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Photoshoot Stuff!! Part One
Sorry I haven’t posted this week! It’s been busy! This past weekend we did the symphony event — which I’ll talk about the next post — and we’d originally planned to do this photoshoot before we left for the event Saturday night. But my tiara wasn’t quite ready Saturday, and there was yardwork that needed to be done before the…
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Pink Palace event
Yesterday we did a little event at the Pink Palace! One of my fav places in the world. Since it was earlier in the day, Chase couldn’t get off in time for it so mom drove us over. (After New Year’s Eve I refuse to drive in costume unless I absolutely have to LOL) Since it was a Deep Space…
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a hairpiece!
So as I mentioned earlier I’ve been trying to put together a hairpiece for my Queen Amidala costume. This is something I’ve tried to do for ages — finally attempted it in 2010 but gave up. So here we are again. Trying to make a hairpiece for a 12 year old costume. But if I can make this work it…
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a weird weekend
I made a to-do list friday, let’s see what I accomplished… Amidala: 1. Clean the dress. 2. Redye the lower petals. 3. Remake or fix current tiara. 4. Make a new hairpiece. Bespin Leia: 1. Shorten the tunic! 2. Fix my pleating. I guess half isn’t bad. Friday is when I got most of that done. I hand-washed the dress…
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a to-do list
I have a to-do list even though we’re on the wrong side of the convention, haha. But I have a few things I need to get done over this weekend — I’m doing an event in Amidala next weekend, so she needs some attention. And while I have it on we are going to do a white backdrop photoshoot, and…
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Trip Photos – Round 2
So I wrote the whole trip report out yesterday but of course I only had iphone photos. Today I have our photopass and Chase’s pics uploaded! So here’s a few. Kevin hadn’t met Mr and Mrs Easter Bunny, and we were able to pretty much walk right up and get a photo with them the first day. Honestly I probably…
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Home again
We’re home! And I’m sick with a sinus infection AGAIN. I think I’ve come home with a sinus infection from at least 4 of our Orlando trips in the last year. This one is a real bear, it came on Friday night so all day Saturday and Sunday my face HURT. But I’ll get to that later. Let’s start at…
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IT’S DONE!!
Last night around 8pm I put the last touches on Bespin Leia. It is officially DONE. There’s some stuff that’s not perfect. My chiffon ended up stretching during the embroidery especially on the two front panels, so the front hemmed edges want to be a little wavy. One side is better than the other. I may add weights to the…
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ahhhhhhhhhh
IT’S ALMOST DONE!!!! Ok so wow I haven’t posted in a week. Let me play catch up. I got the lining reattached to the embroidered piece. I pleated and repleated and rerepleated and rerereplealted and rerererepleated it all onto the yoke about 500 times. I got the trim sewn on the tunic Wednesday night. Friday I had the day off!…
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I just can’t do it!!
So, I finished Yoke #3 and it’s all right. It’s not greeeeeat but it’ll do. It’s not like I could try again, there’s no fabric left! After that photo I did take the collar off and inset it into the yoke so there’s no ugly seam sticking out between them. This resulted in a kinda ugly stitch line where it’s…
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In which I comment on old costume lists
Going back through some of my oldest posts about costumes I want to do and I found some hilarious ideas and notes and thoughts. I am going to comment on some of these. Here’s some costume ideas I wrote down back in 1998… I underlined the parts I find funny. [quote]Costume Idea #1. Chun-Li. So it’s been done to death.…
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blah
I like typing in a subject for my post, waiting on the permalink to create the link with that subject… and seeing how many times I’ve used that subject before. I’ve apparently had 9 other posts also titled “blah” because this is “blah-10”. Today is very blah. Work is stressing me out. I just want to go to Disney already!…
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a bit of everything
new magic bands! I’m Jyn, Chase is Cassian, Kevin is K2SO. I may wear this new one instead of my Haunted Mansion band… my Haunted Mansion band will always kinda be my “AP Year” magic band. Speaking of which, our APs officially expire tomorrow. Anyway, Kevin got to open the box with me, he’s excited! This is our first time…
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to-do
I finished my pants last night!!! Like I said last time I’d done the mock-up Saturday so I had a good idea of what I was doing, got the pieces cut out that night but then spent all day Sunday on the tunic. So when I got home from work yesterday I jumped into the pants… haha, jumped into the…
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you old sew-and-sew
So let’s see where did I leave off? Friday after work I went and got Kevin (he’s staying with us for about 2 weeks) and we went down to midtown to see dad’s St Patrick’s band play! After that went home and I worked on a mock-up for my collar but realized I really needed some plain cotton to get…
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it’s dooooooone
So I got home yesterday and instead of jumping into the last little bit of embroidery I needed to do, I decided I was mentally ready to dye my shoes and lining. Shoes were first and took to the dye beautifully: After they sat and dried for a while, I put them back in again during round 3 of dyeing…
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I’m almost there
Last night I got alllllllmost done with the big spires. I could’ve stayed up another half hour and finished the last one but I was tired, so I’ll finish it tonight. Then I have that one little yellow bit to finish, and then I have to figure out the shadow Xs in the upper spires — I didn’t trace them…
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I hate everything
I had Friday off so I worked solid Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Didn’t go anywhere. Just stopped to eat, sleep, bathe, find new thing to watch/listen to. The stupid weather being crazy made me have a migraine the ENTIRE TIME and it’s still on-going today. I’m ready to rip my head off. I’m so so so sick of embroidering. On…
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i can see the light at the end of the tunnel
…and hopefully it’s not a train. I worked pretty much non-stop on Bespin all weekend. From the time I got home Friday through around 10:30 last night. Stopped Saturday to run to the bookstore and dinner with my parents. And for a couple of naps. Again not a great photo of it, the lighting in our bedroom is awful and…
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go, and never darken my towels again
I’m breaking this up into sections so I don’t forget everything I need to talk about because my brain is fried. 1. Art I’ve done a few more in my little Star Wars project since last week. Here’s Kylo Ren: whatever Here’s Lando: meh not happy with how his clothes turned out. Heres Ahsoka: Pretty happy with her! I started…
