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  • Thinking
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    Thinking

    December 17, 2004 /

    Semester before last in my Faust class, I did some costume designs for the three major characters in part one (Faust, Mephistopheles, and Gretchen), because I thought maybe I could make one of them as my final project (but I didn’t have time). I think I may work some more on one, probably either Meph’s or Gretchen’s (most likely Meph’s),…

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when ash wrote a haiku

    December 16, 2004 /

    A haiku by Ash: the mole saw the gum It looked minty and tasty He ate it and died.

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  • when i was played by lisa kudrow
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    when i was played by lisa kudrow

    December 16, 2004 /

    I just splurged and bought myself a Christmas present. Nothing major, just two of the nice, hard cover, Books of Wonder editions of two of the Oz books. I’ve been wanting all of them for ages but I never buy them cause I’ve already got (or had) paperback editions of all of them, and the hardback Books of Wonder are…

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when i had another beatles shirt

    December 14, 2004 /

    Today’s shirt: Beatles Story My cousin brought me this back from England. I really love it, it fits perfect and it’s really, really soft. Plus it’s Beatles!

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when i saw 4 movies

    December 13, 2004 /

    I have seen 4 movies in the past 24 hours! 3 of my Netflix movies, and one in the theater. Here they are, in no particular order. Interview with the Vampire – I had seen bits and pieces of this on TNT before, and I’ve read the book, so I wanted to see it for real. Pretty good, though Antonio…

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when ash and i joined a band

    December 12, 2004 /

    Ash and I have joined a band called Shaak Ti and the Money Makers. Come see us play at the Antenna club new year’s eve!

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  • Art stuff
    Blog,  misc fanart,  my art

    Art stuff

    December 11, 2004 /

    this was an oooold sketch I had in one of my sketchbooks, and I randomly coloured it the other day. not much to it. Raiderbabe as Rogue! I wanted to do some portraits of cosplayers, so I picked Raiderbabe and her awesome Rogue costume. This was a quick fun little thing. And next was Mich as Psylocke… again, quickly done…

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  • Art Post: Harry, Ron and Hermione
    Blog,  fanart from magical wizard series,  my art

    Art Post: Harry, Ron and Hermione

    December 11, 2004 /

    Been a long time since I did a new HP fanart!! I’m pretty happy with this.

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when i had a crazy skeleton guy

    December 10, 2004 /

    Brian Fellow on SNL: “No offense if your name is Charles, Virginia!” Today’s shirt: Crazy Skeleton Guy I got this somewhere online. I just love this crazy skeleton guy.

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  • when i gave up
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    when i gave up

    December 9, 2004 /

    Oh my GOD I’m ALMOST done with this stupid paper. I’m on the closing paragraph, and I just wrote myself into a corner. I can’t figure out how I’m trying to link Middlesex to A Clockwork Orange and Repulsion. GAAAAAAAAAAAAH SCREW IT I’m going to bed.

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when i asked for movie recs

    December 9, 2004 /

    Like, over 2 years ago, I asked for movie suggestions. I just recently joined Netflix, and was looking for movies to add to my queue, and remembered this list! So I figured I’d update it now, marking out things I’ve seen, now. Strikes I’ve seen by now, italics I have in my netflix queue already. Please, anyone who actually still…

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when i wore my john shirt

    December 9, 2004 /

    Ash, do you want to go christmas shopping this weekend? Today’s shirt: John Lennon I can’t remember where I got this shirt, I’ve had it forever. I don’t think I need to explain why I wore it today.

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
    Blog,  random

    HE LIVES!!

    December 8, 2004 /

    The biggest news of my life at the moment IS THIS: HIS GRASS HAIR IS GROWING!!! Oh my god I never thought I’d be so excited about something like this.

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when i had a comfy star wars shirt

    December 8, 2004 /

    I have just one thing to say, and this is, “Whatever!” Today’s shirt: Star Wars I bought this at A-Kon 03. It was one of those last day of the con, I have a few extra bucks and they’re selling super cheap buys.They didn’t have my size so I had to get this large, but oh well, because it has…

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when I was gandalf

    December 7, 2004 /

    I am all studied up and ready for my test tomorrow! I am an Art Deco and International style identifying machine!! I’m bummed because at the moment it’s looking like I may not get to go to the bowl game right before christmas. I’ll know for sure tomorrow. Today’s shirt: Two Towers This was one of the silly iron-on shirts…

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when I pitied the fool

    December 6, 2004 /

    I really hate those XMas Old Navy commercials. Todays shirt: Mr. T President Nixon says he pities the fool who doesn’t like my Mr. T shirt!

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  • when i finished my elf cloak
    a day at the races,  Blog,  costumes

    when i finished my elf cloak

    December 5, 2004 /

    Have a viddy at my purple cloak! I posted it over at my cosplay journal but figgered I’d better post it here, too.

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  • sketchblog: mara jade
    Blog,  my art,  star wars fanart

    sketchblog: mara jade

    December 5, 2004 /

    done at a basketball game!

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  • Dazzler and Elf pics
    Blog,  costumes

    Dazzler and Elf pics

    December 5, 2004 /

    I finished my purple cloak: I actually worked some on Dazzler last night- still not finished, but at least I did SOMETHING:

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  • when ash wrote a haiku
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    when vader was behind me

    December 5, 2004 /

    Today’s shirt: The Empire Strikes Back This was the first shirt I ever bought at a Hot Topic. I was in Nashville for MTAC 2001 and we went to the mall nearby. I had never been in a Hot Topic before! OH I was so excited – look they have a GIRLS star wars shirt that’s actually COOL! So yeah.…

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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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