• Horrorfest 2006 pics and Whatnot
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    Horrorfest 2006 pics and Whatnot

    Friday we went and saw The Prestige. I left my phone at the restaurant and we had to go back for it. Geez. Saturday morning I woke up with a horrible headache and eyeache. I took some advil and it went away, but I was left with a lingering feeling of slight ickiness the rest of the day. I got…

  • Hoth Leia pics!
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    Hoth Leia pics!

    Here’s some better pics of my finished Hoth Leia… still going to make the arm thing pretty soon, but for now it’s done. It was pretty comfortable but I still want to redo the back of the jumpsuit. I can’t sit in it without undoing the neck as it is now. It was also nice and warm… however on saturday…

  • Hoth Leia preview
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    Hoth Leia preview

    12:30 at night doesn’t make for the best pictures, particulary with our horrid lighting in the kitchen, but I wanted to show that it’s basically finished. Still got my rank badge, and arm thing (arm thing won’t be ready for this weekend, but rank badge will). Tonight I’ve got a couple of things I want to do: belt loops on…

  • Hoth Leia, Padme Nightgown and Dorothy updates
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    Hoth Leia, Padme Nightgown and Dorothy updates

    This weekend is Horrorfest; I’m trying to get Hoth Leia finished for it. I worked a little bit last night, but the sewing machine was being horrid to me so I quit (I swear, the needle came unthreaded three times in the space of, like, 5 minutes. The last time I just quit. I had been up since 5:45 yesterday,…

  • Humane Society Event Pics!
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    Humane Society Event Pics!

    This was an awesome event we did on Saturday, for the Shelbyville Humane Society. Chase signed lots of autographs, including an autograph on a lightsaber The Sith Lords pose for their yearbook photo. stormtroopers! Chase as Vader and stormtroopers Me and Chase The emperor loves hamburgers ok i’m bored of typing so the rest are in my 2005/2006 Trooping Folder.…

  • Padme Nightgown and Hoth Leia progress
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    Padme Nightgown and Hoth Leia progress

    Making a quick post of my progress from work, because I realised I won’t be home to do this until at least tomorrow night! (Going to my grandmother’s tonight 🙂 The vest as it was yesterday evening: Just pinned together, and inside out. The vest as it is right now: Still need to turn the front, the sleeves, make the…

  • Hoth Leia, Padme Nightgown and Dorothy updates
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    Padme Nightgown, Dorothy, etc

    I worked for a while tonight, and got some good stuff done! Padme’s Nightgown – Got the basic thing put together. I really don’t like this McCall’s pattern – it’s strange. I used it for the basic pieces, made it larger to take out the fitted aspect of the bodice, and completely eliminated the bonig. The way they had the…

  • Fabric Finds
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    Fabric Finds

    fabric finds this weekend: My grey/slightly purple satin for Lois that I found a couple of months ago.. they still had it, and I got it for 50% off, yay. Material for the inner dress for Padme’s funeral dress… most expensive thing I got today, but well worth it, I love it. Dorothy fabric The rest of the stuff I…

  • Shopping List
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    Shopping List

    In other news, I’m in Nashville and will hopefully be in fabric heaven this weekend – with the Columbus Day sales, I’m hoping to pick up at least a few key fabrics I need. I’ve got a 50% off one item at Joann’s and a $50 gift certificate to Hancock’s… and I’m going to fancy fabric store (I don’t know…

  • Ice Cream Social Pics!
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    Ice Cream Social Pics!

    Last night was fun! Cold Stone Creamery’s Ice Cream Social for Make a Wish. It was a little cold though – I’m going to have to start digging out stuff I can wear under Leia for the Christmas parades. At least I can layer underneath that dress! LOL One lady there with her kids told me they had just bought…

  • Leia belt damage
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    Leia belt damage

    I’ve done jack in the way of costumes lately – but my grandmother gave me a hancocks gift card for my birthday, and it’s burning a hole in my pocket, so tomorrow morning I’m going to go see if I can’t make use of it. What I’ll get, I have no idea. I forgot to mention in my Dragoncon wrap…

  • Events Schedule
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    Events Schedule

    Posting from work, which I’m not supposed to do, but — I’ve got to get this stuff together in my head — Events for the rest of the year: Make a Wish Ice Cream Social Sept 28 (ANH Leia) Horrorfest Oct 21-22 (Hoth Leia, Mando, ??) Pumpkinfest/Nashville zoo Oct 28 (ANH Leia, maybe Belle) Halloween Oct 31 (Dorothy) (Novacon in…

  • Hoth Leia, Padme Nightgown and Dorothy updates
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    Upcoming Costume Schedules

    There are five or six projects I want to work on over the winter months. Dorothy, which might hit the backburner. I was going to make it for halloween – still might – but now I’m not going to be in Memphis to do the group with everybody that weekend so it kinda makes it pointless. However, I might go…

  • Dragoncon 2006 wrap-up: everything else
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    Dragoncon 2006 wrap-up: everything else

    All the non-new costumes, and how the held up. I wore classic Leia friday morning at the RL table. That was fun! I had planned on doing that last year, but ended up wearing the metal bikini instead. Got pics with PsychoShinji… yay! I missed her when she was in Robin and I was in Starfire last year. I also…

  • April & Leo Recap
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    April & Leo Recap

    Chase’s turtle turned out soooo good! I’m so impressed. When he said he wanted to do this costume, as a surprise I put together an April O’Neil costume. I wasn’t going to tell him, I was just going to put it on at the con when he put on the turtle. But of course I ended up telling him. LOL…

  • Corde wrap-up
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    Corde wrap-up

    Everybody who knows me knows I’ve been wanting to do this costume for some time LOL I went into this thinking, oh, it’ll be quick! Haha, yeah right. Started out with just a basic white robe first. Lined the sleeves with white satin. Then it was time to stamp. I never did figure out *exactly* what the pattern was on…

  • Mandalorian wrap-up
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    Mandalorian wrap-up

    Out of all my new costumes for Dragoncon, this was my favourite! I’m very proud of how it turned out. It was fun and comfortable to wear, and for the first time ever I had 10 year old boys wanting their picture with me. LMAO. We painted the helmet ages ago. Here’s my helmet in-progress: > Here’s my vest in-progress:…

  • Belle & Beast wrap-up
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    Belle & Beast wrap-up

    Well, for Belle-dar it’s a wrap-up, not so much for Beast. But anyway. When Chase and I decided to make a Beast costume for him, and wanted it to be for the masquerade, I couldn’t enter the same old Belle I’d entered last year, so I embarked to make some upgrades to it. This was a chance for me to…

  • Dragoncon 2006 Sunday pics!
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    Dragoncon 2006 Sunday pics!

    Back to our regularly scheduled Dragoncon pics! Got to sleep in a little bit Sunday morning. We got up and I put on Rogue for the X-Men photoshoot, and Chase stayed in normal clothes to play photographer. I was absolutely stunned by how many people showed up for the X-Men photoshoot! Me and Kitty! This is just part of the…

  • Corde wrap-up
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    Dragoncon2006: Saturday pics!

    Saturday morning was the parade! I had to iron that monster of my lake dress, and we didn’t really get my hair on right – we were in a hurry because we were running late! Neither of us went to the 501st pic, but by the time we got to the staging area, the parade was just starting, so that…