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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle

    December 2, 2003 /

    Something really weird just happened. As you all know, I lost a LOT of CDs recently when my 200 disc CD wallet was left on the back of the car. So anyway, I’m reinstalling Photoshop on my aunt’s computer (because SOMEBODY deleted it). I borrowed Dad’s 5.5 disc from his office, a CD he doesn’t bring home, and that I…

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  • Arwen progress pics!
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    Arwen progress pics!

    December 2, 2003 /

    Basic dress put together – still needs hemmed.

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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when i made a christmas list

    December 1, 2003 /

    When I was a kid we would get this Wish Book every year, just in time for Christmas shopping. I forget who put the Wish Book out – Sears, I think – but it had a LOT of toys in it. And as soon as we got it, I would go get a pen, sit down, and circle everything in…

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  • Arwen crown!!
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    Arwen crown!!

    November 30, 2003 /

    here’s my crown I got a couple of weeks ago. I’m in love with it!! I know I already posted it at the LJ but you’re getting it here too!

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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when i played rotk all thanksgiving

    November 28, 2003 /

    Today has been pretty nice. I spent the night at my aunt’s last night so I could ride with her up to my grandmother’s house this morning. We were the first ones there. I didn’t help cook. I sat in the living room with my grandfather and aunt and watched Rudy. Everybody else eventually got there and we ate. It…

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  • Art Post: Belldandy (Ah! My Goddess)
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    Art Post: Belldandy (Ah! My Goddess)

    November 28, 2003 /

    Costume reference for my manga Belldandy costume for next year!

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  • Sketchblog: I will eat anything
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    Sketchblog: I will eat anything

    November 27, 2003 /

    Mema, Daddy Bob, and Rex as drawn by my aunt.

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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when it was thanksgiving

    November 27, 2003 /

    Happy thanksgiving, you turkeys

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  • when my site wasn’t bad candy
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    when my site wasn’t bad candy

    November 26, 2003 /

    I just suddenly realised my site’s name isn’t bad candy anymore.

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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when i played ROTK

    November 26, 2003 /

    Beat ROTK last night – was disappointed, no extra exclusive ROTK footage. The last level with Frodo, Sam and Gollum was *annoying.* And you know how much I love Gollum, but he was SCARY. he kept jumping after me and making these awful noises. I ran around in circles for a long time with him chasing me. I’ll probably have…

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  • when we took yuffie photos
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    when we took yuffie photos

    November 24, 2003 /

    haha I love The Simpsons. Lisa Simpson: Can you tell me what happens at the end of the series? JK Rowling: Oh, he grows up and marries YOU. Is that what you want to hear? Lisa Simpson: (dreamy sigh) Yes! A happy happy birthday to Priscellie, whose picture present thinger I need to finish. Yuffie pictures from yesterday!! Calvin joined…

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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when i had a pattern

    November 23, 2003 /

    Moose – it’s Butterick Classics 4301. It’s been over a year since I bought that pattern – it may have been discontinued or something by now….

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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when there were unexpected fireworks

    November 23, 2003 /

    The freakos up the road are shooting off fireworks for no reason again. I mean, it’s kinda cool that just randomly shoot off really cool fireworks every once in a while (they must own a fireworks shop or something, because they have really, really good fireworks. Like all of it is what we would consider our “grand finale.”), but DAMN.…

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  • when i wanted to take yuffie pics
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    when i wanted to take yuffie pics

    November 22, 2003 /

    I want to go out and take pictures of my Yuffie costume today – it’s really really nice out and perfect for taking pictures. I wanted to go into the field next door but someone is mowing it, so if we do take pics it’ll just be in the front yard. I just had a weird experience – I came…

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  • Sketchblog: I will eat anything
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    sketchblog: belldandy

    November 22, 2003 /

    a rough belldandy doodled on the tablet

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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when i had a matrix cap

    November 21, 2003 /

    I’ve had this line from this one MST3K short stuck in my head all morning. “You-will-dance-WITH-ME-EVA!!” Dad brought home this Matrix Reloaded cap. It’s cool. I’ve been wearing it all morning. I’m hungry!

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  • when i got my tiara
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    when i got my tiara

    November 21, 2003 /

    In Lit class we watched The Ruling Class, which was great. Maybe the best movie I’ve ever watched for a class. I want to rent it so I can watch it again. Buuuuut best thing, I got my Arwen tiara!!! It’s soooooooooooooo pretty!!!! I wanted to wear it all day but our big boss is in town in our office…

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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when yesterday was wrong

    November 20, 2003 /

    Ooooooooh now I wished I’d watched the Victoria Secret show thinger last night. look at some of these wings… oooooh I want! Those giant angel wings!!!! eeeee!! Uh… what else. Uh… my room is so clean it’s so great. I cleaned out from under my bed and my closet is all clean, it’s so nice. I think I already talked…

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  • katsu go!
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    katsu go!

    November 19, 2003 /

    Katsucon Hotel: check Katsucon plane tickets: check Katsucon pre-registration: er, not yet And again, not going to Numa Rei No con. That’s just a bad time of the year. 🙁

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  • when there was a jesus christ superstar miracle
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    when i booked plane tickets

    November 18, 2003 /

    I got my plane tickets for Katsucon last night. They are kinda sucky and were expensive, but they were the only ones with the times I wanted. Flying out of Memphis at 7:50 PM Thursday night, plane change in Atlanta, arrive in DC in what is technically Friday morning 😉 12:35! But otherwise mom would have had to leave school…

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My Costume History, Day 130: Alyss from The Lookin My Costume History, Day 130: Alyss from The Looking Glass Wars, for Dragoncon 2010 I felt like my Dcon 2010 lineup was missing something. I was reading The Looking Glass Wars at the time, and got to the art in the middle and saw this dress - THAT was what I needed. I started by making a base dress out of this peachy pink taffeta - modified a wedding dress pattern with an empire waist and a big skirt, adding the puffed sleeves. Once I had the base layer made, it was time to start adding ruffles. Bought a ton of poly chiffon, cut it into strips, and dyed it all. I cauterized the edges of the ruffles, then started sewing them onto the skirt. I did what I could on the machine, but as it got bigger, I had to start hand-sewing them on. The collar area is a layer of chiffon and a fitted choker, and I added some red beading to all of that. Also added the draped panel of chiffon at the bust and at the end of each sleeve. The standing collar I made by altering the Snow White pattern piece for that - it’s a layer of cotton and interfacing, and then the layer of gradient dyed cotton gauze over the top and hanging from it. It does all snap on - but I don’t think I’ve ever completely taken it off of the dress, I do unsnap it in a few places for storage purposes but otherwise it stays on! The “loops” over the collar are made of clear tubing with some scraps of chiffon stuffed inside, beads glued on, and hand-sewn onto the dress. The wig is I guess an early form of helmet wig? LOL We took made a plaster cast of my head, painted it the collar of the hair, and then I glued the wig to it and styled it from there, so the head shape never collapses. The upper part I made out of foam and glued the hair around. I built the crown into the wig - it’s all made of craft wire, various beads and such, all hand-sewn into place into the foam base. I debuted this at Dcon 2010 - and I had a particular pic I wanted, in this chair in front a red painting, and I got it. EXACTLY what I had in my head LOL. I haven’t worn it since, except for the white backdrop shoot not long after. I keep saying I’m going to take it out for a cool photoshoot somewhere, but still haven’t had the opportunity.
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 😹
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