• its finally fall!
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    its finally fall!

    It finally got a little chilly here. Went outside yesterday morning to get some catgrass for Luna and it was COLD! I’m normally a summer girlie but I’m ready to wear my hoodies. (I’ll be ready for summer again by december LOL) Let’s start with sewing updates — I started on my Stevie top. I thought I’d get this in…

  • spooky scary skeletons
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    spooky scary skeletons

    It’s finally FALL YALL I finished getting the inside mostly decorated. I still have a few more lights to put up and I plan to put one of my dressforms in the front window in a spooky costume again. Thinking about using my Edith costume with my Donna Noble runaway bride veil for a spooky bride look? Gonna wrap the…

  • meet agent dale cooper
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    meet agent dale cooper

    Saturday I said goodbye to my old Honda Fit… And said “HELLO!” to my brand new mini cooper! OH MY GOD it’s so cute I can’t stand it. I’m currently sitting with naming it Agent Dale Cooper and calling it “Coop.” I did also test drive the larger countryman version, and it drove pretty much the same, but at the…

  • im great at doing stuff
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    im great at doing stuff

    Sorry I’m a day late! Chase just sent me the pics he took of my Valkyrie costume Saturday last night so I wanted to wait til i had those to post. But before i get to Valkyrie let’s rewind to last week! First up look at all this fabric I donated! I was able to give all of this to…

  • could it be those irrepressible thoughts of death?
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    could it be those irrepressible thoughts of death?

    It’s not just any monday it’s the monday before my ~~**BIRTHDAY**~~ I kinda forgot about it honestly because it’s just not been on my brain. I’ve been kinda stressed out. Sewing room clean up continues. Finished putting the closet back together. Got a new bin to fit the homeless costumes in and reorganized everything that was hanging up. Now we’re…

  • it’s virgo season
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    it’s virgo season

    Virgo Season is in FULL EFFECT. And i’ve decided i’m just gonna stay in virgo season for the rest of my life. It’s a state of mind. Since i posted so late last week I don’t have much to post about this week. This is one of the few things i bought at Dcon. I was thinking it was the…

  • Dragoncon 2023 – the costume recap
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    Dragoncon 2023 – the costume recap

    Ok so to keep my Dragoncon recap free of long paragraphs about costume minutiae, I decided to just make a separate post. 1. 18th Century Barbie Like I said in the main recap post, it was really nice to get to bring this costume back after it had such a disastrous debut at Dragoncon 2015. Literally I nearly had a…

  • Dragoncon 2023 recap
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    Dragoncon 2023 – the general recap

    Well another Dragoncon has come and gone. It was a good year and somehow I didn’t come home feeling like absolute crap? LIke my feet are still sore and my little toes are still slightly numb but otherwise I don’t feel as exhausted as I usually do. Anyway let’s recap it all…. I can’t remember if I posted our badge…

  • it’s dragoncon eve
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    it’s dragoncon eve

    I really don’t have much to post today, no real costume updates to mention. This past week has mostly just been slowly packing, and helping Chase finish up Vader: He finally got to try it all on last night. The only thing that didn’t work was his shinguards, so after this pic we replaced the strapping with something different that…

  • one week remains
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    one week remains

    Well not quite but it’s close enough. I’m in good shape. Here’s a random pic I took of the jedi Leia tunic last week just for IG. No updates here. Got a new button cover kit last week, so I replaced Padme’s cuff buttons for a 3rd time. Please I never want to do this again. Luna supervised. Finished all…

  • t minus 2 weeks
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    t minus 2 weeks

    Work is really trying my patience. I’m soooo ready to go. I need a break from work, a week out of the house. Well of course, I don’t really have much to post about since I’m pretty much DONE. I’m just gonna go through this weeks pics one at a time in no order. Ok so first up let’s talk…

  • i’ve achieved a state of clear
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    i’ve achieved a state of clear

    It feels really good to be almost done with 6 new costumes + soft parts for 2 costumes for Chase nearly a month before Dragoncon. Ok so I’m just gonna go through my pics in order. We finally made our own badge ribbons to hand out this year! Obviously I’ll be handing out the Space Bun Club ribbons LOL And…

  • all work and no play
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    all work and no play

    I feel like I didn’t get much done last week, but then I look back at where I was last week and realize… I did get a lot done. I finished up Bail. I didn’t like the trim I bought for the neckline, so I made some out of leftover Vader pleather. Also added some elastic loops to the bottom…

  • barbenheimer
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    barbenheimer

    Yes, we took Saturday off costume work and did a double feature. We started with breakfast at the Liquor Store: Then off to see Oppenheimer on the imax: Chase got a leg cramp right as they were starting the Trinity test. He had to awkwardly try to get out of the aisle, then was stuck standing in the hall for…

  • the truth is out there
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    the truth is out there

    Did I mention before I’m doing an X-Files rewatch? I was going to watch all of Voyager after finishing TOS, but instead I got sucked into one of my OG fandoms. Fond memories of scouring the 90s internet for X-Files fanfics… Oh and did I mention I’m doing a Scully costume for Dragoncon? LOL Just a cheap quick thing. Using…

  • these violent delights
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    these violent delights

    Let’s start out with Seven progress this week because looking back at my last post… dang I finished a lot since then! It didn’t feel like that much but it was. I did finish getting all of the HTV sewn on and FINALLY got to start sewing everything together. The back panel It took me a minute to remember how…

  • a whole lotta nothing
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    a whole lotta nothing

    I don’t have much of anything to post this week. Spent most of the last week trying to get the HTV for the Seven yoke to work. Basically everytime we’d do a test it’d come out backwards. Chase was definitely sending it mirrored – backwards. Then not mirrored – backwards. We’d finally get a test square that was right, go…

  • Bespin Leia cost breakdown
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    Bespin Leia cost breakdown

    So I posted a silly video on my tiktok yesterday about why I don’t do commissions and I used Bespin Leia as an example of an incredibly in-depth costume project that I’d NEVER EVER do on commission – I mean, I’m not gonna do anything on commission but in particular THAT ONE – mostly because 95% of people who ask…

  • hurricane elvis round 2
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    hurricane elvis round 2

    We had a big storm move through last night. It didn’t last all that long but was pretty intense. Power dimmed a few times but we never lost it completely. So we didn’t think it was that bad. Waking up this morning to most of the city still without power (and the power company saying it’s gonna be a few…

  • t minus 2 weeks
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    the final frontier

    So I know it probably doesn’t look like I got a ton done this past week based on how few pics I have to post this week… but I did! It just wasn’t on the exact things I wanted to work on LOL I ended up getting stuck on the Breha vinyl pretty much the whole week. Didn’t start legitimately…