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destination perryville
hello hi I actually have content today. I got to be Merida at a medieval feast! And also brought green Anne to display on the dressform. On the way home stopped at lambert’s for dinner: I have not been here since the 90s? We used to stop on our family St Louis vacations, and it was always so much fun,…
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welcome to 43
I guess this means I’m entering year 25 of blogging. I started when I was 18, before the word “blogging” was even around. i called it “free talk” at the beginning. Anyway not much to post this week – again – except birthday stuff. Didn’t do much on my birthday. Chase had his dates off and thought my birthday wasn’t…
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the serious moonlight
Ok so you know those mcdonald’s halloween pails? The ones that they are saying might be back this year? I just saw a news story about the rumor and reminded me of this. A few years ago, my mom was cleaning out the entry way closet – they don’t really use the front door/entry way so that closet tends to…
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deep thoughts
This is just a stream of conscious thoughts I’ve been having the last couple of weeks. With this year being my 20th dragoncon I’ve been thinking a lot about how convention culture has changed – namely how cosplay culture has changed. I mean a lot of the change is obvious, it’s so much bigger, more socially accepted, easier to get…
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its the dragoncon post
Ok let’s get this thing over with! Wednesday morning we were up before the sun, headed over to Ash’s house to pick her up. This was absolutely the tightest packing job we’ve ever had… That’s my purple duffel bag shoved in sideways in the front, which resulted in my (somewhat pricey) makeup remover spilling everywhere. Thankfully I keep all spillables…
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and we’re back
This morning was the first time my feet HAVEN’T hurt going up and down the stairs in our house, and I’ve regained feeling in the little toe on my left foot. Unexplained bruise, scrape on my ankle, and spots of eyeliner i still can’t get off are still hanging around, along with a non-stop migraine I’ve had since before dragoncon.…
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it’s dragoncon week sir
T minus 2 days and… we are done. Chase was going to do one more little detail thing to his Leto armor but decided not to. We are at that point. I had one more little beaded chain thing I should have added to Jessica (the part that goes around the fingers on the sleeves) but I was like eh…
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living in the material world
Here we are again, another Monday of Dragoncon progress and nothing else to talk about. Seriously we’re in con crunch mode now so neither of us have done anything but eat, sleep and work on dragoncon stuff. I was mostly churning out the Jessica headpiece. Here’s what I started with. It’s built around a headband with kobracast and worbla parts.…
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what in the walmart
Coming down to the wire. I’m in much better shape this year than I was last year but still have a few major hurdles to get over in the next 2 weeks. Out of curiosity I had to go look at where I was this time last year and… uh, yeah I’d say I’m still in a slightly better place…
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hey macarena
Well here it is, Monday again. 3 weeks and some change until Dragoncon. In the realm of things that are annoying me currently — I realized about 2 weeks ago that I only put in for Thurs & Friday of dragoncon to be off, somehow I missed the Wednesday. Not a big deal, I went in and added it… but…
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annoyed af
that’s me today. everything is annoying. I got my replacement Dragoncon badge – found someone selling theirs on ebay. Now I have all 20. After this year I’m going to look at getting them all framed with my carpet piece. You ever make something and think “this is trash” and then 20 minutes later you’re like “this is amazing” and…
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my fair luna
Today is starting off great with multiple problems at work after a relatively quiet (aka no problems) couple of weeks. Why do things come in waves like this? Anyway, I won the Lucky Seat lotto to buy cheap tickets for My Fair Lady at the Orpheum. Mom and I are going and I’m mostly excited but also mostly anxious because…
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t minus 42 days
A little less than a month and a half to go before Dragoncon. I’m feeling the pinch. I also really need to figure out what I’m taking besides the new stuff. Ugggggggh Most of my progress this past week was on Padme but it’s not a lot to show. I got the panel for the beading and embroidery made. Gargoyle…
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chrissy wake up
Sorry about last week’s post. I think I got distracted before setting up a photo header and forgot to go back to it… I remember at one point going thru and closing tabs and seeing my wordpress edit area was still up and thinking that’s weird… but surely I already published it. Thankfully it was saved in drafts so I…
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what a weekend
7/9/22 – APPARENTLY I forgot to hit publish on this on Tuesday. Oops. Well here it is now. I backdated it to the date it was written. yall I am tired. Last week was spent getting the house ready for company. We got the backyard cleaned up, lights put up and ready to go. Friday Chase’s sister and family arrived.…
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dragoncon 2022… plans?
hello i am here to ramble about dragoncon costume plans because this is what I do when I am anxious. It’s now officially July and I have no idea what costumes I’m taking to dragoncon besides the 2 I’m working on. I’ve just been so tired since disney and so out of sorts since last year I just feel tired…
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its my birthday too
Today I’m starting out with the non-sewing stuff. Friday was Kevin’s birthday! He had just gotten back from his summer camp that day and his mom invited us over for spaghetti (his fav) and cake. Saturday night we took Kevin out for dinner at Celtic Crossing and to see a showing of 1984 Dune at the Pink Palace imax. They…
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that was legitness
So where I left off with Jessica last week was I was pretty close to get it finished. I had to tweak that sleeve pattern once more. But as I kept working on it I was really unhappy with it. The darts I’d had to add just looked awful, the sleeve openings were too low and droopy looking and everytime…
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late nights in the middle of june
Hey I actually got a good amount of stuff done this past week. I finished hemming the Jessica veils, and then I got the dress pieces cut: It’s been kinda hard this past week to show any progress of this on IG, because I’m trying to avoid putting pins in it so I never had the panels pinned together until…
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why am i here
Well my old desktop computer has once again decided it’s not going to connect to the internet so I’m back on my laptop. Blah. I hate writing my blog entries on the laptop. I kept working on my Padme sleeves last week. And I came to the conclusion that this poly charmeuse doesn’t hang right. It’s just slightly thicker and…
