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Dragon Con 2002 Look Back
I know I’ve done similar before… and this won’t be just a rehashing of my original “con report.” A couple of weeks ago when I was looking at old Hermione photos for instagram, I was flipping through them and thinking, “oh yeah, that was the night before I left for the midnight show, I refused to wear makeup or a…
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Monday again
Happy Monday 😛 It was a busy, yet not busy weekend. Friday night I sewed on a skirt I’ve been planning to make for our next Disney trip – just now getting to it. Saturday morning I did an event at our local Bricks & Minifigs store for their 2nd anniverary, it was a lot of fun, they had a…
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Finished?? Maybe
Wednesday night and last night I worked on the new shrug. Got it finished up last night: Besides being a bit smaller, I also opted to line it in the same black taffeta I used for the bodice lining, instead of two layers of the velveteen. That helped cut down on the bulk a bit. I also interfaced the collar…
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Finally done with the wig
After curling and recurling the side ponys like 12 times I finally settled on some curls I like. They still stick out a little too far, and I messed one of them up (cut the elastic off by mistake, ugh), but I think at this point I’m sticking with them. And I finished remaking my shawl but I have no…
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mondays
ugh! it’s monday again. Starting to feel sad about not being at DragonCon Thurs-Fri. (Not really so much Sunday because usually by Sunday I’m ready to go home LOL) I think it’s because I’ve been looking back at old pictures a lot recently and feeling nostalgic for “old” DragonCon. I’ve been wanting to do another “look back” post… I might…
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Ugh at least it’s friday
So you know Monday my car had to have 2 new front tires and an alignment. Got that done. Today I went to leave for work, and my battery is dead. Wouldn’t take a jump. Chase had to take me to work and then I had to beg a ride from mom since I’m off early today. Last night we…
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That white backdrop tho
So a while back, I wrote a post about our white backdrop shoots, and… it has disappeared. I can find my “WHY” post, but not my “how” post. So, I’m posting a new one! For a quick recap, we started doing white backdrop photoshoots in 2009. I wanted to specifically recreate the Sally Jupiter “pin-up” art from Watchmen, and brought…
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what a weird weekend
On Friday, I got a new dishwasher I had a major panic attack at the dr, didn’t get to have my checkup, got sent away in a wheelchair with a prescription for xanax On Saturday, I had to buy two new tires for the Fit I celebrated not one but TWO 65th wedding anniversaries Went to a Harry Potter party…
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A little bit of everything
I have 3 topics today. 1. The Flipping Dishwasher Chase and I have been without a dishwasher for over a year. It gave out last year… Chase tried to fix it but it was shot. (It was pretty old. Came with the house.) We FINALLY went shopping for a new one 2 weeks ago, picked one out at Home Depot…
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ugh monday
We had a nice weekend, spent Friday evening-Sunday morning at my grandparents. I also FINALLY got Snapchat to work with an animal face: A few weeks ago Mema was ironing and ran outside for something or another… the cat knocked the iron over onto the floor and caused a lovely burn mark. They are having to get new tile put…
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Work, work, work
Wednesday night, I focused on getting the sleeve mock-up finished up: Pretty happy with the shape. Somewhere I have a bag of tulle I want to stuff them with but I didn’t have the energy to look for it. I also got the trim along the neckline quickly sewn on, though last night I went back and tightened it up…
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Playing with sleeves
I was going to work on the shawl last night but I didn’t feel like it… instead I dug out some leftover pink lining to start looking at a mock-up for the sleeves. Beyond cutting them out and pinning them I didn’t really do much more than that. I trimmed up the shape of the second one, but of course…
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More Tightrope Walker progress…
My little weirdo snuck in my office the other night and was in fur heaven. I had to kick her out when she started trying to eat it, though. I didn’t get to do a ton of sewing this weekend. Saturday was move day for my grandma. After my Pawpaw passed last year, we got her into an assisted living…
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Furry
A couple of weeks ago we got some new hardware from Comcast/xfinity – the box it all came in turned out to be Luna’s favourite thing. I put some towels down in it and she just hangs out in it sometimes. I went home for lunch yesterday and she was sleeping in it when I walked in. All the cat…
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Some more progress
I think it’s starting to look like something. I got the skirt panels sewn together last night — nothing fancy there. Just pinned them onto the form over my petticoat to see what they were looking like. It’s too long but I cut it extra long so I’d have plenty to work with. I’m thinking I maaay have to make…
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Woooow I sewed some stuff
I’ve had a cold since I got back from Disney, and on top of that had a migraine come on Saturday… ugh! Despite that I actually got some sewing done over the weekend! Saturday I got over to Joann’s, hoping to find fabric for the bodice of my Dragon Con costume, and failing that, I figured I’d get the white…
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Disney Photopass photos!
Got all of our photopass photos downloaded last night! The Joy & Sadness meet and greet was fun and worth the 40 minute wait. Gotta do one castle shot of course… We met Lilo at Typhoon Lagoon! So exciting! I’d never met Lilo before. They had a photographer stationed at the end of the Crush N’ Gusher who gave us…
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Back from Disney (Again!)
We had a super short 4th of July trip to Disney over the weekend! I didn’t take a ton of photos on my phone — we forget the power brick for recharging, so I was trying to save power, especially on Monday when we were at Magic Kingdom all day from 8am to midnight! And Sunday when we did Typhoon…
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Edith Photoshoot
I’m really very happy with how the photos turned out! My aunt had one huge candle holder that would have been great… if it didn’t weigh like 20 lbs! I couldn’t it up. But the ones I could pick up looked nice too. This next picture is not my favourite – the flash didn’t go off correctly – but it’s…
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Zombie Walk!
So for the past couple of weeks we’ve been planning on going down to Beale Street June 24th. Chase needed to get some footage for the movie he is working on, and it was Kevin’s birthday so we thought we’d all go and eat at Dyer’s that night. Friday while I was home for lunch, I discovered on twitter that…
