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  • Lake dress progress!
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    Lake dress progress!

    March 18, 2006 /

    Got the underdress put together! Here it is from the back…

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  • St Pat’s
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    St Pat’s

    March 17, 2006 /

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! 🙂 I’m in Nashville right now, tonight we’re driving to Atlanta to be in the St. Patrick’s Day parade tomorrow. Whee fun. I’ve got a couple of you I need to email about the stuff you bought from me (or were interested in buying from me); I will be able to finally do that sunday when…

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  • when i found some more dcon photos
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    when i found some more dcon photos

    March 15, 2006 /

    Check out this page of Dragoncon pics!! Great pics of me and Ash as Leia and Luke… closeup of my tattoo… more pics of me as Leia… and pics of me as Belle and Ash as Stitch! Awesome! (Since the link above has died, here are the photos)

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  • St Pat’s
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    when i cried over miss piggy and kermit

    March 11, 2006 /

    I’m such a nerd. The end of Muppets Taken Manhatten almost makes me cry, everytime! There’s just something about the song Miss Piggy and Kermit sing… it’s so sweet LOL

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  • St Pat’s
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    when it was hard out here for a pimp

    March 8, 2006 /

    IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP

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  • St Pat’s
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    when we did a photoshoot with mel

    March 4, 2006 /

    Chase is making french toast and I’m watching ROTS. Yay 🙂 Tomorrow we do Mel’s photoshoot, and I need her to email me so I know what signs to make tonight!

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  • St Pat’s
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    when i actually used my blogger

    March 2, 2006 /

    LOOK I AM POSTING IN MY BLOGGGGG YAY

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  • Dragoncon 2005 pics!!
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    Dragoncon 2005 pics!!

    February 21, 2006 /

    I meant to put this in the last post and went back to edit, but then I figured, eh, let’s put it in a new post. Dragoncon put their official pictures up… here’s my favourites of the ones I found of us. This little girl in the pink princess dress hung around us a lot backstage (you can see her…

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  • Lake dress & other progress
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    Lake dress & other progress

    February 21, 2006 /

    What have I done lately? Not much. I dyed some stuff black last night. That was fun. I made two pairs of pajama pants for birthday presents. And on saturday we worked on my sssseeeeecret costume 😉 It’s not finished yet. I can’t wait til it is, I’m so excited. It’s a costume I’ve wanted for years and years and…

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  • Art Post: Obi-Wan
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    Art Post: Obi-Wan

    February 21, 2006 /

    I’m off to Nashville again this weekend. I swear that’s all I’ve been doing lately besides going to work and stuff. My life has become so very uninteresting. One of these days I’ll get my scanner hooked back up. The only thing I’ve got on my comp right now that I can show is this… Completely totally NOT anywhere near…

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  • St Pat’s
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    when i woke up sunday morning

    February 21, 2006 /

    “Well, I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt…” Way too much Johnny Cash this weekend, listened to nothing but the entire way to Nashville and then back to Memphis. 6 hours! That particular lyric was very true for me yesterday. I woke up feeling like crap! It got better throughout the day,…

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  • St Pat’s
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    when i hated winter

    February 17, 2006 /

    GUYS! Please pray for no sleet/ice for me… at least until after I’ve gotten out of it’s way… so far weather.com is saying it’s not going to hit Memphis until midnight, which would be good, since I’m leaving Memphis at 9. PLEASE don’t let hit any earlier than that!!! Have I mentioned that… I HATE WINTER!!!!!!!! I’m really freaking sick…

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  • St Pat’s
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    when i hoped for no sleet

    February 16, 2006 /

    I woke up this morning and my knee was hurting more than has in months. All I can guess it’s because of the weather (we went from 5 inches of snow this past weekend to being 70 degrees yesterday). I hope it goes away. I also hope it doesn’t sleet tomorrow because I’ve got to drive to Nashville late tomorrow…

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  • St Pat’s
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    when kev gave me a valentine’s day card

    February 15, 2006 /

    Er, happy belated Valentine’s Day 🙂 Here’s the card my cousin made for me. Isn’t that awesome?

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  • 2006 schedule
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    2006 schedule

    February 12, 2006 /

    Atlanta St. Pat’s Parade I’ve never done this event before, and it’s still not 100% that I’m going to go, but if I can hitch a ride… Wearing regular Princess Leia, most likely, if not, battle Padme with new shinguards. MidSouthCon Friday I’ll just be there for a couple of hours most likely. I’ll be staying at the hotel sat…

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  • St Pat’s
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    when i collected zizzlingers

    February 12, 2006 /

    Update to the Princess List: 1. Cinderella Blue Ballgown 2. Cinderella Pink Dress 4. Ariel Pink Dress 5. Jasmine 6. Jasmine Purple Outfit 7. Belle Yellow Ballgown 9. Snow White 12. Mulan Purple/Pink Dress 13. Cinderella Work Clothes 14. Ariel Blue Dress 15. Ariel and Flounder 20. Aurora Blue Dress 21. Cinderella Wedding Dress 22. Briar Rose 24. Mulan with…

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  • St Pat’s
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    when i opened a school

    February 1, 2006 /

    I am opening a new business. “Kell’s School of Photogenics” Join up now and your first class is free.

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  • when we rented ringers
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    when we rented ringers

    January 29, 2006 /

    So last night we went and saw Walk the Line and rented Ringers: Lord of the Fans. Walk the Line was awesome, and it was so cool because part of it was filmed down the street from my friend’s house, really near my school and my dad’s office. And then there was Sun Studios where we hung out when Melissa…

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  • St Pat’s
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    when i was lazy

    January 28, 2006 /

    “well it was too much for me, i had to move to the bed, but then i couldn’t see the screen to play so well, so i quit” A quote from me to Chase via IM.

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  • St Pat’s
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    when i was killin it in battlefront

    January 28, 2006 /

    138 KILLS ON JABBA’S PALACE LEVEL. I RAWK.

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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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