merida
Below you’ll find my blog posts mentioning my Merida (Brave) costume, which I made in 2015.
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this is halloween
Whoo! It’s been a busy few days! First up, we finished the new tombstones! Gravestones? Headstones. What is the best term. I like Tombstones best. And we got some lights for night time. Thursday was the Pink Palace event. After work I decided I had time to take a quick nap before I got ready. Took my nap, went to…
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merry christmas
Do I already have a christmas tree up? Why yes, yes I do. It’s officially Christmas time in our house. First up – here’s the house Halloween night: I had brought the dressform downstairs with Sarah on it to take a video in front of the fireplace, then set it up in our front window. Fireplace: We actually had a…
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good morning to everyone except covid-19
I had a dragoncon dream last night. It was dragoncon 2021 and I was so relieved they still had the convention despite coronavirus. And then I woke up sad. Chase and I took Friday off work and went to early vote. I feel like I’m the only person on social media without a cute mask. I’ve made a couple of…
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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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2015 Year in Review!!
Maybe the morning after Star Wars isn’t the best time to do this. I went to bed hours after I normally do and still had to get up at 6:30 for work today so I am beyond fuzzy. BUT I realized I hadn’t done this yet and got all excited to type up the post, so here we go, fuzzy…
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MCFC!
We went up and checked out MCFC Saturday! We had a leisurely morning and did a quick white backdrop shoot with Merida while my hair was fresh out of the curlers. It ended up being a yucky, cold and rainy day. I added my black cape to my costume and had to layer up a bit underneath the dress. And…
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Weekend stuff!
I got Merida mostly finished! I got the eyelets set into the neck with Chase’s help though I cut one opening too big and after a freak out spiral I ended up having to go back and wrap each eyelet in embroidery floss to fix it, but in the end it looks good and there’s no visible metal eyelets, so…
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More Merida – I made a belt!
So last night I had to wait until Chase got home and we were done with dinner so he could help me get the box of leather scraps – they were on the top shelf with a bunch of stuff in front of it. But once he did I was so happy to find not one but two scraps of…
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More Merida Progress
This is becoming much more involved than I had intended it to be… but only because I’m so pleased with it. So the other day I realized I had a great blue/green scarf that would look really nice as part of the sash. I hate to sacrifice it to the costume gods (I bought it on our 2012 Disney trip……
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Merida progress
I worked on getting Merida mostly finished this weekend. Here she was on Friday: I had to get the other sleeve made and finished – I had all the pieces cut, so I figured it would be fairly easy, but it wasn’t. I had a hard time getting them to look the same and be even – I need to…
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Sleeves!!
So yesterday morning I had a little migraine and I took my medicine and ate my breakfast and usually after that, everything is cool. Well the medicine didn’t do anything and all morning it kept getting worse and worse. I hadn’t brought any more medicine with me because usually one dose is enough to at least last me through lunch.…
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“Little” Merida
Some more progress on the “little” Merida dress. I keep calling it that in my head, it’s not really little… just, it’s not serious. So it becomes little Merida. The bottom hem was rolling up and exposing the crushed velvet right side. I thought that looked kinda neat. So I pinned the hem on the outside. I like it! I…
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Random Stuff
Hey! I’m behind on posting. Here’s what’s been going on lately. Last week I made a dress for a friend for Halloween! It’s not a great picture of it. The main part of the dress is a really neat, heavy matte knit that I really liked working with. My only issue was that I didn’t have the best needle for…
