Maleficent horns. at last

I’m scultping. Used some wire half tiara’s wired together then shaped, covered in foil and now being covered in clay. The clay has to be heated so I’m leaving them over night to chill before starting the next stage of sculpting. Now to decide between horrible silicon casts or slightly less horrible ultracal. Depends if…

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Burden has lifted

I’m now feeing quite free. It was very hard at first. But really I’m just back to where I have always been: reaching out from home to share to the world. I started this journey by making what I love and to just make then find a reason to wear them. Photoshoot in our back…

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still inspired

I managed to go for a walk today- silly hips still catch but if I make sure to start walking slowly rather than straight to my habitual faster walk. It takes about 3 min to settle so that’s pretty good. As part of my walk I got some expanding foam filler so that when I…

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exhausted but motivated

I have just finished my stint as WorldCon masquerade director. The event is still going so I still need to do a proper debrief so I’ll wait for that. But while deciding what on earth to wear I settled on Elsa but got Maleficent, my Wishing gown and my Elissa gown out to see what…

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new limits

This is the time when people are sharing what they did this year and I’m looking back at oh, so many bad mistakes. So many. I was so keen to make use of any scrap of energy that I started to rely on energy boosts or pain relief to meet a dead line that I…

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|| the fictional frock ||

The frock in fiction. Designers freely take inspiration from costume history, art history, the natural world, architecture, and remake them as something new. || Historic inspired || || fantasy || || science fiction || || star wars || || mass effect||

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long time no write

I’ve been either Doing Things or Flat Asleep. Not much room for anything else these days. But oh wow have I been incredibly inspired. I have been cutting Elsa flurries (have to have big breaks between- my RA means all my muscles in my forearm and fingers are tight but I can’t afford physio for…

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Ahsoka progress

Thank goodness! I took the day to redo the montral and front lekku for a nice clean line. It’s worked which is nice 🙂 I was thinking about taking a break from the costume because of them but I think it’s going to work out. But yay. It’s also inspiring me to work on other…

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Today’s plans

There is a mix of street works and digging of property happening so my head is a little unhappy. But I have Maleficent, Elsa, Elissa and Ahsoka to choose from. Or Mina. Maley and Ahsoka are in the workroom, both are safe in terms of tools and materials so technically I could make use of…

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