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Awesome News!
Yay - Sean won Second in the kids category! And he got a really neat engraved acrylic and metal engraved award! And both Molly and Sean had their pics and info taken earlier from a photographer from the Indy Star, and might be in the print and online paper tomorrow morning. Wheeeee!
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GenCon update
Hey guys, I figured I would post a quick update now that we've wrapped up our first day ( Read more... ) -
Yay, I'm done!
I finally finished the kids costumes for GenCon - which is good since we leave tomorrow morning. I think they came out pretty good. I even got to make a holster for Sean's gun with some fake leather/vinyl I had.
Molly is going as a water fairy.
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The goggles... they do nothing!
I finished Sean's goggles yesterday. I think they came out pretty spiffy. I used fake suede fabric to cover them and some of the rustoleum gold paint that I had ( Read more... ) -
It's alive!!!
I just finished my first nerf mod. This will be Sean's gun for his steampunk outfit. It wasn't too bad to do. I made sure to take pictures of all the interior parts and springs placement as I went. I just had trouble with paint adhering to the orange type of plastic used in some parts. Now I just need to make a holster for it.
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Costuming!!!
Okay, it looks like I'll be doing up some costumes for the kids for GenCon. Molly will most likely be a fairy (either Simplicity's 2857 or 2875For Sean we were originally thinking knight/adventurer DnD kinda thing, but I now I've got the idea to maybe do Steampunk instead. Sean loves Nerf guns and some of the mods people have done on them, so I ( Read more... ) -
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While looking at various printing companies for award/nametag ribbons, I find this product offering ( Read more... ) -
Wacky Cake
I'm posting another recipe to share. I think I might make a habit of posting family recipes every now and then ( Read more... ) -
Michael J. Fox has no elvis in him.
For some reason lately, I keep remembering the Mojo Nixon song "Elvis is Everywhere" and the video for it.
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20 Easy Steps
Found in the forums on a miniature warfare site (while looking for Gnome Wars). So funny and so true I think ( Read more... )
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