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Showing posts with label a league of their own pics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a league of their own pics. Show all posts
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party 2016
Years ago while attending the Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party, I saw a young girl wearing an A League of Their Own costume. Since it can be really hot in Orlando in the fall, it seemed like the perfect costume for the party. So I filed that away for future reference, and indeed, I did make the costume and I did wear it to a MNSSHP! I never posted the pics here, but I thought I would. We made sure to get to Caseys, the baseball themed restaurant as well.
Friday, January 10, 2020
2019 Costume Year in Review
(I'm behind on updating events for the second half of the year, but you'll get some of that within.)
I… pretty much did nothing this year. Ok, that’s not totally true, but going through year two of motherhood + working full time leaves not enough time for me for sewing. At least, not enough big, contiguous chunks of time. I used to take a whole free weekend (when I had them) and spend all day on a project. I don’t have that anymore. And my evenings are for relaxing and recovering, and they are just enough time to take stuff out before having to go to bed. It’s just not working for me now, but I know that will change. And someday she will want to do her own thing, and I’m going to wonder what to do with my time!
Knowing all this, last year I said, “ Since my sewing time/drive has been so low, I think my main goal for 2019 will be to have as many of my older costumes photographed as possible. At least I’ll have a good record of them that way! So it’s accomplishing something.” and “ So next year, I’d like to finish the mending pile, to include actually assembling that new regency dress. Trimming the francaise would be good. As would doing literally anything else. I clearly need a bustle gown. Other than that, I think I’ll just try to rewear stuff that never was well-photographed, and get as many pics as I can.”
Since I set the bar so very low, I can say that yes! I accomplished this! I rewore stuff, I had photographs taken of old stuff. I did not trim the francaise, though that’s not because I didn’t try. The trim I had envisioned just didn’t look right with the fabric I had, so after trying a couple different ways to pleat the fabric, I put it away for another time. So I did at least try. And I did finish my mending pile!! I did not assemble the regency dress. I took it out a few times and just wasn’t into it. And since the Pumpkin Tea this year was bustle era and not regency, I figured I can do it next time I need a new regency day dress. So I deprioritized it.
I did go to quite a few costume events, which was nice. And I bought two Victorian gowns on FB, so I finally have things to fill in the gaps where I have not had time to sew. One of them still needs hemming, though I hemmed the first one I bought.
So here was my year.
February: Victorian Tea at Dupont Hotel
The lighting was terrible but Mike and Gloria did do some pics. I wore my old 1840s watered silk gown with an antique pelerine over it just to do something new. Here’s their pic of me:
I participated in In the Long Run Designs New Kit-Cat Club photo project. Here was my photo from that project. I wore an older gown, but one of my favs. Red and white striped silk and a take on the famous gown from the KCI collection. I got some nice photos of it from that shoot!
More below the cut!
I… pretty much did nothing this year. Ok, that’s not totally true, but going through year two of motherhood + working full time leaves not enough time for me for sewing. At least, not enough big, contiguous chunks of time. I used to take a whole free weekend (when I had them) and spend all day on a project. I don’t have that anymore. And my evenings are for relaxing and recovering, and they are just enough time to take stuff out before having to go to bed. It’s just not working for me now, but I know that will change. And someday she will want to do her own thing, and I’m going to wonder what to do with my time!
Knowing all this, last year I said, “ Since my sewing time/drive has been so low, I think my main goal for 2019 will be to have as many of my older costumes photographed as possible. At least I’ll have a good record of them that way! So it’s accomplishing something.” and “ So next year, I’d like to finish the mending pile, to include actually assembling that new regency dress. Trimming the francaise would be good. As would doing literally anything else. I clearly need a bustle gown. Other than that, I think I’ll just try to rewear stuff that never was well-photographed, and get as many pics as I can.”
Since I set the bar so very low, I can say that yes! I accomplished this! I rewore stuff, I had photographs taken of old stuff. I did not trim the francaise, though that’s not because I didn’t try. The trim I had envisioned just didn’t look right with the fabric I had, so after trying a couple different ways to pleat the fabric, I put it away for another time. So I did at least try. And I did finish my mending pile!! I did not assemble the regency dress. I took it out a few times and just wasn’t into it. And since the Pumpkin Tea this year was bustle era and not regency, I figured I can do it next time I need a new regency day dress. So I deprioritized it.
I did go to quite a few costume events, which was nice. And I bought two Victorian gowns on FB, so I finally have things to fill in the gaps where I have not had time to sew. One of them still needs hemming, though I hemmed the first one I bought.
So here was my year.
February: Victorian Tea at Dupont Hotel
The lighting was terrible but Mike and Gloria did do some pics. I wore my old 1840s watered silk gown with an antique pelerine over it just to do something new. Here’s their pic of me:
I participated in In the Long Run Designs New Kit-Cat Club photo project. Here was my photo from that project. I wore an older gown, but one of my favs. Red and white striped silk and a take on the famous gown from the KCI collection. I got some nice photos of it from that shoot!
More below the cut!
Friday, August 30, 2019
Salem/Costume Con
Gloria and I spent a day sightseeing in Salem. After our day, we headed back to the hotel to get dressed up to go to the CostumeCon social. I brought myy Anovos Trek dress because it was easy to pack and wear.
Meanwhile back at home, Doug and the munchkin were grocery shopping:
With Gloria and Sarah:
Meanwhile back at home, Doug and the munchkin were grocery shopping:
With Gloria and Sarah:
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
AwesomeCon 2017
Apparently I never posted about this! So here belatedly is 2017 AwesomeCon! (I was looking for pics from it and realized it was missing!)
AwesomeCon was in June in 2017. Despite being about 5 months pregnant, I was able to fit into my League of Their Own costumes so Gloria and I could be twinsies.
Loved this hall costume - a Leslie Knope wedding dress!
Also Left Shark!
We caught a panel with Phil LaMarr - voice actor from Futurama and many other things. Voice actor panels are always so entertaining!
A real Wonder Woman costume:
Gloria and I:
AwesomeCon was in June in 2017. Despite being about 5 months pregnant, I was able to fit into my League of Their Own costumes so Gloria and I could be twinsies.
Loved this hall costume - a Leslie Knope wedding dress!
Also Left Shark!
We caught a panel with Phil LaMarr - voice actor from Futurama and many other things. Voice actor panels are always so entertaining!
A real Wonder Woman costume:
Gloria and I:
Sunday, September 25, 2016
AwesomeCon
AwesomeCon was a Con I have meant to attend multiple times. Last year health issues kept me away. This year I had organized a science panel for work, so dammit, I was going! The plan was Saturday afternoon panel, and then dinner with Mike and Gloria - and then Sunday we were going to meet up with them again, but this time Gloria and I were going to wear our matching A League of Their Own uniforms we made last year, but then I didn’t get to wear. This year went according to plan.
Here’s a few shots of me and Gloria. I have cleats, but I wasn’t going to walk around in those at a Con, so Chucks it was.
Mystery boxes! I liked the Portal cubes.
This was someone I had shared Holly’s Bespin pattern with! She painted hers!
A Chris Pratt and dino. After posing, “Chris Pratt” picked up dino’s tail, and handed it to her, and she minced away after him. It was so comical. That suit must have been so hard to walk in!
I don’t know what video game (?) these were from, but they were SO impressive. Thanks to Ranzetta for letting me know they are from Warhammer 40 000. They were amazing costumes, and even more impressive in motion.
Here’s a few shots of me and Gloria. I have cleats, but I wasn’t going to walk around in those at a Con, so Chucks it was.
Mystery boxes! I liked the Portal cubes.
This was someone I had shared Holly’s Bespin pattern with! She painted hers!
A Chris Pratt and dino. After posing, “Chris Pratt” picked up dino’s tail, and handed it to her, and she minced away after him. It was so comical. That suit must have been so hard to walk in!
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Halloween 2016
I wore my new A League of Their Own baseball uniform to my friend's Halloween party this year. I made it in the spring but missed my opportunity to wear it with my friend Gloria because of some health issues during AwesomeCon. But I was able to wear it here. It was really fun to wear, actually. Comfortable and all that. And I won the costume contest!
For Doug's costume, we totally stole an idea off Facebook - of a girl dressed like the Washington Metro red line. Well, we'd recently had a lot of issues with the orange line, so we decided to go with that.
Rolling up to my friend's party:
Joe had recently seen The Thing:
They have this huge cat named Paco - we took advantage of Steve's costume to get some pictures of the aftermath of a Paco-attack. :-)
For Doug's costume, we totally stole an idea off Facebook - of a girl dressed like the Washington Metro red line. Well, we'd recently had a lot of issues with the orange line, so we decided to go with that.
Rolling up to my friend's party:
Joe had recently seen The Thing:
They have this huge cat named Paco - we took advantage of Steve's costume to get some pictures of the aftermath of a Paco-attack. :-)
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