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im married to the hustle
I was starting to wonder if I’d be able to post today with the AWS outage – couldn’t upload anything to my photo server. But seems to be working now so let’s get on with it. Been mostly focusing on finishing my sewing room clean-up. Is it done? No because there is SO MUCH to do. I can’t remember if…
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a blue rose case
Since I posted on Wednesday I really only have the weekend to talk about here. Friday Ash and Gabe picked me up after work so we could meet Chase downtown (easier for him to go there straight from work) to go to the Monster Market opening night! I wore Diane, because where the hell else am I ever going to…
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im not a bad witch
It’s the rare midweek post! I have important stuff to share! First, my Scarlet Witch pics from Sunday! This was me on the sidewalk just waiting on Chase to get the camera out and ready and he said “hold that” LOL A crop of this is my new pfp pretty much everywhere. What’s funny is that this spot is the…
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the life of a showgirl
Everything’s a mess right now. The kitchen’s a mess, my sewing room’s a mess, work’s a mess, my life’s a mess. I did get Halloween partially out yesterday so that’s a win. And when I was getting my Wanda stuff out for the event yesterday, I did kinda organize the piles of costume stuff in my sewing room. I had…
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ptsd on the daily
I still have nothing to post this week LOL Things I did accomplish this past week – I added some darker reds to my Wanda wig and ran the steamer over it to loosen up the curls. On the fence as to whether or not I want to completely recurl it. Guess I need to try it on and see.…
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what’s going on??
I successfully navigated my birthday weekend without getting a single “happy birthday” on social media LOL. I didn’t set out to do that, but the night before my birthday I was like… y’know what, I’m going to hide my birthday on facebook. It’s not that I don’t appreciate people saying happy birthday there – it’s just a little overwhelming and…
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driven mad
I’m slowly being driven mad by our neighbor’s dog. I think I’ve complained about it here before, but it’s the people behind us and one house over. They had been SO MUCH better about not leaving the dog out the last couple of months, and now this past week, he’s been left out for hours every single week day. He’s…
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State of the Union
Because I’m bored. First order of business – White Backdrop Shoots 2025: So it’s almost that time of the year. Here’s my goals: 1. Belle ballgown version 3 I need better pics of this more than my other dcon costumes – but I want to do the embroider first. Going to start looking at it this weekend. 2. Padme (Taylor’s…
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post-dragoncon dump
I may not be in the best mental place to be writing this but I need to do it before I forget everything. 24th Dragoncon is done and in the books. We left before dawn Tuesday morning. Before After Parents first time at Bucee’s! Check-in was smooth. The news of Taylor and Travis’ engagement broke just as we were pulling…
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ellipses
Hey look I’m in good enough shape to be posting on my day off! Let’s just go through every project one by one. The Trois: Deanna has been done and partially packed. I did not try the whole thing on together so it’ll be a FUN SURPRISE to even me at Dragoncon. Lwaxana is finished, mom came over and we…
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then & then & now – a costume questionnaire
I’ve been going back thru old posts to fix my headers and I came across this cosplay questionnaire I did back in 2002, and took again in 2013 with both answers together. Let’s do it again!! 1.Name: 2002: kell 2013: kell 2025: still kell 2.Cosplay Name: 2002: kell 2013: kelldar 2025: kelldar 3.When did you first start costuming?: 2002: 1998…
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staring down the barrel
Mid-week update! Wanda: -Rig up the Scarlet Witch pieces I’ve gotten all of the fabric attachments made and most of them are glued on. Still have to heatform the front panel which I’m nervous about. Going to do that tonight and then hopefully tomorrow I can start sewing everything in place. Belle: -find shoes (just wearing my old ones) I…
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i dress to kill my time
One week and a day to go. Let’s start with updating the to-do list from Wednesday: It’s 2 weeks to go (well, 13 days) so here’s an update with no pics to make it fast. Wanda: -Finish shirt thumb loop -Rig up the Scarlet Witch pieces -closure on tiara Belle: -Attach chiffon shoulder piece -iron on HTV designs -sew swags…
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to-do list updated
It’s 2 weeks to go (well, 13 days) so here’s an update with no pics to make it fast. Wanda: -Finish shirt thumb loop -Rig up the Scarlet Witch pieces -Look at wig, style if needed? (tried it on, just need to trim lace) -closure on tiara Belle: -Close up Belle swags -Attach chiffon shoulder piece -iron on HTV designs…
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im starting with the man in the mirror
Well hi, sorry I didn’t update last week. I was in the TRENCHES friends. Still am, but I’m stopping to post today, otherwise I won’t remember everything I need to cover. It’s already going to be dice-y here. First and foremost – my site is breaking again, this time it’s my blog headers. I have a separate plug-in I use…
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its clobberin time
Saw Fantastic Four this weekend. Really loved it. I wanna live in that world. First up let’s go back to my Padme Lover bodysuit project. I got the new outer layer/lining layers cut, assembled and dyed. Got them sewn together and sewn onto the interior bodice. Got the zipper in, hand-tacked down, got the outer layer sewn in place along…
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im only doing this for debbie
Well. That weekend was a disaster. Let’s start with fun stuff first though – I ordered my ribbons for Dragoncon! So last week I said I wanted to be done with costume #5’s base so I could start rhinestoning by the end of the week. I was only a couple of days behind. I did drop the idea of having…
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i’m a punkrocker
Well, not a great weekend for getting stuff done unfortunately. I did finish getting the chiffon swags all sewn together, hemmed, basted onto the skirt, and my zipper basted in. And I got my bodice finished. Things I clocked during the try-on: 1. The point of the bodice kept trying to flip up. I skipped putting boning in the center…
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emile thanks you
Well here we are after the 3 day weekend. I had big plans to have Belle totally done minus the wig, lower embroidered swags and shoulder drape. I didn’t even get CLOSE. But I did post up my “secret” costume on instagram so I can now post about it openly here – more below. Let’s go through the state of…
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what the hellyonce
For as much work as I’ve done on stuff for the last week it feels criminal that I have so few photos to show for it. I got the swatches for my last bit of fabric I need for Belle. I got 10 swatches to look at and the other 8 were too brown, but these 2 were closest to…
