princess leia
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Princess Leia (Star Wars) ANH costumes. I have made four versions of this costume - a quick version in 2002, a version in 2004, my very long lived version from 2006, and my current version from 2018.
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post-dragoncon dump
I may not be in the best mental place to be writing this but I need to do it before I forget everything. 24th Dragoncon is done and in the books. We left before dawn Tuesday morning. Before After Parents first time at Bucee’s! Check-in was smooth. The news of Taylor and Travis’ engagement broke just as we were pulling…
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islands in the stream
Busy weekend! Lots to talk about. Let’s do the weekend events first! Saturday we met Ash and Gabe for Midtowncon and lunch. I had been planning to wear my TOS uniform all week, I even decided on a new hairstyle (one of my fav things about that costume is the fun of getting to play with different hairstyles), made a…
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oh my god
I did not post last week… AGAIN! Well I didn’t have much to talk about so it’s not like anyone was missing anything. I’ve been having to go to the doctor every dang week, excluding the week to disney, and it’s really starting to fray my nerves. They’re trying to get my blood pressure under control before surgery later this…
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champagne problems
Wow! After weeks of nothing much to post about, I finally have a decent amount of stuff to post about! First here’s a couple of Chase’s pics of my Wanda at Zooboo last weekend. And my parents! Monday I got something in the mail I’d been waiting on for QUITE A WHILE! This is the RS Propmasters Boushh helmet, I…
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Fall For Costume – The One Costume Edition
1. Introductions Every year in October I do the Fall for Costume challenge, which always has a lot of fun prompts for posting different costume pictures. This year it wasn’t vibing with me and I gave up on it last week, the prompts just weren’t doing it for me. I’m still checking the prompts each day to see if it’s…
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well im still here
I was supposed to finish up moving my site last week but I still haven’t done it. I mean all the content is moved I just haven’t repointed the domain yet. I guess at this point I’ll try again tomorrow and for now go ahead with my weekly post… otherwise I don’t think I’d ever get around to posting this…
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so long 2019
and good riddance! This year has been a doozy. I’m ready to start 2020 on a good note. I did post last week but it was just my year in review, so I gotta dig back and see where I left off. Let’s separate this one into chunks instead of going day by day. 1. SEWING! I’m starting with sewing…
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im trying my very best
This is going to be me this week. Because my boss is off at the trade show I usually go to also, so I’m captaining the office this week. And stuff always goes bonkers when she’s not here. I’m ok with the trade-off though. So I actually didn’t get to get a lot of sewing done last week, because we…
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walking the children in nature
what a week! I am a permanently exhausted pigeon. Since I last left off, Scott got in Tuesday! Chase took the rest of the week off so the two of them could go get in to trouble and just hang out. Meanwhile I still had to work and was up at 5:30 every morning so I could work extra to…
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this week is a test of patience
Well this weekend was weird. To start off with, last night, I woke up in the middle of the night totally confused. We have a clock in our bedroom that shines the time up onto the ceiling. We haven’t changed it since daylight savings so it’s been an hour behind. I woke up at one point and was like “it…
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killing it (gently)
GUESS . WHO . FINISHED . THE . JACKET . LAST . NIGHT ! Well ok it’s not 100% finished I still have to do the button holes and buttons and steam it but the worst is over. Well, the worst of the jacket. I still have the terrifying pants to START ON. But before I get into all that…
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incoherent screaming
Oh my GOSh I have so much to post about since last week. SO I have posted about this on social media at all because I DON’T WANT TO JINX IT. But we saw a house last Wednesday and loooooooooooooooooved it. We made an offer on Thursday. They countered on Friday and Friday evening we accepted their counter. So we…
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scraps
I didn’t post yesterday because I didn’t really have much of anything to post about. So I gathered up some various scraps of photos and things to cobble together a post for today. Chase was out of town this weekend so I mostly just cleaned up the living space, organized some stuff. Played some video games. Went to Joann Saturday…
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Leia debut/updates, art, the usual
FIRST AND FOREMOST…… Chase and I took the last big load of my costume stuff out to my parents last Monday night. And… I GOT IT ALL IN THE CLOSET Guysssss… that is like 80% of my costumes all shoved into one closet. I mean I can’t GET to anything, but i can’t believe I got it all in there.…
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A 4 day weekend…
Ahh gosh I don’t remember what I posted about last time. Last week was mostly working on the Leia I was making for a friend. That’s my new one on the left, hers on the right. I got it finished up on Thursday – and now I want to redo parts of mine, LOL. Namely that I made the dress…
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80s Murder Mystery, House stuff, Leia progress
Friday night we had a birthday party to go to! And we were going to be playing an 80s Murder Mystery game, so we had to come as our characters. I was “Toni Oregano” who had 1 hit with “Hey Dickie” and who also ran a mogwai rescue. LOL. Chase was “Nork from Pork” who was on a popular tv…
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The Last Jedi
Site updates: Patreon Print Store is live. I been waffling about where to list all of my costume/art prints I’ve been saying I’m going to list for ages. And then it was finding the time to individually list them all. But then I realized, hey I need stuff for my new patreon. Let’s just make them all a patreon reward…
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2017 Year in Review
It’s that time of the year again… time to see what I accomplished this year, what I didn’t get to, and what I did instead of doing the things I said I was going to do. So last year I said my goals for 2017 were: 1. Georgian Belle – as I said above, finish it up for Visioncon. Did…
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Sci-Fi Night, Leia progress, etc
It’s the usual post-weekend Monday update. First up! Saturday night we went to Sci-Fi night with the Riverkings. When they say “take a silly picture” I never know what to do LOL It was fun, Chase wants to go to another game just to sit and watch. Which brings me to Leia updates…. This was probably the second-to-last troop for…
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More Leia progress, and an ambulance
So yesterday morning was a little weird. I was on the ramp getting off the interstate on my way work, sitting in a line at the light waiting to turn left. I heard an ambulance siren…. look around try to see where it’s coming from. Turned out it was coming up the ramp behind me, but I was 2nd in…
