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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sad dog face
I have a lot of sewing updates today! Well nothing like MAJOR but compared to the rest of September’s posts, it’s comparatively a lot of progress. LOL. I decided to name today’s post after the first thing I saw when I clicked over to my pictures for today’s post, and the first thing I saw was a sad dog face.…
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itsa my birthday too
Hi Hello I actually have content to post this week! I worked overtime last week so I could be off on my birthday. I slept in, got up and finished cleaning the house, went to lunch with my parents, took a nap, went and got Kevin and by then it was party time. Obviously my birthday party theme was Raid…
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Upcoming Costume Schedule
SIGH. Still trying to figure out my costume schedule for this year!! I just got a major inspiration to do a new costume for Akon. I totally want to do it, but now it’s going to screw up my schedule again. gah. So right now, it’s… A-kon: Ozma of Oz Secret!! Comic Con: Imperial Officer AoA Shadowcat Phoenix Dragoncon: Lessa…
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sketchblog: arwen
Arwen’s Hope Gown – costume I’m thinking of doing
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Dad needs to be Qui-Gon
I think that in my off time in between MTAC and Comic Con (which is to say, in between April and July), I’m going to make my dad a Qui-Gon Jinn costume. He rented a jedi costume back for Halloween 2000 and made a good Qui-Gon, so I know he wouldn’t mind doing it again. That way whenever I need…
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Shopping and Manga Belldandy updates
Fixed some random broken and non working things around the site. Any outside links should NOT open in these little windows – so let me know if you see any that do. I think I got them all but I can’t be sure. I finally decided on my second Dragoncon 2004 costume – I’m not telling what it is though!…
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when I got a sword
My parents FINALLY gave in, after 3 Christmases of asking for it, they finally got me Glamdring (Gandalf’s sword). It’s SWEET!! Also some action figures, clothes, LOTR trival pursuit, lots of DVDs, purple velvet for a cloak. All in all a very good haul. I’m going to have breakfast and put my things away. Going to my aunt’s this afternoon…
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ensconced in velvet
Mom gave me some purple velvet for Christmas to be used to make a cape. Buuut now I’m all tempted to make the Arwen Hope Dress with it instead. That’s my favourite dress from LOTR, I think… I love the colours. I’ll have to measure it and see how many yards I’ve got…
