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While we all wait for my business name and all that to become fully licensed and legal, I’m getting everything sorted to finally finish my Etsy shop. That means I need photos, lots of them. Sadly I live in a nice shady apartment; I never get good enough lighting from the sun to take good photos…
My current big project is a full set of ornate wizards robes for a good friend of mine. A key part of jumping the robes up a notch in the scales of grandiosity is sash or belt with dangly stuff! So while I have to wait to start on the robes proper for certain specialty…
So this past week my husband gave me a design challenge. What happens when you apply puff and slash to outfits that aren’t European renaissance themed? First let’s talk briefly about what defines puff ‘n’ slash for this challenge. For me I instantly go to the Landsknecht. The idea of showing off how rich…
You may have noticed that I had a bit of a hiccup in my posting schedule this past month. I wish I could tell you it was because I got inundated with awesome crafting projects. No instead I severely underestimated the sheer volume of educating myself I would have to do to get my business…
Oof! Last week was a doozy. Digging in to the legal shenanigans of starting my bespoke costumes and props business turned out to be Way more time consuming than I originally anticipated. This has slowed everything down, both my writing and my crafting. Rest assured the slow down is almost over and you’ll have some…
This is a short piece used as part of the background for a LARP character in a game down near LA. Twin Mask is a game with a whole bunch of awesome people, even though the politics of it often stress me out. If you’re in the area and want to check it out, they…
So, I really don’t want to call this a dream catcher, since I haven’t done nearly enough of the research to do justice to the traditions behind dream catchers. This is not a dream catcher, it is a Prop, for a game.
I said that I’d make another post where I talked more about the tooling I did on the Utility Quiver: Why I picked the symbols that I did, that sort of thing. The first thing to know is that this isn’t just a generic example of what I can do. It is made to fit…
So, my blog is pretty much stable now (curse you splashpage I will figure out how to get you working consistently). That finished I’m finally engaging in stage two of my crazy plan: get my skills out there on the net in a way that could maybe ever make me money, probably. To this end, this week…
So over the holidays I set out on a pretty big endeavor. I had two problems to solve. First I needed a compact way to transport all of the gear for a particular character’s costume. Second, I needed a way to carry contact-sport arrows that was convenient and prevented them from all falling out whenever…