dragoncon2016
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our 15th trip to Dragoncon in 2016. We only went foro ne day this year. This includes planning, costume construction, photos and trip reports. For this year my new costume was Lillian Gracey, the Haunted Mansion Tightrope Walker.
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Dragoncon Pics Part 2, Tightrope Walker Updates
Chase sent me over his pics he took at Dragon Con – not many, but got some nice ones of my Tightrope Walker. Getting ready in the room (standing up after putting my shoes on, looks like): Trying to fix that one weird pleat before we took photos: Full length: I’m not so sure I like this photo yet I…
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Dragon Con Photos Round One
We’re back!!! Ok so I don’t have much to share in the first post. But it’s enough to recap Saturday at least. Friday I took off work, finished packing, cleaned the house, went for a swim: Tiniest Dragoncon load EVER. Saturday morning we loaded up the car and were on the road by 6 AM. We got into Atlanta right…
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Argh
When I’m stuck at work and everybody else is at Dragon Con Ugh! I’ve been totally OK with it up until today. Seeing everybody arriving and missing out… I thought Friday would be the tough day but no, it’s today. I repleated my Tightrope Walker skirt last night. Went faster than I expected. I got my suitcase for Disney repacked…
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The Disney and the DragonCon
I haven’t posted much lately… haven’t had much of anything to post! Went to my grandma’s for the weekend. Came back Saturday just to go to the Ren Faire with friends (I said I’d do it… I did it)… this time I wasn’t messing around. No attempt at curls, just a ponytail. Much better. Threw my flower crown I got…
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Ren Faire, boredom, and packing
I’ve never had free time in August. It’s so weird. I was actually bored this weekend because I had no costumes to work on. And we had time to go to the Ren Faire Saturday! Unfortunately we totally picked the wrong day today. We were torn between Sat and Sun based on the weather, but Sat ended up working better…
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Monday again
Happy Monday 😛 It was a busy, yet not busy weekend. Friday night I sewed on a skirt I’ve been planning to make for our next Disney trip – just now getting to it. Saturday morning I did an event at our local Bricks & Minifigs store for their 2nd anniverary, it was a lot of fun, they had a…
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Finished?? Maybe
Wednesday night and last night I worked on the new shrug. Got it finished up last night: Besides being a bit smaller, I also opted to line it in the same black taffeta I used for the bodice lining, instead of two layers of the velveteen. That helped cut down on the bulk a bit. I also interfaced the collar…
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Finally done with the wig
After curling and recurling the side ponys like 12 times I finally settled on some curls I like. They still stick out a little too far, and I messed one of them up (cut the elastic off by mistake, ugh), but I think at this point I’m sticking with them. And I finished remaking my shawl but I have no…
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mondays
ugh! it’s monday again. Starting to feel sad about not being at DragonCon Thurs-Fri. (Not really so much Sunday because usually by Sunday I’m ready to go home LOL) I think it’s because I’ve been looking back at old pictures a lot recently and feeling nostalgic for “old” DragonCon. I’ve been wanting to do another “look back” post… I might…
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Ugh at least it’s friday
So you know Monday my car had to have 2 new front tires and an alignment. Got that done. Today I went to leave for work, and my battery is dead. Wouldn’t take a jump. Chase had to take me to work and then I had to beg a ride from mom since I’m off early today. Last night we…
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what a weird weekend
On Friday, I got a new dishwasher I had a major panic attack at the dr, didn’t get to have my checkup, got sent away in a wheelchair with a prescription for xanax On Saturday, I had to buy two new tires for the Fit I celebrated not one but TWO 65th wedding anniversaries Went to a Harry Potter party…
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A little bit of everything
I have 3 topics today. 1. The Flipping Dishwasher Chase and I have been without a dishwasher for over a year. It gave out last year… Chase tried to fix it but it was shot. (It was pretty old. Came with the house.) We FINALLY went shopping for a new one 2 weeks ago, picked one out at Home Depot…
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ugh monday
We had a nice weekend, spent Friday evening-Sunday morning at my grandparents. I also FINALLY got Snapchat to work with an animal face: A few weeks ago Mema was ironing and ran outside for something or another… the cat knocked the iron over onto the floor and caused a lovely burn mark. They are having to get new tile put…
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Work, work, work
Wednesday night, I focused on getting the sleeve mock-up finished up: Pretty happy with the shape. Somewhere I have a bag of tulle I want to stuff them with but I didn’t have the energy to look for it. I also got the trim along the neckline quickly sewn on, though last night I went back and tightened it up…
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Playing with sleeves
I was going to work on the shawl last night but I didn’t feel like it… instead I dug out some leftover pink lining to start looking at a mock-up for the sleeves. Beyond cutting them out and pinning them I didn’t really do much more than that. I trimmed up the shape of the second one, but of course…
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More Tightrope Walker progress…
My little weirdo snuck in my office the other night and was in fur heaven. I had to kick her out when she started trying to eat it, though. I didn’t get to do a ton of sewing this weekend. Saturday was move day for my grandma. After my Pawpaw passed last year, we got her into an assisted living…
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Furry
A couple of weeks ago we got some new hardware from Comcast/xfinity – the box it all came in turned out to be Luna’s favourite thing. I put some towels down in it and she just hangs out in it sometimes. I went home for lunch yesterday and she was sleeping in it when I walked in. All the cat…
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Some more progress
I think it’s starting to look like something. I got the skirt panels sewn together last night — nothing fancy there. Just pinned them onto the form over my petticoat to see what they were looking like. It’s too long but I cut it extra long so I’d have plenty to work with. I’m thinking I maaay have to make…
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Woooow I sewed some stuff
I’ve had a cold since I got back from Disney, and on top of that had a migraine come on Saturday… ugh! Despite that I actually got some sewing done over the weekend! Saturday I got over to Joann’s, hoping to find fabric for the bodice of my Dragon Con costume, and failing that, I figured I’d get the white…
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The Agony of Dragon Con
I call this, “The Agony of Dragon Con”
