ceremonial leia
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my two Princess Leia (Star Wars) ceremonial costumes, the first quick version constructed in 2005 and the second in 2007.
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MTAC 2010, Trooping, Photoshoots… etc!
(This post may seem a little repetitive – this was ported over from my livejournal and recapped a lot of stuff I’d recently posted on my blog. Now that my LJ posts are part of my blog, it’s very redundant!) A recap of recent costume-y stuff… MTAC came and went and we got stranded there an extra day because of…
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WSMI Huntsville Pics!
Only a month late 🙂 I posted our pics from the opening weekend of the Huntsville Star Wars WSMI exhibit last night. From that I was able to get a few new pics of my ceremonial dress: It’s still not the way I want it; maybe one day eventually they’ll be a version 3, who knows. Anyway, my Donna Troy…
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WSMI Huntsville 2010 Recap
It’s been over a week since I last posted!! Been busy. Working on getting stuff ready for Huntsville this past weekend! Huntsville was half awesome and half sucky. The sucky: My mom fell in the driveway before we left and sprained her wrist, my dad got some kind of bug bite on his arm that got continually worse throughout the…
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happy father’s day!
Haven’t gotten to see my dad today – going out for dinner tonight. 🙂 Yesterday I spent the first part of the day taking apart my ceremonial Leia costume so I could remake the sleeves and line the top. I’ve been wanting to do that since I first finished it in 2007! I had some chiffon hanging around that was…
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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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Ceremonial Leia Pics!
Chase & I were out and about today, and picked up a copy of The Making of Star Wars. We wanted it anyway, but after hearing there was a pic of Carrie Fisher in the ceremonial dress that I’d never seen before, I really wanted it! Yeah, after seeing that, I REALLLLLY am itching to fix mine!! I’m going to…
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MidsouthCon 2007 pics!
Friday, I did indeed wear Arwen, and got a few new pics. I went without the wig most of the time, only put it on for the pictures. I wore Susan first thing Saturday morning – it was quite interesting having to drive the 45 minutes to the con hotel while wearing this (I didn’t wear the wig while I…
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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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Ceremonial Leia 90% done
The dress 90% finished on the dressform. It still needs to be hemmed along the bottom, and the belt is my regular ANH belt – still working on the new belt.
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Ceremonial Leia and Wonder Woman updates!
Today is Chase’s birthday! 🙂 We had cake last night, and macaroni grill. Last night, I put together the bodice for Belle. It’s HUGE. I cut it out at the size I usually use, which is usually a *little* big, but this looks like it’s at least 3 or 4 sizes too big. Crazy stuff. Nothing that can’t be fixed,…
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bouncing from one project to the next
I got a base necklace for my necklace pieces… I haven’t figured out how to attach them yet, but they look great just sitting around it on the table LOL I cut out the pattern for my belt. Dad came up with a pattern on the computer last night – he took the dimensions of my regular ANH belt, and…
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Wonder Woman, Leia updates
I’m starting to get worried that all of my stuff won’t be done by this weekend. If my metal comes for WW tomorrow, I should be ok on that. Chase has got the two main chest pieces cut, the belt and tiara will come off the next piece I’m waiting on. My gauntlets won’t take long. Tonight I decided I…
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Wonder Woman progress
I’ve been busy the last couple of nights, so I haven’t really made much progress on anything. I plan on buckling down next week and getting at least the ceremonial base dress finished… like I said, need to re-do the top. I’m not worried about the sleeves, except for where they meet on the bodice, since I didn’t get that…
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Costume & Convention Plans
Weekend after next is St Patrick’s Day; we’re planning on going to Atlanta again for their big parade, with the 501st/RL. I’m – hopefully – wearing Queen Amidala, the parade dress. After the mixup last year I’m a little skittish about things falling through again. On top of that, a bunch of our local members have decided not to go.…
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Timothy Zahn Signing Pics! & Leia updates
Well, I Istill/i haven’t worked on anything lately. I did get my ceremonial Leia skirt pieces out and washed them, since it had gotten something on it while laying around in the sewing room (who knows what, probably paint or something. It came off). Mum agreed tonight to look at it with me and help me figure out where I…
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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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Various Costume updates!
Well I haven’t gotten much done lately – been working on the website, or some art stuff. I’ve got about four projects I’m working on currently– Ceremonial Leia v.2 – Since the pattern I bought back in August has apparently disappeared into the black hole that is my sewing room, I bought another one and got it cut out, and…
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Padme Nightgown and Hoth Leia progress
Making a quick post of my progress from work, because I realised I won’t be home to do this until at least tomorrow night! (Going to my grandmother’s tonight 🙂 The vest as it was yesterday evening: Just pinned together, and inside out. The vest as it is right now: Still need to turn the front, the sleeves, make the…
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Shopping List
In other news, I’m in Nashville and will hopefully be in fabric heaven this weekend – with the Columbus Day sales, I’m hoping to pick up at least a few key fabrics I need. I’ve got a 50% off one item at Joann’s and a $50 gift certificate to Hancock’s… and I’m going to fancy fabric store (I don’t know…
