belle ballgown
Below you'll find blog posts related to my Belle ballgown from Beauty and the Beast. This tag covers multiple Belle ballgowns - the first one I made for Dragoncon in 2005, the second for Dragoncon in 2012, and a version I made for a stage production in 2016. I made a third version in 2025, but that version has its own specific tag.
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Disney Trip Surprise w/Belle!
Got to do something fun last night 🙂 Friend of mine’s family is going to Disneyworld for Thanksgiving and it’s their niece’s first time there. I got to stop by their house (dressed in Belle) and give her a gift (her own Cinderella dress, tiara and light up shoes). She was really, really sweet and adorable. I hope she has…
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Cleaning up my Flickr
Going through my photosets on flickr, removing unnecessary photos and just cleaning stuff up. I just finished going through my Belle folder, and generally I don’t like the way I look in the costume – I mean, I don’t hate it, far from it, but I never thought that wig/hairstyle looked very good on me. But I noticed something funny…
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2009 Year in Review!
what I finished, what I didn’t get to, and 2010… Here’s what I said at the end of 2008 that I’d like to do in 09… 1. Finish all those things I said I was going to finish this year, esp. Bespin Leia – HA! nope. 2. Silk Spectre I – yes! 3. Golden Age Black Canary – yes 4.…
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A Collection of New Photoshoot Pics
I’m sorry I haven’t posted much lately. We’ve been busy packing and dealing with house stuff (keep your fingers crossed) that writing in the blog is not something I’ve been thinking of! In the meantime here’s my more recent white backdrop photoshoot pics.
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Bodycasting, & New Belle & Padme White Backdrop Pics
In order to do my new Wonder Woman parts, Chase wanted to take a body cast of me. (Also will be for things in the future) So we did that today… it was so gross. And the best part? I totally passed out. For just a second or two, but I’ve never passed out before in my life, even last…
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2008 in review
What I accomplished in 2008 (and what I didn’t, LOL) Well it was weird year for me, costume-wise, because the first part of the year was eaten by my wedding, both financially and time-wise. I was still attemping to work on stuff – to make things that were easy, or that I already had material for. I think after the…
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Ahsoka and Belle updates
I got my fabric for Ahsoka yesterday, finally, and ripped my mockups up and got the skirt basically put together, but around that time realised I didn’t have any kind of matching thread so couldn’t do any top-stitching or finishing on it. I forgot to go get thread today, too. So tonight I cleaned my Belle dress. The back of…
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HSO event pics!
What a great event! I’m so glad we were able to go. Chase and I got up early Saturday morning and ran some errands and then hit the road to Huntsville around 10:30-ish. We’ve gotten so used to driving to Nashville for events – and the drive to Nashville is insanely boring. 3 hours of nothing but interstate. Huntsville was…
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Cleaning Dyeable Shoes?
It’s probably too late for me to do anything about it, but I thought I’d ask — I have a pair of Dyeables pumps, dyed pale yellow (they’re my Belle shoes). After 3 years, they absolutely filthy looking (especially thanks to trooping places like the zoo in that costume!) I’ve tried a little soap and water, but it’s not helping….…
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HSO Star Wars & Disney Event!
Well for those not on my regular LJ… Chase I are married and home from our honeymoon! Everything went great and you can see some of the random pics I’ve collected from other people on my flickr page. Plus I had my last 2 wisdom teeth out wednesday morning – LOL isn’t that fun? It’s gone a little rougher than…
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Hogwarts Robes finished + photoshoot!
Secret project is FINISHED! I’ll try to post pics tomorrow before we leave. I took these pics a while back, when I bought a new backdrop – I want to try to put together a nice book of some of my costumes, eventually. (Sort-of, to use a portfolio – I’ve got a nice setup for my artwork, but nothing for…
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2007 in review
Well since I’m mostly done for the year – outside of my little secret project – I’m gonna go ahead and post this. I’ve had it done for a while actually LOL At the beginning of the year, this is what I wanted to accomplish… keeping in mind that when I wrote this, Chase hadn’t proposed yet and changed a…
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Princess Birthday Party Pics!
It was a really fun time. The birthday girl had a great time, the carriage was beautiful, the weather was perfect. One little girl in a Cinderella dress was STUCK to my side the entire time, once she got over her shy-ness – holding my hand everywhere, running over picking flowers for me, and she also rode in my lap…
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Horrorfest and Nashville Zoo Trooping Pics
This week has been very hectic at work, I just finally finished editing the photos from this weekend and got them uploaded today. So we drove up to Nashville Friday night, had an awesome dinner with friends. 🙂 Saturday we got up, and I put on Belle, and Chase and I headed over to the fairgrounds for the Nashville Comic/Horror…
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Sunday @ Dragoncon 2007
Sunday morning we got to sleep in a little. We had a 10am photoshoot with Eurobeat King, so we got up at 9 to get ready. Cath had moved to the girls’ room the day before, once Ash and Melissa had gotten up and settled – they were on the 36th floor!! LOL Ewok Leia is really fast & easy…
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Big Scoop Troop Pics!
Big Scoop pics are up in my 2007 Trooping Gallery. I was so worn out after it, to the point we didn’t even get to go see the Simpsons movie last night like we had planned. 🙁 Here’s one pic of Chase.
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2006 in review
At the beginning of the year I said I wanted to do: 1. Hoth Leia 2. Darth Vader 3. Padme’s Lake dress 4. Bespin Leia 5. Finish Yuuko 6. Padme’s Funeral Dress 7. Wonder Woman 8. The Bride 9. White Witch 10. Dorothy 11. ANH Leia 12. Team Zissou outfit So what did I finish? Hoth Leia? Yes, plus Bespin…
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Halloween 2006 Pics!
Hope everyone had a great Halloween! Picture Gallery – including Pumpkinfest this past weekend, us at the zoo, and last night! I finished Dorothy and wore it to work Halloween day, and to hand out candy that night… And took some pics with Kes 🙂 This past weekend we did Pumpkinfest in Franklin, and did the zoo troop again! Here’s…
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Belle & Beast wrap-up
Well, for Belle-dar it’s a wrap-up, not so much for Beast. But anyway. When Chase and I decided to make a Beast costume for him, and wanted it to be for the masquerade, I couldn’t enter the same old Belle I’d entered last year, so I embarked to make some upgrades to it. This was a chance for me to…
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Dragoncon 2006 Sunday pics!
Back to our regularly scheduled Dragoncon pics! Got to sleep in a little bit Sunday morning. We got up and I put on Rogue for the X-Men photoshoot, and Chase stayed in normal clothes to play photographer. I was absolutely stunned by how many people showed up for the X-Men photoshoot! Me and Kitty! This is just part of the…
