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  • when chase got me a present
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    when chase got me a present

    March 17, 2007 /

    chase got me a hoth leia doll XD

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    when there was leia soap

    March 15, 2007 /

    Princess Leia Soap. I’m very tempted to buy it. I’m not sure why.

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  • when chase got me a present
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    when i had bigger fish to fry

    March 13, 2007 /

    I was way angry and upset earlier, but now I’ve spiraled down into a weird, silly, freako kinda mood. I’m still pretty frustrated by the thing from earlier, but other peoples’ goofiness can’t be helped, and I have bigger fish to fry…. like going to get me some crackers and a coke.

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  • MidSouthCon and MTAC 2007 schedule
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    MidSouthCon and MTAC 2007 schedule

    March 10, 2007 /

    Friday afternoon/night: Arwen red dress Sat morning: ceremonial Leia Sat afternoon: WW sat evening: Padme Lake late night sat: Slave Leia (very) rough MTAC costume list: Ceremonial Leia, Belle winter dress, Utena, Starfire I’ll wear Starfire whenever the other Teen Titans are planning on wearing theirs. I may also take Ozma, if I can fix the crown. Kevin is going…

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  • when chase got me a present
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    when they left my window down

    March 8, 2007 /

    I needed to take my car in today – not for anything major, I just wanted an oil change and a check up. Kristie was also taking hers in, so around 11 we both went over to Gateway and dropped them off, and Cojo brought us back to the office. I love Gateway – I think they’re awesome, they’re really…

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  • Wonder Woman progress
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    Wonder Woman progress

    March 8, 2007 /

    I’ve been busy the last couple of nights, so I haven’t really made much progress on anything. I plan on buckling down next week and getting at least the ceremonial base dress finished… like I said, need to re-do the top. I’m not worried about the sleeves, except for where they meet on the bodice, since I didn’t get that…

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  • when chase got me a present
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    when chase had 70s hair

    March 8, 2007 /

    Chase gets to go play outside shooting rockets with my mum’s class today, while i’m stuck here at stinky work 🙁 I guess this is, somehow, kinda twisted payback for all the times he had to be at work while I lazed around at his apartment. haha. He got a haircut last night; 70s Han hair is gone! It’s back…

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  • Officially Official
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    Officially Official

    March 5, 2007 /

    We signed the contract and made the deposit on the ceremony site and reception hall today, so the date is finally official! Chase and I are getting married April 26, 2008! 😀

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  • MidSouthCon and MTAC 2007 schedule
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    Costume & Convention Plans

    March 4, 2007 /

    Weekend after next is St Patrick’s Day; we’re planning on going to Atlanta again for their big parade, with the 501st/RL. I’m – hopefully – wearing Queen Amidala, the parade dress. After the mixup last year I’m a little skittish about things falling through again. On top of that, a bunch of our local members have decided not to go.…

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  • when chase got me a present
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    when it was kenny loggins time

    March 4, 2007 /

    Casual, Precious, and Physical D! Every pass is an adventure…

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  • when i realized
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    when i realized

    March 2, 2007 /

    HAY IM GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!! hahaha

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  • when chase got me a present
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    when i got leia unleashed

    March 2, 2007 /

    After freaking years of wanting the Slave Leia unleashed, for a non-ridiculous price, I finally caught one on ebay with a buy-it-now for $25. So I snapped that puppy up. (I think the reason no one had gotten it already, was because “Unleashed” was misspelled in the title, perhaps- it was listed as “Unleahed” LOL) Ahh but she’s beautiful, I…

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  • when chase got me a present
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    when i had a personality crisis

    February 27, 2007 /

    I AM MAYOR MCCHEESE

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  • when i shared words of wisdom
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    when i shared words of wisdom

    February 22, 2007 /

    A house is not a house without a dog.

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  • when chase got me a present
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    when i mourned my lost toys

    February 19, 2007 /

    I’ve probably already written about this, but I don’t care! When I was a little kid, I had a whole collection of Star Wars toys. I loved them a lot, I had a knock-off Star Wars action figure case to keep them in, but when I wanted to take them somewhere, I would put them in this little brown and…

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  • when chase got me a present
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    when i finally matched the lunchbox to the thermos

    February 18, 2007 /

    LOOK WHAT I WON!! I finally got a thermos for my original Muppets lunchbox! plus some muppet babies 🙂

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  • when i got annoyed at commission requests
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    when i got annoyed at commission requests

    February 17, 2007 /

    Do people on myspace not know how to read? I get so many messages everyday with people asking stuff that is on my main page, right there. I don’t have THAT much text on my page. I have paragraph about me. I have a paragraph (in big bold type!) that I make my own costumes, and I do not sell…

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  • Padme Photoshoots
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    Padme Photoshoots

    February 16, 2007 /

    Gosh! We took pics of Battle Padme and Lake Padme last night. The battle ones came out ok, not great, but the lake ones, the lighting was way off and I just couldn’t figure out why. On the way to work this morning I realised – we had left the light on behind the backdrop. It threw off all the…

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  • when i had bad ebay deals
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    when i had bad ebay deals

    February 15, 2007 /

    Bad Ebay Deals! I have had, as far as I can remember, 3 bad ebay deals, all involving costume stuff. The first was in probably 2001. I found a nice pair of red Mary Janes that would go good with my Asuka sundress I had recently (also) bought off ebay. This was in the days before I had paypal, so…

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  • when chase got me a present
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    when the weekend was going to be busy

    February 15, 2007 /

    Last night was fun, though we weren’t out very long! We were home by 9. We finished watching Cinderella 3 and went to sleep. LOL. I was up at 2 getting a snack, though. Must have not filled up enough at Texas de Brasil! This weekend promises to be busy, Friday night, Chase is going to a concert with my…

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My Costume History, Day 128: Mara Jade/Arica from My Costume History, Day 128: Mara Jade/Arica from Star Wars, for Dragoncon 2010 I’d wanted to do Mara’s dancer disguise for ages. Having not done a Star Wars costume in 09, I decided to do this for 2010. I found a blue stretch netting for this, but it was a little too light, so I painted it all into a darker blue and it ended up with a cool gradient effect I really liked. Assembled the leotard with a skintone spandex lining layer. The symbol on the front I made out of a layer of the chiffon from the skirts, backed in some lining fabric, then basted onto the front panel of the leotard. After I had it in place, I went back over it with some embroidery floss to give it some more texture. I made the skirts using my Huttslayer skirts as a reference, just adding the side panels. They are made of a poly chiffon I picked up at Hancock - they are lightly stitched onto the leotard in a few places, and the left side closes with a snap. I made the cape sleeve things out of the same chiffon, attaching them to some silver bangles and black leather cording at the top, and the upper back is attached to the leotard. My tiara is a piece of silver thermoplastic cut into shape and it ties on under the wig. Now the drama here was the boots. Some of the references showed her wearing thigh high black boots, so that’s what I went with, since I had these suede black boots from Yuuko I could use, and I thought the suede was a nice tie-in to Huttslayer. I put this on at Dcon and the second I got downstairs... one of my heels broke off. I was like... ok, I can power through this and hobble around for a bit. A few minutes later... the other heel broke. All of my pics of this are me in the hallway outside our room with broken heels LOL After Dcon I took it to a cobbler that said it could not be fixed. They weren’t made right. So I glued them back together myself and wore it to GMX later that year, where they broke again of course. Glued again for the white backdrop shoot the next year - but you can see in the side photos one is already broken again LOL So I haven’t worn it again since then. One of these days I will replace the boots and bring it back out. I swear.
My Costume History, Day 127: Ame-Comi Supergirl, f My Costume History, Day 127: Ame-Comi Supergirl, for Dragoncon 2010 I told yall I was obsessed with the Ame-Comi line of DC character statues - & the 2nd version of Supergirl I thought was SUPER cute & I had to make it. I started out with my fav bodice pattern & made the base out of some blue cotton and spiral steel boning. The outer layer of the bodice is my blue spandex, and it laces up the back. I added the spandex circle skirt to the bottom. The tricky part here was the cut-outs on the side - I should’ve just done them with skintone material, but I really wanted them to be “real” cut-outs. They don’t sit exactly right, but they work. For all of the yellow stripes on the suit, I made a pattern on the costume on the dressform using tape and transferred it to paper, then used that pattern to cut out some yellow marine vinyl I had. In previous projects, I would’ve hot glued this on, but instead I hand-sewed it all. I was really happy with the end result and was glad it wasn’t glued on. The sleeves are separate and really just long gauntlets, but are made of the same blue spandex with yellow vinyl stripes. The collar piece is foam - Chase cut it and added all of the little details for me, as well as making the “S” symbol in the front. It all velcros onto the suit along the top edge. The cape is just a square of some red fabric I had in my stash, and it velcros to the underside of the collar. I bought the boots at the second hand store and covered them in some red spandex, and added the yellow stripes to those too. I did change the shape of the boots from the figure - I did a high/low sort of thing instead of straight across, just felt like that would look better on me. I debuted it at Dcon 2010 and loved it!... except the wig. I had bought the wig online but I did not like the look of it. So when I took it to GMX a couple of months later, I instead wore a different blonde wig from another costume (Gaga) and liked that so much more. I brought it back to Dcon 2011 with the new wig as well. Need to reshoot this on the white backdrop one day - for some reason we only shot like 10 photos of this? It’s on my (very long) reshoot list...
My Costume History, Day 126: Donna Troy from Teen My Costume History, Day 126: Donna Troy from Teen Titans, for Dragoncon 2010 I was buying my fabric for another costume I was doing that summer, but the site had a minimum buy, and I hadn’t met it yet. So I dug around their site looking for something else I could use, and found a black stretch velvet with silver glitter. Bingo, I could easily put together this Donna Troy look I had on my wishlist. Initially I planned to self-line it, so I bought enough to do that. Fabric arrived, and I altered a basic bodysuit pattern for it and got the pieces cut and assembled. But when I went to try it on with the lining added, I realized... velvet lining was not a good idea LMAO. So I removed it and just finished the edges. But that basically left me with 2 identical suits - so I finished the edges on the lining layer and sold it! Nice. The boots I had already bought for another costume I was doing that summer, the wig and gauntlets were my Wonder Woman pieces. I made the collar from my velvet with a velcro closure and a star I got at the craft store. The belt was a piece of silver leather belting and it velcros closed in the front, under a metal “buckle” Chase made for me. Easy project! I wore this to the Wonder Woman shoot at Dragoncon that year, and shot it on the white backdrop not long after. I did enjoy the costume, but didn’t see myself wearing it again, so I sold it a few years later.
My Costume History, Day 125: Black Widow from Marv My Costume History, Day 125: Black Widow from Marvel Comics, for Dragoncon 2010 So as I mentioned in my last costume history post, I’d bought this wet look black spandex suit to use for a Black Widow costume, and I also ended up using it for Julia from Cowboy Bebop. I also used it for my Selene (Underworld) suit as well - so I got a lot of use out of it! This comic style Black Widow costume was easy to put together - bought the wig, had the boots. Chase made Widow’s Bite bracelets for me out of dowels around a piece of black elastic. I made the belt out of a bunch of metal button cover kit panels painted gold - the center symbol panel is a wooden disc I painted. I attached them all to a thin gold cord which I tie on in the back. Not the best option for a belt but it worked fine for this quick easy costume. I’ve worn this a few times over the years - and nearly every time I wear it I wear a different wig with it LOL Which I felt worked for this costume! The original wig was a long curly one that I used for Dcon 2010 and the white backdrop shoot, and later I switched to a straighter cut for an Avengers shoot when I brought her back to Dcon 2011. When I wore this to the Avengers midnight movie, I used my own hair curled. I haven’t worn it since then, but I do still have it. Suit’s still in good shape - I just had it out to shoot Julia on the white backdrop a few months ago. So it’s around should I need it again.
Princess Leia art project part 7: Boushh disguise Princess Leia art project part 7: Boushh disguise
Princess Leia Art project - part 5 and 6 Decided Princess Leia Art project - part 5 and 6 Decided to lump Bespin Escape jumpsuit and End of ESB dress into one post since they’re both retreads of previous costumes.
Princess Leia project part 4 - Bespin Leia As a r Princess Leia project part 4 - Bespin Leia As a recap to this project: I was having so much fun redrawing and simplifying my older Padme project pieces that I decided to draw some Princess Leias to match. I did actually start trying to do a Leia version of my Padme project back in 2018. I got about six of them done before I got distracted and quit. So it’s nice to finally revisit this idea. While these versions aren’t done to the same level as the original Padme pieces, I do now have all the line work if I ever want to go back and completely paint them. These Leia pieces I’ll be posting over the next few weeks have been really fun to do - they’re much faster to draw than Padme, not only because they aren’t as complicated but also because I have all of my own costumes to reference 😹
My Costume History, Day 124: Julia from Cowboy Beb My Costume History, Day 124: Julia from Cowboy Bebop, for MTAC 2010 Chaes was working staff at MTAC that year. I hadn’t made any anime costumes in several years at that point, so I decided I needed something new - and something easy, because by the time I made this decision I didn’t have a lot of time left. I was already planning to do a Black Widow costume for Dragoncon that year, and I’d already bought this wet-look spandex suit for it from River’s Edge dancewear. I realized - hey, I could use this suit for a Julia costume too! So, that became my one new costume for MTAC 2010. Like I said, I bought the suit. I had the boots, I had the wig. I bought some sunglasses at target, and spray painted a bangle for the bracelet. Made the collar out of some black spandex. Obviously not a lot of work here — but most of it went into the belt. I drew up the design and Chase cut it out of some scrap leather for me. Painted it silver, and made the back portion out of some black leather. It snaps in the back. I wore it at MTAC, it was fun, but it was kind of a throwaway costume so I didn’t do much else with it. Never wore it again. BUT a couple of years after MTAC, I realized I had lost the full size versions of the photos Chase took of me in it at the con. So if I wanted to print photos of this (which I was trying to do for a portfolio at the time), I was stuck with 600px tall versions that were going to look terrible. That was frustrating - I can’t believe I lost those original photos. So I moved it to the top of the “white backdrop photoshoot to-do list” - but I still didn’t get around to it for several more years. It just was never a priority. Finally this past year for our december 2025 photoshoots, I got it out and shot it! At long last! Only took 15 year! LOL I did have to make a new collar (the original was long gone), and I wore a different wig with it, which I think looked better than the first one. This is my first time posting any of these white backdrop shoot photos of it on social media! I’m really happy with how they turned out and so glad to have it properly catalogued finally.
My Costume History, Day 123: Jane from Tarzan, for My Costume History, Day 123: Jane from Tarzan, for Anaheim Comic Con 2010 I love Disney’s Tarzan, I love Jane, I love her dress, so why not. I started out by making a pair of stays out of cotton, canvas and boning - they weren’t exactly the right shape for this, and they weren’t pretty, but I was happy with them at the time. I bought the bustle - I wasn’t confident in making that. The dress is two pieces - top and skirt - and made out of a matte yellow satin. The top zips up the back, but I couldn’t find a separating zipper that looked decent, so it’s a normal zipper and I have to pull it on over my head and zip it down instead of up LOL Added the white cuffs, and the leather belt is attached to the top and closes with a hook and eye at the back. The skirt was interesting to make, because I didn’t have any patterns in my stash made to fit over a bustle like this, so I just draped it and made it up. It’s self-lined and I added the white lace to the bottom. The white sash at the back and draped panel in the front are sewn in at the waistband - this whole thing is a PUZZLE to get into, it’s a series of snaps and hook and eyes at the side and it always takes me a minute to remember which order things go in LOL I bought the boots at target and made the white spats to fit over them out of some stretch knit. For the white collar, I bought a button-up shirt and made a new collar for it out of my matte white satin. The purple “tie” is attached to this as well and it closes with a snap. Bought the pith helmet online. The gloves were my Hoth Leia gloves. The parasol wasn’t perfect, but I picked it up at an estate sale & loved the old wooden handle. Added some lace to the edge & left it as-is otherwise. This was so much fun to wear! The response from other folks at cons was so funny. So I wore it a lot the rest of the year & into 2011. Funnily enough after it seemed like EVERYBODY knew Jane at the Anaheim con, at Dcon I kept getting asked “so are you like, some kind of steampunk girl?” LOL It’s still a fav, I still have it, though the boots are slowly dieing and the pith helmet liner has crumbled into nothing. I’ll fix them & get her wearable again one day soon.
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