nadja
Below you'll find posts about my Nadja (What We Do in the Shadows) costume I made for Dragoncon in 2023.
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dragoncon persists
Well I’m back from dragoncon. It was a weird time. Good? But weird. I felt off the entire time. I did a really bad job at taking pics of my costumes and I’m kicking myself for it now. I also had a ton of plans for videos and didn’t do any of it. It was like I only had a…
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im not sick but im not well
Another weird week. Didn’t go out for New Year’s – that’s not new, we haven’t gone out in years – but we also still didn’t have Christmas because half the family is still covid positive. My mom finally tested negative this morning. Last week we had Cath & family staying with us for a couple of days. We really need…
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2023 Costume Wrap-Up
All rightie it’s that time of the year when we compare last year’s to-do list and see what I got done. At the end of 2022, here’s what I said I wanted to accomplish in 2023… 1. Finish Wedding Leia — YES! I did finish wedding Leia! 2. Rebels Leia — YES! I have been saying I was going to…
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The not NY Post
So like I said, I didn’t post last week, just didn’t have much to say and we were busy getting ready for the trip. Not a lot happened out side of trip preparation, so I’ll just touch the few highlights. First off I got sick as soon as we got home from NY Tuesday night. I was up all night…
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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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the final frontier
So I know it probably doesn’t look like I got a ton done this past week based on how few pics I have to post this week… but I did! It just wasn’t on the exact things I wanted to work on LOL I ended up getting stuck on the Breha vinyl pretty much the whole week. Didn’t start legitimately…
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its boots day
Last part of my Nadja costume arrives today – my boots! Yay! I could finish Nadja in a couple of hours at this point – 1. Finish and sew on sash 2. Sew on hook and eye at back 3. Sew hat onto the headband But I’m now knees-deep in Breha construction so it’ll wait. My goal is to have…
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happy june
It’s June which means we are now FULLY into Dragoncon mode. But first Kevin’s room. I talked about the trim colour last week but I took this pic with the swatch of the colour and I SWEAR how are these the same? They do look closer to each other in non-direct light, but here in direct light in the window…
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card declined
I love having to get a new debit card because of the “potential” it could’ve been leaked and having to go through and update my card everywhere. You never guess every single place it needs to be updated. Woke up this morning to a message that my card had been declined on a subscription I’m currently on, never even thought…
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oh hai mark
I don’t think I mentioned it in my last blog post, but my great-uncle passed away last weekend. He was 102! I didn’t post yesterday because we had his funeral. It was a long day. But we’ll get to that later. I got as much done on Nadja as possible while awaiting my next fabric shipment. The upper skirt is…
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its the most wonderful time of the year
I had an instagram story memory pop up yesterday that this time last year I said “dragoncon season is officially starting for me today.” That made me feel really good because I have a huge head start this year compared to last. Rebels Leia is nearly done, and I’ve got a good chunk of Nadja done now too! So yeah…
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you know its not the same
I’m just going to start at the beginning of my photos from the last week and work my way through them. First up – my Nadja swatch arrived and looked good finally! I think I finally got the stripe sizing good. So I got my yardage ordered and hooray it was on sale – it was $50 cheaper than I…
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may the 1st
It’s dad’s bday today! We went out for dinner Saturday night to a new korean bbq place. It was ok. Not like the one we had in NYC. I don’t have a lot of costume progress to show this week. I’ll chat about it at the end. New pin for the collection! A friend gave us some irises back in…
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dragoncon ahoy
Ok now that Huntsville is behind us, it’s time to focus on Dragoncon and the costume progress I’ve made in the last week. So let’s get back to Rebels Leia… Got the sleeves on, and a neckline facing added. Pants time! Decided to do the same thing I did with Wanda last year and use the lower half of a…
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emotionally compromised
Yall Picard season 3 is SO DANG GOOD I don’t care if it’s fan service. It the perfect kind of reunion nostalgia we should have gotten with the Star Wars sequel movies and now we can never have because Carrie is gone 🙁 Anyway. last week I worked on the Nadja mock-up: I felt like the sleeve and upper bodice…
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waffle house
So my white stretch suede for Rebels Leia came and I am… not enthused. It’s actually a really beautiful fabric with a nice drape. Just waaaay thinner than I thought it would be. Just sticking it in the stash for something else in the future. I’m being soo picky about Rebels Leia fabric because I really haven’t worn anything skintight…
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eyes without a face
I’ve had Eyes Without a Face stuck in my head all morning and I have no idea why. Before I dive into sewing news let’s talk about the generic life stuff. Ice storm last week, again. Fun. Saturday things were cleared up and warmer so we went out to run some errands and also checked out some places we’ve never…
