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can i kick it
First things first – part of my site broke recently. The front page scrolling banner was just stuck on “loading”. When I go into the wordpress theme options to that area, sometimes it loads (but I can’t click on anything) but most of the time it’s just blank with a constant loading gif at the top. I think it’s an…
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nothing beats a jet2 holiday
I got a lot done this weekend and I am sore AF. But first let’s talk about the happy things! My besties got married Friday! Chase and I took the day off work and went downtown to the courthouse with them. It was really cool and very sweet and then we ran around downtown taking some more pics around the…
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eeeugggghhh
Fully back to real life now, ew. I don’t know that I want to post anymore Lorne progress pics right now. I feel like if you watched the source material, you will recognize it at this point. (As of 7/7 I’ve now posted the finished costume, so I’m going back and updating my old posts to make them make sense.)…
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florals? for spring?
groundbreaking! I did nothing this weekend except sew. It was marvelous. First up, on my Lorne costume – my swatch came in and looked great! So I ordered a yard and it’s shipped, should be here next week and then I can finish up that costume. So that’s 2 down – onto #3? As I said last post I got…
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all the world is waiting for you
(EDITED TO ADD AFTER POSTING: I did not realize until I posted I used 2 Mr Bean headers in a row. Not mad at it.) Another productive week, though it took me longer to get some stuff done than I had planned. Here was my to-do list last week — with updates: -finish bottom edge of Lorne bodice -pleat skirt…
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the old soft shoe
HEY! I have some really good costume progress to show this week! ~*WOW*~ The finished picnic Padme disneybound. I still need to get some ribbons for my hair and I also thought about hanging some ribbons from the sides of the belt. We’ll see. I’m so tempted to just buy one of those tie-on ponytails that I can precurl so…
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islands in the stream
Busy weekend! Lots to talk about. Let’s do the weekend events first! Saturday we met Ash and Gabe for Midtowncon and lunch. I had been planning to wear my TOS uniform all week, I even decided on a new hairstyle (one of my fav things about that costume is the fun of getting to play with different hairstyles), made a…
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does this impact the lore?
First up, I got contacts!! Well, almost. Had my eye doctor appointment Saturday and asked if contacts were possible with my RX. He said yes, but — they couldn’t really do a lot for my up close reading, they’d have to prioritize my astigmatism over that, but it would be enough to give me a break from wearing the glasses,…
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gear, fab
Well I was really hoping to say Troi was finished in my post today – at least, the dress was finished – but alas. I’m CLOSE. Here she is as of Wednesday. I got the waistband on and the skirt attached. And yesterday afternoon. I spent most of Saturday morning getting the cuffs added to the sleeves, and the zippers…
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no soup for you
Hello and welcome back to my blog Look I’m kinda ticked off that I spent a LONG TIME working on my Troi costume this past week and I have one photo to show for it. One. UGH I spent most of last week working on the neckband. It was a comedy of errors. First I had to wait on that…
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reach for the skyyyy
Hey I’ve got real costume progress to show yall today! First, I decided early last week I wanted to dye my Troi fabric. It was just too bright. Thankfully I had a bottle of graphite. I came up with a formula and did some tests. Bottom fabric is the original undyed. I had to do it in batches because it…
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start walking
Well hi. I do actually have costume updates this week. But first let’s get everything else out of the way. 4.5 weeks post-surgery — I feel like 99.9% normal. Remember just a week ago I said crawling around on my sewing room floor to work on costumes left me sore so I needed to take it slower? Well I did…
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i want auroras and sad prose
Guess what? I’m coming at yall live from my new laptop! Chase did try to fix my computer, ordered a new battery, etc. But the writing had already been on the wall for that laptop; it was buggy and super slow, and photoshop did not like it at all, I’d regularly have weird things happening in photoshop because the graphics…
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t-minus shut up
Week 2 of post-surgery life continues much like last week. On Friday I felt like I’d be well enough to go back up to my WFH office and sit at my desk like normal but then I felt kinda icky all weekend so I’m back down on the couch again. Post-op was thursday and she said all looked good. She…
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i got nothing
I really don’t have much of anything at all to share this week, I almost was like, nah no reason to post this week, I’ll save the handful of things I have for next week’s post. But I figured I ought to check in before the surgery later this week. I’m SO excited. Not for like surgery but just for…
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oh my god
I did not post last week… AGAIN! Well I didn’t have much to talk about so it’s not like anyone was missing anything. I’ve been having to go to the doctor every dang week, excluding the week to disney, and it’s really starting to fray my nerves. They’re trying to get my blood pressure under control before surgery later this…
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it’s rat time
Remember how last week I said we were finally done with white backdrop shoots? Well I lied. Chase used a different camera for the last 2 shoots (Jedi Leia and Boushh) and when I got the shots back they just looked too different than every other white backdrop shoot; I looked back lit. Which was a bummer because i really…
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thank you for your preferences
Sorry for no post monday! Or yesterday. I may have to start moving my weekly post back because Mondays are becoming too hard. And then I forget. I HAVE been working on the site though, I have all the costume pages updated with their new photoshoot pictures and notes. Yay. Speaking of, here’s a recap of the photoshoot pics I’ve…
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so long 2024
and don’t let the door hit you on the way out So let’s see what has happened since Thursday… Finished my new T’Lyn wig. It is VERY difficult to get on with the headband and ears all crowded up in the same area, but with Chase’s help it works. I really just need some ear tips for Vulcan/Elf costumes that…
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it’s the 2024 costume wrap-up post
Finally! Ok as usual let’s start with what I SAID I wanted to make in 2024 at the end of 2023, and see how I did: 1. Honeymoon Leia – YES! This was kind of a given considering it was mostly done when I made this list in December 2023. 2. Star Wars Cruise Dress – YES! Turned out so…
