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Getting the house ready + sewing
This week through Sunday we are getting the house ready for the new floor! I started packing up stuff on shelves last night, and Chase started experimenting with pulling up the carpet in the hallway. I took some before pictures (even though I already took down a lot of knick-knacks): The flooring will be here on Thursday, and has to…
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More sewing
I did a bit of sewing on Queen Aelsa Saturday night. After cutting the bodice sections of white stretch knit, I realized the colours were going to look too different once I had the chiffon overlay on. So I managed to scrounge enough of the silver velvet to cut most of the bodice pieces out of it – couldn’t manage…
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a little mystery
I’m posting a lot today. I was digging through old hard-drives trying to find some missing pictures last night when I came across some pics of a project that did not get finished. I’m sharing it today with Chase’s permission. Back in 2012 when I was making my newer Belle ballgown, you can find mentions and photos of the new…
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Making Mistakes
This isn’t really an FAQ Friday today, but just some fun memories & stories I wanted to share. So earlier this week, I read this really great article, “15 Cosplay Mistakes You Will Inevitably Make“ by Jenbae. Go read it, it’s great. As I was reading it, I was checking off things in my mind where I’d made that mistake.…
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I made a thing
(Not the bra. That’s just there because my new dressform is shy.) I made a kinda hippie looking silver velvet skirt. Well I got it cut out and pinned together anyway. It’s actually a white velvet with some silver flecking on the top. It’s pretty in person. Not that it matters – this is only an under-dress. I only had…
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FAQ Friday: Amidala’s Parade Dress Hair
Today I have a tutorial to post! I’m planning on wearing my Queen Amidala parade dress soon, and it’s been YEARS since I wore it (late 2005 was the last time I wore it with long hair; 2010 with short hair), so I figured I needed to practice the hair since it’s been a while. Back in 2005, my hairstylist…
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Ms Marvel & Indy
I found this pic I’d never done anything with when going through Ms Marvel pics. She was in probably every photoshoot we ever did at the house. (because she was always nosy about what we were doing)
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MidSouthCon 2015
This weekend was MidSouthCon of course! (Warning: there is puke in the upcoming story.) It ended up being kind of a strange weekend. Our plans were to take Kevin and let him enjoy the convention while I was doing my panels and whatnot. We picked him up Thursday and he spent the night, then Friday I ran home at lunch…
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Dreams
Over the weekend, I had a weird mash-up dream where we were at Disney World and then at Dragon Con but neither place was the ACTUAL place. (Most of my Dragon Con dreams take place in places that are not the Dragon Con hotels. But in my head it’s Dragon Con. It’s often strange hotels/convention centers/mall mash-ups I’ve never been…
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MidSouthCon Schedule!
It’s been too long, I’m ready to go to a con!!!! I’ll be at MidSouthCon March 20-22! Here’s my panel schedule: Friday 9pm: Wigs & Make-up Saturday 9am: Costuming Showcase and Q&A Saturday 1pm: Competition Costuming I’m sooo pleased with this schedule. Friday late night panel gives me plenty of time to leave work, eat, get in costume and get…
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ANNE PICTURES!
I finally got my Anne Boleyn pictures uploaded! I have a ton that I love so narrowing them down to only 4 to post isn’t going to cut it. Last night I dreamt that Ash and I went to Anime Expo. We’re heading into this really cool convention center (not where it actually is, or was) and the weather is…
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Anne stuff
So I still don’t have my Anne pics uploaded just yet. Normally when we do a photoshoot, I go through the photos, remove any jumble from the background, lighten it, and I’m done. But I’m having trouble with the Anne pics. Not because it’s a white dress on a white background – though that doesn’t really help – but because…
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New pics!
I’ve actually already got these uploaded on their individual portfolio pages, but I was waiting til I had the Anne pics uploaded for making a blog post… but I want to post them now and it’s my blog so I do what I want. Megara: It’s not like I didn’t already have nice pics of this costume (I love the…
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Costume-y Thoughts
I’m really itching to get started working on stuff. Here’s some thoughts on things. 1. Donna Noble – Unicorn & the Wasp I was supposed to pick this up again after Dragoncon and of course I have not. I do still plan on finishing it, it’s all sitting in a box waiting on me to come back to it. 2.…
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Dragon
I haven’t posted in a few days – sorry! Since getting back from Disney World, we’ve been rushing to finish up the Dragon project we’ve been working on. We’ve been making a Dragon costume for a middle school production of Shrek! We finally finished it up last night. I don’t have very good photos of it, because it’s meant for…
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FAQ Friday: Mustafar Padme Hair
Sorry I don’t have any pictures for this like I do for my Leia hair breakdowns; I’m kinda doing this one on the fly! So here’s my best reference for the Mustafar hairstyle; this is from padawan’s guide: And here is an other screencap. To be perfectly honest, my Mustafar costume was a quick, very non-serious costume I did just…
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FAQ Friday: Snow White Collar Attachment
This is a question I’ve gotten a handful of times, and I took some photos of my collar/bodice attachment over the weekend, so I figured this would make a good entry for FAQ Friday – especially appropriate this week as I’ll be at Disney World when this posts 🙂 So anyway, my Snow White costume has a lace-up back with…
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Random Annoyances
When I see someone post a costume photo and it’s labeled/titled/described as nothing more than “cosplay girl.” (bonus if there’s absolutely no costumer/photographer credit, either.) It’s not just one person or website doing this. I’ve seen it for years, multiple places. In some cases it may be a case of not knowing who the character is. But generally, no. Instead…
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Peggy photoshoot
First off, apologies for having a half-finished FAQ Friday post up here Friday/Saturday! I had scheduled it to post Friday but never got around to finishing it, and forgot to move it. I’ll try to finish it up for this Friday! Friday evening Chase & I did a quick photoshoot of my Peggy costume. We started out with the standard…
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New old pictures
So I’m still doing my little project of going back through old pictures and uploading new versions. I thought I’d share some of the more interesting ones, including some I’ve never had uploaded in the first place. Here’s my fourth lake dress that I made in 2008 – I’ve only ever had 3 pictures of this costume uploaded, though we…
