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i feel stupid and contagious
Nothing like having an unusually busy day at work, feeling like my brain is being pulled into 15 directions, and our neighbors decide to fire up their 2 gas-powered leaf blowers. My brain feels like it’s going to explode. I just had to go find headphones and block out the noise so I don’t go mad. So anyway, the last…
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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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eyes without a face
I’ve had Eyes Without a Face stuck in my head all morning and I have no idea why. Before I dive into sewing news let’s talk about the generic life stuff. Ice storm last week, again. Fun. Saturday things were cleared up and warmer so we went out to run some errands and also checked out some places we’ve never…
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kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Guess what! I actually come to you today with sewing updates. It’s not a LOT to show but I did get a good amount done and it’s making me feel good about at least having the dress done by next weekend. Note I said dress, not costume… lol I FINALLY got the back floral pieces cut. That’s kinda why I…
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photoshoot – round 2
Oh hey so yeah I totally didn’t post last week. Monday was crazy busy I was like, I’ll just do it tomorrow and then I forgot. Not like I really had much to post about anyway. Outside of the photoshoot I have basically done nothing except play Star Wars Lego. Let’s start with the interesting stuff – photoshoot results! Hild…
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adventures in old costumes – again
Hey if you saw my photoshoot post from Friday you might have seen me mention I wanted to do another photoshoot day while everything was still set up… Well we’re doing it this weekend. What am I shooting? First up – HILD! I’ve had Hild on my list to get shot for a looooong time because in the back of…
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photoshoot pics yay
Well it took me longer than I thought to get the rest of these cropped and uploaded but here they are at last. Started the shoot with Dapper Leia because I wanted my “real hair” costumes to go first. I forgot to do any pics with my sunglasses but not too upset about it because I really didn’t like the…
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no resolutions
I generally don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore, but I saw somebody say their resolution is to “pet more dogs” and that’s what I’m going to use from now on if anybody asks about my new year’s resolution. I didn’t post last week which was not great because now I have to try to remember everything that happened Christmas weekend.…
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nope
Not a lot to talk about this week. Last night I did officially finish all the hems on wedding Leia but it doesn’t look any different than last time I posted it so I haven’t taken a new picture. But it means tonight I can start working the ribbon trim on which I’ve been looking forward to. I also need…
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a day late
Well I was gonna do a small post yesterday after posting my year-end review, but didn’t get around to it, so here it is today. Not a lot to talk about but wanted to mostly give a wedding Leia update. Last week I got the sleeves hemmed and also cleaned up the inside of the sleeves. That took about 2…
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2022 costume wrap-up and 2023 plans
I want to do my wrap-up today instead of a regular post. I may still do a mini update post later today. So as usual let’s start out by seeing what I said I wanted to make in 2022 back in December 2021. 1. Finish Utena – YES! 2. Lady Jessica – YES! 3. Padme’s Packing Gown – YES! 4.…
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a new reality
Well here we are, I am now living in a world without my Mema. I just wrote a shit ton of paragraphs about how this weekend was and what it was like being in my sewing room absolutely surrounded by things that remind me of her and then I deleted it all. I think if you’ve been reading my blog…
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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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the king has returned
Hey guess what another week with me having nothing new to report. Last week I learned that Kevin Lillard (A Fan’s View) had passed away. Very sad to hear. He was so instrumental in the early cosplay community, such a great guy. So many of my old costume photos are from him. And then last night… LAST NIGHT! The Bob…
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1 step forward, 2 steps back
(Wakanda Forever spoilers in this post. Just skip this post until you’ve seen the movie if it’s important to you!) Let’s start off today with some sewing updates. Last week I finally got the lining and chiffon layers sewn together. It was giving Endora. Got the sleeve openings tacked together. And I also got the sleeve linings cut. Saturday I…
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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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any questions??
Happy Halloweeeen! So last week, Tuesday night, I got out all of of costumes for the weekend and did repairs/updates. That night I reglued my Wanda front piece back to the bodice (probably wearing it tonight but even if I don’t it needed to be done) and fixed Kevin’s jedi Luke boots — last time he wore them, one 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…
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vacation happy to get away
I’m back from vacay and feeling…tired and anxious LOL So let’s start with the sewing update since there’s not a lot to that (since I wasn’t sewing this weekend obv) Like I said previously I’m making this Leia dress in 2 pieces – dress and cincher. I just think it will look best. Last week I got the basic interior…
