Between Saturday and Sunday (but mostly in a mad rush on Sunday), I finished up the last of the trim on my Red Riding Costume. I still need to properly sew down that side of the border, hem the cloak, hem the skirt, open up the sleeves a bit, and add that dern fake bow to the front of the blouse, but all of that is super easy. I'm planning on doing ( Read more... )

We closed The Music Man last night. It was a lovely night, our best show yet. I took another vacation day to recover. After sleeping in until a shameful hour I spent a couple of hours editing the Shakespeare Thing and sending query letters (one of the queries got rejected nine minutes after I sent it. That's enough to bring on the warm fuzzies ( Read more... )

I finally had a chance this evening to assemble and take a photo of my River Song costume so far, having acquired the shoes and sunglasses within the past week.

You might want to find something to hang on to.

My first blog entry to officially chronicle my Red Riding Hood costuming efforts:

The Tale of Rose Red, Part 1On the writing quest front, I didn't send out any queries this weekend, but I did get four copies of my latest manuscript iteration printed and bound from a print shop. This is for the great NYC Litmus test (WHICH IS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS ( Read more... )

First, an introduction to my new sewing machine, Sandry, here at my costuming blogSecond, I forgot to mention the other day (as I had intended when I premiered the Pabu icon) to announce that I'm discontinuing my Korra/Mako tag series. It turns out the fic-writing impulse was mostly "Korra is finally starting!!!" high, and I haven't really felt ( Read more... )

Last day of April and I completed the entire A-Z challenge on time! Also, this morning my sewing blog passed 10,000 hits!

Final batch:

W is for Walker, Sarah

X is for Xari

Y is for YoSaffBridge

Z is for Zotah Zhaan

In other news, I got three more query letters sent off last week. I was hoping to finally get some summaries written over the ( Read more... )

Almost done with A-Z entries!

T is for Tonks

U is for Umbridge

V is for VelmaI've ended up changing more letters from my original list than I anticipated. Today's list is a prime example. U was originally supposed to be Uhura, but as much as I like her, OST uniforms are pretty easy to come by in the wider costuming world, and from that ( Read more... )

The dress is done!


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Yesterday in Ohio it was probably high 70's low 80's. A super gorgeous afternoon. Today it's about 40. Gotta love it. Ah well.

It's been quite an emotional couple of days. I've been celebrating with grav_ity, who got some super huge good news ( Read more... )

Costume blog:

P is for Padmé

Q is for Qorra

I'm only up through "R" so tonight I really need to do some catching up!