dragoncon2013
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our twelfth trip to Dragoncon in 2013. This includes planning, costume construction, photos and trip reports. For this year my new costumes were Romana I, Donna Noble Runaway Bride, Trillian and Zaphod, Glimmer and Bow, and 70s Supergirl, so construction posts for those costumes are included.
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Moooore pictures
My Runaway Bride Donna from AnimazeGuy: I looove this one, I look so sassy face. And I love these Romana shots from Eurobeat Kasumi! This one is my fav: And me on K9’s monitor. He had the GoPro on that night and was broadcasting to the monitor. Annnd this photo edit from Chasing Photography, inserting me into this piece from…
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Dragoncon Costumes: Everything Else
Thoughts & Pics on all the “old” stuff I wore this year… 1. Belle I wore Belle Friday morning for a while. Had wanted to wear it again but didn’t get a chance. (Well, that’s a lie, there were chances… I just didn’t have the energy for it!) I love how it looks with my Marie Antoinette hoops, and really…
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Dragoncon 2013!
Well I’ve been home from Dragoncon for a few days but haven’t posted a thing here – sorry! It was a good year. Even though I felt like i was a day ahead the whole time (Thursday felt like Friday, Friday felt like Saturday) by the end of it, it felt like it had rushed by way too fast. I…
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In which Chase holds props
We worked on costumes for the past 2 1/2 days and I only have two photos to show today. First, I finished my Fionna sword! Whee! And here’s the staff for my last costume. I took pictures of some other things but the paint needed touching up very badly so I didn’t post them. Another thing to add to the…
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Random Randoms
Worked on some different stuff last night. I finally finished my Romana I brooch and got it attached! About time, I think I’ve been done with everything else on it for a few weeks now. Overall really happy with it. Although could I have taken a worse picture? Why didn’t I at least stick it on the dress form that…
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Updated: Dragoncon 2013 Schedule
All right! We leave for DragonCon in a week, so here’s my final costume list, and a semi-schedule. (Sorry, the image that was originally here was lost in a server move. I replaced it with an older one that doesn’t quite match up but still kinda works.) Wednesday night: Batgirl – private photoshoot Thursday: Early evening – Romana I for…
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Fun with Worbla
I just cleaned the house and burned mashed potatoes and beaded my skirt some last night, so I don’t really have much to post today. Chase did work on my belt a bit. I looove how it looks. Tonight I’ve got to get some actual sewing done. My to-do list for tonight: -Finish re-inforcing Romana cape feathers -Finish Chase’s shirt…
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Stuff from yesterday
Well yesterday, I packed some more… We played with worbla… I helped Chase with a wig, and I got my skirt put together And then I decided I hadn’t done enough beading on Saturday so I started beading the skirt And Chase has the power I also painted some gauntlets. My hands are covered in purple and brown paint, and…
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More from yesterday
SO I already posted about yesterday a bit, but here’s some more. I was up really early yesterday thanks to a migraine, so I got up and ran out and bought a garment rack. It’s been driving me crazy and holding up my packing progress to not be able to bring my costumes I need to hang up into the…
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Belle
Today is pack & repair day since I have the house to myself. I’ve taken over the living room, it looks like my costume closet exploded in here. Chase will be happy to read that. Anyway, first order of business was to fix a fit issue I’ve always had with my Marie Antoinette hoops. The waist was always way too…
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in which i do nothing but mangle a wig and unsuccessfully dye chiffon
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2 weeks!
Last night I spent most of my time digging through closets looking for costume pieces. Where-ever my Lady Blackhawk belt was, it wasn’t labeled, so I just had to look in every costume box to figure out where it was. (I finally found it in my Ms Marvel box.) I also pulled out everything else I needed for this year,…
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Saturday night
So! Yesterday, I started kinda packing, almost finished embroidering my pants, then Chase and I ran errands and fell asleep on the couch. Today we got up early and went and had breakfast, then a couple more errands. Came home and got to work on stuff. I finally broke down and dyed my wig. Been scared of doing it. It…
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Updates & Pics
I got some decent work done last night! And took pics! This one is actually from night before last. Gollum made my Donna Runaway Bride earrings for me. I worked on the corset for the last costume for a bit – got the straps added, cleaned up some loose threads. Then I patterned out my skirt and cape. Thankfully I…
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20 days to go…
So we’re in the final stretch here. We have 20 days before we leave. I’ve got to get a lot done this weekend. 3 of my costumes are pretty much finished – Donna Runaway Bride is totally done, Trillian is totally done. Romana I and Supergirl are at like 90%. The other new costume is only at like maybe 40%…
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Stuff from last night
Yesterday I didn’t do much in the way of sewing. I got Chase’s Zaphod pants altered to fit, I just need to hem them and add the panels to turn them into bell bottoms and they’re done. I spent most of the night creating the widow’s peak on my Belle wig. What an annoying process. It should have probably been…
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Yay!
So I went to my grandmother’s this weekend, I needed a little get-away and it was really nice to be almost completely out of pocket for a couple of days. (And by almost I mean that the reception on our phones was so bad that we really couldn’t get online most of the time or anything!) But that doesn’t mean…
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Embroidery & Quidditch
I don’t have many pics to show of work this week. I’ve worked on my corset embroidery off and on. Last night I cleaned out my makeup bin, organized everything and wrote up a list of stuff I needed for Dragoncon, and then sculpted my Romana buckle. Here’s the corset, one side done: And over the weekend Kevin and were…
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4 Day Weekend
I had a 4 Day Weekend this past weekend – I had Thursday and Friday off to sew. I didn’t get much of anything done because I’ve had so little to work on. Today is also the 5th day in a row I’ve woken up with a migraine. I mean, my medicine takes care of it in like 15 minutes,…
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updates & whatnot
I haven’t gotten much of anything done this past week, I’ve been super lazy. I was off work yesterday and again today to work on stuff, but hardly got anything done. I did make this. Really using my time wisely. We did play withe Worbla. And I dyed my chiffon for my cape, although I think I’m going to re-dye…
