liberty dies padme
Below you'll find posts about my Padme Final Senate Appearance/"Liberty Dies" costume (Star Wars: ROTS) I made for Dragoncon in 2021.
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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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huntsville con report!
Hey look I actually titled a blog post what it’s actually about. Yeah a couple of days late with this. Wanted to gather up all the pics first including the ones from Chase’s camera. So Thursday I get off work and go to take a nap and as I lay down, I get an idea. And I have to go…
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2021 Wrap-Up
omg hi I haven’t posted this week. I was trying to wait til I had all the new photoshoot pics uploaded, and now that I’ve got them I’m like… augh I haven’t done my wrap-up post for this year! So I’m doing this first instead of a regular post and I’ll do a post about Christmas next. So at the…
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what year is it??
I think I mentioned last week we’d been having internet issues? I can’t remember. Was having issues UPLOADING mostly, downloading was fine but — for instance on friday? It took TWO HOURS to upload a tiktok video. Geez. We’d have occasional internet blips too, wi-fi would stop working for a few seconds, maybe a minute, and then come back. We…
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Dragoncon Part 2!
Ok I was hoping to have this post up last week, but Chase had a lot of trouble exporting the photos and I was only getting them in chunks. I think I’ve got all of them now, or at least, most of them. Might be a few more stragglers. Besides uploading pics, last week was absolutely crazy at work, and…
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back to fake life
I started to title this “back to real life” but I realized doing something normal like going to Dragon Con is real life. Going back to the day-to-day of the last year is the fake life. So — Dragon Con was actually pretty great. I had my reservations, as you may have noticed in the last post. But the low…
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crying wont help you praying wont do you no good
oh hello. Can you even believe it’s dragoncon week? I can’t. My brain isn’t registering it. Still not done with everything. Still chipping away. Well Padme is done. I got the 3d printed buttons glued onto bases, painted and attached. Here they are before any of that. And I finally finished up the wig. Although once I finished it, I…
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its dragoncon week
I blatantly stole this from the dcon fb group. The BIG news is that I finished this effing skirt. It’s all sewn down. I really pushed myself to finish this ASAP, in fact, I’m SORE today from the weird contortions I had to make while sewing on the upper level. So the timeline of the physical making-of the floral skirt…
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im worst at what i do best
I love how I had an extra YEAR to work on these dragoncon costumes yet here I am finishing everything up last minute and half-assed. Literally all last week, if I wasn’t at-work-working, eating, or sleeping I was working on these floral pieces for Padme. Last week I said it was about half scissors and half hot knife – well…
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thats me in the spotlight
T minus 2 weeks and 2 days til dragoncon. How did it sneak up on us so fast?? You know things are bad because I haven’t packed “the old stuff” yet. Chase and I are trying to quasi-quarantine before the con, only going out when necessary. We’ve both still got hair appointments in the next week, and we’ll have to…
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high strangeness
Here we are beginning the last week of July. It’s not a great Monday as it is, I have a migraine and 2 conference calls today which means my brain is basically saying “no” to any other work. I swear a call may only be an hour long but my brain is like, we have to build in an hour…
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big if true
Oh my god we’re in the second half of July now. I am feeling the PANIC set in, mostly about Padme. My fabric for the gathered sections came in on tuesday and I’ve spent every day since then working on getting that done. Finished them up Saturday and then Sunday focused on finishing EVERYTHING else. I think the real one…
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dragoncon updates
I know I just posted yesterday, it’s dragoncon season, I’ll post as much as I want. I came up with what I think is my finalized line-up. So let’s go through ’em, because I was finally able to order a ton of stuff yesterday and I have a better trajectory than I did in yesterday’s post. 1. Wanda Got my…
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mama mia
Well here we are, it’s monday again. And it’s been another week of panicked flailing around for something to do to work on while dragoncon stares me down in the horizon. I spent pretty much all of last week doing little repairs on older costumes and what not. I fixed my broken Arwen necklace, finished sequining my Dorothy shoes (I…
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hey remember how
remember how I called a post a couple of weeks ago “lost weekend”? Well I take that back. This was it. This was the lost weekend. Ugh! I was so excited to have a 3 day weekend and get a lot of costume work done. I ended up being so stuck that by Sunday I didn’t do ANYTHING. We ending…
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you say the ocean’s rising
So I have been getting. stuff. done. So I had 4 costumes in mind for dcon this year. Let’s just go through the list. 1. Padme (and Bail) No progress here since last week on my end – still waiting on my fabric swatch for the pleated sections, and switched gears and ended up not experimenting with the applique stuff.…
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lost weekend
What a strange few days it’s been. I’ve still been having an off and on again migraine the past week – it’s getting old. I’m hoping I’m over it as of today – woke up feeling ok, but there’s also storms/pressure change coming through today, so who knows. First up, Luna is… Luna, I guess. Chase brought her home from…
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you got some stones to mess with me
Well hi here we are again with the increasingly regular mid-week update. So Monday the mobile vet never called us, which was disappointing. And by Monday night Luna hadn’t peed in her litter box at all during the day so we knew there was some kind of blockage going on and we couldn’t wait on this mobile vet, so Tuesday…
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when it rains it pours
So hey remember how last week my grandma broke her back, I had to spend a very awful night with her in the hospital, and then my laptop died? Well we are apparently in a “season” because in the week after all that, I got sick, Luna got sick, and the AC in my sewing room went out. Today I…
