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Mystery Visitors

5/25/2014

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Whenever I log onto my website to edit a page or add a blog post I always take a look at the analytics on how many people have visited my site and what pages they are looking at. (I just use the Weebly provided interface, not Google analytics, though I have heard good things about it if you want a more in-depth understanding of how traffic comes to and moves around your site.) Well, normally I average somewhere between 100-200 total page visits a day for artandrhinos.com.

However, when I logged on yesterday I saw a huge spike in pageviews on May 21st, and by huge I mean 2212! (that was over 900 "unique users"!). This is a very rare occurrence and to make it even weirder in the section where it shows what sites people used to "click though" to mine, there was no matching bump in numbers from any one site. Here's the screen cap for my analytics:

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Dragon*Con 2012 

9/4/2012

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DragonCon 2012 was amazing this year!  The Avengers costumes went over extremely well and when we finally made it to the Georgia Aquarium we were able to take some amazing shots.

Arriving by Thursday afternoon allowed us to get our rooms and badges in record time. (Walked right up to pre-registration booths, took less than 5 minutes! It was awesome.) We ended up back in our room wondering what we were going to do for the rest of the afternoon. We decided to go on an adventure - we fought demons, wandered lonely streets, climbed unimaginable heights, traveled to the end of the universe and, of course, saved the world, twice.

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Dragon*Con Officially kicked off Friday at 10am - when the first panels started.
For celebrities I was able to make it to a Jason Momoa and a LOTR Panel and watched a Stargate and BSG panel on DCTV. I also made a few SF literature and writing panels. A good mix of the fun and the cerebral.
There's more! -->

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Star Wars Dress

8/22/2012

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A few months ago my Dragon*Con peeps came across a pic of a beautiful dress made from old Star Wars sheets. Here's the site. The dress is to the left.

We all adored the dress and decided then and there to each make a dress from Star Wars fabric. Each dress is of a different style.  Here is the Saga of my dress...


A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy just like this one....
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My dress was made from Return of the Jedi sheets. I did a quick mock up of the top of the dress out of muslin and then I moved quickly to cutting into the sheets. I fussy cut to get the parts of the sheet I wanted for the top portion of the dress.

Cause who doesn't want Darth Vader front and center?

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Now, since the sheet fabric is a simple cotton, I needed to reinforce it so it would hold up well over the girls, and by the girls I mean my ta-tas.  I cut equal sized pieces of duck cloth and denim, but any thicker, tough fabric will do. (I didn't do this for the skirt, because I wanted the fabric to be light and flow well.)

To the right is the reverse side of the top of the dress, the Duck and the Denim.

Then, it was time to sew...

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With the top together it was time to make the skirt. I ended up not having wide enough fabric to cut the full length of the skirt, so I added on a red cotton stripe to make the dress as long as preferred.  Again, I went with a circle skirt.

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Again, my lovely assistant was there to assist in any way...like, getting as much hair on my fabric as possible.

Say Hello to my little friend...the Serger. Sergers are like the NHL enforcers of the sewing machine world.  They make sure the fabric keeps it together, by weaving 4 threads into a strong stitch along the edge of the fabric. This is especially important for fabrics that fray easily like brocades and silks.  It is also a good idea just to finish any edge, so I did so here with the edge of the skirt.
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Once the top and the skirt were sewn together I added the red strip to the bottom and the top. All I had left was to add shoulder straps...

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Throw a petticoat underneath the skirt...
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Add in a red belt, red shoes, red hair band, red bangle and red earrings and we are accessorized!
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