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Hama-con Saturday Review
Here are my thoughts on Hama-con 4. I had some expectations going it this being that it is year four that a lot of the lessons learned from previous years should have led to this year being pretty good because they are no longer a "new" con. Lets face it year 1 a con is trying find it's way. Year 2 you fix the failings of year 1. Year 3 you do ( Read more... ) -
Alabama Phoenix Festival
I am fully aware of the lateness of this report therefore I apologize for the lateness of it. /swt2 Now that business is out of the way on to business ( Read more... ) -
MTAC & Full Moon Tattoo Horror Convention Post Con Review
Before I begin chronicling the events of this past weekend, I would like to point out that attended two conventions this weekend. In addition to MTAC, Full Moon Tattoo and Horror convention happened in the same venue this weekend. As the name indicated it was a tattoo and horror themed convention. MTAC had part of the 1st floor and 2 to 3 floors ( Read more... ) -
3 Sewing Days To Go
Oh yeah I'm feeling the stress. So lets recap on what left top do ( Read more... ) -
11 Days and counting... backwards
OMG OMG OMG OMG! My Arda wigs have not arrived yet. I was stuck in this situation because the wigs I originally needed are on back order till April. So I changed my costume 30 days out. AND ordered my wigs 30 days out. But we all saw how that turned out. Yeah a hot mess. So not I'm in a tissy ( Read more... ) -
The Good, The Bad and the Annoyed
This past week has been ups and down. Good. Arda's epic wig sale concluded and I got what I need. However, everyone and their cousin placed an order as well. This overwhelmed their very inefficient shopping cart system. End result: taking forever and a day to get will shipped. Think as of this weekend they are up to order # 9602. Which is good ( Read more... ) -
25 Days and counting... backwards
It seems there is never enough time but I need to put my head down and persevere. Well wig avail issues cropped up so in the 11th hour I had to post pone my costume and start on a new one. Yeah... have NOTHING on hand for it. So I hit up Arda and ordered what I needed. Actually got a 3rd one today @_@.
As of now I've spent a crap ton of time ( Read more... ) -
Measure thrice, cut twice
Measure once cut twice as they say in the sewing world. Nuh uh. For me it's measure thrice, cut twice because in costuming land we all no there are no real exact patterns in existance for most of our creations. Therefore its all a trial by fire type of existance we lead. I will tell you I am now going to have to cut thrice. Well I did some ( Read more... ) -
Angst of a Determined Costumer
HAPPY MARCH! (that was random)
Well it is quite evident that I've been away from the form or social networking for a while with the random update here and there because I've be tediously working away at problem solving since say November. Yes kiddies. Sometimes you have to start MONTHS in advance to work on mock ups and inventing neccessary ( Read more... )
