belle ballgown version 3
This tag includes all posts about my 3rd version of Belle's ballgown, made for Dragoncon in 2025.
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the pit of despair
Being back at work after being off for 2 weeks suuuuuucks. Also my mental health is currently being completely propped up by a trip we are planning this spring. Thank goodness for that. What have I done the past week? Not much. I did start taking Christmas down yesterday, so that’s something. We did some more photoshoots, which I’ll talk…
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it’s the 2025 costume wrap-up post
At long last! I’m posting this way later than I normally do! But I was waiting on the last of my white backdrop pics of stuff from this year. Ok, so let’s start off with reviewing what I said I was going to make in 2025 in December 2024: 1. MoM Scarlet Witch – YES! Finally buckled down and used…
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goodness knows
Well I would say last Monday my anxiety over the job thing was at a 5/10. On Thursday it shot up to a 10/10 and on Friday I had to ask Chase for one of his anxiety med pills. Which then made me feel hungover all day Saturday. I also had a migraine all weekend, probably from the stress –…
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what a glorious morning
Well, what a crap start to the day. My company is axing our division. Winding down ops in February. Only good news is that the company does want to keep me and move me to another division, so I’m still employed, but sick to my stomach anyway rn. Also I have no pics of interest to post this week, it’s…
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look at all those chickens
Hey guess what! Last week I said I’d love to have the skirt motifs done by the time I’m writing this week’s blog post. I ALMOST MADE IT!! I’m on the last one and I’ll have it finished today! YAY! Then I have to do the thing I’m dreading the remove the shoulder wrap from the top and do the…
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anything can happen on halloween
Another Halloween in the books. Wednesday I picked up Kevin after work – his mom (and my parents!) was on vacation so it worked out for him to come stay with us a few days. Thursday as soon as I was off work started getting him and myself ready for Spooky Science. He wore ceremonial Luke and I wore ceremonial…
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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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i dress to kill my time
One week and a day to go. Let’s start with updating the to-do list from Wednesday: It’s 2 weeks to go (well, 13 days) so here’s an update with no pics to make it fast. Wanda: -Finish shirt thumb loop -Rig up the Scarlet Witch pieces -closure on tiara Belle: -Attach chiffon shoulder piece -iron on HTV designs -sew swags…
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im starting with the man in the mirror
Well hi, sorry I didn’t update last week. I was in the TRENCHES friends. Still am, but I’m stopping to post today, otherwise I won’t remember everything I need to cover. It’s already going to be dice-y here. First and foremost – my site is breaking again, this time it’s my blog headers. I have a separate plug-in I use…
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its clobberin time
Saw Fantastic Four this weekend. Really loved it. I wanna live in that world. First up let’s go back to my Padme Lover bodysuit project. I got the new outer layer/lining layers cut, assembled and dyed. Got them sewn together and sewn onto the interior bodice. Got the zipper in, hand-tacked down, got the outer layer sewn in place along…
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i’m a punkrocker
Well, not a great weekend for getting stuff done unfortunately. I did finish getting the chiffon swags all sewn together, hemmed, basted onto the skirt, and my zipper basted in. And I got my bodice finished. Things I clocked during the try-on: 1. The point of the bodice kept trying to flip up. I skipped putting boning in the center…
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emile thanks you
Well here we are after the 3 day weekend. I had big plans to have Belle totally done minus the wig, lower embroidered swags and shoulder drape. I didn’t even get CLOSE. But I did post up my “secret” costume on instagram so I can now post about it openly here – more below. Let’s go through the state of…
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what the hellyonce
For as much work as I’ve done on stuff for the last week it feels criminal that I have so few photos to show for it. I got the swatches for my last bit of fabric I need for Belle. I got 10 swatches to look at and the other 8 were too brown, but these 2 were closest to…
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can i kick it
First things first – part of my site broke recently. The front page scrolling banner was just stuck on “loading”. When I go into the wordpress theme options to that area, sometimes it loads (but I can’t click on anything) but most of the time it’s just blank with a constant loading gif at the top. I think it’s an…
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nothing beats a jet2 holiday
I got a lot done this weekend and I am sore AF. But first let’s talk about the happy things! My besties got married Friday! Chase and I took the day off work and went downtown to the courthouse with them. It was really cool and very sweet and then we ran around downtown taking some more pics around the…
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eeeugggghhh
Fully back to real life now, ew. I don’t know that I want to post anymore Lorne progress pics right now. I feel like if you watched the source material, you will recognize it at this point. (As of 7/7 I’ve now posted the finished costume, so I’m going back and updating my old posts to make them make sense.)…
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florals? for spring?
groundbreaking! I did nothing this weekend except sew. It was marvelous. First up, on my Lorne costume – my swatch came in and looked great! So I ordered a yard and it’s shipped, should be here next week and then I can finish up that costume. So that’s 2 down – onto #3? As I said last post I got…
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gear, fab
Well I was really hoping to say Troi was finished in my post today – at least, the dress was finished – but alas. I’m CLOSE. Here she is as of Wednesday. I got the waistband on and the skirt attached. And yesterday afternoon. I spent most of Saturday morning getting the cuffs added to the sleeves, and the zippers…
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reach for the skyyyy
Hey I’ve got real costume progress to show yall today! First, I decided early last week I wanted to dye my Troi fabric. It was just too bright. Thankfully I had a bottle of graphite. I came up with a formula and did some tests. Bottom fabric is the original undyed. I had to do it in batches because it…
