. But I’ll post what I have. Friday I’m glad I had the day off, because I ended up having a lot to finish up at…
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Hippolyta build
I fell in love with this costume back in October I think it was, and told Chase I wanted to do it for MidSouthCon. I started working on stuff back in January, and when I needed a break from Enchantress I’d go back to work on Hippolyta. I started out with a halter top made of the chiffon, and a…
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Hippolyta progress, Enchantress pic
First, work: Bodice: finished!! Made the belt and got it attached. Cape: finished!! Drape: not even. Waist wrap: finished!! Shoes: started on them, finishing tonight. Skirt: making progress. I hated the way I was doing the skirt detail and ripped it all off and had a bout of frustration last night, but then found an alternative and was happy with…
