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  • when my hair got curled
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    when my hair got curled

    October 14, 2000 /

    Mom curled my hair tonight to test it, since I have to have it like that for my Halloween costume. I’ve never had curly hair before. It’s not really curly, but all big and wavy. I feel like I should be in some 1930’s dance movie with Fred Astaire or something. And now, something to think about: Hot Tamales!!

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  • when my hair got curled
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    when i wanted to ride my bike

    October 13, 2000 /

    I’m a bad dream that I just had today! It’s a gooooooorgeous day outside, let me tell you. A perfect day for bike riding. Perfect! I ride my bike EVERYday, so I think I can say that today is a perfect day for bike riding. Of course, my bike got a flat tire last night. And my bike pump is…

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  • Sketchblog: Jupiter
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    Sketchblog: Jupiter

    October 13, 2000 /

    This is a back-dated post! In 2016 I went back through my old sketchbooks and “rescued” a lot of my old, lost artwork, and I’m slowly getting them re-added to my archives. An Eternal-style Jupiter with her hair down.

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  • when my hair got curled
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    when i found some dollars

    October 13, 2000 /

    Ok, nobody panic. I was able to get to work today. I found some dollars in my pants pocket. I want some mac and cheese now.

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  • when my hair got curled
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    when i couldn’t get to work

    October 13, 2000 /

    Oh my god. I just realised something. 1) I have to leave for work in five minutes. 2) My parents have already left. 3) I have no money whatsoever. 4) My car has no gas. well poopie.

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  • when my hair got curled
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    the harry potter adoption agency

    October 12, 2000 /

    Argh!!!! *bashes head against the wall* I co-run a Harry Potter Adoption Agency, right? I am so, so, so tired of the following: A) People who fill out the form several times. I can understand if the server just messed up, but four times in a row, each time with one little thing changed is enough. B) People who fill…

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  • Art Post: Fleur (Harry Potter)
    Blog,  fanart from magical wizard series,  my art

    Art Post: Fleur (Harry Potter)

    October 12, 2000 /

    Fleur Delacour and her groupies… and an annoyed Hermione. I drew this in class…

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  • Art Post: Ger’Town
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    Art Post: Ger’Town

    October 12, 2000 /

    Silly illustrations of me, ash and cath.

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  • when i was a vampire
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    when i was a vampire

    October 12, 2000 /

    I feel like such a vampire. I’m sitting here in my room, lights off, curtains closed, only light from the computer screen… as usual. And I’m grumbling about WHY I don’t want to go to work — “I bet it’s all sunny out.” Dude, BLOGGER rocks. I don’t know why I feel the need to put BLOGGER in all caps.…

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  • Art Post: Moon and Venus (Sailor Moon)
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    Art Post: Moon and Venus (Sailor Moon)

    October 12, 2000 /

    From the Super Freak Out book… painter experimentations…

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  • Art Post: X-Men
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    Art Post: X-Men

    October 12, 2000 /

    for Hoo~! I like how Storm turned out. That’s my favourite outfit of hers… and I just put Rogue in that new one she’s wearing. I’ve never liked drawing any of her outfits…

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  • when my hair got curled
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    when the cat peed on my sketchbook

    October 11, 2000 /

    Well, ok, now like, five minutes later I’m through with lunch and I have something to talk about. I think I was too busy thinking “FOOD.” I took my sketchbook to work today, planning to get some of my own work done during my break. It had to be passed around to every frickin person in the building so they…

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  • when my hair got curled
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    my first blogger post

    October 11, 2000 /

    Hi, my name is Kell and welcome to my… uh… blog. Yes, I have a BLOG powered by BLOGGER. I am so cool now! So it’s 3 in the afternoon and I’m sitting here eating a very late lunch. And playing with this thing. ……. ……. …… why is it when I’m not near a computer I can think of…

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  • Art Post: Harry in the rain (Harry Potter)
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    Art Post: Harry in the rain (Harry Potter)

    October 11, 2000 /

    Drawn like, right after I drew the Fleur pic. I like this one a whole bunch right now 😀

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  • Art Post: Harry and Hedwig (Harry Potter)
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    Art Post: Harry and Hedwig (Harry Potter)

    October 10, 2000 /

    For Ginny’s Harry Potter Club… a reworking of an old pic (original version is available in the sketch section). Hedwig is too big… my first time drawing an owl tho so give me a break :B

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  • Art Post: Draco (Harry Potter)
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    Art Post: Draco (Harry Potter)

    October 9, 2000 /

    A rather oversimplified pic of Draco. Just a doodle, really, that I decided to colour…

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  • Sketchblog: Jupiter
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    Sketchblog: Piper

    October 7, 2000 /

    This is a back-dated post! In 2016 I went back through my old sketchbooks and “rescued” a lot of my old, lost artwork, and I’m slowly getting them re-added to my archives. A little Piper that was never finished, probably done with a new site design in mind. This other sketch I found was so similar I figured they had…

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  • Sketchblog: Jupiter
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    sketchblog: don’t get the wrong idea

    October 6, 2000 /

    britan and madison hanging out… don’t get the wrong idea 😛 And some issue 6 design sketches

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  • Art Post: Kalra (Gift)
    Blog,  gifts for other people,  my art

    Art Post: Kalra (Gift)

    October 3, 2000 /

    For the MAG! I love painter, I hope I get my wacom tablet soon. This pic is ok I guess… I like her nose…

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  • Art Post: Ron (Harry Potter)
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    Art Post: Ron (Harry Potter)

    October 1, 2000 /

    Version with no shadow. I did this picture JUST so I could do that tree shadow… but then when I finished it I didn’t really like it. I really liked the colouring I did in Ron’s robes and that got lost in the shadow version x_x I used to have the no-shadow version uploaded too but I don’t anymore…

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My Costume History, Day 197: “Comfy” Ariel from Wr My Costume History, Day 197: “Comfy” Ariel from Wreck it Ralph 2, made winter 2018

@Lindenash and I snuck off to Disney World for a very quick, jam packed weekend celebrating her birthday that December. Of course I had outfit ideas going in - the main idea I had, I didn’t have time to do (but we’ll talk about that one in a couple of days). So I went to idea number 2 - Ariel’s little “comfy” outfit from Wreck it Ralph 2.

I bought the purple knit fabric for the top online. I had a shirt that had a very similar look & fit to the comfy shirt already, so I used that as a guide to cut my fabric. Got it hemmed and now onto decorating.

I created the “word art” for the front, as well as the shell trim in Photoshop - printed them out on regular paper to test the sizing, then printed them on heat-transfer paper. Got them all ironed on - the little tiny shells along the edges were a pain, we got there in the end.

(This was the last thing I used heat-transfer paper for. I got my silhouette the next year and started using HTV instead - that would’ve worked so much better for this. Ah well, that’s just the way things go.)

I bought a pair of shorts online and when they came in they were WAY too big. I had also designed some heat-transfer stuff for them, but I didn’t have time to take them in before our trip - plus, now seeing our forecast for the trip, it wasn’t going to be warm enough for shorts anyway. So I wore my Ariel top with jeans on our trip that year. Alas, my hair did not hold my curls in Orlando humidity!

But that’s ok because a few months later, I brought it back to Disney — this time with the shorts! I had taken them in to fit, but I never did do the “fin” designs on them. Oh well. I finally got to wear the whole outfit and I was satisfied with it.

I did also take it to Dragon Con that year as an easy downtime costume, did the white backdrop shoot with it in 2020, and brought it back to Disney once more in 2021. I still have all the parts around here in case I ever feel like bringing it back on a trip one day.
My Costume History, Day 196: Cinderella’s peasant My Costume History, Day 196: Cinderella’s peasant gown from the live action Cinderella, made winter 2018

My mom was directing a Christmas play. It was a version of A Christmas Carol, but with fairy tale characters in the rolls (ie, the Big Bad Wolf was Scrooge). She needed more people. Thus, I was Cinderella/Mrs Cratchit - and that meant I had an excuse to make a costume.

I decided I’d do a simplified version of Cinderella’s peasant dress from the live action movie - I headed to the fabric store and found a nice robin’s egg blue cotton with small white polka dots on it. Close enough for a play costume!

Tricky thing here was that we were living with family at that time - we sold our house over the summer, put everything in storage and house-hunted through the fall. So I didn’t have all of my sewing stuff with me... but I did have this one pattern that I thought looked close enough, except that it was the wrong size. “I can work it down to fit” I told myself.

Anyway, got to work, got the top constructed and it was way too big, even after cutting it smaller. Took it up. Made a large gathered panel for the center front. Added the skirt panels and painted the flowers on with fabric paint. Added some trim at the neckline. Bleached some red cotton down to this pink and made a basic gathered apron. It was done in time for me to give it a test spin at the Ren Faire - where I absolutely hated how it looked in every photo. It simply did not fit.

Back to the drawing board - I totally deconstructed the top, took it up WAY more, and also changed that front gathered panel, removing the lower half. We weren’t going for accuracy here, so I decided I’d just do what I thought looked best, and removing that bulk around my waist was needed.

The revamped version was done in time for the play, and I ended up being pretty happy with it after the fixes! It’s pretty and comfy. I unfortunately have never worn it anywhere except the play performances and that one Ren Faire outting - we did do the white backdrop in 2019, but otherwise, it’s just been in storage. I need to wear it to something one of these days.
Well I was going to post something else today, but Well I was going to post something else today, but why not make it a Padme row…

I didn’t share a lot of progress here of making my picnic Padme costume for dragon con, so here’s a quick recap. As always I have a much longer, more in depth write up over at my blog.
Had some fun playing dress up with all of my Padme Had some fun playing dress up with all of my Padme costumes and my dressforms a couple of weeks ago. Fun to see my whole current collection with the new addition (picnic dress). Wish I still had my Mustafar and battle suit 😭
Photoshoot day!! We are doing white backdrop shoot Photoshoot day!! We are doing white backdrop shoots earlier this year than normal - for a multitude of reasons, but especially because I didn’t get a lot of pics of my picnic Padme costume at dragon con that I was happy with, so I wanted to get it shot ASAP!
My Costume History, Day 195: Queen Amidala’s Post My Costume History, Day 195: Queen Amidala’s Post Senate dress, for Dragon con 2018

When I was doing my Padme art project, I fell in love with this black & gold art deco robe. I decided I’d make it for Dcon 2018.

I got this fluffy fabric from Joann - it’s SO heavy! But so soft, I love it. Originally I had wanted to do this as a robe and an underdress, but the black-on-black silk floral fabric I got for the underdress was very expensive, so I decided to just do it as a faux underdress attached to the robe to save some money.

I used Simplicity 5840 for the basic robe shape - I made the sleeves bigger, the overall length longer and moved the opening more to the left side. And left two openings in the back for the insets. I lined the sleeves with black satin, and also backed the two inset openings in the back with the satin so they wouldn’t open more than I wanted. I added the insets made of my silk fabric to the back and the front, and added the undersleeves as well. The whole robe closes with a series of snaps and hook and eyes - it’s very easy to take on and off, which was a godsend at Dragon Con LOL.

I made the collar a separate piece - it’s built onto a black tshirt I wear under the robe. All of the appliques I made out of felt and satin and beaded and embroidered - I basically gave myself 3 weeks to finish those which wasn’t great, but my mom helped me finish them up and get them sewn on.

For the wig I had to change course at the last minute - at the time, I had my hair dyed dark brown, so I was intended to do this wig as a partial wig and work my own hairline into the front. Well I ended up having to dye my hair back to red (long story) so I had to make do with what I had because I didn’t have time to order something else. Built the wig shape up with foam, covered in hair, with a piece Chase made for me in the front. It turned out ok but I’m still not all that happy with the shape, want to redo it again one of these days.

Wore it Dragon Con, did the white backdrop shoot, and I’ve worn it to a few events too. Its a good easy Amidala costume to bust out because it’s so easy to get in and out of. Just wish the makeup didn’t take so long!
My Costume History, Day 194: General Leia from Sta My Costume History, Day 194: General Leia from Star Wars: TLJ, for Dragon con 2018

Next in my Leia mission I wanted to do the Crait look. This was my fav of her sequel era costumes. Went to Atlanta for a weekend earlier in 2018, so I picked up all of my fabric while I was there.

The underdress was the easy part - I used the same pattern I’d used for remaking my TFA underdress the year before. I used this black and silver glitter open weave fabric - I lined it in black cotton so it wouldn’t be see through. I love the glitter sparkle effect on it.

For the robe, I did a couple of mock-ups first, because I only had a set amount of fabric that I’d bought in Atlanta. Once I was happy with my mockup I took it apart to use as a pattern... and I didn’t have enough fabric. Oops. I had to add a back seam and change the shape of the sleeves to get it to fit. I interfaced the front panels and lined the sleeves with a dark grey satin. I was... decently happy with it but I was already plotting version 2.

The wig I 2 grey wigs I bought online, sewed together and styled. Initially I did the back as a row of buns and the way I did it was very heavy. I also wasn’t happy with the bright silver of the wigs, and tried to darken it with markers before Dragon Con but it didn’t do much.

So I wore version 1 at Dragon Con and was... meh about it. I had a horrible migraine that morning and the wig was killing me, I wasn’t happy with the robe, it wasn’t a great experience.

So the next year I made version 2. I found a new fabric - this one has a much better weight and didn’t need all of that awkward interfacing. I used my original mockup pieces as patterns where I could and for ones I’d lost I laid out my version 1 robe and copied the shape. I’m REALLY happy with how version 2 turned out. It’s heavy AF but it looks much better.

I also took apart the wig, got it dyed to a colour I was happy with, and restyled it to be lighter weight. Huge improvement! Brought it back to Dragon Con 2019 and then did the white backdrop shoot later that year. I’m very satisfied with version 2 and glad I went ahead and made myself do the upgrades right away!
My Costume History, Day 193: Kate from the B-52s L My Costume History, Day 193: Kate from the B-52s Love Shack video, for Dragon con 2018

The first concert I ever asked to go to was the B-52s Cosmic Thing tour. That video is imprinted in my brain. So one day when I saw the video out in the wild, I was like, I should totally make Kate’s little orange fringe outfit for dcon.

I bought an orange satin at Joann, and a ton of fringe online. Once I had them both in hand, they didn’t match, and I felt like my satin was a little too yellow-y orange (like a high vis safety vest orange LOL) and I wanted it to be warmer. So I dyed the satin with some DyeMore and it came out perfectly. I then dyed the fringe to match as well - it just needed to be a little more red.

I made the top using my fav bodice pattern, Simplicity 5006, adding straps, bra cups, boning and a lace-up back, lined in cotton. I made the shorts using Simplicity 8196 - these worked great out of the box!

Then I sat and sewed fringe on - I did a lot of it by hand - I think the only part I was able to do on the machine was parts of the shorts.

I had a friend style my wig - it was huge, I loved it! After its first outing at Dragon Con it was pretty beat up though, and I felt like it was a little too long on me, so since I needed to recurl it for the white backdrop shoot, I also took a couple of inches off at the same time. The earrings came from the wig store, and the shoes - oh the shoes LOL

So I found some shoes I liked for this at the thrift store. I painted them gold and they were good to go, right? Well guess who never tried them on before dragon con? Got there and they were like boats on my feet. I tried to wear them and they would not stay on my feet LOL So when we shot this on the backdrop, I wore my Donna Noble gold shoes with it instead. I hate those shoes - but they at least stay on my feet.

Did the white backdrop shoot after Dragon Con - and I haven’t worn this since, except for a costume video back in 2020 when I was bored one day. I keep saying I’m going to bring it back to dragon con, but it never makes the cut. I’ll drag it out of retirement one of these days.
My Costume History, Day 192: Carrie Fisher for Dra My Costume History, Day 192: Carrie Fisher for Dragon con 2018

I don’t know, I just got it my head that I wanted to make a giant Gary purse, and I could put together a Carrie look to go with it for a comfortable Dragon Con costume. I picked this outfit she wore on GMA and started shopping. I found a basic black knit dress that worked fine (and is super soft and comfy!), and a pink button up sweater. Bought some rose appliques and added them to the sweater. Used tights I had and I ended up picking these black shoes with silver glitter to wear with it - it’s not exactly what she was wearing with this, but I thought the silver glitter was too cute to pass up.

I bought the wig online, cut and styled it - more on that later. Bought the glasses and painted them.

Gary was the biggest part of this project though. I sketched up what I wanted to make, then glued together a few blocks of upholstery foam and started carving. Once I had his basic shape, I covered it in black felt. I added some details like his ears separately - also made of the foam covered in felt. Then I started needle felting in the details. I’m not the best at needle felting and it was a lot of ground to cover, so I just did my best. I bought the eyes online, and Chase sculpted the nose for me. Added his tongue and the pink parts of his ears, bought the collar and had a tag made that said Gary.

As I mentioned, Gary was supposed to be a purse. But when it came time to carve in the space for that... I just couldn’t do it. I decided I’d do it later. Of course I never did. Gary is just a big prop and incapable of carrying my phone LOL

I had fun in this at Dragon Con -it was a great late night costume. The next year I wanted to bring it back, but I decided I wanted to upgrade the wig. I’d had great success dyeing my Crait Leia wig earlier that summer, so I decided to repeat it for this wig, to give it some more dimension and look more natural. Well I totally messed it up and had to find the original wig and buy and new one and at the last minute before dcon quickly cut & style it again LMAO Did NOT attempt dyeing it again!

Anyway, this was a fun one & Gary is now the guardian of my costume closet.
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