Today's Groupon is for 50% off either $40 or $100 worth of fabric at Skyline Fabric Warehouse.

STOP TEMPTING ME, INTERNETS.

You Guys.

I was at the fabric store today picking up some purple stuff for Elrond and...

All the 50" duppioni silk is on clearance for 70% off.You guys. Seriously. WHAT SHOULD I MAKE ( Read more... )

I need a fabric-based project to work on. Working with metal and vinyl and fiber clay is fun and all (HA HA HA yeeeeaaah...), but I miss sewing stuff and making regular fabric costumes. So I need something else to work on when I take a much-needed break from Gil-galad's never ending spray glue ( Read more... )

For all interested parties, the Sons of Fëanor costume group is now recruiting for ALEP2 ( Read more... )

Chatting with undomiel_sila the other night, I decided I need to make one more new costume for ALEP2 in September. You know, in addition to the two I already have planned ( Read more... )

This is not holiday that's really celebrated around these parts at all, apart from in Mexican restaurants, but any excuse for a tequila drink, right? And some office in my building must be celebrating, because at this morning's fire drill I saw a dude in a suit wearing a straw sombrero and carrying some donkey pinatas ( Read more... )

Screw you, Black Swan.

I went to see that movie last night and didn't even like it. Unfortunately, I really liked the costumes. Really liked. So that was why last night at 11 pm I was digging around in bins of costuming crap trying to find my ratty old pointe shoes. I'd be better off right now if I couldn't find them. But I could. Shit. And ( Read more... )

I took some more pictures of my DCon costume progress this afternoon, and most of them came out looking like ass. But I'll post em anyways because I don't have anything better to post.

First of all, the crown I made out of crap jewelry I either found or bought at one of those teen girl mall accessory stores!

( Needs moar beads! )

With about 90 days left until DCon, it's time to get serious about making all the crap I have planned. The sewing table is piled with craft supplies (spray glue, Model Magic, puff paint), there's a hoopskirt draped in silk on my dressform, and I can't walk across the living room floor because it's covered with pattern pieces, fake suede, and ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was helping my cousin make some party favors and stuff for her daughter's 5th birthday party next week. Her daughter wants a medieval princess theme party, so there's going to be an archery contest, shield painting, and a dragon pinata. We also thought we'd make some veils for all the little girls to wear so they'd feel more princessy ( Read more... )