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  • Art Post: Hermione and Crookshanks
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    Art Post: Hermione and Crookshanks

    February 11, 2005 /

    It’s a little muddy but oh well. Hermione and Crookshanks for the v-day project! This is the non-card version — below is the card version that was on the site.

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  • Art Post: James and Lily (Harry Potter)
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    Art Post: James and Lily (Harry Potter)

    February 11, 2005 /

    Lily and James for the vday project!

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    when there was an earthquake

    February 11, 2005 /

    Earthquake! I woke up this morning and the house was shaking and rumbling. I thought at first it was the heat coming on (just really loudly and violently than normal), or a plane passing really low, and then I thought “maybe it’s an earthquake” and then I went back to sleep. As you can tell I was very concerned. So…

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  • when i posted my schedule
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    when i posted my schedule

    February 9, 2005 /

    For no reason, here’s my travel schedule thus far this year (cons and otherwise) March – Jackson for spring break, don’t have exact dates yet. MidSouthCon – April 2-4. Celebration III/Indianapolis – April 20-24 A-Kon/Dallas – June 3-5 Comic Con/San Diego – July 13-17 Dragoncon/Atlanta – uh, September 2-5 I think. Maybe sometime mid April go to Sewanee for a…

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    when i spent the day with my grandpa

    February 8, 2005 /

    So yesterday I spent the afternoon with my grandparents. It was really nice, my granddad showed me his WW2 uniform and told me about his time in the Air Force. He also showed me his collection of old postcards… he has a LOT of them, but they’re not just any old postcards, they’re all from family members dating back over…

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    when i wanted to go ride a bike

    February 4, 2005 /

    This weekend… Saturday I’m planning on going bowling with the Memphis Fanforce, should be fun, should be sore on sunday, haha 🙂 Sunday I’m going to spend the afternoon with my grandparents. In other news, I’ve been working on my costume site’s redesign for like, a month now. It’s still got a ways to go, because I’m redoing EVERYTHING, an…

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    when i thought maybe a kitten

    February 2, 2005 /

    Good grief, I got up an hour again and I’m already so tired… I’m so tired of being tired, haha!! Last night was our second basketball game, I didn’t get a chance to talk about the first last week. We won this week! I started… mm no points but close several times, mostly rebounds and a lot of shoving and…

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  • when indy found a toy
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    when indy found a toy

    February 1, 2005 /

    Hee! Cute things Indy has done recently: Ash and I went up the attic to find a board game to play, and Indy came with us. There was an old dog toy on the floor – I think it was one of Molly’s – and Indy picked it up and started playing with it, all excited. We were done by…

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    when i needed some alone time

    January 31, 2005 /

    Today was not easy. I think I’ve ended up making myself sick – I ended up skipping school today, I’m so tired and icky feeling. I’m going to try not to talk about it anymore here… forgive me if I do, I know it’s depressing to read. But that brings about something I kept meaning to mention! You may have…

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  • when all was sad
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    when all was sad

    January 31, 2005 /

    I just want my Hobbesy back…

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  • when all was sad
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    when it was bad

    January 30, 2005 /

    Yesterday was simply the worst moment of my life. Everyone who has a loved pet, hold them close and enjoy every minute with them.

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  • when all was sad
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    when it was quiet

    January 30, 2005 /

    My little friend is gone, there’s nothing else to do now but move on and remember all the good times I had with him. Still, this house is very sad right now. Mum keeps crying and blaming herself. Dad is just quiet. I’m going out to lunch with my grandmother. That will be nice. I have no idea what do…

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    when we played soul caliber to distract me

    January 30, 2005 /

    Nothing like VOLDO pr0n to make me laugh for a few minutes. I miss my kitty. I’ll get my mind off it for a few minutes, and then I’ll see him again. I’m glad Ash is here to take my mind off it, though.

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    Protected: when hobbes died

    January 29, 2005 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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  • stupidity!
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    stupidity!

    January 29, 2005 /

    I’m glad Ash has been here tonight to keep me cheered up… here’s some random stupidity that happened tonight. For some reason, out of nowhere, while we were looking at references of one of the Arwen dresses I’m making this year, I said, “What if Steven Tyler had played Elrond?” The idea cracked us up, so I made this. Is…

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    when a dude fell asleep

    January 28, 2005 /

    My cousin broke his ankle in his basketball game tonight ! I never got to see him play this season either! Haha, some dude in my class today fell asleep while we were watching a video, and the class ended. I needed to get past him… I thought should I wake him up so the teacher doesn’t see, or just…

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    when my hair exploded

    January 27, 2005 /

    And on a completely unrelated note… I curled my hair sunday night, and when I took it down monday morning, it was like, an explosion. HOLY CRAP it looked so stupid I had to take pictures. All I could think was, “Why can’t it turn out like this when I curl it for Hermione?!” bwhahaha… it did calm down later…

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    when the tv kept me busy

    January 26, 2005 /

    2 hours worth of American Idol to watch… 6 hours of Pride and Prejudice… yay 😀

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  • when i was an opera singer
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    when i was an opera singer

    January 26, 2005 /

    I have decided to quit school and my job and begin training as an OPERA SINGER! go me

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  • when there was an earthquake
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    when the exorcist killed my laptop

    January 22, 2005 /

    I watched The Exorcist on my computer the night before last. It was about halfway through, and my computer just shut down out of nowhere. It was plugged into the wall and everything.. it just shut down. It was creepy. Then last night, I watched the Director’s Commentary, which I always do. That’s a big draw for me, for a…

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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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