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  • Quickly, before I leave for work…
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    Quickly, before I leave for work…

    January 12, 2005 /

    I just made my Comic Con reservations 😀 We’re at the Omni again. I love that hotel. I would have cried if it were sold out.

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  • when a church said ….. !
    Blog,  the archive

    when a church said ….. !

    January 7, 2005 /

    I pass this church everyday, and their sign out front always has some silly pun on it (like, “Seven days without prayer makes one weak.”) Yesterday, all it said was this:          …..                  ! The next day it was something different, but I really liked that one.

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  • when a church said ….. !
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    when i had kell syndrome

    January 3, 2005 /

    Definition of “Kell Syndrome“. “The disease which is classified by symptoms of extreme lack of test preperation, thereby causing sickness and absence of school.” it’s… true

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  • Happy New Year
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    Protected: Happy New Year

    January 2, 2005 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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  • Possible Costume Lineups
    Blog,  costumes

    Possible Costume Lineups

    December 30, 2004 /

    tentative schedule for next year: Shadowcon (jan 7-8, Memphis) nothing new – only going on saturday, will probably just wear Ozma. MidSouthCon (April 1-3, Memphis) Padme Parade gown (which is what I’m working on now – I have 3 months to finish it, so it *should* be done… if not, it’ll be at CIII) Celebration III (April 21-24, Indianapolis) Qui-Gon…

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  • when a church said ….. !
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    when i started my puzzle

    December 27, 2004 /

    Leave me alone, I’m working on my puzzle!

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  • when i got a bunch of christmas presents
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    when i got a bunch of christmas presents

    December 25, 2004 /

    The Haul: Dressform (!! although i got that early) 4 piece purple luggage set Hamper Purple dog pillow Green army jacket giant LOTR calendar (has all the posters in it) Monopoly socks 3 belts Snowman pj pants Luggage tag with a monkey on it NY Macy’s makeup bag red blanket A&F gift card Marx Bros DVD set Seinfeld seasons 1…

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  • when a church said ….. !
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    when i was sick during a wintery mix

    December 23, 2004 /

    I have been throwing up all afternoon. I don’t know why… it sucks, I can’t keep anything down. Other than that I feel fine. I ate some reese’s about 30 minutes ago and I thought maybe it was going to be ok, but now I feel icky again. 🙁 I don’t have anything I can take for it, either, so…

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  • when a church said ….. !
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    when we realized HP6’s release date

    December 22, 2004 /

    Hey Ash…. you realise that the day HP6 is going to be released… is smack in the middle of Comic Con? Should we try to get it while we’re there, or wait til we get back? I’m sure there will be some fun stuff going on in San Diego…

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  • when i was playing ff7 again
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    when i was playing ff7 again

    December 21, 2004 /

    Ash – this book is so good! Haha, the first chapter with Burnham on the boat was like a minature review of my Architecture class with the names! Do you mind if I keep it until the start of next semester, so I can show it to my teacher? I got some shopping done today. I finished mom, got rachel,…

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  • Shadowcon
    Blog,  costumes

    Shadowcon

    December 20, 2004 /

    I’m trying to figure out what I want to wear to Shadowcon. Heres the things I thought of: Anna – the only problem I’d have with this is curling my hair, and it would be cold. Arwen Wedding – it’s such a pain to wear, and the fabric on the sleeves is pulling apart – if I wear it again…

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  • when a church said ….. !
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    when it was ash’s bday again

    December 19, 2004 /

    HAPPY BDAY ASH! Youa re officially old. hahahaha!! Now I go to mema’s. Good bye.

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  • when I got As all around
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    when I got As all around

    December 18, 2004 /

    A’s all around. Bwahaha, my plan to take over the world is progressing nicely.

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  • when a church said ….. !
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    when i invited everyone to bite my big toe

    December 18, 2004 /

    Bite me! You, each and everyone of you! Bite me!

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  • Thinking
    Blog,  costumes

    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 a church said ….. !
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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 a church said ….. !
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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 a church said ….. !
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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 a church said ….. !
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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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My Costume History, Day 181: Tightrope Walker from My Costume History, Day 181: Tightrope Walker from the Haunted Mansion, for our Dragon Con 2016

As I mentioned earlier, we cut back on cons this year, and we only did Dragon Con for a day and a half that year. But of course I still have to make something new, and since we were also going to do the Disney Halloween party later in the year, I decided to do the Tightrope Walker so I could wear it for both.

All my fabric came from Joann - I got a purple velveteen for the top, a matte white satin for the skirt, and this cool layered pink chiffon for the sleeves. Made the bodice out of the velveteen, lined with cotton, with spiral steel boning and a lace up back. I really like how it turned out. The sleeves were a take on the same Edwardian sleeve pattern I used for Edith (still had it laying out LOL), just smaller. I stuffed them with netting for shape. I made the upper white pieces out of some lace fabric from Joann, and the bows on top out of some leftover pink taffeta from my pink 18th century dress.

The capelet I went through a couple of mock-ups trying to get the size and shape right on me. Trimmed it in some faux fur and it closes with a snap, hidden behind a more decorative cape closure.

I made the basic skirt, gathered onto a basic waistband. (If I were to redo this I would’ve done this as a circle skirt instead of gathering it, I don’t like how it hides the flowers.) I made a stencil for the flower and used it as a rough guide for painting each on, but I didn’t stick to it exactly because I wanted them to look painterly. (I went with the earlier arts’ even rows of flowers look - another thing I’d change if I were to redo it).

Styled the wig from Arda, made some straps for existing pink flats I had. When I wore this to Dragon Con that year, I just used my Jane parasol, but for MNSSHP later that year, I bought a cheap parasol online, stripped it, replaced it with my own fabric and trim, and made an extension for it. I was really happy with how that turned out. (Also restyled the wig so my side curls weren’t so huge).

This was a fun costume and one I’d be glad to pull out again anytime - I dunno about MNSSHP again, it was still too hot for this there!!
My Costume History, Day 180: Edith from Crimson Pe My Costume History, Day 180: Edith from Crimson Peak, for our Megacon 2016

While in the theater seeing Crimson Peak the year before I decided I HAD to make something from it, came home and immediately bought a wig LOL So since I already had some money invested in it, I decided to do this Edith costume for our one day visit to Megacon in 2016.

I bought a bunch of plain crepe de chine from Dharma Trading. I started with making the top yoke section - it’s a cotton base and supports the sleeves. For the sleeves I used an Edwardian era pattern I had on hand and made the big sleeves puffs, stuffed with netting for shape, and made the lower sections extra long so I could gather them. I trimmed the edge with some lace and added some faux buttons (they snap close). I took big squares of my crepe de chine and gathered them down to fit on each panel of the yoke and sewed them down - trimmed the edges to be the “ruffle” at the neck and bust line. It closes with snaps up the front.

Then I took all that I had left over my crepe de chine, sewed it into a giant tube, and pleated it down to fit onto the bottom of the yoke, under the ruffle. Once I had that all attached, I hemmed it. Now it was time to weather the whole thing.

I started with dip-dyeing the bottom hem - I tested out some dye mixes to recreate the “clay staining” and once I was happy with the colour, I set up a dye station and dipped the end of my dress into it.

Well, I messed it up. I got it way too far down in the dye. One one side it came all the way up to the waist! I tried some dye remover but in the end, I had to just take it off, buy new fabric and redo it (grimace emoji). Second time dyeing, my husband helped holding up the top so I could pay better attention to how far it went in the dye. Then I weathered the top with dye and paint for the blood splatter, which was hard to do LOL. I also made some plain nude spandex gloves and bloodied them up as well so I didn’t have to paint my hands.

I was really happy with how this turned out! It’s so floating and fun to wear. Got to do a cool shoot in a wine cellar later that year. I still want to do more Crimson Peak costumes... maybe one of these days.
My Costume History, Day 179: Princess Leia Disneyb My Costume History, Day 179: Princess Leia Disneybound from Star Wars, for our Disney trip 2016

So 2016 was a weird year, because we did less cons, only did Dragon Con for a day and a half - instead, we bought Disney World annual passes and went to Disney a whole bunch of times that year.

But it didn’t mean I stopped sewing. I was inching closer and closer to a Leia disneybound on our trips years previously, buns, themed clothes, etc - so for 2016 I decided I wanted to commit and do a proper bound.

I made 2 pieces for this - the top and dolman shrug. I bought the shorts, necklace and shoes. The shoes were my attempt to find white versions of some shoes I already had and loved (they were SO comfy) but I didn’t really love these as much. Ah well.

For the top, I had this shirt at the time that I loooved and I basically wanted the same thing but Star Wars-themed. It was a white shirt with some white designs up the center front, so I recreated that with some very light grey/silver-y Star Wars symbols and had it printed on spoonflower knit. I also bought some of their plain white knit to use for other sections. I used my existing shirt as a guide to make a pattern, and assembled it from my spoonflower fabric. Easy!

The I got worried about wearing all white to Disney LOL I thought I’d make a shrug to wear over it - something I could cover myself in while eating or sit on if I needed to sit on the ground. I found this thin grey knit at Joann that had silver metallic stripes running through and made this Dolman shrug - heavily based on a Captain America one I had from WeLoveFine. I added a big rebel symbol to the back using some scrap red spandex. I love how it turned out, and it entered my regular wardrobe rotation after this! And it was perfect for the parks - light enough to not be hot, and it protected me from the sun (I don’t tan, I burn)

It was a lot of fun to wear in the parks - I wore it for several trips! It’s pretty much retired now, except the shrug, which still hangs in my normal clothes closet.
My Costume History, Day 178: Disgust from Inside O My Costume History, Day 178: Disgust from Inside Out, for MidSouthcon 2016

I really loved Disgust’s costume design - and green is my fav colour so the idea of being totally green was appealing LOL

I used all fabric I could buy at my Joann, and I wasn’t completely happy with my green fabric I got for the dress - it was a tad more on the blue side of green, and a little lighter-weight than I would’ve liked, but it was ok. I started out with basic dress pattern but had to reconfigure a lot of it, the neck shape, fit, etc.

Once I had the basic dress constructed, I started embroidering the little mid-century amoeba shapes. I got some blue and yellow-green embroidery floss and just free-formed them in a couching stitch. It didn’t turn out perfectly, but I liked the added detail vs buying a version with the design printed on.

I made the leggings out of some scrap green spandex, the belt out of some pleather and spandex, and the scarf out of some pink glitter netting. Chase made the “D” belt b uckle for me. I bought the wig from arda and added in lots of strands of green glitter embroidery floss for some sparkle.

I bought 2 pairs of green tights - one I used on my legs/feet and the upper ones I planned to turn into an upper body piece and reconfigure the foot sections into gloves. In the end I didn’t feel like messing with it LOL So instead of just painting my face & neck and having tights for the rest, I painted my face,neck, chest and arms and just used the tights for my legs. I still have those tights meant for my upper body around here somewhere.

I’ve only worn this once - wore it to MidSouthCon and we did the white backdrop shoot right after we got home from the con that day. I’ve said for a while I need to just invest in a full body green suit so I can wear this and my Poison Ivy again sometime.
Morticia was a project that’s been on my to-do lis Morticia was a project that’s been on my to-do list for ages, and when we went fabric shopping in LA earlier this year I thought this would be the perfect project to shop for - I wasn’t recreating an exact costume, I wanted to do my own take on the character, so it’d be fun to just shop for neat black fabric.

I’m really happy with how it turned out and it was a smooth sailing project. Can’t wait to wear her again - need fo find some Halloween event for her! #dragoncon2026
I’m not particularly happy with the handful of pho I’m not particularly happy with the handful of photos I got of my picnic Padme at dragoncon. Guess that means it’s time for a photoshoot 🤔

I’ll have my usual breakdown of the construction of this up in my blog in the next couple of days!
Buckle your seatbelts. We’re going to reach speeds Buckle your seatbelts. We’re going to reach speeds of 3!

I decided I wanted to make a Dr. Lea Jansen/DOCTOR Lady costume for #dragoncon2026 earlier this year and was totally shocked and tickled when Chase he wanted to be Blast Hardcheese with me. (Please give me your fav BigMcLargeHuge name in the comments!) 

The first fabric I used for my leotard was cursed, it jammed my machine so bad I had to take it in to be repaired three times! I gave up on that fabric finally, and after that construction of these was smooth sailing. I picked up all the silver fabric when we were in LA, and I bought my wig online, cut and styled it. My belt buckle is my favorite part of the costume, you can’t really see it here, but head back a couple of posts to my reel showing these costumes up close and you can get a good look at it.

I really didn’t think that many people would recognize or care about these costumes, it was just something I really wanted to do - so all the love and shares and people chasing us down at the convention made it really special, so thank you all 💚💚
Roundup of everything I wore at #dragoncon2026 - I Roundup of everything I wore at #dragoncon2026 - I always try to take a pic of each costume at this little cutout on the Marriott floors and this year I didn’t forget any! 

Here was when I wore everything for those curious how I wear so many costumes.
Wednesday night: Rogue
Thursday morning: Rizzo for badge pickup and Muppets Photoshoot 
Thursday afternoon: T’Lyn 
Thursday evening: vacation Leia (would’ve stayed in T’Lyn but got too hot in that)
Thursday evening: Padme/Taylor Swift mashup (didn’t stay in this long, I did not put the wig on right and the front comb was killing me)
Thursday late night: Scully
Friday morning: picnic Padme for the Women of Star Wars shoot
Friday afternoon: Rogue for dealers room excursion
Friday night: Space Mutiny
Saturday morning: Belle (before crowds got too heavy!) 
Saturday midday: Rogue AGAIN for art show excursion 
Saturday evening: wedding Leia 
Saturday night: Morticia 
Sunday morning: Diane for David Lynch Photoshoot
Sunday afternoon: Rogue AGAIN for helping my husband while he wore his WoW armor 
Sunday evening: Space Mutiny
Sunday night: Mrs Roper goes to Naboo for the Mrs Roper shoot
Sunday late night: Scully

I don’t do schedules beforehand anymore. I have a few things I know I want to wear at certain times (ie, picnic Padme for the women of Star Wars shoot) otherwise I just kinda go with the flow, change when I feel like changing, and wear whatever feels right in the moment. I did take one costume I ended up not wearing - Padme’s lake dress, but I’ve worn it there 3 times now so no big loss. I also did not think I’d get around to wearing T’Lyn or vacation Leia, I kinda just threw them in as backups - but Thursday ended up having a lot of time for changing (not a lot going on yet), AND it seemed extra hot that day so I could only last a couple of hours in each thing before i had to get out of it.
I didn’t do a packing video this year, but since i I didn’t do a packing video this year, but since i’ve gotten a looot of questions and comments in my last video about how I pack for Dragoncon, here’s a couple of older videos explaining how I get everything to Atlanta with an updated voiceover. It boils down to - I live in Tennessee so we drive, I don’t fly. I can bring as much as I can fit in the car. I also talk a little bit about how and why I WEAR so many costumes at the convention. (It boils down to - that’s what I like to do at dragon con)
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