wedding leia
Below you'll find posts about my Princess Leia wedding dress (Star Wars) I made for HSV Expo in 2023.
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im not sick but im not well
Another weird week. Didn’t go out for New Year’s – that’s not new, we haven’t gone out in years – but we also still didn’t have Christmas because half the family is still covid positive. My mom finally tested negative this morning. Last week we had Cath & family staying with us for a couple of days. We really need…
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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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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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Dragoncon 2023 – the general recap
Well another Dragoncon has come and gone. It was a good year and somehow I didn’t come home feeling like absolute crap? LIke my feet are still sore and my little toes are still slightly numb but otherwise I don’t feel as exhausted as I usually do. Anyway let’s recap it all…. I can’t remember if I posted our badge…
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one week remains
Well not quite but it’s close enough. I’m in good shape. Here’s a random pic I took of the jedi Leia tunic last week just for IG. No updates here. Got a new button cover kit last week, so I replaced Padme’s cuff buttons for a 3rd time. Please I never want to do this again. Luna supervised. Finished all…
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t minus 2 weeks
Work is really trying my patience. I’m soooo ready to go. I need a break from work, a week out of the house. Well of course, I don’t really have much to post about since I’m pretty much DONE. I’m just gonna go through this weeks pics one at a time in no order. Ok so first up let’s talk…
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Wedding Leia photoshoot!
Ok here it is! I didn’t put these in my weekly post earlier today because it was already really long and I felt like these deserved their own dedicated post. Took these Sunday before last at my parents’ house. Same place we shot Ewok Leia back in 2007 — but for Ewok Leia we actually went into the woods and…
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you know its not the same
I’m just going to start at the beginning of my photos from the last week and work my way through them. First up – my Nadja swatch arrived and looked good finally! I think I finally got the stripe sizing good. So I got my yardage ordered and hooray it was on sale – it was $50 cheaper than I…
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may the 1st
It’s dad’s bday today! We went out for dinner Saturday night to a new korean bbq place. It was ok. Not like the one we had in NYC. I don’t have a lot of costume progress to show this week. I’ll chat about it at the end. New pin for the collection! A friend gave us some irises back in…
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huntsville con report!
Hey look I actually titled a blog post what it’s actually about. Yeah a couple of days late with this. Wanted to gather up all the pics first including the ones from Chase’s camera. So Thursday I get off work and go to take a nap and as I lay down, I get an idea. And I have to go…
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do you or do you not feel bonita
Let’s jump right in – my undergarments for my star trek dress came in Tuesday! Yay! Unfortunately did not fit. Boo. Ok so the cincher is just a little bit big and doesn’t seem to do anything, I think I should have sized down, but I’ll just take up the back seam, nbd. But the bra… ok so the bra…
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a change of scenery
I was not feeling my WFH office today so I’m camping under the dining room table. Change of pace. Not much sewing progress to share this week. But! My undergarments for my star trek uniform are arriving today! Here’s hoping I hear the delivery person so I can sign for it and I don’t have to wait another day. I…
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i feel stupid and contagious
Nothing like having an unusually busy day at work, feeling like my brain is being pulled into 15 directions, and our neighbors decide to fire up their 2 gas-powered leaf blowers. My brain feels like it’s going to explode. I just had to go find headphones and block out the noise so I don’t go mad. So anyway, the last…
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superb owl
oh hi there Leia is pretty much done. I sewed down the support ribbon in the center back, finished sewing on the swirls on the lower sleeves, and i finALLY tried it all on to mark off where I need to cut and attach the ribbon belt. I haven’t done the belt attachments yet – that will be tonight. But…
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eyes without a face
I’ve had Eyes Without a Face stuck in my head all morning and I have no idea why. Before I dive into sewing news let’s talk about the generic life stuff. Ice storm last week, again. Fun. Saturday things were cleared up and warmer so we went out to run some errands and also checked out some places we’ve never…
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kill the headlights and put it in neutral
Guess what! I actually come to you today with sewing updates. It’s not a LOT to show but I did get a good amount done and it’s making me feel good about at least having the dress done by next weekend. Note I said dress, not costume… lol I FINALLY got the back floral pieces cut. That’s kinda why I…
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adventures in old costumes – again
Hey if you saw my photoshoot post from Friday you might have seen me mention I wanted to do another photoshoot day while everything was still set up… Well we’re doing it this weekend. What am I shooting? First up – HILD! I’ve had Hild on my list to get shot for a looooong time because in the back of…
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no resolutions
I generally don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore, but I saw somebody say their resolution is to “pet more dogs” and that’s what I’m going to use from now on if anybody asks about my new year’s resolution. I didn’t post last week which was not great because now I have to try to remember everything that happened Christmas weekend.…
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nope
Not a lot to talk about this week. Last night I did officially finish all the hems on wedding Leia but it doesn’t look any different than last time I posted it so I haven’t taken a new picture. But it means tonight I can start working the ribbon trim on which I’ve been looking forward to. I also need…
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a day late
Well I was gonna do a small post yesterday after posting my year-end review, but didn’t get around to it, so here it is today. Not a lot to talk about but wanted to mostly give a wedding Leia update. Last week I got the sleeves hemmed and also cleaned up the inside of the sleeves. That took about 2…
