December 24
Merry Christmas to everyone! I added a shirt I made last night to the Not Quite Costumes section. I made it to wear for Christmas so I figured I'd add it today. Have a great Christmas and holiday season!
December 23
I finally updated the River page with pictures of the boots which I have painted and a new sweater I bought for the costume. I'm still working on the skirt.
December 2
Well, it's December and I have no updates to share. I've been slacking on the costuming front because of school. Once exams are over and Christmas break is in full swing I plan to be costuming up a storm. Hopefully there will be actual updates within the next two weeks.
November 21
Updated the River Safe page with the boots I bought on ebay. They are the coolest boots ever!
November 5
I updated most of my finished costume with more professional looking photos of my costumes. Check them out.
October 28
Violet Baudelaire is finished and updated! I moved it to the completed section. I also created a page for the River Tam costume I made because I am insane. Wow, I'm done with all my big costume projects. Onto the next ones... hmmm, now what should I make?
October 17
Updated Violet's page again with today's progress. I also made a new page in the completed section for my Blue Sun shirt.
October 16
I updated Violet's page, the main part of the bodice is done! Now onto the sleeves...
October 3
I am horrible. I haven't updated in over a month. School has kept me extremely busy, and I am slowly but surely progressing on the Violet costume. It needs to be done for Halloween, and so it shall be. I'll get progress pictures up soon. I promise.
August 16
Updated progress on the Violet dress and the Elizabethan corest.
August 9
I'm back from Germany, now back to costuming!
July 25
I updated the Violet page with pictures of my progress. I also just wanted to let everyone know that I will be going to Germany for 2 weeks. I am leaving on Thurdsay so there will be no updates or progress on my costumes until I come back.
10 minutes later: I just did a major update, including moving the Cavalier Hat to the finished section and adding pictures, reworking the Pirate page because I didn't realize it wasn't updated, and I will be getting my Elizabethan corset page working in a matter of minutes.
July 18
I switched the Coronation dress to the completed page as well as updated it with pictures of the finished crown. I still need to get some pictures of me in full costume with the crown. I also updated the Pirate page with new pictures from the Renaissance Faire. A Violet Baudelaire page is now up in the In Progress section. I will be moving the cavalier hat to the completed section as soon as I get some pictures of the hat.
July 4
Happy 4th of July! I know I know, I'm horrible, I havn't updated in forever, but I do have progress pictures of the Coronation crown, and I have began making Violet Baudelaire's dress from ASOUE so I will make a page for that soon.
June 16
I know I haven't updated in forever, but big news! I have finished Arwen's Coronation dress! It is still listed under the "In Progress" section because I still have to make the crown. But the dress itself is finished! Pictures on the page.
June 4
My Pirate Outfit is finished! I moved it to the completed section. Now all I need to do is finish the hat to go with it!
May 30
Happy Memorial Day, and a huge thanks to those who gave their lives to defend our country. I updated the pirate page, I finally got back to working on that costume. Otherwise not much, my goal is to have the pirate costume done by next week, and then it's time to finish the Coronation gown.
May 22
I updated Arwen's Coronation page. I am making quite a bit of progress on the dress. I also bought fabric for my pirate outfit, so expect updates on that soon. My goal is to have most of the pirate outfit done by the end of May. You can see my progress on the Coronation dress
here.
May 17
I finally updated this page! I added a write up on the medieval outfit I made my cousin under completed costumes. When I get farther on Violet's outfit I'll add a write up for that, but right now I have nothing to show except my first bodice muslin, which I am going to change anyway. So That will be comming in the future along with a write up of this Elizabethan corset that I for some reason decided to start making.
May 9
All costumes are on hold for exam week, but I did add pictures from The Costumer's Guide to Violet's study page, which I have been meaning to do for a while. You can access Violet's page under the Misc. section of the site. I also finished the medieval costume for my cousin, but I haven't had time to make a page for it yet. After exams I will update again.
May 6
Sorry for the lack of updates recently, but I've been really busy and come Monday, it's finals week. Not much to say, right now I'm trying to finish a medieval costume for my 6th grade cousin for a banquet at his school. As soon as that's done I am going to finish my coronation gown. Oh yeah, and I made the muslin for Violet's bodice last Saturday and forgot to upadate on here. I still need to make the final muslin with the tabs on the bottom, but I like how it turned out. No pictures since I left my camera at school. I'll try to get some this weekend.
April 28
I bought the asoue dvd and I made page for the anaylisi on Violet's dress that I want to make. It can be found here:
Violet's Fantastic Dress.
April 23
Huge updates! I put pictures of the finished yoke and underarm piece on Arwen's Coronation page. Big news: I completed both my Farawyn costume and Eowyn's Green Dress! Both costumes have been moved to the completed section and have pictures of me in the finished outfits. Check them out, I think they both turned out quite well.
April 20th
I don't have any pictures since my camera is out of batteries and I can't find any around here, but I finished embriodering and beading the yoke of Arwen's Coronation dress. I also began sewing on the lace and emboridering the pieces of material that go on the sides of the underdress. I'm done with one, beading, squiggles and all. I need more bugle beads, I am out with 1 and 1/2 lace pices to go. As soon as I can find some AA batteries, I will post pictures.
April 16th
I finished the new layout! My last layout was horrible, I couldn't take how bad it looked anymore. I like this layout much better. Anyway, I feel very accomplished now that this is up and running. No new costuming news, I'm still finishing those papers for school.
April 11
Sorry there hasn't been any updates, but that's because there is nothing to report. School has taken over much of my time lately, so for a few weeks I don't think I'm going to get much done. I did put a picture of the finished front section of the yoke on the coronation page however. And I also noticed that the cotton gauze is back in stores so I have to get some of that for my pirate outfit. And I also started fixing the boning in the pirate corset. Otherwise, it's going to be awhile before I get anything done. I blame school.
March 28
Still on vacation, so not much new. I finished the embroidery and most of the beading on the front part of the yoke, but no pictures yet. Their comming soon, I promise. Otherwise, not much else
March 20
So I have most of the stuff sorted out for now. All the links and pictures *should* be working. Let me know if anything isn't. Sorry about the side menu moving up and down, I can't figure out how far down it needs to be. When some ads pop up it's too high, other times it's too low. Give me time, I'm new to this, I'll try to sort it out. Also, I made a guestbook, so check that out and sign it if you have a moment, feedback is good. Nothing new costuming-wise, too much homework today.
March 19
A couple things. 1) Geocities is being dumb, so I am in the process of swtiching some of my webpages to bravehost.com, so I appologize for any bad links, pictures that aren't showing up, and the general difference between the two pages. I have no idea why, but geocities said I had too much data transfer this morning, which is crazy because I know my site doesn't get nearly enough traffic to even be close to that. So I'm switching some pages over to bravehost. (It also gets rid of that annyoing ad banner on the side that distorts the page). 2. In costuming news, I'm almost half way done embroidering the front section of the yoke on the coronation dress. I still have the sides to do once I'm finished, but it puts me in a good mood to see how far I've gotton. This website thing on the other hand....grrrrrrrrrrr.
March 13
As Sam would say, "Well, I'm back". I'm home from my vacation and here to update you on my costuming. I made major progress again today on the Coronation gown, I also found I like making icons. (See journal for details). Check out the coronation page which has been updated and the misc. pictures page which has the icons on it.
March 5
Well I have bad news and good news. The bad news is I have stopped with the Picnic Dress. Maybe forever. I just do not have the funds, time, or motivation to get it done by May 19th. So I have decided to stop that costume, convert what I have done into other things, and return the stuff I didn't need. It is very sad, because I hate not finishing something like this. I just realized that it must (however reluctantly) be done.
But now for the good news! I have made huge progress on Arwen's Coronation dress. Huge as in I made the underdress finally. Now I am working on the yoke and the muslin for the overdress. Updates on the Coronation page.
March 1
I hate not having a lot of updates, but there really aren't that many. I updated the picnic page, although no new pictures. Same goes for the coronation page. I hope to get more done over spring break next week.
February 24
I progressed further on my picnic dress and added a few more pictures. I'm currently messing around with the website because something about it bugs me. I haven't figured it out yet, but I'm sorry for any broken links or confusing pages that may be happening in the next few days.
February 22
I finally finished fraychecking! I updated the picnic page but thats about all.
February 21
Not much new again, still fraychecking the fabric. still. I got the gold crinkle for the coset but I still need to get pictures up. I really really need to start making progress, but this just takes so long! I'm going to try to make more progress this week.
February 17
Not too much here, still fraychecking the edges of the material. There's alot more material than I thought. I still need to draw the vining and the flowers on the rest of the chemise and sleeves. I really have no new updates.
February 13
Mucho news to tell!! I got my green velvet today!!!!!! I also bought some gold chiffon and tan fabric for the picnic outfit! So I am all ready to start costuming again. And I finished the beading of both coronation sleeves a while ago, but I never updated. I updated the FIER page, the Coronation page, and the Picnic page with pictures and updates.
February 8
Well, its offically started. I began my Padme Picnic corset and started a page for it. Right now you can only access it from this home page because I don't feel like going through and adding the link to all the pages yet. Eventually. Also I finished beading one sleeve on my coronation dress! *celebrates* So that is comming along nicely too. I also added the page of pictures of me to the side bar. Again, it's only accessable through the homepage. I think that will stay that way until I move the pictures to a permanent home. I actually got alot more accomplished today than I thought I would. Now if only I could say the same thing about school work....
February 6
I updated the FIER page with lots of pictures! Also an updated status on that outfit. It's nearing completion! I think I have convinced myself to make Padme's Picnic dress. Let the obsessive frenzy begin.
February 5
I opened my sword and mug!!!! I was so excited that I had to dress up in a costume and take pictures of me being an idiot. You can see me being a fool here. On the costuming front, I still don't know what to do about Revenge of the Sith. Not much else.
February 4
Bought green velvet on ebay, I just have to get the money order and send it. (I hate not having a credit card, I need one) Not much else new. I finished with the bugle beads on one sleeve, and I have one more flower outline left on the second. Then it's back to the pearls, which I still need to buy. My sword and mug that I ordered came on Monday, I'm finally going to be able to see them today! I'll take pictures as soon as I get home. Otherwise that's it.
February 1
Started beading again. Wow, it looks bad. Hahahaha, oh well. Not too much to update. 1 new picture of the lacing in the Fier outfit. 1 new picture in Arwen's Coronation dress. Thats about it. Ebay seller finally emailed me back, we'll see how this goes. I'm back to beading.
January 30
Not much new on the website, I've just been cleaning up and fixing stuff on here. Big sewing update though! I went home this past weekend to have my dad look at my computer (which he fixed, yay!) and I put more grommets into my Fier costume. No pictures yet. I also finished all the lace on Arwen's Coronation dress! I started beading around them! No pictures there either, but a more complete update. But I found something on Warofthering.net that's not costume related:
Isn't this a cute picture of him? You never see Eomer smile in LOTR, and I just thought this was an awesome picture of him. Ok, stop drooling, go look at my progress in costuming.
January 27
I'm adding Arwen's Coronation Gown to the menu. I finished the lace one one sleeve and am starting the next one. Hopefully they will both be done with the lace by this weekend.
January 25
I finally got started on my Arwen Coronation gown! I'm starting on the sleeves tonight! Pretty soon I'm going to add the page to the side menu, but until then, check my progress out here. I'm excited, tonight is a sewing and LOTR movie night!
January 22
Last night and today it snowed snowed snowed. So I couldn't go and get any fabric or materials. But that's ok because I made so much progress today. I made a muslin for my Arwen Coronation Gown, I started and got pretty far on my Fier costume. I even made a Fellowship cloak with all the time I had left over. And I got pictures of it all up and everything updated on here! Today was a very sucessful day. Tomorrow hopefully I can go and get all my materials for the coronation gown. Here's a list of everything that was updated for easy access:
One more thing, the cloak page is now split into two cloaks, my black one, and my fellowship one. Clicking on the cloak link will take you to a menu page. Just so you're aware.
January 20
I'm so excited! I just submitted my Shieldmaiden costume to Alley Cat Scratch for their scrapbook. It probably won't be up for a while but I don't care. I love that website. I have a coupon for Handcock fabrics, if it doesn't snow too much in the next two days, hopefully I'll be getting the velvet on Saturday!
January 19
Man, I'm going to have to make an archive page soon for all my updates. Intenet was down all last night and this morning. Nearly drove me mad. Anyway, now that it's back up, I posted pictures on the pirate and cavalier hat page. They are all linked so you can see the full size picture. I also fixed the picture of the shoes I bought for Arwen's Coronation gown. That's all for now. Can't do much on the costume scene until I get fabric, patterns, or a sewing machine here at school.
January 18
I have dove head first into this Arwen costume, so I've decided to start a sudy page on it. Well, it's a study page and also my way of getting organized and figuring out what I have to do to make mine match the real one as close as possible on a budget. It has one picture so far and a link to Alley Cat Scratch's page for some real studying, otherwise it's just my planning page. You can access it here.
January 16
Well I have materials to start my Female Ithilien Elven Ranger dress, I have a page for it, but as I haven't started on it yet, I'm not going to put it on the sidebar until later. You can see my progress here.
As for other news, Arwen's Coronation gown has moved up my list of things to do. All I'm waiting for is a sale or a coupon for the velvet. I have to get the shoes I saw at payless, maybe I can convince someone who has a car to take me to the mall. heh heh heh.
Updated my future costumes list and the pirate costume. Still have to do the cavalier hat, cloak, and links pages. They'll be up soon....I think.
January 14
More things are working! There are now pictures on the Green Elven dress page, the Rosie Cotton page, lots of pictures on Eowyn's Green Dress page, and soon to be on the shieldmaiden page.
January 13
Update! Im so proud of myself, I started on this site and today I accomplished alot. The Green Elven dress page is now up, Rosie Cotton is up with pictures. Shieldmaiden is up and so is Eowyn's Green dress with 1 picture! lol, more are comming. Maybe tomorrow, I'm too tired tonight. Most of the pictures are uploaded, I just have to add them to the page. Like I said, maybe tomorrow.
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