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5 weeks to go
I was going to go count the days until we leave for Dragoncon but I decided that would be detrimental to my mental health, so we’re just gonna say 5 weeks. I did get a decent amount done this past weekend. Not quite to where I want to be but a big hurdle crossed… The main skirt is WEARABLE! I…
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terminal enchantment
Hey I actually have costume content to post today!! Finished my new MoM Wanda skirt: Version 1 spoonflower fabric to the left, version 2 knitorious fabric version to the right. Not super happy with my gradient dyeing here but oh well, it is what it is. After seeing it on I think I need to bring the gradient at the…
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the deep clean
The deep clean of the sewing room is almost done! I finally got to vacuum which I’d really been looking forward to it, and I brought the carpet cleaner up to try to get out some stains. Worked great on some and not on others. I’d like to get one of those bigger cleaners and do the whole room one…
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im married to the hustle
I was starting to wonder if I’d be able to post today with the AWS outage – couldn’t upload anything to my photo server. But seems to be working now so let’s get on with it. Been mostly focusing on finishing my sewing room clean-up. Is it done? No because there is SO MUCH to do. I can’t remember if…
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a blue rose case
Since I posted on Wednesday I really only have the weekend to talk about here. Friday Ash and Gabe picked me up after work so we could meet Chase downtown (easier for him to go there straight from work) to go to the Monster Market opening night! I wore Diane, because where the hell else am I ever going to…
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ptsd on the daily
I still have nothing to post this week LOL Things I did accomplish this past week – I added some darker reds to my Wanda wig and ran the steamer over it to loosen up the curls. On the fence as to whether or not I want to completely recurl it. Guess I need to try it on and see.…
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driven mad
I’m slowly being driven mad by our neighbor’s dog. I think I’ve complained about it here before, but it’s the people behind us and one house over. They had been SO MUCH better about not leaving the dog out the last couple of months, and now this past week, he’s been left out for hours every single week day. He’s…
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i want auroras and sad prose
Guess what? I’m coming at yall live from my new laptop! Chase did try to fix my computer, ordered a new battery, etc. But the writing had already been on the wall for that laptop; it was buggy and super slow, and photoshop did not like it at all, I’d regularly have weird things happening in photoshop because the graphics…
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wild & free teen angst morning
That’s my spotify daylist playlist this morning LOL “You listened to pop and delicate in the morning. Here’s some teen angst, teen rock, brat autumn, wild & free, do it for the plot, and teen pop.” I had some weird dreams last night. I dreamt I was at the Hyatt at Dragoncon (only dragoncon in my head though, it didn’t…
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a paperweight in shades of greige
Oh hi Not much to report on this week. I did put parts of Baylan and Shin on the dressforms to take some more pics. Gonna add a few of these to the construction page until I can get more pics of us IN the costumes. Got all of Dragoncon put away. As I was carrying the last bit upstairs…
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oh my god its tuesday
I totally spaced on posting yesterday. I was just so excited to get back to work on the Padme project LOL It’s been a busy week. Last friday was my parents 50th anniversary!! Whoa! But let me just go through everything from the beginning. Or as close as I can get. Finished this little puzzle. Gonna glue it together. I…
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the horrors persist, but so do i
Whelp. Remember how last week I talked about my dressform breaking? Well, it broke AGAIN. I was readjusting the waist measurements and the entire interior waist components popped off. Ugh. Guess a new form is what I’m spending my christmas money on — though apparently they dont make the burgundy one anymore? I’m going to have to get the beige…
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shake it off
What a weird couple of days. Monday we went to the Tiger game. Fun times. I spent the last week slowly getting christmas set up. I told Chase I’m doing “Maximalist” christmas this year. Basically I have never put up ALL of our christmas stuff. I decided this year i was putting EVERYTHING out. Everything ended up being less than…
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happy june
It’s June which means we are now FULLY into Dragoncon mode. But first Kevin’s room. I talked about the trim colour last week but I took this pic with the swatch of the colour and I SWEAR how are these the same? They do look closer to each other in non-direct light, but here in direct light in the window…
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card declined
I love having to get a new debit card because of the “potential” it could’ve been leaked and having to go through and update my card everywhere. You never guess every single place it needs to be updated. Woke up this morning to a message that my card had been declined on a subscription I’m currently on, never even thought…
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superb owl
oh hi there Leia is pretty much done. I sewed down the support ribbon in the center back, finished sewing on the swirls on the lower sleeves, and i finALLY tried it all on to mark off where I need to cut and attach the ribbon belt. I haven’t done the belt attachments yet – that will be tonight. But…
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does that make me crazy?
Five day weekends are rough. Having to get up for work this morning was criminal. It was not a great weekend. I haven’t talked about it much, but my Mema has not been doing well, she has been on hospice (at home thankfully) for the last couple of weeks. And we were able to go up and spend Thanksgiving with…
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why is it so monday in here
Boy what a strange weekend. But let’s rewind back to Halloween since I hadn’t talked about Halloween night yet. I wore Wanda that night to hand out candy: But we had such a low trick or treater turn out 🙁 We have this one group that gets driven around on a trailer, about 25-ish kids all come pouring off of…
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the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
Not much in the way of wedding dress Leia progress this week – the only thing I did was sew the 2 back panels together and gather the upper edge. Yes that’s all I did in a week. Why? Because I decided to complete clean out and clean up my sewing room instead. Avoidant behaviour. Last week I posted a…
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awake but at what cost
oof what a weekend. So fun fact, when the previous owners of our house decided to put it on the market, they had the entire house repainted. Everything, (and unfortunately not well but that’s a story for another day) I wish they’d saved the money and built it into the sale as a bonus towards the new owners painting, but…
