I'm not a huge fan of LiveJournal, so I decided to come on over to Blogger for my costume blog. I'll be posting details about my costumes and their construction as well as photos here. You can follow my blog so that you can religiously live vicariously through my nonsense.
Enjoy!
Things that are coming up...
~ Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France
August 3-9th, Quebec City
Yeah... I'm still not 100% sure I want to go this year. A couple years ago, the FNF festival organizing committee was joined with the Carnival d'Hiver people, and ever since, it's just been a big pirate festival, and really seems to have nothing to do with the celebration of the Franco-Canadian heritage. It's really quite, quite sad, and I was left with a sincere and overwhelming sense of disappointment. We'll see if I feel like going through that again this year. I would love to hang out with my friends while in 18th century costumes though. That's the best part - the only part? Prettymuch...
Isn't it strange how a year can just sneak up on you and you suddenly run out of time? I've been wanting to make myself a gold silk polonaise for over a year now; I have the fabric, but I've been so busy with finishing school, and sewing commissions, and art-making that time has just completely escaped me. I doubt I'll have time to make it for this year. I did make myself a peasant's costume all in linen though! That should be comfy and cute! (complete with basket full of fresh veggies doubling as a purse to hide my stuff)
~ Fan Expo
August 25-28, Toronto
Well, I'm sure hella not gonna miss this one! Apparently Marina Sirtis will be there, and lo and behold, I've just finished a Deanna Troi costume that was well-received at Polaris (aka Toronto Trek) this past weekend. I would LOVE to get a picture with her!!
My Deanna Troi costume
Congratulations on the new blog!
ReplyDeleteI really hope you get the Lady Mechanika costume done before Fan Expo. You will look fantastic.
Edith:
ReplyDeleteIt was lovely to meet Rob and you as we stepped out the FanExpo 2011, your costume looked so comfortable that it didn´t seem a costume at all !
I can tell all the care taken to make that piece look so simple and well fit, when you told me you had made it , everything made sense. (at the moment I was shocked to meet someone with such skills, to have it front of me)
I still can´t tell if it's true what Rob told me about making his out of duck tape, I know it's possible and such a side thinking display, that solution of making overlapping rings to come up with something like an Armadillo skin still gets to me. Very thoughtful .
You both made such an impression on me that I can't but get back to you to ask you to make my daughter's costume for this Halloween. How do I get this started? How do I get a quote? Where do I wire you the down payment? (On one of your sites I read you take Paypal, good)
Are you overbooked or is my kid in luck ? (I wouldn't be surprised your overbooked!)
You have some wonderful pictures! Good you were born after it was invented !
Thanks for keeping up the spirit and taking time on requests,
Eddie, eddieboxes@yahoo.ca