sdcc
Below you’ll find my blog posts and photos about our trips to the convention San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, CA. We attended this event in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
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SDCC 2006 Funny
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while! Just a random story to share. Here’s a photo from San Diego Comic Con 2006: This was our third and last Comic Con, and the only one Chase went to. I took my Stormtrooper armor to wear to the 501st photo – only my second time wearing it. Chase had his brand new…
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Why I don’t go to Comic Con
today is Mulan dressed up as Megara. This one is not my fav, it was hard to get the colours of Mulan’s main dress to work for Meg’s dress. So I’ve watched friends & folks struggle with hotel rooms for San Diego Comic Con this past couple of days. WOW. I’m so glad I wasn’t trying to get a room…
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Mando updates, and SDCC pics
When you starting dreaming about your costume to-do lists…. well, it’s just plain silly. Yesterday I focused on stamping and almooooost got the thing done. Chase still won’t let me show the secret. But here’s a few other pics I took over the weekend. Stitch’s nose fell off after the Big Scoop. It was inevitable, it had just barely been…
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What is this, I don’t even
So I heard back from the manager today. They’re removing the charge, but it was charged to me because “someone who was supposed to be in my room didn’t show up.” W…T…F. After they put us through all that trouble showing our IDs and whatnot… I’m still not happy at all with the way I’ve been treated at this hotel.…
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when the marriott kept pulling stunts
Even more fun with the marriott in san diego! Yesterday I discovered an additional $80 charge from the Marriott Gaslamp in San Diego on my debit card. This was charged on saturday, almost a week after I had checked out. We called today to see what the charge was for. I knew there was no damage to the room, we…
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More on the hotel drama
I’ve run into even more drama with the hotel in san diego, but instead of clogging up my costuming journal with it I posted it over at my blog. Things are trucking along. I got the first of my fabric for the handmaiden – I’m going to start on it tonight. I’m hoping to have the major part of it…
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Padme Lake dress wrap-up
Whew! A quick trip down memory lane. My first & second versions, in 2002 for Dragoncon, and 2006 for MidSouthcon: My first version, I still very much love it and wouldn’t get rid of it for anything, but as time went by I realised more and more how inaccurate it is, and really wanted to remake it properly one day.…
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Mustafar Padme wrap up
First and foremost: I’ve got to do the hair differently next time. I didn’t pull my hair tight enough, and I need to leave my bangs down in the front a bit (even though I know that’s not how hers is, I just prefer to have my hair like that). Otherwise… The whole costume was wonderfully comfortable! 😀 I’d like…
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Comic Con 2006 Roundup: Everything Else
And as for my costumes that weren’t new… here’s how they did! Animated Leia: I know you all know I was squeeing like mad when I saw Gentle Giant had a huge version of the animated Leia at their booth! So first thing thursday morning was to hop over and get pics with it! I was stuck there for some…
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Rogue wrap up
All in all, I was very happy with how Rogue turned out! However I am planning to redo one certain element: I’m going to cut the arms and legs of the blue suit off and permanantly attach the gloves and boots. I don’t like how you can see a tint of the blue through the single layer of the boots…
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Well kids
Well folks – that’s it for San Diego. This year was no exception, and I’m tired of the stress involved with traveling out there. So that’s it, this was more than likely my last Comic Con. Besides the snafu with the hotel (which was the MARRIOTT GASLAMP for those wondering. I did get a call from the asst. manager after…
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Hello from Comic Con 2006! (Again)
For the first time ever… I got called “Vader” while wearing ANH Leia today. I’m about to go upload a few more pics – just the ones from yesterday morning – in my flickr account (see the link in my previous entry). I’ll work on some more of them tomorrow. Yesterday morning I wore the new Lake dress… it went…
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Pics from Comic Con 2006!
Here’s more pics! I didn’t take many today – we were busy! I was very excited last night to see Gentle Giant has a giant Animated Style Leia outside their booth!! So that was my first place I wanted to go this morning. I ended up being stuck there for nearly half an hour with people taking pics. It was…
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hello from sdcc 2006!
We are here in San Diego! Our flight was smooth – getting into the hotel was not. I’m not going to go into it all, but the kicker was them sticking us in a room with only one bed – and we have 3 people. I called and asked why (because I had just called the hotel monday to confirm…
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Nearly there
The X for Rogue is done. She’s packed… The Padme brooches are done (although the casting didn’t work; we’re going to try it again after the con, so I’ll be wearing the sculpey ones there) and packed. Lake dress is not done. It’ll have to go with me on the plane. Yesterday was NOT a good day. I won’t go…
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when i made a bingo game
And, in other news, I have either lost a cap or a really big filling in one of my teeth. It doesn’t hurt at all, I noticed after dinner tonight, I realised when I ran my tongue over that last tooth in my mouth it felt… not right. Like the middle of my tooth is missing. I certainly haven’t swallowed…
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Fabric & SDCC 2006 Schedule
My main brooch for mustafar padme is almost done; I’m a bit stuck on doing the little flowers on the sculpey. Everytime I tried to just carve the shape it ends up not looking right. I got tired of thinking about it yesterday so I haven’t looked at it since. I went to the fabric store friday – got my…
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when we made extra sdcc plans
Well, Ash and I have decided not to go to Legoland in San Diego next month; it’s too far away and too expensive. Instead, I realised the Hotel del Coronado is very near there. I’d love to go see that! I think we may do that that wednesday afternoon before preview night. If not that, I also realised the Salk…
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SDCC 2006 Prep
Now that COSI is behind me, here’s what I need to focus on for Comic Con: Vader Chase has pretty much got everything done. The pants still need some tweaking, I need to hem his cape, and get the shirt started. The shirt won’t take long (at least I hope it won’t). Now that he has his shoulder armor I…
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SDCC 06 Tickets
Got my Comic Con plane tickets yesterday! yahoo! 🙂 Hooray for tax returns! LOL Also; I bought a new camera. A Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT. I’m so excited about it! Wonderfest will be it’s first event. Yesterday we worked on Chase’s dragoncon project, and I did a bit on one of my Mustafar Padme brooches, but she is pretty…
