Shopping spreeeeeeeeeeeee
The upshot of today: I bought stuff to make the Capture the B34R costume. Hopefully I can have it done in time for Otakon. Hopefully nobody else will have one (unless they are a Largo to my Piroko).
I drove to McKnight road. I took Bigelow. I am really proud that I didn't get lost OR hit anyone on the way there or back. Whee! I ate a quick lunch, and went to Half Price Books, where I said hi to![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kaote and where I dropped off a bunch of books and videos to sell. They gave me store credit, which I bought a movie with (the disneyfied Three Musketeers). It's still condensing a bag of stuff into one movie, so it's not too bad. I dropped off a huge bag of clothes at Goodwill after that and didn't go in to shop. After that I went to Joann Fabric, where I went around looking really confused searching for patterns and cloth and all. I'm going to make a costume that's going to look like the person on the left in this picture. Of course, I'm wearing the t-shirt today, which has different colors, so I bought black material for the wrap sleeves. I did buy some dark green in addition to light green though, so maybe if I have enough left over after making the belt, I'll be able to make the sleeves out of it. It's unclear. Anyway, I'll start sewing tomorrow sometime I guess. Whee. Wish I had a machine. I wonder if madmadammim still has one or if it was Erin's, because it'd be great to use one instead of handsewing this whole damn thing.
There was an amusing thing wherein I couldn't find appropriate materials and I went up to the lady at the cloth cutting desk like "Hi. I'm, er, starting early on my Halloween costume. I want to make an army jacket kind of like the one this person is wearing [points to Piroko on t-shirt]. Any suggestions?" and she looked at me really funny and said "We have camouflage and thick cloth over that way..."
Uh. Anyway. Got back just in time to have dinner with people at Tasty's. It was good and I got to see a lot of people. Kevin's back in town! Yay! We're going to see Minority Report later tonight (me, Eli, Kevin, and Norm, that is).
I drove to McKnight road. I took Bigelow. I am really proud that I didn't get lost OR hit anyone on the way there or back. Whee! I ate a quick lunch, and went to Half Price Books, where I said hi to
kaote and where I dropped off a bunch of books and videos to sell. They gave me store credit, which I bought a movie with (the disneyfied Three Musketeers). It's still condensing a bag of stuff into one movie, so it's not too bad. I dropped off a huge bag of clothes at Goodwill after that and didn't go in to shop. After that I went to Joann Fabric, where I went around looking really confused searching for patterns and cloth and all. I'm going to make a costume that's going to look like the person on the left in this picture. Of course, I'm wearing the t-shirt today, which has different colors, so I bought black material for the wrap sleeves. I did buy some dark green in addition to light green though, so maybe if I have enough left over after making the belt, I'll be able to make the sleeves out of it. It's unclear. Anyway, I'll start sewing tomorrow sometime I guess. Whee. Wish I had a machine. I wonder if 
madmadammim still has one or if it was Erin's, because it'd be great to use one instead of handsewing this whole damn thing.There was an amusing thing wherein I couldn't find appropriate materials and I went up to the lady at the cloth cutting desk like "Hi. I'm, er, starting early on my Halloween costume. I want to make an army jacket kind of like the one this person is wearing [points to Piroko on t-shirt]. Any suggestions?" and she looked at me really funny and said "We have camouflage and thick cloth over that way..."
Uh. Anyway. Got back just in time to have dinner with people at Tasty's. It was good and I got to see a lot of people. Kevin's back in town! Yay! We're going to see Minority Report later tonight (me, Eli, Kevin, and Norm, that is).