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Disgust Updates
Yesterday was an interesting day, in terms of progress. I got home and immediately tackled the tights I’d bought for my arms and legs. And immediately regretted it! Even though I hemmed the openings I cut immediately, I was still getting runs and I just really wasn’t happy with the way it looked in general. It looked ok on my…
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Wearable!
I got the zipper put into Disgust last night and was finally able to try the whole thing on: Best of all, I discovered that if I tuck my Briar Rose petticoat up, it’s short enough to wear under this, so I don’t have to make a whole petticoat!!! Whew. That’s a time-saver. I still have to hem the skirt,…
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DISNEY!
Our trip has really sneaked up on us. I guess because I’ve been so busy. Just suddenly last week I realized we are 3 weeks out from our first trip of the year! We got our magic bands week before last… (Also, my Leia and Chewie tsumtsums!) We are trying to get some of the magic band colours we don’t…
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A collection of updates
First up… I worked on my Disgust wig last night! I bought two packs of a green metallic embroidery floss and just started threading it into the wig cap: It was nearly impossible to get a decent photo of, which doesn’t bode well for actually wearing it, but in person I think it looks great. I still have a little…
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Not much to report…
I’ve been working on Disgust pretty consistently over the past days since I last posted. I’m about halfway through with the skirt. It’s going to be tight getting this finished for MidSouthCon, since I have to pause and work on some theater costumes at some point this weekend. I’m really going to try to kick this thing into high gear…
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Disgust updates, etc
I finallllly got working on my Disgust costume again over the weekend. Well I worked on a little bit last week too, but that was mostly just finishing up the top, so it wasn’t really worth posting about. I started working on the dress designs: I ran to Michael’s saturday morning and grabbed some embroidery floss since as it turns…
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Finished!
Chase took some photos of my finished Belle dresses last night. We just set them up in the hallway (under the Belle portrait!) on the dressform. The blue dress: After I sent it in for a final try-on, I found out I was going to have to lose about 4 inches of length when I hemmed it. I tried to…
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Almost there…
I finished the ballgown over the weekend! Now where did I leave off.. First up, the real hoopskirt came in so I was able to switch out my stand-in for the real one…. it came just in time, they are shaped differently so that helped me gauge the gathering in the seams, and pinning the hem, Getting the two skirts…
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Ballgown skirt
I was supposed to work on the shoulder pieces last night but I didn’t. Instead I came home and sewed all the skirt panels together, gathered it (just as a test, I’ll probably have to re-gather it later), and then got all of the skirt poof panels cut and sewn together (well, mostly, I still have two more in the…
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Belle ballgown bodice progress!
Some more updates on the school play Belle costumes… I strugged with the bodice for the ballgown the past two nights – trying to get all 5 layers even and sized the same way was a nightmare. I also made the mistake of buying plastic boning for it – because obviously our stores here don’t sell the spiral steel I…
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Disgust, and other randomness
I have a whole ton of random pictures in my photo stream, and some personal costume updates that I decided to separate from the Belle post I just did! Kevin was with us for a whole week, so we had some fun: It’s amazing how much easier Leia buns are to do on somebody else’s head. On our way to…
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Belle Costumes
Yay new projects to talk about! I’m currently working on two Belle costumes for a production of Beauty and the Beast! My mom is doing the 3 dresses for Gaston’s silly girls, and I’m doing the Belle village dress and ballgown. Week before last, we went shopping… starting with a disappointing trip to Hancock Fabrics. 4 in the afternoon, lines…
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Southern Fried Pics
I was really looking forward to this past weekend; the con looked fun, I was excited to take Kevin, to spend the weekend with my grandparents, and best of all the weather was going to turn out great – it got up to nearly 70 degrees. Well I forgot what comes along with a change in the weather like that;…
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Lots of art stuff today
Sorry I haven’t posted recently, I’ve really been buckled down trying to finish up the website! I’m almost there! First off, here’s some more from the SW art project… POE! I was blessed with a good reference for this for his face. I really like how it came out. BB8! I said I wasn’t going to do the droids but……
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Bespin Leia progress
I got my main fabric last week, and over the weekend I pulled it out and tested to see how it was going to look, opacity-wise. It’s going to be a little less see-through than I’d like if I want to not have so much of the red chiffon lining show through it, but it’ll work. I got my embroidery…
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Where did I leave off?
Let’s see, what art have I not posted yet? Han! I’m pretty pleased with this one. Oola. I’m ambivalent. It was hard to find good, clear references at the angle I wanted. Aayla! I like this one. It was fun. Anakin… not crazy about it. I left it alone for a couple of days before coming back to finish it…
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Some jedi, and a traitor
Last night I drew up old Obi-Wan… Then Qui-Gon… this one is another fav. Ahsoka! I used a shot of the Disneyworld Ahsoka as a reference. And Finn! Lastly, I had started on an Anakin but I’m not terribly happy with it, I may start all over on it.
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More Art!
A little more refined today. When I did the first two night before last (Leia and Rey) I was just enjoying sketching and colouring quickly. I slowed down a little on the two last night and they look a little more finished. Padme is my favourite so far. I’m very happy with how this turned out. I wanted to do…
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some more art
Last night I sat down, turned on netflix, got my tablet plugged in, ready to finish up my Bespin embroidery design… but I opened and realized it was pretty much done. Hooray! So since I was already there, I did some rough sketchy drawings of Leia and Rey. Added some colour. I’d like to do some more like this. They…
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Starman
I’m here working on my website today… I’m avoiding social media, because it keeps reminding me that David Bowie has passed, and it’s too upsetting. We lost him far too soon. So I’m focusing on working on my website and trying to get this revamp finished. And since I haven’t posted much recently, I have a backlog of photos to…
