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Itching to sew...
Aug. 31st, 2007 01:07 amYesterday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ngmaster posted an enhanced version of the photo shoot he did for my formal Terra at Otakon 2006: http://ngmaster.livejournal.com/306611.html I like how nice and bright the colors on my dress came out. ^_^
I’m still helping my mother paint the basement. It feels like it’s taking forever and it would probably help if there weren’t so much stuff down there. -_-
Since that has been keeping me busy, I’ve been lazy and haven’t been working on any little crafty things or getting my stuff listed for sale. I want to get to work on the new Count D costume but I need to buy more fabric first. I might just move stuff around the living room, unroll the rug in there (the room has been messed up since my parents had the windows replaced over AnimeNext weekend) and go back to cutting stuff on the floor. Because we still haven’t worked out the damned cutting table situation for the sewing room. >_<
Might go look for more supplies tomorrow since I need to check more bead shops and one that I’d like to visit isn’t open Saturdays during the summer. I’m still not sure what I’m doing about those pearls. I looked through a bunch of sites yesterday but I’m still not finding any large resin pearls in color; everyone just seems to have the Swarovski pearls and glass ones. There aren’t as many colors but I found these glass pearls which are much better than the Swarovski price-wise. I’d be able to get enough of them to do the long strands for around $20 but there’s still the weight issue since they’re glass.
I also came across something known as shell pearls, which are made from ground up shells. I was wondering how they’d compare weight-wise but they seem to cost twice as much as the already expensive Swarovski pearls so that wouldn’t be a realistic option.
Maybe, I’ll go back to Toho Shoji and ask if they can get other pearls because I was looking at their site earlier and noticed they have like 70 colors of resin pearls pictured although I’ve never seen nearly that many colors in there. o_o Their resin pearls are nicer than others I’ve seen and I’ve used some for jewelry before.
(I realize that the quick and cheap way to solve this bead problem would be to go find some huge bead garland for Christmas trees but I refuse to use something that cheap-looking on this costume. >_>)
Maybe, if I can get some materials tomorrow, I’ll actually be able to start soon. Since the costume is floor length, I’m kind of tempted to make the length adjustable somehow. So I can wear accurate slippers for things like craftsmanship judging and then cheat and wear heels when I’m just wandering around a con because I’m so short. *remembers the photo from Anime North with the pets towering over D* ^_^;;
On the bright side, I did get my purple and yellow theatrical contacts ordered so I should finally have visibly mismatched eyes the next time I cosplay D. The regular color lenses I have now are so unnoticeable that I was able to wear a mismatched pair out on my last fabric shopping trip without any strange looks. And that just confirmed my suspicions about how hard to see they are.
ngmaster posted an enhanced version of the photo shoot he did for my formal Terra at Otakon 2006: http://ngmaster.livejournal.com/306611.html I like how nice and bright the colors on my dress came out. ^_^ I’m still helping my mother paint the basement. It feels like it’s taking forever and it would probably help if there weren’t so much stuff down there. -_-
Since that has been keeping me busy, I’ve been lazy and haven’t been working on any little crafty things or getting my stuff listed for sale. I want to get to work on the new Count D costume but I need to buy more fabric first. I might just move stuff around the living room, unroll the rug in there (the room has been messed up since my parents had the windows replaced over AnimeNext weekend) and go back to cutting stuff on the floor. Because we still haven’t worked out the damned cutting table situation for the sewing room. >_<
Might go look for more supplies tomorrow since I need to check more bead shops and one that I’d like to visit isn’t open Saturdays during the summer. I’m still not sure what I’m doing about those pearls. I looked through a bunch of sites yesterday but I’m still not finding any large resin pearls in color; everyone just seems to have the Swarovski pearls and glass ones. There aren’t as many colors but I found these glass pearls which are much better than the Swarovski price-wise. I’d be able to get enough of them to do the long strands for around $20 but there’s still the weight issue since they’re glass.
I also came across something known as shell pearls, which are made from ground up shells. I was wondering how they’d compare weight-wise but they seem to cost twice as much as the already expensive Swarovski pearls so that wouldn’t be a realistic option.
Maybe, I’ll go back to Toho Shoji and ask if they can get other pearls because I was looking at their site earlier and noticed they have like 70 colors of resin pearls pictured although I’ve never seen nearly that many colors in there. o_o Their resin pearls are nicer than others I’ve seen and I’ve used some for jewelry before.
(I realize that the quick and cheap way to solve this bead problem would be to go find some huge bead garland for Christmas trees but I refuse to use something that cheap-looking on this costume. >_>)
Maybe, if I can get some materials tomorrow, I’ll actually be able to start soon. Since the costume is floor length, I’m kind of tempted to make the length adjustable somehow. So I can wear accurate slippers for things like craftsmanship judging and then cheat and wear heels when I’m just wandering around a con because I’m so short. *remembers the photo from Anime North with the pets towering over D* ^_^;;
On the bright side, I did get my purple and yellow theatrical contacts ordered so I should finally have visibly mismatched eyes the next time I cosplay D. The regular color lenses I have now are so unnoticeable that I was able to wear a mismatched pair out on my last fabric shopping trip without any strange looks. And that just confirmed my suspicions about how hard to see they are.
