dragoncon2006
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our fifth trip to Dragoncon in 2006. This includes planning, costume construction, photos and trip reports. For this year my new costumes were Corde, April O'Neil, my mandalorian and Chase's Beast costume, so construction posts for those costumes are included.
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Corde Wig Work
Making my handmaiden wig!! I got a dark brown wig with the mannequin earlier this year, so since I didn’t have a lot of use for it, it became the base of this wig. Cut out some foam pieces and wired them into the wig, and started wrapping them in hair: And now completely covered, with the hair accessory thing…
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Handmaiden Corde progress
Last night, got the Handmaiden robe fixed, and shortened the sleeves, and started stamping the design on. That’s going to take a while. I did a few of them while watching Project Runway last night… I’ll continue tonight. I’m also hoping to style a couple of wigs tonight – finish one and get the other one completely finished. This weekend…
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Corde, WW, Mando and other updates
Handmaiden: I got the basic robe made. However I made a mistake and sewed the front together opposite – no worries, easy to fix, I’ll just take it apart and switch the sides. I’m going to do that tonight. Tomorrow night I will do the designs… tonight I will start the beading. Mando: No major progress, except I found some…
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Mara on the 501st Site!
i got catching up to do on posts & what not, but… made some progress on the handmaiden tonight. got the basic dress cut out and sewn together – tomorrow night I will work on fit, and getting the sleeves in. Then this weekend I’ll take it with me to Nashville and continue work on it there… Also if you…
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To Dragoncon 2006… and beyond!
Now that I’m home from Comic Con (FINALLY!) – no time to rest, time to get started on Dragoncon stuffs! New stuff I’m working on: Handmaiden: I’ve been wanting to do handmaiden for ages. I’m finally making myself do it for Dcon this year. I’m very excited! I’ve got my pattern and a gameplan – I just need to pick…
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Mando helmet!!
I got my helmet for my mandalorian costume, hoping to do it for Dragoncon 🙂
