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murray antoinette, hoops and corsets
So I remade the side pieces, and was a little more careful cutting around the tabs this time (a little too much so… I hardly have any tabs LOL) But it feels and fits much better, so whatever. I got the hoops in the panniers. Still have to attach it to the waistband, do a little handsewing on the hoop…
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Alyss wig
This is for TanitaMagarita! It was easier to just throw this on my blog than ending up with 5 or 6 tweets 🙂 The foam I like to use is a dense grey foam we get in shipments where I work, here’s a pic of it on my wighead: This is the same foam, also: It’s pretty similar to the…
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Cleaning up my Flickr
Going through my photosets on flickr, removing unnecessary photos and just cleaning stuff up. I just finished going through my Belle folder, and generally I don’t like the way I look in the costume – I mean, I don’t hate it, far from it, but I never thought that wig/hairstyle looked very good on me. But I noticed something funny…
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frustrated… Marie Antoinette Corset
I finished my Marie corset, only to be totally unhappy with the fit. It’s “ok” right now – a tad big. I already took it up a a ton and it’s still overlapping in spots. The tabs along the bottom are stretching out too far, and it’s not pulling tight around my waist – the only place it’s pulling tight…
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Marie Antoinette Corset star, and Prop Room
I got the corset put together last night. I had to take some of the boning out and trim some of them so I could take it up, because it was too big the first time. I just pinned it on the dressform to take a quick pic: Tonight I’ve got to put the lining in, finish the bottom and…
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IM AWAKE! Starting Marie Antoinette
So apparently taking a whole imitrex in the afternoon leaves me wired for the rest of the night. I feel like I’m on drugs or something. Taking a a partial one makes me feel a kind-of cool anticipation feeling in my chest… this is that x10. So. I started Marie Antoinette. I haven’t taken any pics yet. I’ll try to…
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dragoncon 2011 costume list
I’m posting this so I don’t forget. Ms Marvel – black suit Ms Marvel/Moonstone – red suit Lady Blackhawk Donna Noble Marie Antoinette Surprise #1 Surprise #2 Surprise #3 Surprise #4 (maybe) Enchantress Queen Hippolyta Shadowcat (my old one from dragoncon 2002. I thought it would be fun to wear it 10 years apart.)
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post weekend
I got started on Marie Antoinette. Got my corset started, and my panniers cut out. A long way to go but it’s a start. Otherwise didn’t do a lot this weekend. Helped my mum move stuff out of her classroom, watched Doctor Who, did yardwork, and Ash came over today and made a sockmonkey. Basketball season is over, which I’m…
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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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Donna Noble Jacket progress
Here’s my pics of the donna jacket, start to finish so far.
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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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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…
