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Been a while since I addressed the decor changes I wanted to make in the house.  I'm particularly proud of 3 of the big changes we made which I shall detail for you here... Guest Bedroom I actually love sleeping in this guest room on nights when the dogs and the husband are moving around/snoring too much! I kept thing simple since it's just a guest room and took the opportunity to of course throw in splashes of purple. Here's the "before" from the previous owners And here is the "after".  We painted it with Benajmin Moore Storm Cloud and then added deep purple curtains from Bed Bath and Beyond along with plain white shears. The night stand and table were found separately on Overstock and Wayfair amazingly. The bedding was a Madison Park set from Wayfair and the headhboard was a Wayfair purchase as well.  I just couldn't resist the bling.   The mirror, lamp, and vase were all recycled from the old house. ...

Wonder Woman Skirt Mental block was semi-broken and I got to work on the skirt.  Again Visio was my friend here although it probably took 5 iterations for me to get all the proportions correct.  First one was too long, next one too too wide, next one WAY too short, etc. The skirt is made up of 2 basic types of sections: the pointed vertical flaps and horizontal rectangular flaps. For the verticals I made 3 duplicate sets along with a set that was a just a bit wider/longer (for the rear) using the blue vinyl fabric.  Each set is a center pentagon flanked by a slightly shorter pentagon that is split in 2 down the middle.  I hot glued them together at the top and put in a few staples for extra measure.  For the horizontals, I made a long flap and a slightly shorter flap that covers the distance of my waist starting under my belly button to my spine minus an inch on both ends. I then created a 2 inch band the distance around my waist to attach the fla...

Deciding to Become Wonder Woman After my first foray into cosplay for Halloween last year (Jaylah from Star Trek Beyond), I vowed to hang up the heat gun and not take on something so difficult this year.   ...and then that damn Wonder Woman movie came out and seeing her in all her big screen glory re-ignited last year's initial desires to be the Amazonian princess of Themyscira.  I started researching and realized this was going to be the antitheses to everything I wanted to deal with this year.  It's a lot a work...A LOT of work.   Figuring out HOW to be Wonder Woman Despite all those issues, I chose to take on the challenge anyway.   Where to start?  Step 1: create dedicated Pinterest board!  Step 2: Google the shit out of images of Wonder Woman. Thankfully there's plenty out there between the 2 movies AND there's also LOTS of women who have taken on this challenge before me and were nice enough to document their proce...