bespin leia
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Princess Leia (Star Wars) "Bespin gown" costume, constructed in 2017. This costume has been in various stages of construction since 2006. I finally completed it in 2017 for Star Wars Celebration.
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Starman
I’m here working on my website today… I’m avoiding social media, because it keeps reminding me that David Bowie has passed, and it’s too upsetting. We lost him far too soon. So I’m focusing on working on my website and trying to get this revamp finished. And since I haven’t posted much recently, I have a backlog of photos to…
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2015 Year in Review!!
Maybe the morning after Star Wars isn’t the best time to do this. I went to bed hours after I normally do and still had to get up at 6:30 for work today so I am beyond fuzzy. BUT I realized I hadn’t done this yet and got all excited to type up the post, so here we go, fuzzy…
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FAQ Friday: Princess Leia Hairstyles – Bespin Leia Bun
Today I’m posting 3 separate FAQ Fridays – the ceremonial Leia hairstyle, slave Leia hairstyle, and Bespin Leia hairstyle! These 3 are all share a similar base, so I decided to post them all together. My notes for all of these Leia tutorials: -It’s been a long time since I actively studied these hairstyles – most of my Leia costumes…
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2010 wrap-up, 2011 plans
So at the end of 2009, this is what I said I wanted to accomplish this year: 1. Bespin Leia – still not a thing done 🙂 dang it. 2. Belle’s Ballgown – same. 🙂 dang it. 3. Batgirl – nope. dropped it due to $$. 4. Belle’s Christmas Dress – nope. just never got to it. 5. Ame-Comi Black…
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Cleaning my office, costume schedules
I’m off work today – going to NYC today! Flight’s not til this afternoon – still got a few errands to run, etc. Anyway. I got my office cleaned up and made work-able again. I got some little baskets for my cabinet, so I can eventually organize stuff in there. I also got that new stool – it’s much more…
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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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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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costume projects!
So I’ve been a busy little bee lately. Because of the eyestrain/headache thing I’ve been having lately, I’ve been staying away from the computer in the evenings and working on projects and whatnot – wedding & sewing stuff, basically. Here’s what they are – sorry, no pics as of yet – I’ll try to get some up pretty soon. 1.…
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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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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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New Vibro-Ax! Leia Photoshoot, and Christmas Parade Pics!
First off, my new toy came today! oh heck yes… New Leia pics we took a while back– I want to do the Rebel Legion trading cards this time around, so I needed better pics of some of my costumes. Next up – padme lake dress — stormtrooper — imperial officer — maybe the parade dress Although, speaking of that,…
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2006 schedule
Atlanta St. Pat’s Parade I’ve never done this event before, and it’s still not 100% that I’m going to go, but if I can hitch a ride… Wearing regular Princess Leia, most likely, if not, battle Padme with new shinguards. MidSouthCon Friday I’ll just be there for a couple of hours most likely. I’ll be staying at the hotel sat…
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2006 Schedule
First off, Ash FINALLY gave me the C3 pictures from her camera – I added them here – they’re down at the bottom. A few of note: Me and dad, me and dad again, stabbing!!, What am I so happy about? Right now I’m working on Leia’s Hoth outfit… I’m focusing on just the jumpsuit for now, I hope to…
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when i went over my schedule
Argh. I came over here to write something important, and now I’ve forgotten it. Must have not been too important. So I’ll do something else. Got my Katsucon prereg confirmation today. We’re flying out Thursday night (the 12th), layover in Atlanta, arriving in Washington just after midnight. Yuck. Leaving kinda early that Sunday morning, so I won’t be doing any…
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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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more scheduling
some random notes: -Mom cleaned my Belldandy dress and managed to get all the nasty mud stains off the back of the white skirt (from when it rained at dragoncon). She also cleaned my plugsuit and got those stains off of it, too. -Almost finished with my quidditch cloak. the sweater lady FINALLY called and said she’d have my sweater…
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Upcoming events
Costuming schedule for foreseeable future: October 14th – Nightmarez (7-9 PM, Amidala) October 18th – Nightmarez (12-4 PM, Amidala) October 24th – Memphis ZooBoo (not decided which costume) October 25th – Nightmarez (12-4 PM, Amidala) October 31st – Halloween party (Quidditch Uniform) December 12-14 – Numa Rei No Con (hopefully, if I can find someone to drive down there with…
