lady jessica
Below you'll find posts about my Lady Jessica (Dune) costume I made for Dragoncon in 2022.
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dont lose your head
Well. What a week. Last Monday was HVAC install day. Our front yard with all the old stuff was a disaster area. They were here for nearly 12 hours that day. The new ductwork takes up SO MUCH more attic space 🙁 I could just barely fit everything back in. I had just cleaned this space and our closet spaces…
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Dragoncon 2023 – the costume recap
Ok so to keep my Dragoncon recap free of long paragraphs about costume minutiae, I decided to just make a separate post. 1. 18th Century Barbie Like I said in the main recap post, it was really nice to get to bring this costume back after it had such a disastrous debut at Dragoncon 2015. Literally I nearly had a…
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Dragoncon 2023 – the general recap
Well another Dragoncon has come and gone. It was a good year and somehow I didn’t come home feeling like absolute crap? LIke my feet are still sore and my little toes are still slightly numb but otherwise I don’t feel as exhausted as I usually do. Anyway let’s recap it all…. I can’t remember if I posted our badge…
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photoshoot pics yay
Well it took me longer than I thought to get the rest of these cropped and uploaded but here they are at last. Started the shoot with Dapper Leia because I wanted my “real hair” costumes to go first. I forgot to do any pics with my sunglasses but not too upset about it because I really didn’t like the…
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no resolutions
I generally don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore, but I saw somebody say their resolution is to “pet more dogs” and that’s what I’m going to use from now on if anybody asks about my new year’s resolution. I didn’t post last week which was not great because now I have to try to remember everything that happened Christmas weekend.…
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2022 costume wrap-up and 2023 plans
I want to do my wrap-up today instead of a regular post. I may still do a mini update post later today. So as usual let’s start out by seeing what I said I wanted to make in 2022 back in December 2021. 1. Finish Utena – YES! 2. Lady Jessica – YES! 3. Padme’s Packing Gown – YES! 4.…
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its the dragoncon post
Ok let’s get this thing over with! Wednesday morning we were up before the sun, headed over to Ash’s house to pick her up. This was absolutely the tightest packing job we’ve ever had… That’s my purple duffel bag shoved in sideways in the front, which resulted in my (somewhat pricey) makeup remover spilling everywhere. Thankfully I keep all spillables…
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and we’re back
This morning was the first time my feet HAVEN’T hurt going up and down the stairs in our house, and I’ve regained feeling in the little toe on my left foot. Unexplained bruise, scrape on my ankle, and spots of eyeliner i still can’t get off are still hanging around, along with a non-stop migraine I’ve had since before dragoncon.…
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it’s dragoncon week sir
T minus 2 days and… we are done. Chase was going to do one more little detail thing to his Leto armor but decided not to. We are at that point. I had one more little beaded chain thing I should have added to Jessica (the part that goes around the fingers on the sleeves) but I was like eh…
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living in the material world
Here we are again, another Monday of Dragoncon progress and nothing else to talk about. Seriously we’re in con crunch mode now so neither of us have done anything but eat, sleep and work on dragoncon stuff. I was mostly churning out the Jessica headpiece. Here’s what I started with. It’s built around a headband with kobracast and worbla parts.…
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what in the walmart
Coming down to the wire. I’m in much better shape this year than I was last year but still have a few major hurdles to get over in the next 2 weeks. Out of curiosity I had to go look at where I was this time last year and… uh, yeah I’d say I’m still in a slightly better place…
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hey macarena
Well here it is, Monday again. 3 weeks and some change until Dragoncon. In the realm of things that are annoying me currently — I realized about 2 weeks ago that I only put in for Thurs & Friday of dragoncon to be off, somehow I missed the Wednesday. Not a big deal, I went in and added it… but…
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my fair luna
Today is starting off great with multiple problems at work after a relatively quiet (aka no problems) couple of weeks. Why do things come in waves like this? Anyway, I won the Lucky Seat lotto to buy cheap tickets for My Fair Lady at the Orpheum. Mom and I are going and I’m mostly excited but also mostly anxious because…
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that was legitness
So where I left off with Jessica last week was I was pretty close to get it finished. I had to tweak that sleeve pattern once more. But as I kept working on it I was really unhappy with it. The darts I’d had to add just looked awful, the sleeve openings were too low and droopy looking and everytime…
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late nights in the middle of june
Hey I actually got a good amount of stuff done this past week. I finished hemming the Jessica veils, and then I got the dress pieces cut: It’s been kinda hard this past week to show any progress of this on IG, because I’m trying to avoid putting pins in it so I never had the panels pinned together until…
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why am i here
Well my old desktop computer has once again decided it’s not going to connect to the internet so I’m back on my laptop. Blah. I hate writing my blog entries on the laptop. I kept working on my Padme sleeves last week. And I came to the conclusion that this poly charmeuse doesn’t hang right. It’s just slightly thicker and…
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its dragoncon season
We are one day away from June and fully into Dragoncon season now. I finally feel like my brain has “switched over” and it’s not a fight to go make myself sew. I’m gonna go over the non-costumey stuff first so I can get it out of my photo feed — First, last week Chase surprised me with some new…
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shocked pikachu face
Well hi I don’t really have much to share this week either, though I do feel like I got a lot done. I’m just at the point of both costumes where I’m still in the planning stages for a lot of it so I don’t have much to SHOW. For Packing Padme, I got in my lining fabric for the…
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i dont even know why Im posting this week
I really don’t have much of anything to post. But I’m here anyway. I did get the site updated last week – new stuff added to the portfolio/costume pages. Also discovered that when I added my Utena page back in february I apparently linked it to the 2007 Utena instead of the new one. I’ve still been feeling like a…
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you gotta fight for you right to party
So what did I do this past week? Well first I finished off the Marvel outfit. I apparently don’t have a “finished” photo and I’m too lazy to walk the 15 feet to take one so use your imagination. The elastic came in and I got it finished up. I meant to put it on this weekend and take photos…
