random sewing
These posts include sewing or crafting that doesn't really fit into any of my other tags.
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it’s the 2024 costume wrap-up post
Finally! Ok as usual let’s start with what I SAID I wanted to make in 2024 at the end of 2023, and see how I did: 1. Honeymoon Leia – YES! This was kind of a given considering it was mostly done when I made this list in December 2023. 2. Star Wars Cruise Dress – YES! Turned out so…
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a day late and a dollar short
Well more like 2 days late but at least I made it over here to post. Not a lot to talk about this week but I do at least have new photoshoot pics to share. Last shoot was my 3 retro style dresses plus Pirate Ariel. Like I literally do not care that this is made of parts of other…
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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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i can see clearly now
I’m not 100% done… still have one very important thing to finish and one thing i want to do if I have time… but I have finished the dress and the bags and the magnets and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. So of course I sewed alllll last week. I was honestly feeling a…
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watch out for snakes
Well I am back on track but really feeling the time crunch. My fabric and interfacing all finally came in and I dug into the bag project. These took longer than I thought; it took about an hour and half each purse just to sew them into the frames — mostly because I had so much trouble getting the needle…
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snowmageddon – the revenge
Well I didn’t expect last Monday’s snow to completely wreck my entire week of sewing, but it did. I was expecting 2 shipments of interfacing – 1 of a lighter weight for the bags and 1 of a medium weight for the Star Wars dress. And as I mentioned in last week’s post, I ordered a couple more yards of…
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snowmageddon
I just realized I didn’t post last week. I don’t think I had anything to say LOL Not much has been going on. The head cold I had over New Year’s came BACK with another round of stuffy nose and drainage. Bleh. It started snowing yesterday and hasn’t stopped! This morning: And the amazing part… no ice! I can’t remember…
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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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its finally fall!
It finally got a little chilly here. Went outside yesterday morning to get some catgrass for Luna and it was COLD! I’m normally a summer girlie but I’m ready to wear my hoodies. (I’ll be ready for summer again by december LOL) Let’s start with sewing updates — I started on my Stevie top. I thought I’d get this in…
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spooky scary skeletons
It’s finally FALL YALL I finished getting the inside mostly decorated. I still have a few more lights to put up and I plan to put one of my dressforms in the front window in a spooky costume again. Thinking about using my Edith costume with my Donna Noble runaway bride veil for a spooky bride look? Gonna wrap the…
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meet agent dale cooper
Saturday I said goodbye to my old Honda Fit… And said “HELLO!” to my brand new mini cooper! OH MY GOD it’s so cute I can’t stand it. I’m currently sitting with naming it Agent Dale Cooper and calling it “Coop.” I did also test drive the larger countryman version, and it drove pretty much the same, but at the…
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im great at doing stuff
Sorry I’m a day late! Chase just sent me the pics he took of my Valkyrie costume Saturday last night so I wanted to wait til i had those to post. But before i get to Valkyrie let’s rewind to last week! First up look at all this fabric I donated! I was able to give all of this to…
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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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the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
Not much in the way of wedding dress Leia progress this week – the only thing I did was sew the 2 back panels together and gather the upper edge. Yes that’s all I did in a week. Why? Because I decided to complete clean out and clean up my sewing room instead. Avoidant behaviour. Last week I posted a…
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vacation happy to get away
I’m back from vacay and feeling…tired and anxious LOL So let’s start with the sewing update since there’s not a lot to that (since I wasn’t sewing this weekend obv) Like I said previously I’m making this Leia dress in 2 pieces – dress and cincher. I just think it will look best. Last week I got the basic interior…
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im tired of my winter clothes
We get one nice day and then a storm blows in and makes it cold again. Had to wear a sweater to Easter. Can’t remember the last time I had to wear something warm on Easter. Like the title says, I’m really tired of my winter clothes at this point and I’m ready to move on to shorts for a…
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2021 Wrap-Up
omg hi I haven’t posted this week. I was trying to wait til I had all the new photoshoot pics uploaded, and now that I’ve got them I’m like… augh I haven’t done my wrap-up post for this year! So I’m doing this first instead of a regular post and I’ll do a post about Christmas next. So at the…
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no time off for good behavior
October has really gotten away from me. Here it is less than a week from halloween and I still haven’t even finished decorating. We have made good progress on the tombstones for the yard though. Here’s one with the text dremeled out: And painted up: Chase glued the stands on this morning, so they should hopefully be ready to go…
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now dont close your eyes and dont try to hide
Fall is finally here, I’m bundled up in the baja sweater I got in arkansas, sweatpants, house shoes and a big blanket today. It’s a bone-chilling 57 degrees out right now LOL. Speaking of the baja sweater, I have realized I am slowly falling back into my 1995 fashion of over-sized XL fandom tshirts, hoodies and baja sweaters. If I…
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here we are again
Another week of fresh hell. I’m so tired of this timeline. But in good news my parents are getting their vaccine today and we have our second shot scheduled for this Saturday. Yay, I guess. I mean I’m glad to have it but the doom-loving news just keeps telling us that nothing will ever be back to normal even with…
