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  • when i made a note about a cell phone
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    when i made a note about a cell phone

    December 7, 2002 /

    Note to self: Samsung SCH-A460

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  • Naru costume
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    Naru costume

    December 7, 2002 /

    I put together a Naru costume just for fun! 🙂 It’s all from ebay, or I had it already… I’ll probably sell this soon.

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  • when i made an A+
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    when i made an A+

    December 6, 2002 /

    How cool am I! I made an A+ on my Anthropology interview. Interview = 30% of my grade, midterm (I made a 97) = 25%… I think I did all right on my final exam, I’ll find out my grade on tuesday. I think, if I don’t make an A in this class, it’ll only be because of my absences.…

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  • when i made a note about a cell phone
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    when the hancock fabrics commercial creeped me out

    December 5, 2002 /

    Our fabric store is hancock fabrics. It’s where I get all my costume stuff. Well, they started showing this commercial for it, recently. The woman on it… omg, she sounds like she’s in a porno. She’s like, “hancock!” and widens her eyes, and then goes, “we’re hancock… and soo much more.” It is disturbing. btw, computer is back up!!!! WOO!!…

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  • when i made a note about a cell phone
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    when we had an ice storm

    December 4, 2002 /

    Uggggggh, we’re having our first ice storm of the year. Yes, winter is so lovely isn’t? *bites people who keep saying they love winter* Arrrrrrgh we hates it we do WE HATES IT!!!!!!!

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  • when i made a note about a cell phone
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    when i said mm-hmm

    December 4, 2002 /

    Too much bothersome, annoying, and depressing stuff going on here lately! I’ve got to concentrate on finals! And rewriting sundowner 7 for the 80th time so I can get around to drawing it! I was going to try to have the new design/update for the site up this weekend, but with the main computer being a ass I don’t know…

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  • sketchblog: harry and fawkes
    Blog,  fanart from magical wizard series,  my art

    sketchblog: harry and fawkes

    December 4, 2002 /

    rough sketch of harry and fawkes. hope to finish this one.

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  • when i made a note about a cell phone
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    when i had a mail dude

    December 3, 2002 /

    I need to leave for work, like NOW, but I can’t because the bug guy is outside doing stuff. dumb bug guy. At least it’s not the creepy bug guy. OH! You know how I always say that the mailwoman is my mortal enemy? ……….I HAVE DEFEATED HER!! Ok, not really, but we have a new mailperson. It’s a guy,…

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  • when the computer crashed just to spite me
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    when the computer crashed just to spite me

    December 3, 2002 /

    The dumb computer still isn’t coming up so I’m going to have to rewrite the first half of my anthro thing again. arrrgh. I don’t know what I’m going to do about my Art History thing. I really need the scanner/tablet for that. Plus I can’t remember if it’s due tomorrow or thursday. AND the pictures I’m doing for the…

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  • when my computer crashed
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    when my computer crashed

    December 2, 2002 /

    bahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! my anthro project is due tomorrow, I’ve only done a bit of it, and I’m not working on it right now!! Why?!?! because the computer crashed and wont’ come back up!! HAHAHAHA!! OMG I hate that computer. I guess I shouldn’t tell this, I don’t like to talk about things that *might* happen because then they might not happen,…

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  • sketchblog: harry and fawkes
    Blog,  my art,  sundowner

    sketchblog: flying dogs

    November 30, 2002 /

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  • when i made a note about a cell phone
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    when i was saruman

    November 30, 2002 /

    Sometimes, at work, I like to put paperclips on the ends of my fingers and pretend I’m Saruman.

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  • when i got some otakon photos
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    when i got some otakon photos

    November 29, 2002 /

    My copy of Night Watch FINALLY got here!! yay! Pictures rescued off Kristie’s film: Urd & Skuld: Urd, Skuld & Belldandy: Riding the water taxi! Getting tattoos Arwen photoshoot stuff! Dad’s New Do: Dad’s hair is longer than mine, and when I’m standing behind him at the computer I like to braid it. That day I got a little carried…

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  • when i made a note about a cell phone
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    when i got some film back

    November 28, 2002 /

    I just saw a season 3 buffy episode I hadn’t seen before, only read about, on FX. glad I got up early! Today we are going to my grandparent’s house. It’s just going to be just half of us there today. I plan to spent the entire day up in my room playing my Playstation – yes, playing ff7 again.…

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  • sketchblog: harry and fawkes
    Blog,  misc fanart,  my art

    sketchblog: thanksgiving

    November 28, 2002 /

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  • Eowyn Shieldmaiden
    Blog,  costumes

    Eowyn Shieldmaiden

    November 28, 2002 /

    For ROTK I want to do Eowyn’s white dress with the brown vest over it. At first I wanted to do this pretty green dress of hers but I think I like the white one better. I’d like to do her in armor from ROTK… for ROTK… but I don’t think I’d want to wear armor in the theater… you…

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  • when i made a note about a cell phone
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    when i didn’t pay attention

    November 27, 2002 /

    Buffy was OK last night, I didn’t pay all that much attention unfortunately. My mind was elsewhere…

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  • sketchblog: harry and fawkes
    Blog,  my art,  sundowner

    sketchblog: wishing for summer

    November 26, 2002 /

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  • when i made a note about a cell phone
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    when i looked like a goomba

    November 26, 2002 /

    I’m sitting here waiting to do my interview for my anthropology class… I have to interview someone who grew up in a different culture for 15 minutes (on tape) and then transcribe it… it’s sort of our final project even though we also have a final exam. I’m interviewing a lady who works with my dad from China. I hope…

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  • Fabric shopping
    Blog,  costumes

    Fabric shopping

    November 26, 2002 /

    We went to hancock’s day-before-yesterday to use this coupon kristie had saved for us (but we forgot to use the coupon!) I got more fabric for amalthea – they didn’t have enough first time I got it and I thought I could get away with what we had… but I needed more. Luckily they had gotten another bolt of the…

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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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