Arwen Blood Red Dress
Below you'll find blog posts related to my Arwen's blood red dress from Lord of the Rings, which I made for SDCC in 2005.
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post-dragoncon dump
I may not be in the best mental place to be writing this but I need to do it before I forget everything. 24th Dragoncon is done and in the books. We left before dawn Tuesday morning. Before After Parents first time at Bucee’s! Check-in was smooth. The news of Taylor and Travis’ engagement broke just as we were pulling…
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ellipses
Hey look I’m in good enough shape to be posting on my day off! Let’s just go through every project one by one. The Trois: Deanna has been done and partially packed. I did not try the whole thing on together so it’ll be a FUN SURPRISE to even me at Dragoncon. Lwaxana is finished, mom came over and we…
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New Stuff!!
The photoshoot Saturday went pretty good! We managed to get through all 8, but I almost stopped after 6. I was exhausted. But after a little nap and dinner, I was able to pull together and finish the last 2. I’ve got 4 of them up so far: Imperial Officer: Played around with a couple of different hairstyles for this…
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Dressform Pics
Here’s everything so far. I’m only missing 3 actually so maybe I should have waited, but our server is down at work and I’m bored. Belldandy and Urd from 2003 and 2002, respectively. These two costumes have really stood the test of time. I knew Belldandy was in good shape since I wore her to Momocon earlier this year, but…
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when i couldn’t find my costume stuff
My day of working at home has turned into “Day of Looking for Stuff.” First I had to find all my Susan stuff. I haven’t worn it since 2003, so it was spread out all over. The corset and skirt were together, at least. One boot was where it was supposed to be – the other was hiding. One of…
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2005 Year in Review!
I ran across my original 2005 costume list on the Jedi Council boards, did I get it all done? I said I’d do: -Padme ep 1 Parade gown Done! Besides the Princesses, this was my biggest project of the year, and the one I worked on longest. I’m still quite proud of it -Qui-Gon Jinn for my father Done! It…
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when we flew over the grand canyon
So, San Diego report! Wednesday! We got up at 4AM, went over to Ash’s house and picked her up. We got to the airport a little before 5 and got checked in. Nothing was open so we just had to sit around. We ended up in like, the loser part of the airport I’d never been in before. So we’re…
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SDCC 05 pics
Pics from this morning and yesterday: Wednesday and Thursday at Comic Con A cool shot of part of the Grand Canyon from the airplane… My swimsuit I made for this summer!! I’m the “Spider Loser” New lightsaber that I bought at Preview Night last night! Luke’s severed hand!!! AUUUUGH! (that’s the real one!) Me wearing my new Arwen dress 🙂…
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Arwen Blood Red Dress almost done!
Arwen is done: I finished Starfire’s skirt – today, working on boot covers and the “metal” pieces. Also need to cut the wig. I started packing – I’m already up to four boxes. Geez. I’m only taking 7 costumes!
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Updates on everything, Slave Leia progress
Arwen: -add braids around the trim on the underdress -put the trim around the neck of the outer dress Arwen will be officially 100% done, hopefully tonight, if not tomorrow. I just have to finish handsewing the braid on the underdress. For Leia… My original list is finished, but I want to go back and re-do part of the boots.…
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Arwen Blood Red progress
In progress pic of Arwen: It looks much better on me than the dressform – my shoulders are a bit wider. I still have to… -finish painting the gold lace for the arm -cut out sleeves -attach sleeves -hem sleeves -add braids around the trim on the underdress -hem the bottom of the outer dress -put the trim around the…
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Newsflash! Arwen progress
I finished my Arwen dress! Ok, haha, so maybe not. But I did get the new fabric! Thanks so much to padawansguide for pointing me to syfabrics.com! I’ve still got to take the black fabric back (not a problem, they know me there), and send back the white fabric. I also finally bought my trim… should be arriving soon. I…
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A-Kon 2005 Pics & SDCC Plans!
First off – I actually won the Amidala Look a Like Contest at Cosplaylab. I couldn’t believe it, there were so many good entries, and people I knew – I was hoping to get maybe honorable mention, but – yay! It made my weekend. SO I didn’t get Yuuko *completely* finished – I’m going to get it finished for MTAC…
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Revenge of the Sith Event Pics! And Plans
Jupiter isn’t going to be ready for A-Kon. Why? Because it’s about two weeks til A-Kon and I haven’t bought a single thing for it. Which wouldn’t be a giant problem except I got so much left to do on Yuuko, there’s no time to worry with Jupiter. 🙁 Oh well – I’ll do it for MTAC next year! Speaking…
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Amidala Shoes, Parasol, Progress & Plans
I’ve actually been working on stuff! Yay, me. I finally got the serger correctly threaded to do the rolled edges for the petals, and have since made about 30 petals… and it was SO FAST!! *_* It would have taken me Iforever/I to do it on the regular sewing machine. I think I’m in love, haha. I painted my shoes…
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Possible Costume Lineups
tentative schedule for next year: Shadowcon (jan 7-8, Memphis) nothing new – only going on saturday, will probably just wear Ozma. MidSouthCon (April 1-3, Memphis) Padme Parade gown (which is what I’m working on now – I have 3 months to finish it, so it *should* be done… if not, it’ll be at CIII) Celebration III (April 21-24, Indianapolis) Qui-Gon…
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when i tried to decide on a lotr costume
I don’t think I’m going to do Arwen’s Blood Red Dress for the ROTK opening anymore; it’s just… I dunno. Iwant to do something else. Which one of these do you guys like better? I would rather not do Eowyn, because I don’t want to wear a wig at the theater, but I like her dresses a lot so I’m…
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Upcoming 2003 Schedules & Plans!
I would just like to say here that I do not want to be a babysitter and tour guide at Dragoncon. That is all. Anyway. Other than that, I’m SO looking forward to Dragoncon. FINALLY a convention where all 3 or us – me, ash and cath – are together. So, so excited. God, Cath is going to LOVE dragoncon.…
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when i thought about being aragorn
OK ok ok last post for today I swear!! Mom wants me to make Arwen’s Blood Red Dress for Dragoncon/ROTK opening. But it’s just not interesting me. I mean, it’s very pretty, but making it would be just like making the Eowyn dress again, or my Chase outer dress. It’s pretty much the same. You know what I want to…
