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  • sketchblog: self portrait
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    sketchblog: self portrait

    February 27, 2003 /

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    when i ate cookies and cheese dip

    February 27, 2003 /

    Hey! You guys know I’ve been updating the sketch blog again right? Tonight mom is going to a school dance and dad is going to band practice. They told me to stop and get my own dinner, but I think I’ll come home and eat cookies and cheese dip. Oh and my new comment system is backblog, cause I just…

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    when my comments died

    February 26, 2003 /

    Er… my comment system seems to have completely disappeared. Anybody know of a good comment system that’s accepting new users? haloscan is out I guess…

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    when buffy rocked

    February 26, 2003 /

    Buffy frigging ROCKED tonight.

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    when paypal became a thing

    February 25, 2003 /

    Gosh it’s been a long time since I bought doujinshi… no more international postal money orders… just lovely lovely paypal…

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    sketchblog: evil monkeys

    February 25, 2003 /

    I can’t take full credit for this. Ash did half of them.

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    when i lost my evel shirt

    February 25, 2003 /

    Speaking of evel, I’m going to have to order another EVEL shirt from Tanja. I’ve been putting off doing that in hopes I’ll find it, but… alas. We think it got left at dragoncon (although I don’t know how, considering how thoroughly we scour the room before we leave. But that’s the last time I saw it.) I may have…

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    when i was evel

    February 25, 2003 /

    So I didn’t finish my homework last night. I took a gamble. I took a gamble on the school that stayed open last time it snowed. And yes, my friends! It paid off. Day of watching fansubs and eating cookies, here I come!!! *dances like a madwoman in the snow* And dude, I just had someone actually take the time…

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  • when i kept getting error 503
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    when i kept getting error 503

    February 24, 2003 /

    Ok, does anybody else keep getting this “Error 503: Unable to load template file. We’re working on this. Please try back later” thing when they publish in blogger? I’ve first got it week before last and keep getting it. The post eventually shows up… but dang this is annoying.

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    when i finally got home

    February 24, 2003 /

    AHHHHH!! There’s nothing I love more than coming home after a long day and finding a buttload of fansubs waiting for me. Joy!! I have a lot of homework to do tonight and classes all day tomorrow… so I’m hoping it’ll ice and sleet and stuff really good tonight so I can have tomorrow off. I will sit around watching…

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    sketchblog: my fav pair

    February 24, 2003 /

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    sketchblog: walk thru the fire

    February 23, 2003 /

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    when i went fansub crazy

    February 23, 2003 /

    Today I have got to take care of a few things, replying to LJ replies and mail and that kind of stuff. I have a few errands to run. Y’know, whenever I’m at an anime convention, I always feel bad cause I’m just not INTO it. I mean, like, I hadn’t watched ANY anime in months before katsu. But afterwards…

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    sketchblog: the trio

    February 22, 2003 /

    Harry, Ron and Hermione in ink. I did this at Katsucon… was super bored. In 2016 I went back through my old sketchbooks, finding stuff I’d never scanned, and I found the original of this one — but the scanned version above cuts off the important note at the top:

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  • Katsucon 2003 Pics!
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    Katsucon 2003 Pics!

    February 22, 2003 /

    I’m still recovering from katsucon. But I did update the cosplay site, with new costume junk and a con report! There weren’t many stories to tell, but you can read what I did those few days anyway. Belldandy came out much better than I expected. I was so frustrated over the wig I wondered if I would even wear the…

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    when ash was a pirate monkey person

    February 21, 2003 /

    POODLE WAD!!! Ash: If I am going to do Ruby Heart, I want you to go as some kind of Pirate Monkey Person.

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    when i was stuck with one pair of pants

    February 18, 2003 /

    Last few minutes of net time in the business office here in the hotel. Going stir crazy. Would like to wear a different pair of pants. Pictures when I get home tomorow…

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    stranded at katsucon

    February 18, 2003 /

    Hi guys… um… I’m still here… at Katsucon. We got snowed in, our flight on sunday was cancelled. So we’re STILL here. (I’ve never seen this much snow…) We supposedly have a flight out tomorrow. Ugh. I want to go home!

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    when ash posted for me

    February 17, 2003 /

    hey everyone. It’s Ash. Kell wanted me to post and let you guys know that she hasn’t abandoned you, but she’s stuck in Washington on her way back from Katsucon. They’ve got, like, 3 feet of snow up there and the airports have shut down. So…it could be the middle of the week before she gets home. Well that’s all…

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  • Leaving…
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    Leaving…

    February 14, 2003 /

    I’m leaving for Katsucon! Let’s hope the rain here slacks up so I can take off, and the snow slacks up there on Sunday so I can come home. 😀 As usual I have no idea when I’ll be wearing what. I try to plan it out beforehand but it never works that way. Here are the costumes I’m taking……

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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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