• SDCC 2006 Funny
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    SDCC 2006 Funny

    Sorry I haven’t posted in a while! Just a random story to share. Here’s a photo from San Diego Comic Con 2006: This was our third and last Comic Con, and the only one Chase went to. I took my Stormtrooper armor to wear to the 501st photo – only my second time wearing it. Chase had his brand new…

  • Halloween 2011
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    Halloween 2011

    Put on Snow White to hand out candy tonight – ran out of candy way sooner than we expected! My favourite was an older kid wearing a gorilla mask and a convict-type suit, carrying a Disney Princess bag. He didn’t say anything but kept pointing to Snow White on his bag excitedly, LOL. Here’s our pumpkins – Snow White –…

  • GMX 2011 Pics
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    GMX 2011 Pics

    Here’s a handful of pics from GMX – didn’t take a lot. Me as Donna and Kevin as 11 in front of the TARDIS: A cool weeping angel, and the MST3k bots! We broke K-9 out for about a half hour on Sunday before we left. I didn’t wear Wonder Woman and didn’t get any pics of Rose. I’ll wear…

  • One more Wonder Woman update
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    One more Wonder Woman update

    Leaving for GMX tonight, so last WW update! Chase finished my Wonder Woman chestpiece and tiara, and he’s finishing the belt today. Here they are yesterday afternoon: Finished up Ash’s Ood jacket but really not happy with it; definitely remaking it before Dcon next year. So, since 4 people and K-9 take up quite a bit of space, I’m only…

  • BBC America Contest, and Wonder Woman Progress
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    BBC America Contest, and Wonder Woman Progress

    I’m sad and tired and don’t know what else to do but keep myself busy with everything else. So.. I’m one of the finalists in the BBC America costume contest… there are a lot of really great entries, I’m really stoked to be among them. If you want to vote, click the link 🙂 Here’s some of the pics we…

  • DCNU Wonder Woman Progress, Doctor Who, etc
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    DCNU Wonder Woman Progress, Doctor Who, etc

    done! (almost) Bodice is done except for a few little places I need to clean up. Now onto finishing the bottoms and boots, and finishing Ashley’s Ood jacket. Yesterday we finished shopping for my cousin’s budget 11th Doctor costume. Found a Stetson pretty cheap, and a decent “look a like” pair of boots which we’re going to polish to be…

  • home alone… time to dress up the dog
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    home alone… time to dress up the dog

    I was home along last night since Chase was shooting, so I remade the outside layer of my bodice. (pluuss I got the fabric for $5 and it’s what I wanted originally, the same as I used for my 2009 Wonder Woman, couldn’t find it first time I went shopping for this.) So anyway, I got it cut out thursday…

  • Orko Tutorial
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    Orko Tutorial

    Orko is one of my favourite things I’ve made over the years so I’m happy to do this little write up for mermush on twitter. It’s been a while since I made him so I’m sorry if I forget anything/something doesn’t make sense! Everything I used: a small teddy bear a small bouncy ball for the head Doll’s straw hat…

  • More DCNU Wonder Woman Progress
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    More DCNU Wonder Woman Progress

    I went over the decorative stitching again last night and it’s much more visible now. The flash still blows it out, so it’s hard to take a picture of like this. I sewed my bra cups into the base also: Another shot of the outer piece: I’m really not happy with the fabric I got for the outside anymore, even…

  • DCNU Wonder Woman Progress
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    DCNU Wonder Woman Progress

    Last night I put the main bodice together and did the decorative stitching on it. Heres my guidelines drawn on the wrong side: Here’s the 3 layers pinned together, with the stitching done: But it’s a little hard to see. I’m going to go back over the lines again tonight and see if that helps. Heres a closeup of the…

  • Making my DCNU Wonder Woman Costume
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    Making my DCNU Wonder Woman Costume

    I started on my GMX costume, DCnU Wonder Woman, this weekend. Here’s my fabric: Red canvas & cotton for the interior of the bodice, red matte satin for the outside. Navy blue spandex for the bottoms. I also bought a pair of navy blue leggings to do the pants version also – I don’t know if I’ll have time to…

  • New Photos: Donna, Emma, Jane, etc
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    New Photos: Donna, Emma, Jane, etc

    I’m sorry I still haven’t finished the site! It took longer than I expected to move my content over (which is done!), so I still have finished  it, looks-wise. I do have some updates – all of my Dragoncon costumes are up of course, and I have new photos for Jane, Mara Jade as Arica, Donna Noble, Ms Marvel, Lady…

  • Dragoncon 2011 Costume Recap
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    Dragoncon 2011 Costume Recap

    First up, Supergirl. My plan was to wear Supergirl all Thursday night; I ended up wearing it for about 20 minutes because I wanted to put on Donna. So now that Supergirl was out of the way (LOL) I wore Donna the rest of the night – there were so many Doctor Who people around and with K9 out, it…

  • Dragoncon 2011 Recap
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    Dragoncon 2011 Recap

    I should have written this last week, at this point it’s already hard to remember everything! I’m not going to post a lot of my costume stuff in this particular entry; I’ll do that in the next one. So we left bright and early monday morning – on time, even! We went down through Alabama this year instead of through…

  • Panorama of Dragoncon
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    Panorama of Dragoncon

    Sorry I haven’t posted anything! Been trying to get all of my pics uploaded before writing any kind of blog post about dcon. I’ve got the pics from my camera uploaded; waiting to get the rest of the pics from chase’s camera, so I should have them all up by this weekend. Here’s one I wanted to go ahead and…

  • Marie, K-9 and Flat Ryan
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    Hello from Dragoncon!

    This is from the iPad so sorry for any typos! Thurs night I wore super girl for like 20 minutes before getting itchy to wear Donna, so I switched. Friday: Marie Antoinette, red ms marvel, black widow, lady Blackhawk and Emma frost. Today: Donna again. Tonight: hippolyta, and Valkyrie. Going to help chase with a photoshoot in civvies now!

  • Hippolyta and Emma Frost…
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    Hippolyta and Emma Frost…

    Heres my new Hippolyta crown: My Emma Frost cape: (the rest of it was packed and I didn’t want to dig it out) Finishing up a few last things tonight. I’m hoping to have nothing to work on tomorrow but finishing my packing, and the last of this embroidery.

  • Valkyrie and Rogue updates
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    Valkyrie and Rogue updates

    So here’s “Pink Barf”…. aka this Shi’ar Rogue costume> from around Uncanny X-Men 342 (specifically the alternate cover which I’ve always loved.) It’s not terribly flattering LOL But I love the pieces Chase made for me, especially the shoulder pieces, so I’m excited to get some shots of it. I added a belt for two reasons – one to throw…