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Crafty Tuesday: Musing about Tabling Things

| May 8, 2012

DragonCon is 114 days away. Yikes! There are things before that including Shore leave which is August 3-5th this year because San Diego Comic Con moved its dates. Now in thinking my way through what I am going to bring I also have to start thinking about displaying the objects I am going to be […]

Crafty Tuesday: Constructive Criticism

| January 24, 2012

Or sometimes one can be one’s own worst critic. Constructive criticism is a funny set of words. One is about building and the other is deconstructing. It is also funny what people think constructive criticism is and isn’t. For example, hearing “your anatomy is off” isn’t very helpful. But hearing “You need to look at […]

Crafty Tuesday: The Year in Convention Terms 2012

| January 10, 2012

So this year I will be attending and showing at Farpoint (Feb 17-19) LunaCon (March 16-18th) Shoreleave (Aug 3-5th Note date change) DragonCon (Aug 31st to Sept 3rd) Or that’s all I know at this point. In terms of costuming, Caroline is going to do Cheshire at Farpoint. I am sure we will come up […]

Crafty Tuesday: The Idea Dump and beginning of the sorting

| June 7, 2011

I am going to do sort of a brain dump of all the ideas in my head right now for Shoreleave and DragonCon. I will say that I have 3 puppets and about 10 outfits to sew for Shoreleave as well as this list. Two of the puppets are a bit more complicated than usual […]

Crafty Tuesday Now on Thurday (well for this week)

| May 19, 2011

A couple of different things I have been thinking about. DragonCon heads the list because I need to figure out what I am going to show there because that needs a lot of lead time. In this mix I need to put things for Shoreleave including costumes for Mystery Trekkie Theater (And they have picked […]