tfa blue dress leia

Below you’ll find my blog posts about my General Leia (The Force Awakens) blue dress - as of June 2017, this costume is in-progress.

  • what a weekend
    Blog,  costumes

    what a weekend

    So it was a weird weekend. I didn’t get much done, costume-wise. I had Friday off. Luna was SHOCKED when I walked out of the bedroom at 9AM. Like, “Wtf are you doing here?!” “Seriously go away you are ruining my groove.” Friday I went swimming and finally got to break in my new WW swimsuit. The top could use…

  • a dye test
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    a dye test

    Last night I re-did Mon Mothma’s sleeves because I realized I’d done them a little wrong – thankfully nothing difficult to fix. I don’t feel like figuring out the necklace thingie D: I am lazy. I don’t want to do any crafting. I just want to sew. NO CRAFT ONLY SEW So since I didn’t feel like messing with that…

  • Yeah, go to Jackson, go comb your hair
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    Yeah, go to Jackson, go comb your hair

    Spent the weekend in Jackson! Had a great time. Friday night we just picked up dinner and ate at my grandparent’s which worked out great because I was able to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race (I thought I’d have to wait til I got home Sunday). Played some battlefront with Chase, he hated it. But at least he played. Saturday we…

  • hulk smash
    art,  Blog,  costumes,  disney fanart

    hulk smash

    I am getting SO frustrated with USPS. The last two small things I’ve ordered — my tablet glove back in March, and now my fabric swatches — have both gone missing. The tablet glove made it to Memphis and then just disappeared. After 3 weeks Amazon refunded it (not like it was expensive to start with)… and then it finally…

  • meanwhile back
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    meanwhile back

    Hi! I actually did costume stuff this weekend! I am here to tell you about it! But first let’s start with Friday. Both Chase and I worked a half day Friday – why? Because Chase’s documentary Finding Tobey had its first screening that night!! He has been working on this for FOUR YEARS, and it’s finally done. We decided to…

  • OMG
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    OMG

    Ok so here is a super random-a-little-bit-of-everything post since I have various updates and news and a few little things that don’t deserve their own post so I’ll stick them here. First and FOREMOST…. So yesterday I’m just working away at my desk and I get a fb notification on my phone. So I look at it and… I WON…