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Oh dear.<\/p>\n

The dryad costume is not going well. \u00a0My inability to hand draft a corset meant I had to turn to a commercial pattern. \u00a0While I waited for it to arrive, I started working on the big branchy mask, only to find that I\u2019d ordered the wrong gauge of wire, and this stuff was too weak to help my hair stand on end (even though this is the style my hair is normally most cooperative with!).<\/p>\n

So now I\u2019ve got all my materials finally lined up, but very little accomplished. \u00a0It happens to be highly traditional for my costumes to be assembled as the result of several frantic all nighters. \u00a0My senior year in college, I stayed up for 36 hours straight and finished a skirt in a debate meeting while wearing it. \u00a0This is a fun story to tell now<\/em>, but made me very grouchy to be around then<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, I\u2019m being uncharacteristically sane and pulling the emergency eject button. \u00a0I can start work on the Dryad costume in January (after\u00a0The Hobbit\u00a0<\/em>one is done) and make good use of all these supplies next year. \u00a0I\u2019ve come up with an alternate idea that will take a lot less time but still seems creative and delightful. \u00a0So, I\u2019ll keep posting updates on Monday to stay on track, and you can try to guess what I\u2019ll be based on the progress photos.<\/p>\n

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So, what do you guess based on the dress I just picked up in a thrift store? \u00a0It\u2019s going to have some big revisions (those shoulderpads are going to be\u00a0burned<\/em>) but I\u2019ll just tell you now that I\u2019ll be replacing those fruit buttons with something similarly striking but in a different theme. \u00a0Any hypotheses?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"