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Padme Nightgown and Hoth Leia progress
Making a quick post of my progress from work, because I realised I won’t be home to do this until at least tomorrow night! (Going to my grandmother’s tonight 🙂 The vest as it was yesterday evening: Just pinned together, and inside out. The vest as it is right now: Still need to turn the front, the sleeves, make the…
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Padme Nightgown, Dorothy, etc
I worked for a while tonight, and got some good stuff done! Padme’s Nightgown – Got the basic thing put together. I really don’t like this McCall’s pattern – it’s strange. I used it for the basic pieces, made it larger to take out the fitted aspect of the bodice, and completely eliminated the bonig. The way they had the…
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Fabric Finds
fabric finds this weekend: My grey/slightly purple satin for Lois that I found a couple of months ago.. they still had it, and I got it for 50% off, yay. Material for the inner dress for Padme’s funeral dress… most expensive thing I got today, but well worth it, I love it. Dorothy fabric The rest of the stuff I…
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the fair
I’m sitting here waiting on Chase to get home… he’s taking foreeeever, traffic must be really bad. Oh, wait, I’m in Nashville, traffic is ALWAYS like that here. Anyway – we went to the fair last week! We all gathered at nana’s house to ride down together… and I was surprised to see that in the two weeks since I’d…
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Shopping List
In other news, I’m in Nashville and will hopefully be in fabric heaven this weekend – with the Columbus Day sales, I’m hoping to pick up at least a few key fabrics I need. I’ve got a 50% off one item at Joann’s and a $50 gift certificate to Hancock’s… and I’m going to fancy fabric store (I don’t know…
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when i had to be careful not to search for babies
I enjoy looking at one of a kind dolls on ebay every once in a while, when I’m bored. Some of it is so incredibly, like this Arwen and Asfaloth set. I mean, WOW! However, next time I decide to do this search, I must remember to type in “ooak dolls -baby” Ok, some of them are very beautifully sculpted…
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Halloween 2006 plans!
I’m in Nashville every weekend for the rest of the month! This weekend, Chase won tickets to the Orange County Chopper show up there, so we’ll be up there at that. I’m hoping to go see Science of Sleep this weekend, too. The next weekend is an event for the Humane Society in Shelbyville. I’ve been trying to think of…
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Ice Cream Social Pics!
Last night was fun! Cold Stone Creamery’s Ice Cream Social for Make a Wish. It was a little cold though – I’m going to have to start digging out stuff I can wear under Leia for the Christmas parades. At least I can layer underneath that dress! LOL One lady there with her kids told me they had just bought…
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Leia belt damage
I’ve done jack in the way of costumes lately – but my grandmother gave me a hancocks gift card for my birthday, and it’s burning a hole in my pocket, so tomorrow morning I’m going to go see if I can’t make use of it. What I’ll get, I have no idea. I forgot to mention in my Dragoncon wrap…
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Puppy & birthday stuffs
Yesterday was nice and laid back; we all had my favourite cake at work. Plus mum ordered another of the same cake for us to have this weekend! whoo 🙂 Plus Chase is making a cake! It’s a cake-palooza. A turtle I found in the yard last week. I must have taken 20 pictures of it. El Calvino says meoooooooow…
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Events Schedule
Posting from work, which I’m not supposed to do, but — I’ve got to get this stuff together in my head — Events for the rest of the year: Make a Wish Ice Cream Social Sept 28 (ANH Leia) Horrorfest Oct 21-22 (Hoth Leia, Mando, ??) Pumpkinfest/Nashville zoo Oct 28 (ANH Leia, maybe Belle) Halloween Oct 31 (Dorothy) (Novacon in…
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Back from my Birthday Weekend in Nashville!
I’m back from a WONDERFUL weekend in nashville! Friday night we went out and got Chase’s new phone, then we went and ate at the Cheesecake Factory! I love eating there, we don’t have one in Memphis (that I know of), so it’s a treat. I had the vanilla bean cheesecake and it was soooo good, especially with the strawberrys…
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Upcoming Costume Schedules
There are five or six projects I want to work on over the winter months. Dorothy, which might hit the backburner. I was going to make it for halloween – still might – but now I’m not going to be in Memphis to do the group with everybody that weekend so it kinda makes it pointless. However, I might go…
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when i was in pain
OWWWWWW my teeth hurt worse at the moment than they ever have since the surgery! I’m tempted to take my pain meds again….. but I took an advil and hopefully it’ll kick in soon. geesh.
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when i’d had my teeth cut out
And I’m spent for the night… whew. Updating my LJ… and catching up on myspace stuff… it took forever! My teeth have finally stopped hurting – for the moment. I expect them to be aching again when I wake up in the morning, since I have a tendancy to – well, not quite grit my teeth, but hold my jaw…
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Dragoncon 2006 wrap-up: everything else
All the non-new costumes, and how the held up. I wore classic Leia friday morning at the RL table. That was fun! I had planned on doing that last year, but ended up wearing the metal bikini instead. Got pics with PsychoShinji… yay! I missed her when she was in Robin and I was in Starfire last year. I also…
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April & Leo Recap
Chase’s turtle turned out soooo good! I’m so impressed. When he said he wanted to do this costume, as a surprise I put together an April O’Neil costume. I wasn’t going to tell him, I was just going to put it on at the con when he put on the turtle. But of course I ended up telling him. LOL…
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Corde wrap-up
Everybody who knows me knows I’ve been wanting to do this costume for some time LOL I went into this thinking, oh, it’ll be quick! Haha, yeah right. Started out with just a basic white robe first. Lined the sleeves with white satin. Then it was time to stamp. I never did figure out *exactly* what the pattern was on…
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Mandalorian wrap-up
Out of all my new costumes for Dragoncon, this was my favourite! I’m very proud of how it turned out. It was fun and comfortable to wear, and for the first time ever I had 10 year old boys wanting their picture with me. LMAO. We painted the helmet ages ago. Here’s my helmet in-progress: > Here’s my vest in-progress:…
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Belle & Beast wrap-up
Well, for Belle-dar it’s a wrap-up, not so much for Beast. But anyway. When Chase and I decided to make a Beast costume for him, and wanted it to be for the masquerade, I couldn’t enter the same old Belle I’d entered last year, so I embarked to make some upgrades to it. This was a chance for me to…
