Mi's Blog & Costumes
Experimental shoot time!
So in September 2019 Wayward Son came out and here’s Baz on the UK cover by Kevin Wada looking fabulous. I have wanted a floral suit for aaaaages.
This is not that suit.
This is a cos test and an experimental lighting shoot in my garage.
Continuing my backlog, AJ already blogged about these (much more timely I might add) and so I just ganked her pictures (thanks!).
We did three co quilts for friends’ babies, it was a pretty efficient system! I did the piecing and she did all applique and embroidery, we’d pin/spray them together and took turns quilting then I’d do the binding (I’ve bound dozens of my gramma’s quilts so, experience!).
Getting the blog incorporated into my site has made me want to blog again! Thankfully, I have a lot of back log.
So anyway, just gonna do some simple posts for the time being with some recaps, and first up is quilts!
I’ve co-made quite a few quilts, done lots of odds and ends for my gramma, but it wasn’t until 2016 that I completed my first 100% self made quilt!
I was thinking I’d like to blog again! But what about? Travel is something often on my mind and 2020 had two fairly large international trips scheduled, neither of which are happening any longer. So thinking about traveling and made this map with TravellersPoint:
Potential upcoming topics definitely include summaries on trips I never really talked about or that occurred during blogging slumps!
Aaah, so much for getting back into posting.
Trying again.
This time with pictures from the Colonial Williamsburg trip we took in June, because AJ edited them so I don’t have to bother with that!
First time there for all of us!
I could easily spend a lot longer than we did, pouring through the museums but alas AJ, Judy, and their partners… none of them museum people!
This costume was actually the main reason for that photoshoot weekend!
I made this for Costume College 2015, but never actually finished it with a correct necklace/symbol and his chest piece. AJ also didn’t completely finish her costume for that year, so we decided to make this photoshooting weekend the goal to get them done!
On another day we did two of my semi original outfits.
In 2008 I made an original Jedi, based a bit on Luminara Unduli/Barriss Offee. It’s not really a feat of construction or anything, but since we were already taking pictures and I didn’t have any it worked.
The other outfit was made in 2005 for a masquerade entry, the three of us were meant to be Elvish personifications of the three rings of power from Lord of the Rings. I was Vilya, the ring of air. As Elrond’s ring, I based my design basically on a mishmash of his movie costumes just in all white.
Oh man, I’ve had these posts sitting half finished in my drafts for awhile now.
Going to try to get back into the swing of posting with several “catch up” posts from 2016 (I don’t even know what happened to blogging in 2016!)
So first up, back in September AJ & I took a few days off too photoshoot old costumes so we’d have pictures before tossing or repurposing them.
The timing kind of sucked for real life reasons, but I went ahead and did it and here are the results.
On day One we shot Ayame from Fruits Basket, which I made in 2006, wore for literally 2 hours in 2007, and has been in a bin ever since.
We also shot Hotohori from Fushigi Yuugi, made in 2005 dear lord.
I actually really miss posting! But I feel like my house progress isn’t really… postable, it’s so slow and the differences are that noticeable unless you’re doing it or 2″ from the thing being sanded for the bagillionth time. And for sewing, I get so excited to sew when I *can* sew that I forget to take progress pics 8D Or they’re gifts and I have to wait.
I’m currently gift sewing so, more waiting, but I realized I DO have some things I can post!
… coming soon.
I figured if I put this reminder to myself here, I would actually do it! So hopefully 😀
I made a whopping four costumes in 2016, which has to be some sort of record for me I think.
Also I don’t think I even have photos for two of those.
This sat in drafts for ages soooo, just gonna click publish >.>
