Chobits - Chi

I have had a very busy weekend. And I am still rather tired today. I felt like I was constantly about to doze off at work today, and I almost did a few times. And this after 9 hours of sleep last night; but my excuse is that I was up at 5am on Sunday to take my parent to the airport, after I got to bed at around midnight. I think I will be trying to make a concerted effort to get more sleep tonight. The reason for all this exhaustion and sleep deprivation – Supernova. And now, I am separating all my pictures for each day, just because I took quite a lot.

So to start off, I went on Friday night. You can actually only go on Friday night if you have a complete weekend pass, and I really liked going on Friday. It was a lot cooler to wear one of my warmer costumes and it was kinda the lead up to the rest of the weekend. On Friday, at about 12 Cherie and I walked up from work to watch the mini supernova in the mall. We met up with some of the others from the guild who were dressed to publicise the event. I had every intention of doing this originally, but after taking sick leave and being away from work, I couldn’t get away. But we were there for moral support. We went back to work and knocked off at about 4 so that we could get ready. As I had intended, I wore my Chi outfit (from the anime Chobits).

I was so pleased with how my outfit looked, though I really do need to add another petticoat underneath to bulk it out, so as soon as my cash clears into paypal this week, I will jump onto ebay and get the other petticoat I have had my eye on. It was a huge ego boost though, wearing the outfit, I got a lot of “oh you’re so cute” comments as well as a lot of photos taken and a few hugs. And I am supremely glad that I wore this outfit on the Friday night, as I was the only Chi there, whereas Saturday saw about 6 of them and another one or two on Sunday.

Supanova 2008 Part 1

Am starting to get very excited about this weekend. I have my tickets (must remember to bring that with me tomorrow) and my costumes are all ready.

The prop plan for my arrow has fallen through. Mainly because mum said she had one at work, but when she brought it home it was wrong. And now I really do not want to have try and make one tonight. I may get inspired to do so, but I severely doubt it. My gun and dog tags for my BSG costume have not shown up yet either. I am rather pissed about this because I only got the notification last week that the tags had been sent. After 2 week of waiting already. If they had of posted them sooner I would actually stand a chance of getting them. But life goes on. I will just have to wear the costume again sometime to get photos with the other accessories.

But apart from that all that I need to do tonight is get everything ready to take to work in the morning. I have actually made a list of everything that I will need for my chobits costume. Mainly so that I don’t forget and then end up panicking later. I hung my wig up last night so that it can straighten after sitting in its packet. And I need to attach the ribbons to the ears tonight. And I will give my outfit an iron to get rid of any creases. But I think my bag will be rather full tomorrow on the way in. Not only will I have my costume but I will have shoes, wig, and accessories in tow. But I am thinking that I will change at work and leave a bag of stuff I don’t need behind. I can always take it home on Monday when I am not going out in costume.

But I am getting very excited. I hope that I actually get to sleep tonight and am not running around until the wee hours of the morning getting everything in my bag. I have decided not to do the mini supernova tomorrow. Only because I would rather not take the whole afternoon off. After being sick last week and not here for most of it, I feel a bit guilty taking too much time off. My boss doesn’t mind but we have had issues with another girl in our area being away and not calling in etc. So I will go up in my lunch time to watch the show and then meet everyone later on to go over to Supernova. But very excited. Cannot wait. This is my very first Supernova. (big grin).

Update

Well so much for getting my BSG costume finished during the week. My mum picked up a stomach bug and like you do, passed it around the family. So I spend Wednesday afternoon and Thursday at home sick. I was back at work today, but not for overly long.

So come this weekend I need to get my BSG zip inserted and my supanova costumes will be complete. I am so happy that I managed to get most of it done early enough before the event. I have having to finish things at the last minute. Though, I may be painting my gun at the last minute if it arrives on time. I still have a week for both it and my dog tags to arrive. I also need to make a trip to bunnings this weekend if I intend to make the arrow of Apollo that Starbuck picks up on Caprica.

Apart form that I have no real commitments this weekend. I am still really tired and washed out from being sick, but the pills the doctor gave me to stop me throwing up make me tired. So I am thinking sleep will be good. And then I may just have to do some more of my own fun sewing. I have started my underbust corset from the strawberry blue gingham fabric from my lolita dress and it will look cute. So I would like to get that done. And then maybe I could try putting together a Lolita headdress. As I have none I get a bit worried that my hair is letting me down in my lolita outfits. I may try to make some cute hair bows as well. Will have to see. But I fully intend to make a start on Victorian base corset (for all my future Victorian garments). And I have completed my first mock up of the s-bend corset. I just need to add a smidge more room in the centre back and try a mock up with boning and lacing. I am pretty happy with how my first try turned out and I cannot wait to do the finished product.

After Holidays (sort of)

So, I have been kinda slack in my posting over the long weekend. But I have been very busy and productive. Aside from the family evenings, when I didn’t get much done (family visiting from Mackay) I managed to complete (almost) everything for Supanova. Yay! (I am jumping up and down and clapping).

I guess I should start by going into the details of my Thursday afternoon Spotlight excursion. I had to get all my fabric for my BSG costume, and thankfully they had the right colours for me. I also picked up some fabric pieces in anticipation of my historical sewing. I got my fabric for my regency dress (sale rack) and my elliptical skirt fabric (also on sale rack). And I got the fabric for my Victorian Natural Form Petticoat and my Regency chemise. I felt so over-excited when I got home and just could not wait to get started.

Friday dawned and I was up early getting started on my Suparnova costumes. I completed my Chi (Chobits) blouse first. I had already made a start on it and just needed to finish the sleeves and attach them, the ribbon bits and do the buttons. I took quite a bit longer than I expected to finish; mostly because of the awkward sewing on of ribbon at the neck and cuff. I then moved on to getting my underskirt done. Talk about ruffles. For a start the skirt is very full (3 metres) and gathered onto a waistband; and then it has a ruffle on the hem as well (3 times to get a good fullness). And to top it off I had more ribbon to sew on over the ruffle join. I had every intention of cutting out the rest of my fabric in the afternoon, but I just got my first cervical cancer shot and my arm and bicep were killing; which creates problems when you are trying to fold and shake out big pieces of fabric. Family over for dinner cut out any sewing I had planned for the evening. Especially after a few glasses of wine and champagne.

So bright and early Sunday morning I got up, made my Ice Cream and finished my cutting out. Unfortunately I didn’t get any sewing done, mainly because it is Easter Sunday and I got Planet Terror on DVD (instead of chocolate) and I had to watch that. And between the movie and preparing for our family BBQ, I didn’t really have time. For a start my home-made ice cream needs to be stirred every hour, which kind of kills time. And I had to make a few other things as well. But at least my ice cream was good. And then once the kids went home we got stuck into the SingStar again. I really think we are addicted. Especially since we are exchanging Tuesday movie night to SingStar this week.

But as compensation, yesterday I got stuck in and got a heap of stuff made up. My Chobits overskirt is done, and most of my BSG costume is complete. I made up the pants, the two singlets and most of the jacket. The only thing that I need to finish is the jacket – because I bought the wrong zip. So today I went over to Ewan Gardam and got one. Now I just need to find the time to insert it. At least everything else is done. I even managed to make a start on my next underbust corset, which I plan to work on this week. But as I was back at work today, it will have to wait. I am just so relieved that I have everything ready for Supernova. I hate leaving the sewing to the last minute. The only thing I need to do now is fix my chobits ears (the band they are on is too long) so that it will fit under my wig. I am also waiting on my E-bay purchases. I am hoping they come either this week or the next. But who knows, they are coming from the UK and America. I am also going to make the arrow that Starbuck picks up on Caprica (my costume) so I will need to get a few things to do that. But it should not take too long. A trip to Bunnings on the weekend will take care of that. Whew

Holidays (Sort of)

Well, I am now on my Easter break. I know it is only four days, but I am going to try and make the most of it. I left work early this afternoon so that I could get over to spotlight before the late night shoppers showed up, so I have taken care of getting all the fabric and notions that I need for my weekend of sewing. Thank Zeus I planned to stay home and do nothing but sew. I may even take holidays next month so that I can get some more done. I will have to see how well I go this weekend. But to inspire myself and get started I have made a lovely list of everything that is pressingly needed to be done.

Must be done this weekend:
Chi, Chobits – blouse (1/2 done), Skirt, Overskirt.
Kara, BSG – 2 singlets, track pants, jacket, arrow (possibility)

After that:
Victorian corset (will be the base for my new Victorian outfits and I need to start with this)
Edwardian corset (make up of first draft)
Victorian chemise
Victorian Elliptical Cage Crinoline
Fix God costume (bodice, and sew new ribbon to hem of skirt)

And then I can move onto getting any of my other sewing done. Namely I really need to get my Victorian pieces ready. Firstly my natural form petticoat and skirt, then the polonaise for our fashion show in May. I really need to get these done as soon as possible. Though like I said before, I may take some holidays soon; even if I only take a few days either side of a weekend. It will mean that I can get heaps of sewing done which is the biggest bonus. Hmmm, must consider this in greater depth.