May 2012
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April 2012
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oh the astro boy
Since Astro Boy was already made practically, I had time to experiment with things I never really have a chance to work with by nature of how much time I typically have to do anything (not a lot). I knew that since A was getting a whole new costume (seriously how can I resist a request for Kid Flash?) I would have to come up with something clever and awesome to keep Lo as Astro Boy. It...
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the kid flash adventure
So after sewing points for Nightwing last year, I figured I had Kid Flash pretty set. Cut, hand tack, hand stitch, baste, stitch, serge. Long process but it worked out pretty well:
I made a muslin out of old fabric left over from other superhero costumes and just drew on where I wanted the spikes to go. The hardest part was actually picking which of KF’s Young Justice costumes to go...
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March 2012
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February 2012
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questionnaires & things
So awhile ago I posted about gathering research toward a children’s line targeting kids with sensory complaints. And then, you know, life happened, which kept me from keeping a consistent update schedule online, but it’s still something very important that I’ve been working toward.
We’ve been meeting with occupational therapists and talking to a variety of people who work...
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the start of ECCC preparations
for emerald city comic-con this year, A’s decided to be Kid Flash from young justice. I actually have been trying to encourage him to stick with just modifying Speedy - I’m doing a lot of traveling and running around this month, leaving me with less time than originally planned to get much done.
more than that though, while I think A has the perfect kid flash personality, i’m...
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remember when i numbered posts
okay so i’m really sick of how disorganized flickr & other image engines can be, especially when it comes to finding photos of yourself at a convention. especially when your cosplay is a character who’s cosplayed a zillion times and looks like you in every tiny thumbnail because everyone’s pretty consistent when creating her costume (harley what). especially even MORE when...
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November 2011
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That’s awesome! The YJ speedy costume is adorable :) I think I understand what you’re saying, and I sort of did that too.
A’s Speedy costume was based mostly on Teen Titans Year One Speedy, because it was his current favourite comic. TTY1 Speedy’s hat was something of a marvel, in that it seemed to be able to make a variety of shapes possible:
(i mean really. top...
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October 2011
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Quiet Hands →
apiphile:
what the fuck kind of person holds someone else’s body without their permission?
I mean, I know. I know. My mother used to pin me to the floor, face-down, for hours. But it’s still gross to read. Let the woman flap her fucking hands. You got a problem with her flapping hands? Go hang yourself. Her hands are hers.
I think it’s really interesting (also sad, evidently) to hear...
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September 2011
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behold: the worst photo i will ever put on this...
I just can’t be bothered to pull out my camera for one picture.. yay windows phone!
But lets talk about how Astro Boy’s going to have a glowing reactor!
It’s a bit thick.. I might want to pad out Lo’s chest with some foam or something so it’s doesn’t appear as bulky, but I probably won’t do that for Halloween due to time constraints. I still want to...
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020: Rambling
i’m having difficulty deciding on how historically accurate i want the nerfpunk piece to be, and how much leeway I want to give myself to have something finished soon.
i’m thinking that i might make a simpler version for steam-con and then, perhaps, modify or recreate it into something more complicated and time consuming, because the ideas that i have are just not coming together fast...
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Anonymous asked: Hey- Are you thinking of providing this service for children who are a severely autistic or suffer from autism-spectrum disorders? While some of them may not care about fashion, easy on/off clothing can be useful for parents and/or babysitters. This can be especially problematic because many children suffering from mental or developmental issues tend to be larger than non-sufferers of the same age...
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019: Project Rapidfire & Halloween Commissions
I figure, while I’m on a Tumblr roll I might as well make a list of the things you’ll be seeing on this blog over the next month or so, or you know, whenever I have the energy to make this blog into something other than dusty.
The commissions for the Halloween showdown are as follows:
Lo has requested an Astro Boy costume. This will be an interesting undertaking, as he has refused...
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018: The Big Project
As I mentioned when I first started this blog, while I am a fashion design major, my main source of income at this moment is working with a set of ten year old twins. I got this job two summers ago, when I first moved out here with an unpaid internship & needed a job that didn’t require me to pull a five day workweek. I got this job in particular because I’ve spent a lot of time...
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August 2011
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It is SUCH a pain in the ass to search for SDCC cosplay photos. no one tags anything and when they do, its not consistent and ugh ugh ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i think next year i’m going to make little business cards with my email and “I WAS THIS COSTUME: ______________” and hand them out. Not everyone will email me but oh my god. I know so many people photographed us - at...
July 2011
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017: the briefest of harley updates
as some of you know, i’m in NYC vising old friends. here’s a couple pictures of us from the weekend to tide you over until next week, when i have evenings off to search appropriately:
photo by Adam Richards
photo by Jerry Abuan
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the SDCC scott pilgrim quick post
Friday we dressed as our Scott Pilgrim characters. Claire as Kim Pine, Katie as Envy, Colin as Gideon, me as Ramona, Spaz as Roxy and we just happened to find a fantastic twins cosplay.
I have more photos/etc but I’m not home & still groggy from the weekend. Tomorrow I fly to NYC for the HOL meet-up this weekend; I’m going to try to make a proper post over the next couple days....
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016: hand-sewing leather is a bitch
there’s just a lot of things i didn’t preemptively anticipate and probably should have. for starters, that there’s a PROPER way to pierce leather. check out this nice little chart i belatedly discovered after stabbing holes into half of the red boot:
i’d like you to guess which one MY stitching looks like
because i assure you
it’s not the one it should be.
i...
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015: a ramona update
the jacket’s coming along
because i just like driving myself crazy…
i thought it would be a better idea/less stress than lining the thing, because i’m already going to be wearing a hoodie in sandiego.. all day… in the sun… except, you know, covered seams aren’t a picnic either.
at least the outside looks decent:
UGH i accidentally left my cell in the...
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June 2011
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May 2011
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013: apologies, updates and things
I’m sorry that I haven’t really updated recently. It’s been a lot of one step forward, two steps backward.
This is Colin and I last year at SDCC:
(photo by sdoorly, flickr)
I spent a lot more time on Harley, did not save up enough time for C’s joker costume, which required me to suddenly have vasts amount of knowledge on something I never touched during college:...
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April 2011
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