Well here we are, it's monday again. And it's been another week of panicked flailing around for something to do to work on while dragoncon stares me down in the horizon. I spent pretty much all of last week doing little repairs on older costumes and what not. I fixed my broken Arwen necklace, finished sequining my Dorothy shoes (I started on that in 2006 then stopped halfway around a heel. ...
remember how I called a post a couple of weeks ago "lost weekend"? Well I take that back. This was it. This was the lost weekend. Ugh! I was so excited to have a 3 day weekend and get a lot of costume work done. I ended up being so stuck that by Sunday I didn't do ANYTHING. We ending up binging the last 3 episodes of The Queen's Gambit (which I ...
So I have been getting. stuff. done. So I had 4 costumes in mind for dcon this year. Let's just go through the list. 1. Padme (and Bail) No progress here since last week on my end - still waiting on my fabric swatch for the pleated sections, and switched gears and ended up not experimenting with the applique stuff. I was going to start on the Bail pants, but did other ...
Yall it has been a CRAZY week. I'm still not fully recovered from Friday. What was Friday, you ask? Well let's start at the beginning. I'll do some bolded titles so you can skip past the long bits if you don't want to read them. Enjoy some weird pics of Luna after I threw some money at her while I tell my picture-less story. A Broken Back and a Nasty ...
Ok so Disney is over and normally my brain would automatically switch into dragoncon mode but this year, it's not. 2020 totally effed up my natural brain rhythms. I am trying to get myself back into a pre-dragoncon mindset, but neither my body nor my brain is ready for it. I'm still physically tired from disney. I'm finally over my heat rash and my face seems to be slowly clearing up (...
So I'm still doing my little project of going back through old pictures and uploading new versions. I thought I'd share some of the more interesting ones, including some I've never had uploaded in the first place. Here's my fourth lake dress that I made in 2008 - I've only ever had 3 pictures of this costume uploaded, though we took about 25 pictures all together. Unfortunately the bulk of them were blurry ...
I figured I'd better go ahead and make a decent post about the weekend before I start to forget LOL Thursday morning we managed to get out of town on time, even after going to Starbucks! Yay. Check-in at the hotel was crowded, it gets more crowded every year, more people tend to come in early these days, I guess. It took 2 bell carts (as usual) to get us inside, ...
I finally finished digging out the megacon pics Chase missed. Here's the smugmug set. The new pics start at the little boy dressed as Link. I'm just going to post 2 of them, because they're of Kevin. Here he is in his ebay jedi Luke costume again. I need to take it up and find him some better fitting boots. I put so much hairspray in his hair to keep it ...
What I accomplished in 2008 (and what I didn't, LOL) Well it was weird year for me, costume-wise, because the first part of the year was eaten by my wedding, both financially and time-wise. I was still attemping to work on stuff - to make things that were easy, or that I already had material for. I think after the wedding and our move after everything kinda got settled I tried ...
1. Giselle I was really pleased with the updates to Giselle. An hour's worth of work turned it from a costume I really didn't care about to something I was really happy with. I actually wish I'd tossed it on on Monday at the con as well. I might wear it sometime at Halloween if it's not too cold out. 2. Black Canary This costume was SO freaking comfortable! I really fell ...