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I hate you USPS
Last night I finally got into the groove of pleating those yoke pieces and actually knocked out the last two pieces. HOORAY! But I don’t have a picture of it. Instead I’m just here to update you on my spoonflower fabric’s journey across the United States. Yesterday it left Wisconsin and arrived in Cleveland, OH in the afternoon. It left…
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Weird
So Friday I went and got my haircut, and he also cleaned up my Donna wig for me, and forbade me from every putting scissors to a wig again, LOL. I had to go home a funky way, because of awful construction mess on the freeway. It was rush hour and even my back way was slow going, probably took…
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what
Just had a moment at work where I was trying to remember what year it was. 2014? That can’t be right. It can’t be 2014. Oh my God, it’s 2014.
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FAQ Friday: Renting Costumes
Today’s question is… Can I rent/borrow your costumes? I’m mostly answering this question so I have a post to point people towards when they do actually ask this – usually around Halloween, or people asking to borrow/use my costumes for Halloween parties/events, or fanfilms, photoshoots, etc. I’m going to try to be as nice as possible in this post so…
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Random thoughts
So, pretty much all the time I’m wearing a costume dress or skirt, I’ve probably also got shorts or pants on underneath it. Or, sometimes, for whatever reason, wearing jeans or something over a superhero costume. Exhibit A, B, and C: And for whatever reason, guys tend to want to comment on this in a condescending, snarky way. (I haven’t…
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Weirdness
Strange coincidence. Or maybe not? All I can guess is strange coincidence. Hotel for the convention I’m going to tomorrow calls me on my cell phone yesterday. I didn’t answer since I didn’t recognize the number, but googled it afterwards to see who it was. No voicemail left. That wouldn’t be all that unusual except I don’t have a room…
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Halloween is one week away…..
Do I have time to rush-make a complete costume for your Halloween party? You’ve waited til exactly a week before Halloween to ask, and you want it for 1/10 the price of what I would charge even IF I did commissions? Oh, so now you’re asking to borrow one of my costumes? So, overall, the answer is…
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I tried to sew with my feet and it didn’t work out so well
(recap: July 2nd I caught the side of my foot on a broken, bent sewing needle stuck in my carpet in my sewing room. 7/6 went to the dr and was put on antibiotics and got a tetanus shot.) So my foot got a ton better last week. I had finished the antibiotics Wednesday, and by Friday I was walking…
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blurb = FAIL
So. I made & ordered four photo books through blurb.com as christmas presents. All wedding photos, nice hardback coffee table books for my parents and grandparents. I had it shipped to my parents’ house, as I always do (less chance of someone walking off with it than at our house). I warned my mother not to open it when it…
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oh, ups!
So one day last week at work, none of the folks who normally accept our deliveries from UPS or Fedex were there yet when UPS started banging on the door. So I had to go do it, which I hate doing, but that’s another story. The driver was friendly, he chatted about basketball and the weather while fishing our packages…
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wow
Ok, saturday was seriously the weirdest, craziest, most insane day in my life, EVER. To preface all of this, the past several weeks at work, including this last one, have been insanely busy, as in I’ve been staying an hour late (sometimes more) and getting home completely exhausted. Some nights we don’t even get to go home, because we’ve been…
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WHAT
We got a shipment at work today… which did not belong to us. It was a shipment of about 20 boxes of pantyliners, and one pregnancy test. We had Kevin take up front to our one other male employee and tell him his shipment was here.
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Surreal
So um I just got an email from myspace saying, “Kelldar the Destroyer would like to be added as one of your friends!” Um, that’s ME, why would I be friending myself? I followed the link and there was no friends request from Kelldar the Destroyer. Freaking surreal, man, maybe somebody up there is trying to tell me something… like…
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WTF
Amazon finally sent my copy of Hot Fuzz. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS
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Interesting Night
We’re house-sitting/Kevin-sitting for my aunt and uncle again this week, just for a few days… got there from work yesterday afternoon, and after being online for about 10 minutes, the internet went out. That’s happened at their house before, and it’s come back after a few minutes, but not this time. It never came back. It was still out this…
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when my leia shirt got me in trouble
Ok so get this! I went up to mum’s school today to have lunch with her and meet her students this year. When you get there you have to sign in and put a name badge on and all that kind of stuff… well when I went up to the front desk to do so, the receptionist was telling me…
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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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when i was creeped out
Oh and um, ew. Apparently this dude my mom knows through the theater saw me on TV in my Padme costume back when ROTS came out, and I guess he heard that that was my mum at the theater or something. Well apparently he had asked her to introduce us, and she knew he wasn’t my type, so she didn’t…
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when somebody remarked on my bossoms
HAHA, omg, I love elfwood sometimes. “I think that if you draw your bossoms it would make better art. i think that you are lovely and I do mean it” BOSSOMS!!!!! Not bosoms. BOSSOMS! HAHAHAHA!! Who the hell even uses the word bosom anymore, besides 90 year old ladies?! OMG I can’t breathe for laughing. I had a thought last…
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stupidity!
I’m glad Ash has been here tonight to keep me cheered up… here’s some random stupidity that happened tonight. For some reason, out of nowhere, while we were looking at references of one of the Arwen dresses I’m making this year, I said, “What if Steven Tyler had played Elrond?” The idea cracked us up, so I made this. Is…
