Classy Femme Boba Fett

This is what I've been playing around with for one of my costumes for Dragon*Con next year. I'm on the hunt for a decent Boba Fett helmet that isn't terribly expensive. I'm even looking to purchase an unfinished "bucket" and then do my own painting/add visor/add voice amplifier. So, we'll see. A friend is going to help me make the dress (so I don't end up sewing myself to something) and we're going to alter an underbust corset that I already have.

I think I'm leaning more to the one on the right.

Dragon*Con 2012 adventures

With Slvester McCoy, the seventh doctor!

Is it time for Dragon*Con again, yet??!? I'm anxious for next year. Alex and I managed to pull together my Dalek dress to go with her TARDIS dress for the con this year. I made these pill box hats from sheets of felt and recruited the help of my dad to figure out lighting. They came out super cute and I'm excited to add to the costumes and keep them in cosplay rotation. We also had some female doctor who costumes, but those were way too hot and didn't last long in Labor Day Atlanta heat... Next costume project: classy femme Boba Fett!

Here are some of my favorite pictures from Dragon*Con weekend. I loved meeting so many great and interesting people! Never a dull moment!

With Patricia Quinn, known for being Magenta in Rocky Horror

With J. August Richards, Gunn in Angel

With Kai Owen, Rhys in Torchwood

With LeVar Burton

Creepin' - Halloween 2011

Getcha knees flexin' and your arms t-rexin' and creep, aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!

We were creeps for Halloween. Great thing about this costume... pockets! And no sewing stuff together last minute!! The only item I actually had to make were the glasses. We had many pockets for necessary Halloween items, like our flasks. Always, always be prepared!

"Are you my mummy?"

Dragon*Con 2011 in Atlanta, GA

For those of you who don't get the reference, our costumes are from the episode "The Empty Child" from Season 1 of Doctor Who. Alex found these sweet authentic WWII British civilian issued gas masks somewhere online. So we cleaned them and then gutted the respirator with my dad's can opener from the army for opening MRE's, to get all of the charcoal, mesh, and junk out.

Visit my Flickr photostream for more pictures from Dragon*Con!

The Tick and Arthur vs. Halloween

  Our Mission: To protect New Orleans (The City) from tourists, gutterpunks, and other random villains while sipping whiskey. Evildoers, you face... The Tick (and Arthur!).

Alex and I made the majority of our costumes for Halloween this year. Alex did all of the fancy sewing with our skirts and bags. Like every other time we have made our costumes, we were working on them up until last minute. Alex's sewing machine malfunctioned a couple days before, causing some panic and fear of hand-sewing. Luckily, it was fixed in time and I made our antennae the day before using headbands with attached springs, cardstock, masking tape, and spray paint. Every Halloween and Mardi Gras, we swear we'll start on our costumes super early next time. It never fails. We end up super gluing/sewing/spray painting SOMETHING together as we're walking out the door to catch the streetcar to the French Quarter.

We were so surprised and excited over how many people actually recognized who we were (moreso than when we dressed as Thing 1 and Thing 2 for Mardi Gras this year). So, yeah, here are some pictures from Halloween night: