Arwen Hope Dress
Below you'll find blog posts related to my Arwen "hope" dress from Lord of the Rings, which I made in 2020. Blog posts here go back quite a bit because I've been wanting to do it for around 20 years!
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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…
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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…
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Dragoncon Part 2!
Ok I was hoping to have this post up last week, but Chase had a lot of trouble exporting the photos and I was only getting them in chunks. I think I’ve got all of them now, or at least, most of them. Might be a few more stragglers. Besides uploading pics, last week was absolutely crazy at work, and…
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back to fake life
I started to title this “back to real life” but I realized doing something normal like going to Dragon Con is real life. Going back to the day-to-day of the last year is the fake life. So — Dragon Con was actually pretty great. I had my reservations, as you may have noticed in the last post. But the low…
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dragoncon updates
I know I just posted yesterday, it’s dragoncon season, I’ll post as much as I want. I came up with what I think is my finalized line-up. So let’s go through ’em, because I was finally able to order a ton of stuff yesterday and I have a better trajectory than I did in yesterday’s post. 1. Wanda Got my…
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2020 wrap-up
I always looking forward to doing my end of the year costume wrap-ups. This year is sad. I really didn’t think a year could get worse than 2019 and that 2020 would be a great year. Instead we got a dumpster fire. I’m angry, sad, depressed. All I want is to get eat pizza in a restaurant. Anyway. I did…
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life goes on man
First off I went ahead and added Arwen to my portfolio even though I don’t have pics of me actually in it yet. I did take a video Friday: I took a few days off sewing after finishing Arwen, and this weekend finally got back into stuff for Eliza. Started disassembling the curtains which was easier than I expected –…
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she’s not there
Having a 4 day weekend was GREAT. Especially since because of… the current world situation… we didn’t go anywhere or do anything. Just did stuff around the house and took naps and ate good food. Last week I pulled this costume out for a tiktok video… I posted said video Thanksgiving day and it promptly bombed. It’s so frustrating; my…
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keep my pretty name out of your mouth
Yaaaay it’s only a 3 day work week. Thankfully it seems like Luna is finally past being mad at me. She’s been totally normal for a week now. We did go ahead and get a Feliway plug-in as suggested by a friend (thanks Summer!) and hopefully that will help keep her mellow. She did do something last week she’s never…
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meanwhile
So here we are again, another Monday of another week exactly the same as last week which was same as the week before. Well, one thing that was different this week – I pissed Luna off on friday and she was mad at me almost all weekend. Tuesday last week she peed on the doormat by the backdoor. Very weird…
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this house has people in it
Welcome to Groundhogs Day where it’s Monday in 2020 again and nothing has changed. I actually do have quite a bit of content to share today though. Let’s start with random stuff from the past week. First up, we got our ruggable! I really love it! It’s going in our bedroom at the foot of our bed, and this week…
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the week of despair
It’s Dragoncon week. I should have only been working today and tomorrow. I should’ve been heading to Atlanta Wednesday morning. But instead I’m stuck here at work, and I’ll probably be in my pajamas all week. I posted on my instagram that usually, the night before we leave for Dragoncon, I have what I call my “Annual Wash and Wax…
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there is no sign of land
Hey first I have some sewing stuff WOW I finished the lake shrug. Here it is from the front. I think I had the front finished when I posted lat week so if I did, well here it is again. So last week I was struggling with not wanting to cut the excess off the back because I loved how…
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hi hello hi
I gotta level with you I am not doing well right now. Last night going to bed, having nothing but another week of work to look forward to, and another week after that, and another week after that… just an endless desert of work…. Anyway you’re not here for crying. House is kind of a mess. I’ve turned the dining…
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i have things
For the first time in a few weeks I actually have things to post! WOW First let’s talk about the pet dramas. My parents rented a cabin and went on a short vacation last week. So Skye came over and stayed with us. It was nice to have company in my work office all day, since Luna won’t ever come…
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thankful
Today I am thankful for what will be a short and (hopefully) quiet work week. I have some work-related research to do that I’ve only gotten to lightly touch on the last week because it’s been too busy for me to dig in. So I’m hoping to get a lot of that done! And after such a busy week last…
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back on the monday train
First Monday in a couple of weeks I haven’t had something funky going on at work. So I’m back to my normal Monday posting this week. Yay. Also as of last Tuesday I work from home. I was going to wait and move everything at the end of the day and just get it all set up Wednesday morning…but I…
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its the final countdown
Sorry for no post yesterday. Had corporate in and I was so stressed I just couldn’t add another “thing” to yesterday. So today is my last day of getting up and going to the office. Tomorrow I start working from home. Yay! There’s a lot of crappy to what is going on at work but I am looking forward to…
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im trying my very best
This is going to be me this week. Because my boss is off at the trade show I usually go to also, so I’m captaining the office this week. And stuff always goes bonkers when she’s not here. I’m ok with the trade-off though. So I actually didn’t get to get a lot of sewing done last week, because we…
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looks like somebody has a case of the mondays
Good grief I can’t remember what I posted last week except that sad dog, I’m going to have to go back and look to see where I left off…. Ok. Now I’m on track. Last week I said I was going to dye that silk on thursday well I did it Monday night. I put both my excess fabric (meant…
