dragoncon2005
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our fourth trip to Dragoncon in 2005. This includes planning, costume construction, photos and trip reports. For this year my new costumes were Belle and Leia's rebel uniform, along with Stitch, Snow White and Cinderella for friends, so construction posts for those costumes are included.
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Belle: Then and Now
Sorry I haven’t posted about Dragoncon yet! I’ll have a big post ready to go this weekend. In the meantime – As close as we could get to recreating my 2005 Belle pic — they’ve remodeled the stairs and the angle isn’t quite right, but I still like seeing the two together 🙂
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when i found some more dcon photos
Check out this page of Dragoncon pics!! Great pics of me and Ash as Leia and Luke… closeup of my tattoo… more pics of me as Leia… and pics of me as Belle and Ash as Stitch! Awesome! (Since the link above has died, here are the photos)
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Dragoncon 2005 pics!!
I meant to put this in the last post and went back to edit, but then I figured, eh, let’s put it in a new post. Dragoncon put their official pictures up… here’s my favourites of the ones I found of us. This little girl in the pink princess dress hung around us a lot backstage (you can see her…
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when a security guard got in my face
At Dragoncon, they have, in the past couple of years, had a ban on photography from like, 7-11 (or something like that) at night in the Hyatt. I completely understand their reasons for this (fire marshall – taking pics clogs up the paths too much, and there’s not much room over there). So I’m fine with the ban, I don’t…
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when i had to unpack
I found my embroidery sample, finally. Kes had gotten it, I think – it was under the ottoman. Today was fairly nice. I saw my grandparent’s new house, it was very cute! I really like it. I’m glad they’ve moved. I finally got my boxes back (they’ve been at my aunt’s house since they came back from FedEx) – I’m…
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Disney Princesses Onstage – Dragoncon 2005
I had to share these! These are all from Risingsun.net – I’m amazed at how great these are!! Snow White gives a little wave: Cinderella – ha, that face! That’s better 🙂 Here comes the monster dress! I think I was blowing a kiss? Aww. Here comes trouble Waving Running at the girls Stitch vs Belle Snow White fainting Take…
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Post-Dragoncon 05 again
First and foremost I wanted to write about Stitch. Since I didn’t get to write about him at all while making him, since Ash wanted him kept secret. This project has been on my mind since April, when we first came up with the skit idea while swimming at C3. I started out by finding a front shot of his…
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Dragoncon 2005 pics!
4th Year at Dragoncon! So! Thursday morning I got up and went over to Ash’s where my mum picked us up and took us to the airport. Ash and I sat around for a while after checking in. Anyway, Cat and Melissa met us there and… um, do any of you guys remember being in the airport after security? Cause…
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ugh planes
Can I just be sedated until we get to Atlanta? We’re leaving for Dragoncon tomorrow, and I’m a bundle of nerves. For various reasons. Everybody keep your fingers crossed that everything goes ok tomorrow! But anyway, we’ll be getting into ATL around 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. I won’t be around the hotel that night, though – we’ve got tickets to see…
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when the power was out
So, the rain has stopped, for a while, anyway. Due to the fact we haven’t had much rain around here lately, we didn’t get flooded – even though it rained ALL night, our neighbor’s front yard wasn’t flooded (and it always floods when we get a lot of rain – the front part of his yard is very low, kids…
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Disney Princess Costumes FINISHED
All the princesses are done 🙂 Cinderella looks a bit dumpy in that picture because it doesn’t fit my dressform – the yellow tint of the ceiling light looks pretty icky on it, too. Snow White’s collar isn’t perfect, but it’ll do. All is done on Ash’s costume except putting the zipper in – that’ll be the only thing that…
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Princesses & Leia Rebel updates
Yesterday I went to Hancock for some last minute things. I also got some done on Leia. Working on Snow White’s collar now – once I finish that, all I need to do is add the cuffs, and do the bows for the shoes and hair, and finish her slip. Reckon I can do that today. For Leia, I need…
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Snow White & Leia progress
Snow White… I still have to: -Make the hairbow -Make attach the collar -Make the cape -Finish the sleeves (red cuff at the bottom of each sleeve) -Put bows on shoes -Make slip I made Ash’s gloves – tomorrow I’l make her feet and she’ll be done. Which just leaves Leia and Polychrome. If Polychrome doesn’t get finished I won’t…
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Cinderella progress pic
Cinderella: Anyway, the corset wasn’t finished when I took this tonight (it is now). The only thing left to do is fix the hem (it was screwy first time around) and add the silver parts to the shoulders (where those straps are hanging down, that’s what they’ll be attached to), and the parts to the hips, and her neckband –…
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So excited
AUUUGH!!!! DRAGONCON!!!!!!! Good lord, I haven’t been this excited about a convention in ages!! :B I’ve got to get some of this energy out of my system!!
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Two more weeks… Cinderella and Stitch updates
Due to the internet being down today, plus actually feeling pretty well for the first time in a few days, I managed to get a bit done today. On Ash’s costume, I got quite a bit done. I redid one part of it to look much better, and finished one of the major pieces. I had been putting that particular…
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Finished Belle! Preview Pic
Finished it!! Well, except for the yellow hairband, and I didn’t have my hair fixed (I just threw it up like this), but here it is… I’m very pleased with it! Cinderella is getting there, too… I still need to hem the skirt, hem the corset, put the boning in, put the grommets in, and do the silver parts on…
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Snow White and Cinderella Progress Pics
Haven’t gotten much done the past couple of days. Right now, I’ve got the dressform w/Belle on it sitting in the living room and the puppy is running like a crazy person in circles around it. Hee. I’ve packed a bit the past few days, finally got stuff out from San Diego and moved it to new boxes, haha. Mostly…
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Belle progress…
Hee!! I’ll be finished with Belle tomorrow. I finished the bodice today, all hemmed, got the grommets in, and all. I’ve still got to do the shoulder pieces and put the jewels on but neither should take long. Yay 😀 Also made more good progress with Ash’s costume, I’m very pleased with how it’s coming out. Those two things are…
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Man
Aw man. The 501st photoshoot at Dragoncon is set for 2pm! Instead of in the morning! Which means I can’t do it. It’s smack in the middle of the day. I was planning on putting on Mara in the morning for the photoshoot, and then switching to Starfire until the masquerade, since wearing Star requires time to put on/take off…
