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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FAQ Friday: Princess Leia Hair Buns – Method #2
(2025 addendum: this method is no longer what I use to do the buns. Head to my Bun Tutorial page for some more up-to-date videos on how I do the buns now.) I’ve had this FAQ written for AGES but never could find the time to add the photos. One day it posted by mistake, sans photos, so I deleted…
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Luke & Leia
Mooooooom how come Luke gets a lightsaber and I don’t??
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Then & Now: Leia in 2002 and 2012
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FCBD and May the Fourth
This past weekend we went up to Jackson for two events! Free Comic Book Day at Books-a-Million, and Star Wars Night with the Jackson Generals. We stayed friday through sunday with my grandparents, which is always fun. I was hoping they’d get to come out and see us at the baseball game but unfortunately the rain kept them home! Anyway,…
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it’s a foreign film
Leia and the Balloon
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New Leia pics
Did a quick photoshoot this weekend and got some new senatorial Leia pics on the white backdrop. There are a few more on my smugmug page, and I’ll add them to my Leia page soon.
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365 Project – Padme Cut Senate + More Redbirds Pics
today’s princess is… Padme. Shocker, I know. I got Chase’s pics from the Redbirds game, and I also nicked a couple that the Redbirds team sent to us. Here’s my fav from the Redbirds: And Chase’s… We just look like we’re having a nice conversation LOL Vader throwing the opening pitch, and me walking out onto the field…. I just…
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Redbirds Troop pics
Last night we did Star Wars night at the Memphis Redbirds’ baseball game. It was a lot of fun – more than I expected! We took pics with guests and Darth Vader threw out the opening pitch. We set up right in the middle of the opening area of the park – we posed for about an hour before heading…
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Grizzlies Game Troop pics
Chase sent me the rest of the Grizz game pics, here’s a few of them! With some of the Grizz Girls… Giving high fives to Boy Scouts backstage… Going down? Chase caught the moment one of the troopers scared the elevator operator by putting his hand on her head LOL Checking out the troopers LOL With Grizz staff… Everybody on…
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Pic from our Grizzlies Star Wars Night troop!
Chase hasn’t sent me our pics yet, but here’s a group shot from Bill. Now, I’m gonna go hem this monster of a skirt.
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SWIC Promo at Memphis Grizzlies Game
Tonight was SO fun! We had a good turn out 🙂 We spent about a half hour out in the front lobby taking pics with people as they came in. After that we hung out in our locker room during the first half, watched the game on the tv in there (they brought us tickets if we wanted to go…
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Star Wars Summer Camp Pics
My cousin is the head of a summer camp and has for the couple of years had me come out for one of their theme weeks in costume (last year did Wonder Woman for Superhero week and Belle (and Stitch) for Princess week). This year she had Star Wars week, so last week I went up as Leia to talk…
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Hogwarts Robes finished + photoshoot!
Secret project is FINISHED! I’ll try to post pics tomorrow before we leave. I took these pics a while back, when I bought a new backdrop – I want to try to put together a nice book of some of my costumes, eventually. (Sort-of, to use a portfolio – I’ve got a nice setup for my artwork, but nothing for…
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Christmas Parade Pics
Well first and foremost, I am cruising on my secret project. And having fun, it’s ended up being pretty simple. I hope to have it done by this weekend, and to do a photoshoot then. Here’s some more parade pics! All of these photos were taken by Dragon. And THIS was when we managed to get way, way behind the…
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501st Christmas Parades!
Friday night, we managed to cram 4 people and 4 costumes into the car and hit the road to Jackson, where my grandparents live. Chase was going to go see a band with my cousin that night there in Jackson, so Ash, Kevin and I curled up in the living room and watched movies. We went to bed pretty early,…
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March of Dimes event pics!
Well first off – the hotel messed up the rooms, and the March of Dimes people came over and straightened out as best they could – we ended up with a big suite for all of us. It was pretty nice! I wish the Marriott had something like that for Dragoncon that wasn’t like, you know, $5000 a night or…
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ZooBoo Pics
Memphis ZooBoo was LAME compared to the Nashville zoo. We basically just wandered around, got free ice cream sandwiches. Chase got some attention, a handful of photos with kids, but I might as well have been wearing normal clothes (I was in Leia, since it turned out too cold and drizzly last night for WW or Belle) We had fun…
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Make a Wish Troop & Padme Pics!
WOW!! The Make-a-Wish event in Clarksville yesterday was awesome! The event was supposed to be from 1-3, we ended up staying until 4 because there were SO many people there, still waiting in line to get pictures with us! I couldn’t believe how many people showed up — we raised almost $1400! I didn’t take many pictures, but here they…
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Princess Leia & Han Solo blasters!
So, most of this time, this puppy is going to be displayed next to my MR Leia gun (don’t know how just yet) — and when it’s not looking pretty on my wall, it will hopefully be part of a future costume of Chase’s…. 😉 Don’t they look nice together?? LOL
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2006 in review
At the beginning of the year I said I wanted to do: 1. Hoth Leia 2. Darth Vader 3. Padme’s Lake dress 4. Bespin Leia 5. Finish Yuuko 6. Padme’s Funeral Dress 7. Wonder Woman 8. The Bride 9. White Witch 10. Dorothy 11. ANH Leia 12. Team Zissou outfit So what did I finish? Hoth Leia? Yes, plus Bespin…
