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life was a willow
Sorry for no Monday morning post yesterday. I’ve been dealing with a lot of anxiety the past week. Not much more I can say at the moment. Been trying to keep my nose to the grindstone and my mind on other things. So the good news is I’m officially done with SEWING on 3 out of 5 of my Dragoncon…
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is somebody gonna match my freak
I’ve been trying to catch her in this pose and set the Huttslayer figure in front of her for ages. Finally got it. Not a lot to report on this week. The soft lavender and pale blue are making me wish I’d committed to doing only pastel costumes for dragoncon LOL Walker stayed over Friday, she watched the Eras livestream…
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you’re a loony
Oh my gosh I have a ton to post today. So let’s start at the beginning. Tuesday we took Kevin to see Inside Out 2. He did his best Mr Bean impression while wearing a tiny hat at Huey’s. And then he posed with Wolvy and Deadpool. We wanted to take a group picture with this after the movie but…
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heartbreak is one thing, my ego’s another
Well here we are on another Monday. So here was my Padme to-do list last week, with updates: 1. Hem skirt – done! 2. Finish pleated front panel/attach – half done. I got it re-gathered and ready to go but wanted to wait til my beads arrived to make sure the two things together are sized correctly. 3. Do tacks…
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the struggle is real
Here we are again on another Monday morning. Today has been a very monday monday already. Feeling better about Padme. Got a bunch done this weekend. I think I’ve said about 5 times now that the top is done, but everytime I put it on, I find another place that needs tacked. It’s currently sitting with about 3 pins in…
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say once again with feeling
This Padme costume is about to be my 13th reason. The fabric is just SOOO thin that anytime I have to unpick something it either damages the fabric or I accidentally cut a hole in it. Trying to get everything to line up correctly and looking ok at the neckline has been the majority of my weekend. I guess let’s…
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puppies & sewing
I have a lot of puppy content. Let’s get to it. Walker stayed with us last Monday from around 8 in the morning to about 3 the next day. My parents were out of town for a concert and she’s too little to stay at doggie daycare yet like Skye did. She slept most of the day Monday and Tuesday,…
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sing a new song chiquitita
Not a ton to talk about this week. Actually I think the thing I have the most to say about is sewing progress! For the first time in a while. SO. I had gotten that fabric to use as lining for the top and the skirt. I got the skirt pieces cut out – it’s basically a miniskirt – got…
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good luck babe
Well I don’t have as much progress to show today as I would’ve liked, but I did cross a big hurdle with my Padme build. But before I get into all that, let’s do a puppy pic dump. Friday my parents had to go up to help my granddad with some stuff, and Skye went to doggy daycare for the…
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you look like stevie nicks
Ok before I get into anything else… I’ve got puppy fever. My parents’ new baby, Walker! Of course her big sister is Skye, so together they are Skye Walker – and Walker came on on May the 4th 🙂 Skye is Walker’s aunt, I think they said. omg I get to babysit one day soon 😀 Stole Skye’s bed LOL…
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get it off my desk
So I had big plans of trying to do a start to finish mockup of Padme this weekend. I had 10 new yards of fabric, I was going to cut out all of my pattern pieces, assemble everything, make edits (hopefully small) and then be ready for my real fabric this week. Of course I knew that was shooting for…
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the tortured kevins department
Hello, I don’t even know why I’m posting today because I have nothing of importance to share. The only sewing update I have is that I got the pieces I’ve “finished” transferred to paper. I played around the lining layer and ended up adding an extra seam to help it fit better (since that layer won’t be seen anyway). I…
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Art of Disney Costume Exhibit
This is a continuation of my last post! We left Huntsville around 10 and drove to Birmingham instead of home – because we were going to the Art of Disney Costume exhibit at the Birmingham Museum of Art! I took a ton of photos and I’m not going to post everything here – HERE is the whole gallery! Disclaimer… I…
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HSV Expo Wrap-Up and What-nots
Before I jump into the weekend photos, I’ll cover the few things from the week before… I’m going to have to get more fabric to finish the mock-up for Padme. I do think I finally figured out the hood pieces — I transferred the hood and cape mockup pieces to paper. I still need to figure out fitted sleeves, the…
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it was maroon
Even though I said “no” to April Fool’s Day last week, I did make something for it: It cracks me up how well this went together for 5 seconds in photoshop LOL Monday I got my Padme lake dress cardigan from maxxmerch! I love it!! Plus it came with a pin, a print and a keychain!! I filmed an unboxing…
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just say no to april fools
I think I have finally decided what to take to Huntsville: 1. Honeymoon Leia 2. Packing Padme 3. Chip & Dale 4. Sailor Jupiter And I may also throw Seven in since she doesn’t take up a lot of room, so no big deal if I don’t get around to wearing her. Based on last year I don’t think I’ll…
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half way to dragoncon
We’re back from Atlanta! We went down to celebrate Chase’s birthday. But, as usual, let’s start at the beginning. Finished Honeymoon Leia FINALLY. Just got to put a closure on the belt and add the 3d printed pieces Chase is working on. And it needs steamed really bad because it’s been manhandled like crazy the last few weeks. Luna says…
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mistakes were made
I have got nothing to post this week really. Yes I could’ve finished my Leia dress. Did I? No, in fact I made it worse. I did get my belting and tried it on with the dress. I’m still not happy with how lumpy the waist-seam looks EVEN THOUGH it’s hidden. I think I said in a previous post I’d…
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make the friendship bracelets
I don’t have a lot to chat about this week EXCEPT costume stuff. I worked on Honeymoon Leia every night last week and almost all of that was me monkeying with the back zipper. It took me forever to get it installed without it pulling at the bottom weird. TBH I don’t know what I was thinking doing the zipper…
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oh my god its tuesday
I totally spaced on posting yesterday. I was just so excited to get back to work on the Padme project LOL It’s been a busy week. Last friday was my parents 50th anniversary!! Whoa! But let me just go through everything from the beginning. Or as close as I can get. Finished this little puzzle. Gonna glue it together. I…
