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I finished my Avengers Movie Hawkeye costume! \o/ Just took some photos. They're kind of ugly since it's cloudy here and I used a flash because I just couldn't wait to get some photos!



I ended up hand sewing the vest because I don't trust my machine, so I spent two hours yesterday pinning the hell out of it and then it took me 7 hours to sew it all. I also had to take in the sides of the vest a bit so I actually look like I have a waist. I think it came out pretty well, though. The thing that bugs me now, of course, is that the vest is a faded black. For DragonCon, I might tape off the panels and get some spray dye to darken it up.

The TUK Gladiator boots are from my River costume which I haven't worn in ages, so it's good to have a use for them. The glasses are Fit Overs so that I can actually still see. They look pretty great with front lighting/flash, but when I'm back lit, you can totally see my regular glasses under them. Oh well. I could also make some leg straps to make the bottom half a little more interesting. For now, I think I've got enough work into it though.

( more photos! )

Full size versions of the photos in the lj scrapbook.

Saw Avengers again for the third time tonight. Still amazing!! I think I'm a little worn out on theater showings, so I probably won't see it again until it comes out on Bluray. I believe I saw somewhere that Joss will be putting the extra 30 minutes of footage in the extra features. If so - yay!

Right. So, more spoilery thoughts!

( AVENGERS! I LOVE YOU! I mean... SPOILERS )

Oh man this movie. So much good stuff and I've already forgotten some stuff I wanted to write down. Ahhhh! I need new lj icons and all the toys and things right now!

I'm currently working on a cheap as hell Hawkeye costume. Planning not to spend more than $50 on it and want to have it for Albany ComicCon in June. So far I have a $6 toy bow, pants, boots (from my River costume), and I bought a front zip vest from eBay. I'm hoping it's a fabric that I can just paint the maroon panels on, otherwise I'll have to get fabric to sew or glue on. I want to make the arm guard & glove too. Kind of excited about my not-at-all accurate costume.

I had a really awesome time at DragonCon this year even though I didn't go to any of the panels I wanted or see any actors I was hoping to. Instead, I hung out with some really awesome friends I only see a few times a year and got to know some people I only see once a year at DCon a bit better. It was also great to make some new friends. Seriously, right now I am having difficulty letting go. Is it time for the next DragonCon yet?

DragonCon 2009: Sept 3-7, 2009

This year, I once again stayed in one of a block of rooms Joel reserved. We were in the Marriott, which is the new Hyatt? Everything was happening there and it was pretty convenient to just roll out and head to panels or photo ops or what have you. Really great.

Thursday, September 3

Got up at 7:30a and ended up poking around the internet for awhile; emails and such. Showered and got dressed before getting the last of my stuff packed. Still feel like I'm missing something. Nevertheless, all set to go at about 9:30a so I figured I had time for breakfast... except there wasn't anything. Meh.

( travel, registration, and day 1 bar shenanigans )

Friday, September 4

Didn't sleep really well. Got up at 8am and showered and dressed in chick SGA costume. Went to the fan table and saw Gareth on the way. Joked that I was following him because we kept running into each other. Dan was still setting up the table. Jason and I went to buy breakfast for the people at the table. Helped with the rest of table setup - they were hanging a Stargate backdrop for people to take photos with.

( SG panels, Julie Benz, Lani Tupu, Zombie prom, more bar shenanigans )

Saturday, September 5

Woke up at 7:45 am and got ready for the parade. Got breakfast and snagged husher315 something since he texted me on the way. It's entirely possible I got to the SFH table and threw his breakfast at him. I was tired and hungry and the fruit cup I got was possibly the smallest I'd ever seen.

Our group gathered at SFH table before heading out. We had several SG-1 people, a few Atlantis people, and a group with the new Stargate: Universe uniforms. Liz was wearing her new Hak'tyl costume, which looked awesome. I was wearing my SG-2 chick variant. Eventually, we made our way to parade start. It threatened to rain, but thankfully it didn't. The BSG group was definitely larger this year! Parade was fun and the weather was great. Spotted speakerwiggin in the crowd toward the end.

( parade, Ben Browder, Michael Trucco, Charlaine Harris, TCF party fail )

Sunday, September 6

Got up at ungodly hour and got dressed in SGA gear. Grabbed some breakfast at the cafe in the Hyatt. Went down to the Flanigan photo op with husher315. It went really quickly and Joe was pretty nice. While in line waiting, Paul walked by and his handler pointed me out again and Paul stopped to say hello. :D [Also, I really need to stop doing these photo ops because I always look like a goon.]

( flanigan, scifihero dinner, late night walking )

Monday, September 7

Weird day. Up at 10am. Dressed. Got food. Talked to Jeffrey, who just joined TCF. I told him to check out scifiHero.net. Met up with Jason who had to check out of his room. He needed to drop off his armor tub in my room for a while before he moved it to Dan's room. We got the rest of his stuff to Dan's room at the Hyatt before going to the food court so Jason could get lunch. I went to walk of fame for awhile. No one was there really, but bought art from Lani Tupu who was just about to leave. Had a quick chat with him and told him that I've been wanting one of his pieces for a long time.

( dealer's room, con winding down :( )

Tuesday, September 8

Awake after 8 hours of sleep. That was definitely the longest sleep I had the whole weekend, but I felt wiped. Got dressed and had breakfast at the Corner Bakery with the rest of the St. Pete crew, Carlos, and Ben. So tasty! Why was I not having breakfast here every morning? Went back to the hotel to finish packing and check my bag at the desk. Said goodbye to the gang driving back to Florida before dashing over to the Hyatt to say goodbye to Dan and Jason. Wandered around the Marriott and sat in the Pulse Loft for a while with Ben.

( the LONG journey home )


Additional links and media:

+ all my DragonCon photos are here
+ daily tweets (with pics): thurs, fri, sat, sun, mon, tues
+ Phil's photos
+ Blackhawk's photos: parade, con
+ Tim Fritz's photos
+ Michael Hogan attacking a cake at the SFH dinner
+ Abe the Alien at a Thriller dance practice
+ Paul McGillion panel on Friday
+ DragonCon parade: part 1, part 2, part 3 (ScifiHero is at 2:33 in Part 3)
+ Shatner & Nimoy panel (7 parts)
+ Stargate SG-1/Atlantis Panel (7 parts)
+ Stargate Multiverse Panel (7 parts)
+ crapload of other youtube vids

And that concludes my awesome DragonCon trip for this year. I can't wait til next year when, hopefully, smashedrecords will be coming with me as I know she will have an awesome time.

Shore Leave is coming up in a few weeks and there are a couple new costumes I'll have for that.

First up: Jubilation Lee from the X-Men comics... though this costume is modeled after the animated series. I decided to go with a shorter jacket and long jeans instead of the shorts. I think it still looks like Jubilee, but not as... ridiculous?

( photo! )

Next, are the Roswell Crash Down dresses. These are the waitress dresses maria and Liz wore at work. smashedrecords and I will be wearing them to Shore Leave. They're not 100% -- we're still missing the little alien head over the chest (got the pieces, just need to apply) and I'm missing the head piece in my photo.

( reference pics and finished dress )
We found the base dress at a uniform supply company. The vinyl fabric is from ebay. A family friend helped us sew all the vinyl to the dress, shortened it, and made the apron. smashedrecords found the parts for the headpieces online.

I can has arc reactor! :D And a new icon to go with it!

sweetwildandmad FTW!!! I have my arc reactor and it will be debuting at Shore Leave this weekend! Not sure what day.. was thinking Saturday night.

( you know you want to see it... )

Here are some photos of the first go at River' bank heist costume in Serenity.

All items by queenmaab. She did have to spray dye the fabric used for the dress as the original was too peachy/orange/pink and we also spray dyed the over vest thing. There are things I don't particularly like on it (the vest thing for starters), but I love the cut of the dress and the shirt.

I know she wasn't wearing boots in the movie, but there's no way I'm running around a con in bare feet. The boots are similar to the ones she has later on in the movie, so whatever.

Reference photos for this costume are here.

( five photos )

And now I are off to make a batch of Anzac biscuit for a party this afternoon :D

Another costuming binge!

In this post: Updated Ravenclaw costume, fitted tactical vest, River boots, really, really lame River costume.

( photos and babble under cut )

Things Wot Happened Today:

+ helped boss deal with aftermath of IE7 upgrade. Upgrade has messed up all aspect of normal processing.

+ Company tells me I must now learn regex and XPath for new aspect of job. Oy.

+ bought a lot of yarn in Jayne Cobb hat colors. Yeah. Hopefully I can figure out how to make one on a loom.

+ went to queenmaab's and finished the belt for the Mirror Queen as well as the beading on the sleeves. Hooray! I think my costuming work for her this cycle is complete! :D

+ altered tactical vest arrived. Stitch fixed it for me and made it not so.. big. Fits nice now :D Can't wait to wear it with all my gear for ICON!

+ Everyday Minerals and Signature Minerals orders came in, so now I have full sizes of the items I wanted. YAY!

So, overall, it's been a good day :)

Now I leave you with this:

Happy Zombie Jesus Day Easter!

Had a rather productive weekend. For once.

Friday, I have to admit, I didn't do too much. Took some photos of myself in my new Hogwarts uniform (new shirt and added a corset), which I'll have to upload at some point. Mom & I went to dinner at Ruby Tuesday before wandering around Target where I picked up a new organizer thing for my make-up and a Swashbucklers Jack Sparrow figure. Want the Davy Jones figure as well (so cute! XD) and might pick up a Will, but the Elizabeth looks weird. Afterward, we took a trip to the shoe store and ended up with a new pair of boots (fit for a Browncoat!) and dress shoes. Came home an vacuumed most of the house because the dog hair was driving me nuts.

Yesterday, I took about 4 hours to reorganize my makeup :P Nightmare. But it's all sorted now. Then I did laundry and watched like 4 hours of Torchwood.

Today was pretty productive as well. Finally got my taxes done... it only took an hour, so I'm not sure why I put it off for so long. I should, barring any issues, be getting something like $900 back. *glee* I also finally got off my bum and updated my movie database a bit - checked my list against what I actually have and completed the current list of movies on hand. I can't find my Blade: Trinity DVD for some reason though. Uploaded latest list to the site. Next will be to finish checking the TV box sets.

My copy of Invisible Man Season 1 has shipped! WOOHOO! Tin Man and Ark of Truth still haven't arrived yet, which is a bummer since they shipped the same day as BSG S3 and I got that already. Hrm.

Heard back from Stitch today and my vest mod is done! Which means I'm going to have a vest that fits to go with my SGA BDU uniform! Hurrah! Now I just need to fix the velcro for the patch... this week, I guess.

Ugh. My head is killing me. I couldn't stop sneezing early, so I popped two Sudafed (the good stuff, not the Phenylephrine crap they sell now) and I feel better, but still light headed and can't really focus. Blah. So I think I'm gonna head to be early.

Interesting developments at work. More later if it goes through. But it could mean more interesting work for me to do...

After work, I stopped by the Chinese grocery to pick up dinner. Then, uh, went to Sephora while I waited for queenmaab to get home. Yeah. I bought another Tarte lip gloss (Westley & Buttercup!) and another Tarte Lock & Roll eye shadow (gunmetal). I'm sick, I need help.

Another night at queenmaab's working on costumes. I brought dinner tonight... some things I picked up at the Chinese grocery. Proving once again that I can't even heat up pre-cooked food properly, the pork was... not exactly hot. But.. at least it all tasted good. I thought so at least. :\ Didn't get as much work done on the beaded sleeves as I had hoped, but there was some progress.

Came home and discovered that the boots I bought for my River costume arrived. Oh em gee. They are FABULOUS. And PERFECT. And.. okay, not 100% like what she wore in the movie, but close enough. I was afraid that the grey would be too light, but they look like a well-worn black/dark brown, which I think is perfect. Yeah. I love them. I can't wait to wear them with the costume.