Somehow last week I used up my entire month's internet data allowance in 4 days - I think something in the background was constantly refreshing and as I was home sick my netbook was on and thusly byebye data.  I have 5Gb and 2.7 went on a Kickstarter steampunk episode that I forgot to download in December.  Silly me!  though the other 2.3 just went ( Read more... )

last year I tried to not buy fabric.  [Cue: guffaws of laughter]

The reason that's hysterically funny is that I got 130m of fabric in 2012. I've done a good discard of some unuseable fabrics, and made a couple of high yardage costumes, so with the used +discard that comes to more, that is 153.1m.  Though that's a little bit of a cheat, cos that ( Read more... )

wearing my HK facemask on Saturday made me want a hello kitty steampunk costume for Ironfest .... which is the weekend after JAFA. I already have a public lecture to attend on the Monday evening ...by actual engineers about trebuchets. How awesome is that. I'll be in Lithgow on Friday evening. 3 nights does not an entire costume make, not with my ( Read more... )

I finally looked at my photos since JAFA, and I managed to wear a grey ribbon (for the shadow that zombie plague casts over society)

( Read more... )

Oh my, the long range weather forecast for Lithgow (the other side of teh Blue Mountains) for this weekend is a high of 11 or 12C & a low of -1C (with OC being freezing point).

brrrr

Cos I'm going there on Sunday for Ironfest. This year the theme of the festival is "Steampunk", so I'm wearing my lobster bustle, this time with a fur hat & leather ( Read more... )

My post from yesterday had even me wondering what I was thinking.  A comprehensively ambitious plan, considering I'm not the most productive costumer. (Mind you before I had some health problems I was a prolific sewer of clothing. So it is possible for me to do it).

I decided to break down my 2011 plans into the new, the half done & needs finishing ( Read more... )

FEBRUARY
Hoping to organiser a georgian picnic for early February.   At the end of the month is Armageddon Expo, so 2 costumes to wear at that. May be new, may be re-wears

MARCH
There's a zombie shuffle and I'm planning to zombify my Star Trek costume. mwah haha  Not sure if the aussie release of Jane Eyre will be in March, but if I get the chance I'm ( Read more... )

I'd be riding to the Jane Austen Festival with different couple of horses for each day.  But as they aren't not only do I not have the pretty ponies, I don't have any new costumes for 2 weeks time.

I was hoping to have recovered much more by now, and to have spend a couple of days this weekend sewing my heart out on a new ball dress, in a gorgeous ( Read more... )