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can i kick it
First things first – part of my site broke recently. The front page scrolling banner was just stuck on “loading”. When I go into the wordpress theme options to that area, sometimes it loads (but I can’t click on anything) but most of the time it’s just blank with a constant loading gif at the top. I think it’s an…
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nothing beats a jet2 holiday
I got a lot done this weekend and I am sore AF. But first let’s talk about the happy things! My besties got married Friday! Chase and I took the day off work and went downtown to the courthouse with them. It was really cool and very sweet and then we ran around downtown taking some more pics around the…
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eeeugggghhh
Fully back to real life now, ew. I don’t know that I want to post anymore Lorne progress pics right now. I feel like if you watched the source material, you will recognize it at this point. (As of 7/7 I’ve now posted the finished costume, so I’m going back and updating my old posts to make them make sense.)…
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help i’m still at the restaurant
Ew my wordpress updated and the layout is all ugly! Well here is another Disney trip report. Surprise! We went back to Disney this past weekend. The January trip weather was SO BAD that about halfway through the week, we basically stopped spending money and set it aside to come back another time. We booked a bounceback deal as soon…
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florals? for spring?
groundbreaking! I did nothing this weekend except sew. It was marvelous. First up, on my Lorne costume – my swatch came in and looked great! So I ordered a yard and it’s shipped, should be here next week and then I can finish up that costume. So that’s 2 down – onto #3? As I said last post I got…
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all the world is waiting for you
(EDITED TO ADD AFTER POSTING: I did not realize until I posted I used 2 Mr Bean headers in a row. Not mad at it.) Another productive week, though it took me longer to get some stuff done than I had planned. Here was my to-do list last week — with updates: -finish bottom edge of Lorne bodice -pleat skirt…
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the old soft shoe
HEY! I have some really good costume progress to show this week! ~*WOW*~ The finished picnic Padme disneybound. I still need to get some ribbons for my hair and I also thought about hanging some ribbons from the sides of the belt. We’ll see. I’m so tempted to just buy one of those tie-on ponytails that I can precurl so…
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islands in the stream
Busy weekend! Lots to talk about. Let’s do the weekend events first! Saturday we met Ash and Gabe for Midtowncon and lunch. I had been planning to wear my TOS uniform all week, I even decided on a new hairstyle (one of my fav things about that costume is the fun of getting to play with different hairstyles), made a…
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does this impact the lore?
First up, I got contacts!! Well, almost. Had my eye doctor appointment Saturday and asked if contacts were possible with my RX. He said yes, but — they couldn’t really do a lot for my up close reading, they’d have to prioritize my astigmatism over that, but it would be enough to give me a break from wearing the glasses,…
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gear, fab
Well I was really hoping to say Troi was finished in my post today – at least, the dress was finished – but alas. I’m CLOSE. Here she is as of Wednesday. I got the waistband on and the skirt attached. And yesterday afternoon. I spent most of Saturday morning getting the cuffs added to the sleeves, and the zippers…
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no soup for you
Hello and welcome back to my blog Look I’m kinda ticked off that I spent a LONG TIME working on my Troi costume this past week and I have one photo to show for it. One. UGH I spent most of last week working on the neckband. It was a comedy of errors. First I had to wait on that…
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reach for the skyyyy
Hey I’ve got real costume progress to show yall today! First, I decided early last week I wanted to dye my Troi fabric. It was just too bright. Thankfully I had a bottle of graphite. I came up with a formula and did some tests. Bottom fabric is the original undyed. I had to do it in batches because it…
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The Sims: Freddie the Influencer
Ok so on my new laptop Sims is actually blazing fast! So I’ve been playing again. It’s been a while since we had a sims story on the blog, so I thought I’d share this one. I’ve been seeing people on Tiktok do this 1×1 room challenge where you start a sim in just a plain 1×1 square room and…
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start walking
Well hi. I do actually have costume updates this week. But first let’s get everything else out of the way. 4.5 weeks post-surgery — I feel like 99.9% normal. Remember just a week ago I said crawling around on my sewing room floor to work on costumes left me sore so I needed to take it slower? Well I did…
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i want auroras and sad prose
Guess what? I’m coming at yall live from my new laptop! Chase did try to fix my computer, ordered a new battery, etc. But the writing had already been on the wall for that laptop; it was buggy and super slow, and photoshop did not like it at all, I’d regularly have weird things happening in photoshop because the graphics…
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i fell asleep amid the flowers
Well today I am coming at you from Chase’s computer because… my laptop is dead! It was fine all last week, it was fine Friday, I unplugged it Friday night since we had storms coming through. Saturday morning it wouldn’t turn on at all. Chase tried a few things to fix it but nothing worked, so he’s got a new…
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t-minus shut up
Week 2 of post-surgery life continues much like last week. On Friday I felt like I’d be well enough to go back up to my WFH office and sit at my desk like normal but then I felt kinda icky all weekend so I’m back down on the couch again. Post-op was thursday and she said all looked good. She…
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hello world
I am back, minus a uterus. It all went well! We were up at 4am Wednesday morning and off to the hospital, only to find the door locked. Went into the ER and asked the nurses there and they told us they dont open til 5:30. My arrival time was 5. Went back home and got my paperwork with the…
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i got nothing
I really don’t have much of anything at all to share this week, I almost was like, nah no reason to post this week, I’ll save the handful of things I have for next week’s post. But I figured I ought to check in before the surgery later this week. I’m SO excited. Not for like surgery but just for…
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hoa hoa hoa
I’m sorry yall, I still have nothing to post about this week LOL. But I am trying to get back into the habit of my Monday morning postings. A few costume-y notes – got another set of swatches for Troi. One I like ok, I think it looks fairly close to how the dress looks on screen, but it doesn’t…
