dragoncon2009
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our eighth trip to Dragoncon in 2009. This includes planning, costume construction, photos and trip reports. For this year my new costumes were Anne Boleyn, Ame-Comi Poison Ivy, Wonder Woman, AOA Rogue, Marvel Girl and Black Canary, so construction posts for those costumes are included.
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Patrick Stewart
Finally got around to scanning our pic with Patrick Stewart. What a cute group, eh?
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…And the magic words were said.
It finally updates after I’ve been trying to get it to update for a while. Geez. Sunday was my birthday. It was awesome. It was a surprise party and absolutely had no idea. Chase took me to my fav place (The Melting Pot)… we came home to what looked like an empty house… and everybody was there!! It was a…
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Dragoncon 2009 Recap
I figured I’d better go ahead and make a decent post about the weekend before I start to forget LOL Thursday morning we managed to get out of town on time, even after going to Starbucks! Yay. Check-in at the hotel was crowded, it gets more crowded every year, more people tend to come in early these days, I guess.…
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back home! a few dcon 09 pics
We got back home around 2 this afternoon. Uneventful trip home 🙂 I’ll post a longer report later once I’ve had time to wrap my head around everything. Chase has promised to download the pics tomorrow so I’ll be able to start uploading hopefully tomorrow night. In the meantime, here’s a handful of pics from my Iphone from over the…
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my 6th costume
here’s your hint as to what my “secret” costume for dragoncon is: (PS – after I revealed what this costume was, I went back and edited all my previous posts so they make sense!)
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I’m sorry.. here’s a cat pic as apology
Here I was really trying to starting blogging on a regular basis here again, and I’ve totally NOT done that lately LOL With all the house and Dragoncon stuff I’ve just been super busy. We leave for Dragoncon Thursday and hopefully we’ll be closing on the house not long after we get back. Once that happens, life should go back…
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Dragoncon 09 schedule!
Here’s my rough idea of a schedule for anyone wondering! We’ll be arriving Thursday around 4, and not leaving til Tuesday 🙂 (I’ve got a lot of costumes that I’ve done versions of before, so I’m marking ones that are new versions with a (new)!) Thursday evening: Jean Grey/Marvel Girl Friday morning: My secret costume ;P Friday afternoon: Sleeping Beauty…
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3 days left… costume updates
I can’t believe Dragoncon is upon us, and I can’t believe how little I’ve posted this past month. I guess it’s just been everything going on and the slight weirdness of not being in my own place while working. (On that note, though, it looks like we’re closing on the house the day after we get back from Dragoncon. Kinda…
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AoA Rogue wig!
Finished styling my wig!
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Black Canary and Wonder Woman updates
Here’s a pic I missed yesterday: My Wonder Woman bodice, and the start of my classic Black Canary suit. AND! Here’s my finished Black Canary jacket: Seriously the easiest thing I’ve ever made. I had it started and finished in one night.
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dragoncon updates!!
Well I haven’t done much better about posting, have I? I finally took some progress pics so I actually have something to post today. Rogue (age of apocalypse version) is at about 75% done. From the top down… I’ve still got to trim the wig a little. I’m really happy with what I bought for it – the white part…
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Wonder Woman bodice!
My Wonder Woman bodice is pretty much finished! Just needs a few tweaks and some velcro added for the chestpiece and belt.
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Flail! Anne almost done
It’s almost done!!! Just need to finish my beads and attach them, and make my necklace:
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Green fabric everywhere
I have a lot of green projects this year. Besides the obvious one, Marvel Girl and Poison Ivy are also causing a lot of green mess around my sewing room. I got the frontpiece finished up and attached last night. Oh I am so happy with it. All that’s left now is trim and accessories…
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More Anne Boleyn updates
I got my hood in. I’ve since taken it apart and re-covered it in my own fabric, but here it was originally as modeled by my grand-dad ! I came out this morning to find a little drawing Chase had done of my dress and a note pinned to my dressform 😀 The bodice is now attached to the skirt…
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Dcon 2009 Schedule
reposting this from my facebook 🙂 I have tuesday and wednesday off before dcon this year. AWESOME 😀 I usually take the day before we leave off to pack and finish stuff, I have no idea why I took tuesday off, too, but I’m not complaining. Wednesday: pick up the van after work, get it loaded that night. Thursday: leave…
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Joy… Anne Boleyn progress
Getting up in the morning and walking out to your project… and feeling totally happy with it. What a great feeling 😀
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Anne Boleyn updates
Sorry I haven’t been posting much! We’ve moved and are kinda homeless at the moment LOL ( staying with family) – still waiting to hear about the house we made an offer on. And my computers power cord died! We’ve bought 2 over the past few weeks once I realized it was going to die, but neither fit.. And now…
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Marvel Girl Progress
So I was bored of working on the big green monster last night, so I worked on… a little green monster? LOL I decided to start on my Jean Grey dress as a break from the other project, and it went together really fast! I had to get creative with the skirt because I didn’t have enough fabric but it…
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Anne Boleyn & other updates
Got the bodice put together on the big green thing, it was giving me fits last night, about to drive me crazy. I think I’ve got enough leaves from the last poison ivy leftover to do the next. It doesn’t need as many leaves. I’ve got the bodysuit to dye, I think I’m going to have to go buy a…
