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Getting back to costumes...
Jan. 5th, 2007 10:29 pmBoy, my father’s bank accounts are so muddled. I’ve been handling most bill payments and paperwork for him lately but he made some deposits and wrote some checks which he didn’t bother to tell me to enter until the other night. And when I did, stuff didn’t add up quite as expected. So, we’ve spent time the last two evenings looking at numbers and it still isn’t completely right but then I always thought his checkbook was off in the first place. >_> I told him he should just get a new account and start over!
Getting ready to start working on costumes again. I now have pictures of the wigs I got the other day.
( new wigs )
Went out fabric shopping today for the new costumes. Don’t you hate it when you go through store after store and still can’t find what you want? >_< I had that problem with fabric for the ruffly shirt to go under Ayame’s coat. I’d checked a few places on previous shopping trips but hadn’t seen anything just right so I decided to do a more thorough search today since I want to get started on the outfit soon.
The shirt in the manga was dark with a lacy floral design. I have red brocade for the coat already and pictured the shirt in black with gold designs. I’m not a great fan of lace so I wanted to find an opaque black with gold flowers but only found a few things to consider and none of them looked even close. -_-; It seemed hard to even find a plain gold lace; most of the shops just seemed to have tons of fancy sequined and beaded lace. I eventually found one but it gave a mostly yellow impression when layered over black so it wasn’t quite what I wanted either. After a few hours and a dozen or so shops, I bought a black and gold lace which will hopefully work because I’m just tired of looking. I suppose this is why I take so long to make a costume; sometimes, it just seems impossible to find the fabric I want! >_<
Also bought more fabric for Sora and now have the 3 shades of pink I need although I still have to get purple for the collar and shorts. I also picked up more hotfix sequins in different shapes to use on the outfit. I tested some out yesterday and they seem to actually stick! (Unlike some of the iron-on interfacings I’ve encountered before. >_>) I bought a couple of packs of hotfix Swarovski crystals to try out, too. I’ll work on Sora’s sleeve thingys this weekend since I still need to get a shirt pattern and see if I have any good plain black fabric around the house before I can start Ayame’s shirt.
I got a magenta Sharpie to test on my purple wig but the ink is more purple than you would expect from the cap color and isn’t adding enough red to the wig. Maybe, I just need plain red? There’s pink but I don’t think it would be enough to change the wig color much.
Getting ready to start working on costumes again. I now have pictures of the wigs I got the other day.
( new wigs )
Went out fabric shopping today for the new costumes. Don’t you hate it when you go through store after store and still can’t find what you want? >_< I had that problem with fabric for the ruffly shirt to go under Ayame’s coat. I’d checked a few places on previous shopping trips but hadn’t seen anything just right so I decided to do a more thorough search today since I want to get started on the outfit soon.
The shirt in the manga was dark with a lacy floral design. I have red brocade for the coat already and pictured the shirt in black with gold designs. I’m not a great fan of lace so I wanted to find an opaque black with gold flowers but only found a few things to consider and none of them looked even close. -_-; It seemed hard to even find a plain gold lace; most of the shops just seemed to have tons of fancy sequined and beaded lace. I eventually found one but it gave a mostly yellow impression when layered over black so it wasn’t quite what I wanted either. After a few hours and a dozen or so shops, I bought a black and gold lace which will hopefully work because I’m just tired of looking. I suppose this is why I take so long to make a costume; sometimes, it just seems impossible to find the fabric I want! >_<
Also bought more fabric for Sora and now have the 3 shades of pink I need although I still have to get purple for the collar and shorts. I also picked up more hotfix sequins in different shapes to use on the outfit. I tested some out yesterday and they seem to actually stick! (Unlike some of the iron-on interfacings I’ve encountered before. >_>) I bought a couple of packs of hotfix Swarovski crystals to try out, too. I’ll work on Sora’s sleeve thingys this weekend since I still need to get a shirt pattern and see if I have any good plain black fabric around the house before I can start Ayame’s shirt.
I got a magenta Sharpie to test on my purple wig but the ink is more purple than you would expect from the cap color and isn’t adding enough red to the wig. Maybe, I just need plain red? There’s pink but I don’t think it would be enough to change the wig color much.
