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  • when i forgot and everybody forgot
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    when i forgot and everybody forgot

    October 24, 2005 /

    Forgetting is a deadly cycle! I was little bewildered last month when my paternal grandparents forgot my birthday. Like, I saw them two days after it, and they didn’t say anything. But, I thought, they’ve been so busy moving (they had just moved into a new house after living in their old one for over 40 years!) that it had…

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    WTF

    October 23, 2005 /

    Suddenly, since just yesterday, this particular picture in my flickr account has over 1000 views. Previously my most viewed pic had around 150. Who the heck is linking this…?!

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  • when i forgot and everybody forgot
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    when cath died but was still laughing

    October 23, 2005 /

    OMG! Cath showed me the movie a bunch of her friends made… it was HILARIOUS. Catherine dies in it, and when they’re showing her corpse, she’s LAUGHING. It was funny.

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  • when i forgot and everybody forgot
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    when i wore matching socks

    October 23, 2005 /

    For the first time in a good 2 weeks… I am wearing matching socks! Yep, both Harry Potter. It feels… strange. Haha. I’m waiting on Cat to come pick me up… we’re going to go eat dinner and then try to meet up with Mel who is finally back from Paris. She better have brought me back the hunchback I…

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    when the titanic hit the iceburg

    October 22, 2005 /

    It may surprise you, but in high school, I was a member of the science club. But, then, science club at my school basically amounted to one field trip a year and printing “SCIENCE CLUB” next to your name in the yearbook. EVERYBODY joined science club, because you didn’t have to do a thing, and you got to go on…

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    when be kind didn’t disappear

    October 20, 2005 /

    Today is the first day that my “BE KIND” that I write on my hand survived overnight. Usually it comes off when I take my shower, but I guess I used too dark a colour yesterday, and it partially survived. I actually wrote it twice yesterday, once in a dark yellow, and then again in a dark blue. So it…

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    when i was a clutz

    October 19, 2005 /

    OMG I am being a total clutz today – another symptom of the catherine-itis. I was walking up to school and walking by this lightpost, and I knew it was there, I was going to walk by it, but as I got to it I kinda hopped over the curb next to it, landed funny and slammed right into the…

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    when i had done no work

    October 18, 2005 /

    Rough day at work :I haven’t done a darn thing on my halloween costume, either. I don’t have anything done for class tomorrow. I’m going to go take a nap.

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  • when i forgot and everybody forgot
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    when we had a lazy fall break

    October 18, 2005 /

    I just got home from my grandma’s. I’m so tired! Yesterday me and Rachel got there and we went to eat, then Rachel and I attempted to get online but mine obviously couldn’t connect anymore, and the laptop Rach had with her didn’t have anything we could use either. We spent several hours trying, desperately, to connect, haha. Then we…

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    when mema’s was the #1 vacation spot

    October 16, 2005 /

    I think it’s funny that the typical college student, for fall or spring break, will go somewhere fun, like the beach or something. Or at least go home for the weekend. Me and my cousins, on the other hand, go to my grandmother’s. Which just proves how awesome my grandma is.

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  • when i forgot and everybody forgot
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    when i found a shirt i needed

    October 16, 2005 /

    OOOOMMMMMMMGGGGGG yes I hate myself and want to die! Ash wants me to die too, I think.

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  • when museum replicas had a puffy pirate shirt
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    when museum replicas had a puffy pirate shirt

    October 15, 2005 /

    But I don’t wanna be a pirate!! Today continues to be good! I put on an old pair of shorts and found $20 in the pocket. Huzzah!

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    when i finally finished uploading paris

    October 14, 2005 /

    Mel is in Paris right now!! Lucky… wish I was in Paris right now. I asked her to bring me back a hunchback… Speaking of Paris, here’s something for you, Ash – I don’t think you saw the link cause it was under a friends entry, but here’s our Paris pictures from last year. Yep, I finally got them online.…

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    when it was a good day

    October 14, 2005 /

    I spent most of the afternoon sleeping out on the hammock. It was a very good day, indeed.

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    when i unpacked

    October 14, 2005 /

    man! I slept like a log last night! I also cleaned my room, yay. Finally unpacked from Dragoncon! Haha. My back needs popping…

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    when i had to remind myself to be kind

    October 13, 2005 /

    Today I had to write “BE KIND” on my hand, to remind myself not to pick on my friends so much (mostly Kevin). But it’s come in more useful for sticking my hand in Kristie’s face to remind her to be kind to me. I want to go home!! It’s too pretty a day out to be stuck at work.

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  • when i forgot and everybody forgot
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    when it was fall break

    October 13, 2005 /

    OH! I forgot!! I’m going to Jackson sunday!! Coming back tuesday morning! FALL BREAK!! YAAAAAY!! I’ve got to see if I can borrow a Playstation, it’s not Mema’s without playing FF7.

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  • when i needed to melt my brain
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    when i needed to melt my brain

    October 13, 2005 /

    SOMEBODY PLEASE KILL ME I’m going to watch Holy Grail over and over and over again this weekend, in order to melt my brain.

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  • when i realized why i couldn’t concentrate
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    when i realized why i couldn’t concentrate

    October 12, 2005 /

    OMG – I just realised what’s wrong with me! I have Catherine-itis!!! I must see a doctor immediately!!

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    A few Horrorfest Pics

    October 11, 2005 /

    Halloween is 20 days away and I’ve done nothing on my Halloween costume. I’ve got all the stuff for it! I just haven’t done anything. But then, that’s to be expected, since I’ve been house sitting, and then out of town this past weekend. I’ve got a base hat I’m going to use. I need to strengthen the brim and…

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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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