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nerascorpse-cosplay · 3 years
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There’s a regular at the fabric superstore. She’s at least 80 years old, and she just got back into sewing after giving it up for 40 years. We’ll call her Irma.
I love Irma.
Irma is constantly surprised by the newfangled sewing gadgets our store sells. Today she bought some extra-fine glass-head pins and a magnetic pincushion. As I’m ringing her purchases up, she tells me very seriously, “did you know, if you’re careful, you can sew RIGHT OVER those pins? You don’t need to take them out!”
I told her that I liked that you can’t accidentally melt the head of the glass pins with your iron, and she nodded. “They used to all be like that, but times changed.”
I love old sewing machines and asked what kind of machine she has, and she goes, “Oh, it’s an old Singer Featherweight that my husband bought me when we were first married. It’s probably not worth anything anymore, but the thing sews fine. Have you seen the ones those girls over there–” indicating the sewing machine sub-store in my location “–have? Those things go in every direction and the needle always comes to the top when you stop sewing! Imagine how handy that is!”
I mention that I used to sew on my grandmother’s Featherweight but now there’s a intra-family war about who owns Grandma’s Featherweight and so no one gets to use it. It’s genuinely the best portable straight-stitch machine I’ve ever used.
I warn her to never let anyone tell her that Featherweight isn’t worth something. “I know, I miss my husband and it’s always going to have a place in my heart, just like your grandma’s.”
“I mean, Irma, there’s that, but they’re also worth a really notable amount of money. The Singer Featherweight is really financially valuable. I almost never see them for sale around here for less than about $400, and that’s in bad condition.”
“It’s a good thing my husband’s dead, honey, because if you told him that he managed to buy a sewing machine that’s worth more in 2021 than he bought it for in 1950, well, he’d be so smug that I just wouldn’t be able to tolerate driving home with him.”
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 3 years
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Test fitting nightmare fredbear costume for Halloween. Looks great! Missing some pieces but it’s what it is. Outta time to
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 3 years
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Making a nightmare fredbear from five nights at Freddie’s costume for my niece for Halloween.
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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I’ve been doing it wrong all my life!
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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ONLY 5 DAYS LEFT to support In Search of Tomorrow on Kickstarter: LINK IN OUR STORY! . @ernie_hudson joins In Search Of Tomorrow to talk about his role in Leviathan and more! . Leviathan creature effects by #StanWinstonStudio. . #InSearchOfTomorrow #Leviathan #80smovies #scifimovies @80sscifidoc https://instagr.am/p/CAG_cbOpnfH/
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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Finished my fairy skirt and wings :)
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Sadly the Evermore twilight equinox masquerade got postponed and the new date I’m working and unable to go. :(
Oh well, at least I do have a fairy costume now :)
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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My mask and flower crown combined and now I’m a bush.
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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Working on my fairy wings
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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I’m making a fairy costume for Evermore Twilight Equinox Masquerade! Here’s some progress pictures
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So far I’ve made the flower crown and am working on the skirt. :)
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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Flimsy bendy wings for cute deer-faced fairies. Prototype for my Tavra wings. Came out somehow more successful than I thought, though production version is going to be laser-cut. No way I’m doing this again by hand. 
I think I’ve earned myself a coffee.
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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First demo of the new wings. A few bits to finish off and sort out but basically all working. Success- just need the rest of the fairy now. As far as I know these and the original set are the only two sets of ten working ‘Rise of the Guardians’ tooth fairy wings in the world and given the amount of work involved I think I understand why- you’d have to be mad to try and undertake a project like this…
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Make your own fluffy petticoat for cosplay, costumery or lolita fashion!!
https://etsy.me/2Hi1rXf
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Can you tell me anything about the (i assume) animatronics in tremors?
The Graboids were puppets, actually!
Here’s a video of their creation.
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- Mod Rat
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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Dying leather then I’ll start sewing it together :)
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 4 years
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Leather stamping practice and pouch making. I’m still learning and it’s pretty mangled. Hopefully dying it will cover up my floundering.
Image used is not mine! It comes from a Contera larp clan created by Felbis Productions. Please if interested go check em out!!
Link to site -> https://www.conteralarp.com
Link to site -> http://www.felbis.com
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 5 years
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Had a lot of fun at Evermore Park during Lore event 2019! Really want to go again! So many questions and storylines left unanswered!
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nerascorpse-cosplay · 5 years
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Painting my skeleton fish hat.
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