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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Dragoncon 2006: Friday pics!
I’m home from Dragoncon! I got home yesterday and had to work, so I came home and pretty much crashed. It was a great weekend! We did dub it “The Weird Dragoncon” because we didn’t do thinks like we normally did. I’m working on getting my pics up while here at home. I just got my wisdom teeth out at…
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Progress updates
It’s so strange being able to pack my costumes – and not have to worry about shipping or airlines! This is the first time I’ve driven to Dcon, and the first time in a looong time I’ve not shipped costumes or had to store things in my luggage. It’s an odd experience, but a good one. Chase’s costume is almoooooost…
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when i was tired of working on costumes
I’m just so tired and ready for all this stuff to be done. It’s gotten to the point where I’m not even really thinking about dcon anymore, i’m just wanting all the costume stuff to be done for a while. All we’ve done the past month, every free minute, has been working on costumes. 😛 I’ve only got 2 more…
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Mando, Belle updates
Today was really busy. We made good progress on Chase’s costume. It’s almost there. The mando is almost done, too. After the weathering on the shirt and vest dry I can finish it tomorrow. Blue Belle just needs one or two more things. Yellow Belle needs her roses sewn on. My secret costume needs the belt finished and the wig…
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Wonder Woman delay, Mando updates
A bit of bad news – though sort of good news for me, as I was really worried about it – Wonder Woman will not be ready for Dragoncon. I had originally not intended her for Dragoncon anyway – but Chase thought we could get it finished so we tried. But now it’s come down to the final hour… and…
