queen amidala
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my Queen Amidala (Star Wars) Parade costume, constructed in 2005.
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looks like somebody has a case of the mondays
Good grief I can’t remember what I posted last week except that sad dog, I’m going to have to go back and look to see where I left off…. Ok. Now I’m on track. Last week I said I was going to dye that silk on thursday well I did it Monday night. I put both my excess fabric (meant…
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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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Photoshoot Stuff!! Part two
I got the rest of my photoshoot stuff uploaded over the weekend! First up is Bespin Leia. Some thoughts. I took the length up of the tunic a bit for the photoshoot but it created too much fabric at the waist/belt-line and looked sloppy 🙁 I think I just need to take the whole thing apart and go back to…
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Queen Amidala’s Parade Dress Hair Tutorial Part 2 – The Hairpiece!
So a couple of years ago I did a tutorial on how I did my hair for my Amidala Parade costume. I used my own hair, just put into little buns, teased, and pinned in a certain way. It wasn’t perfect but it worked OK. I have been playing around with the idea of making a hairpiece for AGES. I…
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John Williams Tribute!
This weekend we got to do a really fun event – the Memphis Symphony Orchestra was doing a John Williams tribute and invited us out for it. Friday night we went up to the rehearsal to get an idea of what they wanted us to do. For each Star wars song they wanted a related character or characters onstage. For…
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a hairpiece!
So as I mentioned earlier I’ve been trying to put together a hairpiece for my Queen Amidala costume. This is something I’ve tried to do for ages — finally attempted it in 2010 but gave up. So here we are again. Trying to make a hairpiece for a 12 year old costume. But if I can make this work it…
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a weird weekend
I made a to-do list friday, let’s see what I accomplished… Amidala: 1. Clean the dress. 2. Redye the lower petals. 3. Remake or fix current tiara. 4. Make a new hairpiece. Bespin Leia: 1. Shorten the tunic! 2. Fix my pleating. I guess half isn’t bad. Friday is when I got most of that done. I hand-washed the dress…
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a to-do list
I have a to-do list even though we’re on the wrong side of the convention, haha. But I have a few things I need to get done over this weekend — I’m doing an event in Amidala next weekend, so she needs some attention. And while I have it on we are going to do a white backdrop photoshoot, and…
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A few more Jackson Generals pics
Chase gave me his pics! Man I love how my Amidala costume looks from the back. As I mentioned elsewhere I’m amazed at how this costume has stood the test of time. If I’d left the edges of the petals unfinished, closer to how the actual dress looks, it would have long since frayed into oblivion… the serged petals are…
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Craziness
Let’s start on Friday. Friday after work, we loaded up the car with costumes and Kevins and drove up to my grandparent’s house in Jackson. Had a quick dinner with them (which Kevin enjoyed because he got spaghetti) then back home for the evening. Saturday we got up, went and had breakfast, did a little running around. The bookstore up…
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Busy weekend
So this weekend was crazy. As I mentioned last week, we were prepping the house for new floors! Yay! The flooring came in Friday and dad came over to help us get it in the house. It needed to sit inside our house for a couple of days to acclimate. We had already pulled up the carpet in the hallway,…
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FAQ Friday: Amidala’s Parade Dress Hair
Today I have a tutorial to post! I’m planning on wearing my Queen Amidala parade dress soon, and it’s been YEARS since I wore it (late 2005 was the last time I wore it with long hair; 2010 with short hair), so I figured I needed to practice the hair since it’s been a while. Back in 2005, my hairstylist…
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Dressform Pics
Here’s everything so far. I’m only missing 3 actually so maybe I should have waited, but our server is down at work and I’m bored. Belldandy and Urd from 2003 and 2002, respectively. These two costumes have really stood the test of time. I knew Belldandy was in good shape since I wore her to Momocon earlier this year, but…
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MTAC 2010, Trooping, Photoshoots… etc!
(This post may seem a little repetitive – this was ported over from my livejournal and recapped a lot of stuff I’d recently posted on my blog. Now that my LJ posts are part of my blog, it’s very redundant!) A recap of recent costume-y stuff… MTAC came and went and we got stranded there an extra day because of…
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WSMI Huntsville 2010 Recap
It’s been over a week since I last posted!! Been busy. Working on getting stuff ready for Huntsville this past weekend! Huntsville was half awesome and half sucky. The sucky: My mom fell in the driveway before we left and sprained her wrist, my dad got some kind of bug bite on his arm that got continually worse throughout the…
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WSMI at COSI 2006 Pics!
Since I did the Wonderfest post over at my other journal, I’ll do the COSI one here! A strange crew on the falcon… Friday! Ash and I left Chase’s apt and took a cab to the airport. The cab showed up 20 minutes earlier than it was supposed to, so we got to the airport waaaaaaay early. Flight was uneventful,…
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Wonderfest 2006 Pics!
Well, I’m back from Wonderfest. Unfortunately I didn’t get to go to the Ren Faire as I woke up sick on Monday 🙁 But we decided to definitely go next year, and to go earlier in May when it’s cooler. Anyway here’s pics and new costume stuff: Chase and I drove up Friday night – it was an easy drive,…
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2005 Year in Review!
I ran across my original 2005 costume list on the Jedi Council boards, did I get it all done? I said I’d do: -Padme ep 1 Parade gown Done! Besides the Princesses, this was my biggest project of the year, and the one I worked on longest. I’m still quite proud of it -Qui-Gon Jinn for my father Done! It…
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when i found random photos
I finally put batteries in the little camera yesterday, to take a pic of my finished Belle costume, and I found some old pics on the memory card I don’t think I ever took off. Indy asleep!! Awwww. My Amidala petal cape in progress – I was pinning them on here! At this point I thought I had enough, but…
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Revenge of the Sith Event Pics! And Plans
Jupiter isn’t going to be ready for A-Kon. Why? Because it’s about two weeks til A-Kon and I haven’t bought a single thing for it. Which wouldn’t be a giant problem except I got so much left to do on Yuuko, there’s no time to worry with Jupiter. 🙁 Oh well – I’ll do it for MTAC next year! Speaking…
