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If you have questions or comments I would love to hear them! My e-mail address is bluerosefourteen@hotmail.com
Feedback of any kind is greatly appreciated. Also, if you want to link to my site, or if you want me to link to your site, or if you have
pictures from Celebration III that I could post, feel free to e-mail them to me. If you are in any pictures that I have posted and you want
them removed, please to not hesitate to let me know. Thanks!
About Me
My name is Chelsea, but I generally go by Ame_V on the Internet. It's short for Amyera Violli, who is a character I made up when I was
younger. She is a princess of a faraway country called Aldryneria, and I decided to use her name when I first signed up at a message
board when I was a freshman in college, because I was concerned about privacy and uncomfortable with giving out my real name on the
Internet at the time.
The message board that I signed up for and still post at is theforce.net Costuming and Props forum. I found it through padawansguide.com,
which is pretty much the source of all my power. I owe Maggie a great debt of thanks for compiling all the images and information that
have allowed myself, among many others, to create detailed and accurate (as possible) replicas of Padmé costumes. Keep up the amazing
work!
I had always had a general interest in making my own versions of some of Padmé/Amidala's costumes ever since The Phantom Menace
came out, but it wasn't until I decided to go to Celebration III in 2005 that I actually began constructing anything. And the costumes I
chose to make were mainly serendipity. I had always liked the Cut Family Gown from Attack of the Clones, but never really dreamed of
making it for myself until I found the perfect fabric for a dollar a yard! I had to dye it, but that was no trouble.
Then I found fabric that wasn't necessarily perfect for the Black Corset Gown, but was probably as close as I was going to find, and I just
had to have it anyway! And at the same time my mother was making a new lining for a cape, and she let me have the old worn-out lining,
which was mostly still good. It was a heavy black satin, which I decided would work for the corset and gloves, because I didn't want to
work with leather.
Then I really had to hunt before I found fabric for my third costume, the Light Blue Tatooine outfit. You know how it is; the more specific a
thing you're looking for, the less likely you are to find it. But I did eventually find a light blue knit that was the right color, if not the right
weight. Oh well. It was going to work.
By some miracle (and a lot of help from my mom and Jean, my supervisor at the costume shop I worked at in my school theatre
department) I managed to get all three costumes finished by CIII! Then there was just the problem of getting there. I had been trying for
months to find someone from my area who was going that I could carpool and split the cost of a hotel with, but no such luck. So I owe a
great many people a huge debt of thanks for all their help.
First of all, my roommate Kit. She was kind enough to let me borrow her vehicle for five days and 800 miles, and her CD's which kept me
awake on the seven-hour drive home. Secondly, my neighbor Heather, who let me borrow her very nice digital camera and memory cards,
and who then transferred all my 400+ pictures onto two CD's for me when I got back. Thirdly, my chaplain Kristin, who heard that I had
no place to stay once I got to Indianapolis (I was under 21 at the time so I couldn't get a hotel room for myself) and took it upon herself to
find accommodations for me. She made numerous phone calls to chaplains and costume shops of the colleges in the area and finally found
Sarah, who is my fourth person to thank.
She took me in, a complete stranger, even leaving the first day of the convention early to meet me and help me find her apartment, which
she shared with me for three nights. And during the days she drove me to and showed me around the convention center, and was just
generally very helpful and friendly the entire weekend. Without Sarah I would have been lost and alone. She made my CIII experience
memorable and fun.
I also owe my parents and professors for letting me go and take off two days of classes, and my friends and siblings for not thinking (or at
least not letting me know that they were thinking) that I was a nut case. I had an amazing time at CIII, and I could not have gone without
the love and support of everyone who went out of their way to help me go.
I also wanted to thank Maggie and all the other talented costume makers whose brains I picked to make my own costumes, and what
better way to do so than to pass on my own tips and advice? Plus I had all these pictures from CIII that needed to be shown off. So last
year I started this website.
It started off as just photos and tutorials of my three completed Padmé costumes, plus my custom OOAK Padmé doll and the outfits that I
had made for her. But the doll part of it took off and grew much faster than my full-sized costumes had. So I am currently expanding this
site and giving my dolls their own website. Because I have acquired so many more dolls since starting this up, including quite a few more
custom Star Wars dolls. They will have a place on both sites from now on, of course.
So stay tuned for updates in the future! The look of this site may not change a whole lot, but the new doll site will look quite a bit different.
It should be fun.
Well, what else do you need to know about me? I'm 22, a college student with one year left. Born and raised in a small town in Iowa,
love books, movies, sewing, writing, dolls, Star Wars, Firefly, Harry Potter, etc. I plan on making more full-sized Padmé costumes for
myself in the future as well, so be sure to keep checking back for more updates!
Feedback of any kind is greatly appreciated. Also, if you want to link to my site, or if you want me to link to your site, or if you have
pictures from Celebration III that I could post, feel free to e-mail them to me. If you are in any pictures that I have posted and you want
them removed, please to not hesitate to let me know. Thanks!
About Me
My name is Chelsea, but I generally go by Ame_V on the Internet. It's short for Amyera Violli, who is a character I made up when I was
younger. She is a princess of a faraway country called Aldryneria, and I decided to use her name when I first signed up at a message
board when I was a freshman in college, because I was concerned about privacy and uncomfortable with giving out my real name on the
Internet at the time.
The message board that I signed up for and still post at is theforce.net Costuming and Props forum. I found it through padawansguide.com,
which is pretty much the source of all my power. I owe Maggie a great debt of thanks for compiling all the images and information that
have allowed myself, among many others, to create detailed and accurate (as possible) replicas of Padmé costumes. Keep up the amazing
work!
I had always had a general interest in making my own versions of some of Padmé/Amidala's costumes ever since The Phantom Menace
came out, but it wasn't until I decided to go to Celebration III in 2005 that I actually began constructing anything. And the costumes I
chose to make were mainly serendipity. I had always liked the Cut Family Gown from Attack of the Clones, but never really dreamed of
making it for myself until I found the perfect fabric for a dollar a yard! I had to dye it, but that was no trouble.
Then I found fabric that wasn't necessarily perfect for the Black Corset Gown, but was probably as close as I was going to find, and I just
had to have it anyway! And at the same time my mother was making a new lining for a cape, and she let me have the old worn-out lining,
which was mostly still good. It was a heavy black satin, which I decided would work for the corset and gloves, because I didn't want to
work with leather.
Then I really had to hunt before I found fabric for my third costume, the Light Blue Tatooine outfit. You know how it is; the more specific a
thing you're looking for, the less likely you are to find it. But I did eventually find a light blue knit that was the right color, if not the right
weight. Oh well. It was going to work.
By some miracle (and a lot of help from my mom and Jean, my supervisor at the costume shop I worked at in my school theatre
department) I managed to get all three costumes finished by CIII! Then there was just the problem of getting there. I had been trying for
months to find someone from my area who was going that I could carpool and split the cost of a hotel with, but no such luck. So I owe a
great many people a huge debt of thanks for all their help.
First of all, my roommate Kit. She was kind enough to let me borrow her vehicle for five days and 800 miles, and her CD's which kept me
awake on the seven-hour drive home. Secondly, my neighbor Heather, who let me borrow her very nice digital camera and memory cards,
and who then transferred all my 400+ pictures onto two CD's for me when I got back. Thirdly, my chaplain Kristin, who heard that I had
no place to stay once I got to Indianapolis (I was under 21 at the time so I couldn't get a hotel room for myself) and took it upon herself to
find accommodations for me. She made numerous phone calls to chaplains and costume shops of the colleges in the area and finally found
Sarah, who is my fourth person to thank.
She took me in, a complete stranger, even leaving the first day of the convention early to meet me and help me find her apartment, which
she shared with me for three nights. And during the days she drove me to and showed me around the convention center, and was just
generally very helpful and friendly the entire weekend. Without Sarah I would have been lost and alone. She made my CIII experience
memorable and fun.
I also owe my parents and professors for letting me go and take off two days of classes, and my friends and siblings for not thinking (or at
least not letting me know that they were thinking) that I was a nut case. I had an amazing time at CIII, and I could not have gone without
the love and support of everyone who went out of their way to help me go.
I also wanted to thank Maggie and all the other talented costume makers whose brains I picked to make my own costumes, and what
better way to do so than to pass on my own tips and advice? Plus I had all these pictures from CIII that needed to be shown off. So last
year I started this website.
It started off as just photos and tutorials of my three completed Padmé costumes, plus my custom OOAK Padmé doll and the outfits that I
had made for her. But the doll part of it took off and grew much faster than my full-sized costumes had. So I am currently expanding this
site and giving my dolls their own website. Because I have acquired so many more dolls since starting this up, including quite a few more
custom Star Wars dolls. They will have a place on both sites from now on, of course.
So stay tuned for updates in the future! The look of this site may not change a whole lot, but the new doll site will look quite a bit different.
It should be fun.
Well, what else do you need to know about me? I'm 22, a college student with one year left. Born and raised in a small town in Iowa,
love books, movies, sewing, writing, dolls, Star Wars, Firefly, Harry Potter, etc. I plan on making more full-sized Padmé costumes for
myself in the future as well, so be sure to keep checking back for more updates!
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