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  • when my keyboard lost its period
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    when my keyboard lost its period

    August 28, 2004 /

    WTF! My period key (. and >) just broke off!! Off my new laptop!! I snapped it back on, but still. That pissed me off. not like that’s hard to do right now… blegh.

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  • when i bought my own birthday present
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    when i bought my own birthday present

    August 28, 2004 /

    I just bought myself my birthday present from my parents. Sims 2, ha, ha yay and stuff. Oh god I leave for Dragoncon on thursday… shoot me now!!

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  • when i bought my own birthday present
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    when i was exhausted… again

    August 27, 2004 /

    I am utterly, completely exhausted. more later.

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  • when i bought my own birthday present
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    when you complete your minor

    August 25, 2004 /

    It seems to me that when you complete your minor, bells should go off and balloons and confetti should fall from the ceiling. But I guess that’s just me. Ash and I hung out today and did some costume stuff. Watched ROTJ. Then I went with mom and dad to the first meeting of what will hopefully become the Millington…

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  • when indy was a princess
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    when indy was a princess

    August 24, 2004 /

    In other news, Indiana Jones is a pretty, pretty princess.

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  • when i bought my own birthday present
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    when the bugs attacked

    August 23, 2004 /

    I forgot to mention this is my costume journal! On saturday, dad was helping us with some costume stuff in the kitchen when all of a sudden he gave a shout and pulled his t-shirt off! He said something was biting him. I looked over and saw the culprit still hanging onto his shirt. It had bitten/stung him in 3…

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  • A sewing get-together
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    A sewing get-together

    August 22, 2004 /

    So yesterday we had another little sewing get-together. I finished Lessa (no pics yet), and got started on the base dress for Amidala, and I made one of the accessories for Amidala and Got the top and skirt put together for Ash’s costume, and got started on *her* headpiece. Got the skirt for Ash’s mom’s hobbit costume finished, and I…

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  • when i bought my own birthday present
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    when there were boys loitering

    August 21, 2004 /

    Lately I’ve been having a good time going around telling people “Hey, you know, I think you’d belong in Slytherin.” It gets people so riled up! It’s quite funny. Last evening I was going out to ride my bike, but I got out there and saw there were 4 or 5 boys just hanging around the end of the driveway.…

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  • when i bought my own birthday present
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    when i was not able to lie concerning that matter

    August 20, 2004 /

    Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter.

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  • when i bought my own birthday present
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    when i love lucy made me uncomfortable

    August 20, 2004 /

    I hate the episodes where the Ricardos and the Mertzs (Mertzes?) fight. It makes me so uncomfortable. It’s like watching your parents fight.

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  • when i was officially 501st
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    when i was officially 501st

    August 20, 2004 /

    whee! I’m officially a member of the 501st Legion now. I feel so important! I am reading all my Harry Potter books again. I’ve read all of them except PoA multiple times (not including Order of the Phoenix, because I havent even made it through that one all the way once… I stopped first time I read it). So right…

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  • when i bought my own birthday present
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    when i needed to organize

    August 20, 2004 /

    I really really feel like organizing something. There are two things I need to be working on – either organizing and getting together costumes, or cleaning my room/”unpacking” from San Diego (nothing is left in the suitcases, they’re just laying all over the floor in my room with a ton of crap on top of them–it’s a disaster area). But…

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  • when i couldn’t concentrate because dcon
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    when i couldn’t concentrate because dcon

    August 19, 2004 /

    Two commercials I absolutely hate: Revlon commercial with that ‘i believe in love’ song. I hate that commercial, mostly because that song makes me want to rip my ears off… a Some jeans commercial. I don’t know what it’s for. Maybe for a department store sale or something, but it’s this woman walking down a hall to a version of…

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  • Ozma, Amidala and other updates
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    Ozma, Amidala and other updates

    August 18, 2004 /

    Lessa: Everything is finished except a few little details. I’m going to finish it tonight. Masq. Costume: Finished except for the headpiece, which is underway. Hermione: Still need to iron the pleats back in, but that’s it. Amidala: I got a wig, otherwise I haven’t done anything else. I redid my Belldandy antenna yesterday. They look *so* much better. A…

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  • Ozma, Hermione and other Progress Pics!
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    Ozma, Hermione and other Progress Pics!

    August 15, 2004 /

    Pictures! my “secret” masquerade costume is ozma, which anybody who has been around my site or my cosplaylab profile would know I’ve been planning on doing for a long time. Ash and I decided we wanted to keep it under wraps until dragoncon though, so I’ve stopped mentioning what it is. Anyway, I started on it back before akon but…

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  • when i couldn’t concentrate because dcon
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    when i was worried about our dcon room

    August 13, 2004 /

    I have been very worried about paying for the Dragoncon hotel room. Comic Con was really hard to pay for, and only having 2 paychecks between the two cons I knew was going to be hard. So I’ve been thinking and plotting trying to figure out how to get enough money back on my Mastercard in time for DC, so…

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  • Furry
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    Furry

    August 13, 2004 /

    Indy likes the fur I bought for Lessa. She loves it so much I’m going to have to buy her her own to sleep on, lol.

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  • when i went on a nostalgia bender
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    when i went on a nostalgia bender

    August 11, 2004 /

    For my He-Man/She-Ra loving friends…! X-E’s 1985 and 1986 Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Coverage – besides all the wonderful Rainbow Brite, Care Bears and other weird 80’s stuff that appears in the parade, you have to check out the video at the end of the live action He-Man/She-Ra float. Simply awesome. By the way, screw the fact it’s hot – I…

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  • Hermione, Lessa, Ozma, and Padme progress
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    Hermione, Lessa, Ozma, and Padme progress

    August 11, 2004 /

    quick trip to hancock’s today, and I got my dark red lining for my PoA cloak, some green ribbon, and some really awesome wolf-looking fur for the lining of my Lessa costume. I don’t want to cut it up! I want to use it as a blanket x_x It’s so snuggly!! So, dragoncon to-do list… Masq Costume: 75% Main dress…

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  • when i bought my own birthday present
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    when i got a gryffindor sweater

    August 11, 2004 /

    Why the heck do my pajama pants have pockets? What do I need pockets for while I’m sleeping… I got my new gryffindor sweater and it kicks butt. I wish it were cool out so I could wear it.

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My Costume History, Day 129: Lady Gaga, for Dragon My Costume History, Day 129: Lady Gaga, for Dragoncon 2010

I wanted to do a Gaga costume! I had several on my “maybe” list, then saw her at the Grammys in this Armani Prive dress. The choice was made.

I started this by making a base corset out of cotton and canvas - I altered a stays pattern, raising the neckline. Once I had the base layer made, I covered it in layers of white & lavender organza, & added my eyelets to the back.

The skirt was fun. Chase helped me build a wire cage, & we engineered a panel that fits under the bodice that holds the whole thing up. I made a mockup out of scrap fabric around the frame, then used that to cut out my layers of the organza, & hand-sewed it around the frame.

The bodysuit is made of a nude mesh - cnce I had it made, I put it on myself and started hot-gluing sequins to it (I tried doing this on my mannequin, but it was sticking TO the mannequin). The shoes aren’t exact - but I could not find the same kind of shoes nor did I trust myself wearing those shoes with this, so I just picked something that would give a similar silhouette. Once they arrived I added sequins, then put them on with the suit to make sure the sequins on the suit “connected” to it.

The “hoops” were the most frustrating part. Initially I was going to use metal hooping, but it was too heavy. Switched to light plastic boning, and covered it in some silver holographic tape. The tape would not stick though, so in the hotel room at dragoncon I was still adding clear tape over the top of it all to keep it all together. The hoops all snap onto the bodice at 2 points. Bought the wigs.

Getting downstairs at Dragoncon in this was interesting. I went down the stairs with sandals on this switched to my real shoes! And as soon as we got downstairs, the snap broke off the hoops, so Chase had to tape them on me.

Despite that I did get to wear it for a few hours and I was overall really happy with it. It was a really neat project and I loved wearing it. I did the white backdrop shoot not long after, and I love how those photos turned out! A few years later I did sell it - because I just had nowhere to store the skirt anymore. (Should’ve made it collapsible!)
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.
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