Where in the World is Jessica?

Well hello there dear Blogand, its been awhile since I posted! And why is that you ask? Well, I have been a busy little bee. First off, we've finally moved to a new apartment (hooray)! We're now in Midtown Sacramento with a two-bedroom, two-bathroom place paying just a bit more than we were paying in Old Sacramento. Have no fear, pictures will come soon, once we've got everything settled.

And I also applied to graduate school at Sacramento State. Wish me luck!

Also, a big portion of time over the past week was spent on my super sweet Halloween costume. For those of you that don't recognize it, I'm Leeloo Dallas from The Fifth Element. If you haven't seen this movie, you really haven't lived. It's amazing. Go rent it!

Unfortunately I don't have a lot of pictures of my sweet costume since, well, Steven was working a Mountain Lions game and I'm not too big into taking Myspace angles shots of myself. (And I'm not a big picture-taker in general.) But here's one I stole from a friend on Facebook:

She knows it's a Multi Pass!

I was uber-ambitious this year and made the suspenders myself using insulation foam as a mold and silicone rubber for the material. I don't have pictures of the process since we were moving and I wasn't sure where my camera was. But I can tell you that I followed instructions here.

And let me tell you, she made it sound very easy, and it was definitely anything but. If anyone decides to do this in the future, know that you're going to put about a week of your life into this. I can totally see why people charge upwards of $200 for these things!

But, if someone out there decides that making their own Leeloo suspenders is the way to go, please learn from my mistakes. Tutorials never seem to tell you what they did wrong, and I feel like its a very important thing to share, so I will:

1. Use very little red dye when making your orange. The red I got from Smooth-On was extremely aggressive. Maybe experience mold-makers know this, but I royally effed up and barely had enough yellow to make my orange.
2. Be sure your mold pieces are glued together securely. Apparently I had some gaps and some of my silicone leaked out the sides, making some of the connections uneven.
3. Make sure you save a little mixture to glue the suspenders together. I'm not really sure how to do this since you only have a limited time to work with the silicone before it begins to cure. But I did find out too late that it's the only thing that will glue them together and had to use clear packing tape. But if you're in a bind, it actually ended up working out since you can't really see it anyhow.

And that's pretty much what I've been doing. We're all moved into our new place, I went to a rockin' Halloween party, and now I'm preparing to have my BFF Taylor and her husband visit on Thursday! Yaaaaaaaaay team!

Until next time, you stay classy interwebs.