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its boots day
Last part of my Nadja costume arrives today – my boots! Yay! I could finish Nadja in a couple of hours at this point – 1. Finish and sew on sash 2. Sew on hook and eye at back 3. Sew hat onto the headband But I’m now knees-deep in Breha construction so it’ll wait. My goal is to have…
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happy june
It’s June which means we are now FULLY into Dragoncon mode. But first Kevin’s room. I talked about the trim colour last week but I took this pic with the swatch of the colour and I SWEAR how are these the same? They do look closer to each other in non-direct light, but here in direct light in the window…
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card declined
I love having to get a new debit card because of the “potential” it could’ve been leaked and having to go through and update my card everywhere. You never guess every single place it needs to be updated. Woke up this morning to a message that my card had been declined on a subscription I’m currently on, never even thought…
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oh hai mark
I don’t think I mentioned it in my last blog post, but my great-uncle passed away last weekend. He was 102! I didn’t post yesterday because we had his funeral. It was a long day. But we’ll get to that later. I got as much done on Nadja as possible while awaiting my next fabric shipment. The upper skirt is…
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its the most wonderful time of the year
I had an instagram story memory pop up yesterday that this time last year I said “dragoncon season is officially starting for me today.” That made me feel really good because I have a huge head start this year compared to last. Rebels Leia is nearly done, and I’ve got a good chunk of Nadja done now too! So yeah…
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Wedding Leia photoshoot!
Ok here it is! I didn’t put these in my weekly post earlier today because it was already really long and I felt like these deserved their own dedicated post. Took these Sunday before last at my parents’ house. Same place we shot Ewok Leia back in 2007 — but for Ewok Leia we actually went into the woods and…
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you know its not the same
I’m just going to start at the beginning of my photos from the last week and work my way through them. First up – my Nadja swatch arrived and looked good finally! I think I finally got the stripe sizing good. So I got my yardage ordered and hooray it was on sale – it was $50 cheaper than I…
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may the 1st
It’s dad’s bday today! We went out for dinner Saturday night to a new korean bbq place. It was ok. Not like the one we had in NYC. I don’t have a lot of costume progress to show this week. I’ll chat about it at the end. New pin for the collection! A friend gave us some irises back in…
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dragoncon ahoy
Ok now that Huntsville is behind us, it’s time to focus on Dragoncon and the costume progress I’ve made in the last week. So let’s get back to Rebels Leia… Got the sleeves on, and a neckline facing added. Pants time! Decided to do the same thing I did with Wanda last year and use the lower half of a…
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huntsville con report!
Hey look I actually titled a blog post what it’s actually about. Yeah a couple of days late with this. Wanted to gather up all the pics first including the ones from Chase’s camera. So Thursday I get off work and go to take a nap and as I lay down, I get an idea. And I have to go…
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Leia costume to-do list
Now having (or close to having) 2 new Leia costumes in my repertoire, it’s really galvanizing me get moving on the movie canon costumes I’m missing, plus some other EU outfits I want to do. But first let’s go through the “probably no” list… (I don’t say absolutely no anymore because I know better) 1. No Leia costumes from Kenobi…
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emotionally compromised
Yall Picard season 3 is SO DANG GOOD I don’t care if it’s fan service. It the perfect kind of reunion nostalgia we should have gotten with the Star Wars sequel movies and now we can never have because Carrie is gone 🙁 Anyway. last week I worked on the Nadja mock-up: I felt like the sleeve and upper bodice…
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weird dream
I meant to tell yall about the weird dream I had the other day in yesterday’s post, but I forgot. So it’s a rare second post within a week from me. I have convention dreams pretty often but they are usually about Dragoncon. This was a rare non-dragoncon convention dream. So, I dreamt I was at the Huntsville Con we…
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waffle house
So my white stretch suede for Rebels Leia came and I am… not enthused. It’s actually a really beautiful fabric with a nice drape. Just waaaay thinner than I thought it would be. Just sticking it in the stash for something else in the future. I’m being soo picky about Rebels Leia fabric because I really haven’t worn anything skintight…
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what are we doing
i just managed to spray myself in the face with an open coke can. Welcome to monday. How so? Well I didn’t realize my mouse cord was behind my coke can and when I went to pull out the lower portion of my desk to set my laptop on, the mouse cord got yanked and it propelled the coke can…
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new york, new york
We are BACK from vacation. Chase said today he didn’t feel like he usually does when we get home from disney, like he needs a “vacation from his vacation” but I sure do. I’m exhausted, my legs are sore, and my face is chapped from walking around in the cold. And I’m stressed but that’s a story for another day.…
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the bronx is up and the battery’s down
Let’s start with costume stuff for this week. Here’s my Star Trek dress as of a week ago, still had to put the collar on which I thought would be easy but… the pattern had very sparse directions for doing this. there was no pattern piece included, just “measure the neckline and cut a length of black fabric and sew…
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dusty af
Nothing like a slightly different angle of morning sun (like time change) to really show you how dusty your work desk is. Gotta get the swiffer up here. I spent last week working on my Star Trek skant. Got the panels put together It was overall way too big so spent one afternoon sitting in just the new bra getting…
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do you or do you not feel bonita
Let’s jump right in – my undergarments for my star trek dress came in Tuesday! Yay! Unfortunately did not fit. Boo. Ok so the cincher is just a little bit big and doesn’t seem to do anything, I think I should have sized down, but I’ll just take up the back seam, nbd. But the bra… ok so the bra…
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a change of scenery
I was not feeling my WFH office today so I’m camping under the dining room table. Change of pace. Not much sewing progress to share this week. But! My undergarments for my star trek uniform are arriving today! Here’s hoping I hear the delivery person so I can sign for it and I don’t have to wait another day. I…
