I'm about to do some post spamming because when I try to put it all in one entry I can't make it coherent. Although, I'm not really promising coherence with separate posts either. :P ( Read more... )

So, Chris spent a whole bunch of money last night ordering stuff to make a Hackintosh (building a PC that he'll install some variation of OS X on) and a console cabinet for the den because he no longer likes the wall mounted shelf we have (and truth be told, the media PC case doesn't actually fit on the shallow shelf). I mentioned something about ( Read more... )

The cleaning part is done in the office and everything is sorted into related piles (stack of electronics, stack of my hobby stuff, stack of files and important office related stuff, etc.) The goal today is to go through and declutter each stack and then put it away in an organized fashion. As I go, I plan to make notes on things that would make ( Read more... )

I don't even know why I try to write out costuming plans. As soon as I get a plan and start to set it to motion, I decide to change it. I'm thinking about Halloween. I really want to do Maleficent and if I want to do her this year, I'm going to have to get started collecting things. Which means I'm not going to do Hermione for Dragon*Con ( Read more... )

I wasn't expecting to get this yet. And since Katrina was so kind to offer up free tickets to the Ren Fest on Monday, I was actually kind of bummed thinking it wouldn't get here in time. But, I got my new sword today!! Yay! I must say, it's not as nice as the United Cutlery Lord of the Rings replicas. But I'm happy with it for the price. I ( Read more... )

So, I've scratched Celeborn from the list of Dragon*Con hopefuls. I just don't have the budget or time to get him done and I don't want to kill myself trying or cut corners on fabric. I've still got a lot of work to do on the Angel gown (which, honestly, if I had the budget to start on Celeborn, I'd be more than willing to set the Angel gown ( Read more... )

Last week, I had a dream just before I woke up. I dreamt I put my Dream gown and Blood Red gown in a charity auction of some sort, certain they wouldn't sell for some reason, but curious as to what response they'd get. I left where ever it was I dropped them off at and went to another part of the building (I think I was working on the event or a ( Read more... )

Since I've sworn off costuming and jewelry work until after the turn of the year (no matter how much I'm itching to fidget with the Angel gown on the dress form), I'm likely not going to finish anything else before December 31st. I don't think I made a public list of what I wanted to accomplish this year at last year's end and I'd probably only be ( Read more... )

So, I've been cleaning out the office lately since we got our carpet cleaned and had to pull everything out of there. I'm trying to put everything back in a much more organized way and maybe cull out a little more clutter while I'm at it. But I stood yesterday for a while, looking over my finished costumes, noting what needed to be cleaned, bits ( Read more... )

Chris isn't wanting to do the Halloween 5k this weekend now. He thought it would just be me doing the actual race. He doesn't want to pay $35 to walk the race and honestly, neither do I (I thought it was $20). I tried to talk him into just going to be counted for the record (apparently you don't have to participate in the race to do that) and ( Read more... )