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Ceremonial Leia 90% done
The dress 90% finished on the dressform. It still needs to be hemmed along the bottom, and the belt is my regular ANH belt – still working on the new belt.
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Ceremonial Leia and Wonder Woman updates!
Today is Chase’s birthday! 🙂 We had cake last night, and macaroni grill. Last night, I put together the bodice for Belle. It’s HUGE. I cut it out at the size I usually use, which is usually a *little* big, but this looks like it’s at least 3 or 4 sizes too big. Crazy stuff. Nothing that can’t be fixed,…
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bouncing from one project to the next
I got a base necklace for my necklace pieces… I haven’t figured out how to attach them yet, but they look great just sitting around it on the table LOL I cut out the pattern for my belt. Dad came up with a pattern on the computer last night – he took the dimensions of my regular ANH belt, and…
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Wonder Woman, Leia updates
I’m starting to get worried that all of my stuff won’t be done by this weekend. If my metal comes for WW tomorrow, I should be ok on that. Chase has got the two main chest pieces cut, the belt and tiara will come off the next piece I’m waiting on. My gauntlets won’t take long. Tonight I decided I…
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MidSouthCon and MTAC 2007 schedule
Friday afternoon/night: Arwen red dress Sat morning: ceremonial Leia Sat afternoon: WW sat evening: Padme Lake late night sat: Slave Leia (very) rough MTAC costume list: Ceremonial Leia, Belle winter dress, Utena, Starfire I’ll wear Starfire whenever the other Teen Titans are planning on wearing theirs. I may also take Ozma, if I can fix the crown. Kevin is going…
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Wonder Woman progress
I’ve been busy the last couple of nights, so I haven’t really made much progress on anything. I plan on buckling down next week and getting at least the ceremonial base dress finished… like I said, need to re-do the top. I’m not worried about the sleeves, except for where they meet on the bodice, since I didn’t get that…
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when chase had 70s hair
Chase gets to go play outside shooting rockets with my mum’s class today, while i’m stuck here at stinky work 🙁 I guess this is, somehow, kinda twisted payback for all the times he had to be at work while I lazed around at his apartment. haha. He got a haircut last night; 70s Han hair is gone! It’s back…
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Costume & Convention Plans
Weekend after next is St Patrick’s Day; we’re planning on going to Atlanta again for their big parade, with the 501st/RL. I’m – hopefully – wearing Queen Amidala, the parade dress. After the mixup last year I’m a little skittish about things falling through again. On top of that, a bunch of our local members have decided not to go.…
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Padme Photoshoots
Gosh! We took pics of Battle Padme and Lake Padme last night. The battle ones came out ok, not great, but the lake ones, the lighting was way off and I just couldn’t figure out why. On the way to work this morning I realised – we had left the light on behind the backdrop. It threw off all the…
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when i had bad ebay deals
Bad Ebay Deals! I have had, as far as I can remember, 3 bad ebay deals, all involving costume stuff. The first was in probably 2001. I found a nice pair of red Mary Janes that would go good with my Asuka sundress I had recently (also) bought off ebay. This was in the days before I had paypal, so…
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Make a Wish Troop & Padme Pics!
WOW!! The Make-a-Wish event in Clarksville yesterday was awesome! The event was supposed to be from 1-3, we ended up staying until 4 because there were SO many people there, still waiting in line to get pictures with us! I couldn’t believe how many people showed up — we raised almost $1400! I didn’t take many pictures, but here they…
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Timothy Zahn Signing Pics! & Leia updates
Well, I Istill/i haven’t worked on anything lately. I did get my ceremonial Leia skirt pieces out and washed them, since it had gotten something on it while laying around in the sewing room (who knows what, probably paint or something. It came off). Mum agreed tonight to look at it with me and help me figure out where I…
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The Time my Granddad Went to an Anime Convention
When I went to Katsucon 2003 (my first year there), my grandparents went with me. Obviously my grandparents know nothing about anime, and I thought they might go sight-see or something on saturday, but they didn’t – they just kinda hung out, and, I think, had a relatively good time. Well, saturday afternoon rolls around, and I ask my granddad…
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Princess Leia & Han Solo blasters!
So, most of this time, this puppy is going to be displayed next to my MR Leia gun (don’t know how just yet) — and when it’s not looking pretty on my wall, it will hopefully be part of a future costume of Chase’s…. 😉 Don’t they look nice together?? LOL
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Injuries, Pains, and other Annoyances
I was thinking about the injuries and other odd things I’ve received while costuming, thought I would chronicle them! 1. Sperrets! I’ve had three costumes that have given me odd sperrets – the first was Yuffie. Wearing fishnets on one arm/hand and one leg led to some odd designs on my skin afterwards, mostly on my arm. My whole right…
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Lois updates…
I’m slowing down work on my Lois dress – I don’t need it for what I needed it for, so I guess I’ll just finish it when I want and… I don’t know. It’s not really costume-y enough to wear to a con.
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2006 in review
At the beginning of the year I said I wanted to do: 1. Hoth Leia 2. Darth Vader 3. Padme’s Lake dress 4. Bespin Leia 5. Finish Yuuko 6. Padme’s Funeral Dress 7. Wonder Woman 8. The Bride 9. White Witch 10. Dorothy 11. ANH Leia 12. Team Zissou outfit So what did I finish? Hoth Leia? Yes, plus Bespin…
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New Vibro-Ax! Leia Photoshoot, and Christmas Parade Pics!
First off, my new toy came today! oh heck yes… New Leia pics we took a while back– I want to do the Rebel Legion trading cards this time around, so I needed better pics of some of my costumes. Next up – padme lake dress — stormtrooper — imperial officer — maybe the parade dress Although, speaking of that,…
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Various Costume updates!
Well I haven’t gotten much done lately – been working on the website, or some art stuff. I’ve got about four projects I’m working on currently– Ceremonial Leia v.2 – Since the pattern I bought back in August has apparently disappeared into the black hole that is my sewing room, I bought another one and got it cut out, and…
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Halloween 2006 Pics!
Hope everyone had a great Halloween! Picture Gallery – including Pumpkinfest this past weekend, us at the zoo, and last night! I finished Dorothy and wore it to work Halloween day, and to hand out candy that night… And took some pics with Kes 🙂 This past weekend we did Pumpkinfest in Franklin, and did the zoo troop again! Here’s…
