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padawansguide ([personal profile] padawansguide) wrote2017-12-31 01:53 pm

Friends Locking

Hi! If you've found me through one of my websites, this is my personal journal. If you want costume news, you won't find it here, it'll be posted on one of my websites: costumersguide.com and padawansguide.com. Please note I am pretty retired from updating both those sites.

I also do have public Facebook pages for both sites. Please feel free to follow me there:
http://facebook.com/costumersguide and http://facebook.com/padawansguide

I also have a twitter account for costumersguide:
http://twitter.com/costumersguide

And a public blog of my own sewing projects:
http://costumersguide.blogspot.com/

[identity profile] vanityfairy.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey Maggie! I just stumbled upon your journal, and seeing as I've been an addict to the Costumers Guide for quite a while I was very happy to see you here! =) I'd love to read your locked costuming posts, if you don't mind!

[identity profile] padawansguide.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi! Thanks for the kind words about my site! :-) I've added you, if you'd like to add me! :-)

Glad to see someone else loves Marie Antoinette as much as I do! ;-)

[identity profile] vanityfairy.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, you're added right back! =)
I'm so psyched to see that you've started on the Sleepy Hollow gown! I bummed out on the fabrics I had intended to use for my Dangerous Liaisons gown, so unless I can find another set of equally nice matching fabrics at a fair price, I think I'm doing Sleepy Hollow this fall. So it'll be great to follow your adventures with it! =)

[identity profile] padawansguide.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! :-)

I'm really excited about finally doing the SH gown - I definitely recommend the striped silk taffeta from exclusive_silks - it's fantastic! Let me know if you want a link for it.

It's always fun to see how other people do this gown. I've got one other person on my f-list who is working on one now, and two friends that have done them already! :-)

[identity profile] vanityfairy.livejournal.com 2007-07-03 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
I have that fabric watched on ebay already ;)
And I'm so glad to hear that you like it - since my boyfriend is traveling to both India and China for work this fall I was thinking of having him buy me some fabric instead of having the exclusive_silks shipped to me. But if it is as nice as it seems (and at quite a good price), I think I might go for it rather than trusting Jo to get it right ;)

Yay - who else is doing the dress? Oh, now I wanna dump my current projects and start on the SH gown, hehe... =)

[identity profile] padawansguide.livejournal.com 2007-07-05 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's really nice fabric - I was worried about the tray not being dark enough, but it's really a dark charcoal that looks blackish in some light. I wanted it to not be stark black since it looks faded in some pics.

[livejournal.com profile] lachwen is also doing the dress currently. And [livejournal.com profile] ferdalump and [livejournal.com profile] blackpearl_77 have already done it.

There are somep pics of their costumes somewhere on this page!
http://www.padawansguide.com/dragoncon_06.shtml

Join us! ;-)