• Romana + house work
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    Romana + house work

    The house is still a disaster thanks to us painting the laundry room, but it’s getting there. I forgot to take a before-photo of the laundry room before we took everything out, and before we stacked the washer and dryer. But here it is pre-painting: Only room in the house we’ve never done anything to – that floor tile is…

  • House work: Guest Bath
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    House work: Guest Bath

    Working on the house again! I repainted the hall bathroom this past weekend. Third time since we’ve moved in. Here’s a quick history of the hall bathroom! When we moved in – it had wallpaper, which we took down. First I painted it green, because green is my fav colour and this was the one room we could agree on…

  • Panorama of my Sewing Room
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    Panorama of my Sewing Room

    Cleaned up my office last night since I had bridesmaids coming over to try on their dresses I had altered. It’s definitely grown more cluttered since I started out with one bookshelf and a desk! I just have too much stuff and nowhere else to put it (*). (*) – I really need to clean stuff out and get rid…

  • Christmas 2011 Tree!
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    Christmas 2011 Tree!

    Made the decision to go ahead and decorate on Thursday: We haven’t finished painting the living room or finished the new mantle – but I couldn’t wait; if I’d waited on all that to be done we’d probably wouldn’t have put the tree up til February. Ha. So excuse the unfinished mantle, but it’s nice to have the tree next…

  • House Work: Bedroom finished!
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    House Work: Bedroom finished!

    and again the old room after we moved in for reference: Look at the bathroom door in comparison to the trim – that yellow-y colour is what all the trim and doors in our house is. Ick! Chase will be removing the door to repaint them white soon, and we’re replacing the hardware on the doors, too.

  • House Work: Painting the Bedroom
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    House Work: Painting the Bedroom

    Got the bedroom painted this weekend! Well, almost – we only got about halfway through the trim. All of the trim and doors in our house are this icky almond colour, which just looks dingy next to everything else. We’ve been wanting to paint it all since we first moved in. We picked a slightly off-white for it. Anyway, a…

  • Cleaning my Sewing Room, etc
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    Cleaning my Sewing Room, etc

    Still working on getting my sewing room straightened up and organized. Chase put my new shelves up last night, so I put my bead jars on them – this was the plan from the start, but it took me 2 years to finally get around to getting the shelves. I think I might get one more small one, because I…

  • Belle painting
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    Belle painting

    Chase is putting my Belle painting up tonight!!! He got this for me like 2 years ago, I”m so excited to finally be putting it up. Also, how I’m spending my Christmas:

  • Sewing room + hogwarts robe
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    Sewing room + hogwarts robe

    my office is back to being clean after finishing Kevin’s christmas present (outside of attaching the patch.) It went so quick! I’m really pleased with it. And then Chase hung a few things up in my office – the 2 Adam Hughes prints he got me for my birthday a few years ago, and my Mike Mayhew Ms Marvel sketch…

  • my workspaces over the years
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    my workspaces over the years

    I was cutting fabric on the floor of my office last night, and it got me thinking of my old workspace at my parent’s house (where I had a table to cut fabric). I thought I’d post them all. From 2001-2008 I worked out of the dining room at my parent’s house. I took it over! (sorry mom) I don’t…

  • Sewing Room updates
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    Sewing Room updates

    I worked on my office last night, mostly organizing my patterns. I had too many that were in large ziplock baggies so I spent the evening squishing pattern pieces into my usual smaller baggies. Then I put them all away in my new bench! They didn’t all fit, though 🙁 But I got the majority of them in there. They…

  • Decorating & Christmas shopping
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    Decorating & Christmas shopping

    Friday night Chase and I decorated the house. Chase put up the tree while I put out everything else, we had Elf on the TV and I baked some cookies. It was fun 🙂 Here’s a few crappy cell phone pics. Not a lot new on the tree this year. Nothing geeky (didn’t see any we had to have from…

  • pattern frustration
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    pattern frustration

    First step to cleaning up my office is getting control of my massive pattern collection. I just don’t have room to keep them in the plastic bins they’re in, it’s taking up too much room – I need to find a more space-saving option. I could possibly fit a small file cabinet or similar under one of my desks –…

  • i hate tile
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    i hate tile

    This is going to sound weird but I really hate tile. I mean like tile on the floor, like kitchen or bathroom floors. It just grosses me out for some reason. It goes back to when I was little, and I would stay with my grandparents every day while my parents were at work, and my grandma’s kitchen was this…

  • Sewing Room Sketch
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    Sewing Room Sketch

    So last night, I doodled this in photoshop. Not too many changes, mostly just cosmetic things – I want my bookshelf and side table painted white, and I want those two shelf/cubby hole things for holding stuff/as a tv stand. I also want to get my posters and pictures on the wall. I want to get all of that stuff…

  • The Costume Closet is Finished
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    The Costume Closet is Finished

    I know folks are probably tired of hearing about my stupid closet, but it’s finally finished! So I’m going to go over it once more 🙂 So a question I get asked a lot is “Where do you keep all of your costumes?” When I lived with my parents, the question was pretty easy to answer – we had converted…

  • moo cards!
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    moo cards!

    My mini moo cards came yesterday! They have them in a neat new box. I felt kinda sad having to just tape them to boxes, but I got about 20 extra to hand out at cons – not that I ever handed any of my original 100 out – but hopefully I’ll remember them at dcon this year. I put…

  • More Closet work, and Boushh art
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    More Closet work, and Boushh art

    So yesterday when I got home I cleared out the closet in the prop room and started moving my boxes in. Right now I’ve just got index cards taped to the outside until I get the rest of my moo cards in (hopefully they’ll be here tomorrow.) I need to unpack about 2 more big bins, and everything is pretty…

  • Organizing my Costume Closet
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    Organizing my Costume Closet

    first, today’s princess, Padme again 🙂 Last night I really dug in and got all of the costumes I have here right now into boxes. It’s a mess! But it’s mostly done. I need to go get a few more bins of stuff from my parent’s house tomorrow, I reckon I’ve got about 20 costumes not currently in a new…