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The Big Surprise

IssacSo my friend Kristy is writing a comic very loosely based on a game she played in college. She has re-drawn some of the characters, but I know she just loves her little Issac (a midboss as she describes him). Well, Issac has a totally cool evil dad named Dimitri. Dimitri is a little miffed at how his son turned out…has turned to drinking…The scar on Dimitri’s face was an accident by Issac.

Anyway… So I convinced Kristy to wear her Issac outfit to Marmalade Dog where she was sitting behind her artist booth. We got there after they did, and Chris went up and distracted them while I walked up and shouted at Kristy/Issac “Is THAT my SON?!?” (out of a scene from her comic).  She fell off her chair into Dave sitting next to her. Mission Accomplished.

So the shirt and pants I bought from a resale shop, men’s wear. I took the collar and sleeves off of the shirt, and used the originals as patterns on the gray fabric (a twill) and re-used the cuffs from the original sleeves. The rest of the sleeves actually got attached to an old pair of gloves that I don’t like, with the red bias tape around the edges. The bib front is sewn on at the left and at the right it is actually snapped on under the buttons. The cape was made of 1 layer of the gray fabric and one layer of maroon broadcloth. I used maroon and gray bias tape sandwiched in between the two layers at the outside edge, then just pressed and stitched it down. It’s held onto the shoulders by giant snaps. When I’m not wearing the cape, I have another set of male snaps on the back of some cool celtic design buttons that cover the snaps and just look cool. The “boots” are a pair of gaiters that I copied from Chris’ F&I kit, but instead of using buttons, I shortened the sides to use grommets and lace them up with a gross grain ribbon. And the top part of the sleeves (what I didn’t use on the gloves) I bound the top edges with maroon bias tape and stuffed them into the tops of the gaiters so they would fold down like the tops of the boots. They were already big enough I didn’t need to make a closure or anything. I made the things to go over the shoes, (Yay Sculpy!)  they ended up too wide and broke (I glued them), but eh. It worked for the short amount of time before the glue on the velcro that kept them to the gaiters gave out… I really liked how the sculpy insignia on the cravat turned out (which was just tucked under the collar.

Full of Fail

Today I’ve been full of fail. I’m loathe to work on anything. Last night I made some cool beads with sculpy. No pix. That is full of fail too. :(

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More Sculpy

Played with more sculpy today. Tried to re-create this candy cane tree I saw at the store, but I need to figure out how to do the stripes a little better. I’m also trying to refine the ouches. Made another base, will try to make another mold tomorrow and see how it goes. And finally I took a suggestion from CJ and I’m finishing baking a black katamari ball necklace.

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Fun with Sculpy

So I finished the molds last night, and this morning I made a couple of samples from them. I like the bottom 3 best. Last night I tried to make a sort of “Queen’s Jewel” from the portraits…I am NOT a sculptor…But it’s not horribly horrible…just a little horrible.

So I want to try to make a better mold of the bottom right two and try them out. I’ve also got to figure out how to make it be able to sew down or add to jewelry. Maybe adding eye screws or something.

Molds & Goats

No, not icky molds, molds for making multitudes of ouches. Today we picked up some of the sculpy mold maker stuff. I’m going to let it cool overnight…but one small one I made turned out really well and was cool right away. So I tried it and it just got done baking. It’s too hot to touch yet so I’m going to wait until morning, let everything cool. I don’t know how well stuff is going to work out, but the little one that I did using a button that I tore apart, looks like it might work well. I can’t wait to try them all. I’m probably going to need to get some little tiny jewelry eye bolts to use with these.  Earlier today I also got my test set of fore-sleeves cut out of the fashion fabric and inter-lining. Yay! Stuff is getting done.

Today was nice. Spent most of the day boyless with daddy. :) It was nice. We had a double date with some friends. Went and saw Men Who Stare at Goats. It was pretty cool. Not enough stuff blew up, but I loved it’s cheese & star wars references. Daddy and I finished Final Fantasy 1 for the play station 2. Take that Garland, we knocked you all down!