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  • when i talked about school
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    when i talked about school

    October 23, 2002 /

    Oh, and I made a 97 on my Anthropology midterm! go me! She started writing a chart of all the grades on the board… and it was like, 98, 97, 86, 79,78,77,76,75,74… and I’m sitting there, all like, “oh god, I hope I made a 77. I bet I made a 77. Oh please have let me made a 77…”…

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  • sketchblog: super sailor jupiter
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    sketchblog: super sailor jupiter

    October 23, 2002 /

    art reference for my upcoming Eternal Sailor Jupiter costume!

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  • Arwen still not finished
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    Arwen still not finished

    October 23, 2002 /

    Didn’t finish Arwen yet. Still! I’m not happy with the sleeves, and that’s holding up progress. Plus my necklace hasn’t come. 🙁

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  • sketchblog: super sailor jupiter
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    sketchblog: amalthea

    October 22, 2002 /

    art reference for my amalthea costume I’m planning on doing!

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  • when i found Are You Being Served fanfic
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    when i found Are You Being Served fanfic

    October 21, 2002 /

    I had to share. Trading Spaces fanfiction and Are You Being Served? fanfic. OMG Was watching BBC last night and caught part of Manchild with Anthony Stewart Head in it. I only got to see like, 5 minutes ’cause dad came in and kicked me out of the living room. Will have to watch for it later…

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  • when i found Are You Being Served fanfic
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    when i spend too much time at the fabric store

    October 21, 2002 /

    went to the RAT Halloween carnival. Kristie’s nephew says I am “the coolest person in the world” because “Kell knows everything.” I won 2 cakes and a pie. Woo. Finally have a design for Bad Candy… hopefully can start on it tonight unless dad kicks me off the comp. Cath went to go see… Aida? Is that the name? She…

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  • Arwen mostly done
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    Arwen mostly done

    October 21, 2002 /

    Arwen is mostly done. Haven’t done the underskirt or hemmed the bottom of the dress yet, and I still have to make the white sleeves, but that’s it. It’s so pretty! Next we’re going to get White Utena, Sakura and Amalthea done. Then concentrate on my two main costumes for Katsu.

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  • sketchblog: super sailor jupiter
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    sketchblog: asuka

    October 21, 2002 /

    art reference for my upcoming Asuka costume!

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  • sketchblog: super sailor jupiter
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    sketchblog: aluminum siren

    October 20, 2002 /

    Costume reference art, for my upcoming Aluminum Siren costume

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  • when we took Lina pics
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    when we took Lina pics

    October 19, 2002 /

    Haw Haw. The rest of the pics from thursday night are up! Here’s some favs!

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  • sketchblog: super sailor jupiter
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    sketchblog: Nanami

    October 18, 2002 /

    Costume reference for the Nanami costume I’m planning on doing!

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  • when i found Are You Being Served fanfic
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    when i got the sign

    October 18, 2002 /

    I did it. I got out of class early ’cause I had my midterm today. I was an hour ahead of schedule, so I did it. I pulled into the U turn area in the middle of the road, and pretended to be looking in my trunk so that no one driving by would get suspicious. As soon as there…

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  • Arwen progress
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    Arwen progress

    October 17, 2002 /

    Finished sewing up the side of the Arwen dress and put the zipper in. Made the boot covers. I had enough suede leftover from the bootcovers that I can make a little fellowship cloak. I dyed the gloves the other night, but they were too blue, not dark enough. So i got some black dye yesterday and put them in…

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  • when i found Are You Being Served fanfic
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    when we were at the wrong applebee’s

    October 17, 2002 /

    dood people are wacky for a harry potter tie. So yesterday Cat and I had agreed to meet at applebee’s to eat lunch before the movie. She called me earlier to tell me she might be late, she had to get her oil changed (her car’s, not her own). I ended up getting there fifteen minutes EARLY ’cause traffic was…

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  • when i found Are You Being Served fanfic
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when someone threw a brick

    October 16, 2002 /

    Someone threw a brick through my gramma’s dining room window today. Hooligans! I’ll come up there and show you punks what happens to anyone who mess with my gramma. Had a lot of drama today. Not liking the drama. I am going to go see Spirited Away with Cat tomorrow. And… Rocky Horror!!! I called Ash and talked to her…

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  • sketchblog: super sailor jupiter
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    sketchblog: peach

    October 15, 2002 /

    Reference sketch of Princess Peach, a costume I’m planning on doing

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  • Tentative 2003 Schedule!
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    Tentative 2003 Schedule!

    October 14, 2002 /

    Tentative Schedule: *Katsucon: Belldandy (Ah My Goddess) Chun-Li (Street Fighter) White Utena (Utena manga illustration) Amalthea (Last Unicorn) Rewearing: Sailorjupiter (for the masq – maybe upgraded version), Ocha, Cammy, maybe Rally *Project A-kon: Nanami (Utena) Nina (Tekken 3) Aluminum Siren (Sailormoon) Rewearing: Quistis, Chun-Li, maybe Padme, Belldandy (with wings – for the masq) *Anime Expo: Morrigan (Darkstalkers, with Ash as…

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  • when i found Are You Being Served fanfic
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when i made a note

    October 14, 2002 /

    Note to self : Sell gryffindor tie on ebay

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  • when i found Are You Being Served fanfic
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when i didn’t want to go to olive garden

    October 13, 2002 /

    So I’ve been feeling rather icky all morning… not sick… just, y’know. Icky. I talked dad into going and getting me McDonald’s, and I was planning on settling down in the armchair with my french fries and reading in my pajamas. Right before my dad is about to head out the door, my grandmother calls. Do we want to go…

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  • when i found Are You Being Served fanfic
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    when i dyed my hair

    October 12, 2002 /

    So first my backup domain is down, and now it’s expired!! They never emailed me warning me, though I should have known, sundownercomic and backup were both done about the same time. This sucks ’cause that’s where my mail is. Oh yeah, the deed is done, the hair is dyed. I luuuuuuuuuuurve it I will take pics eventually.

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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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