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Paige Gardner
@costumeartist.bsky.social
Costume Artist working in recycled materials. Devout Lalochezia practitioner. Progressive and a bitch about it.
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Leaving the Metaverse, hoping for a Betterverse.
Excuse the feed fire hose as I move content from the landfill to higher ground.
Cool snippet of Inquisitor Oriza from the Warhammer 40k shoot at Dragon Con
☺️🙌❤️
#warhammer40k #cosplay #wh40k #dragoncon #gamesworkshop
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Warhammer Cosplay Group Photoshoot at DragonCon 2025 #dragoncon #dragoncon2025 #warhammer #warhammer40k
TikTok video by ghoulscoutcos
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September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Madame Mantis costume is almost right. Photos from Dragon Con indicate she’d look better with the gold filigree carapace (insect anatomy) carried down through her legs. I’ve got a few months to thrift something that’ll work 😄👍
#cosplay #mantis #dragoncon #insect #costume #stainedglass
September 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Inquisitor Oriza is a harder wear as I age, but damn what fun cosplay to inhabit.
#warhammer40k #dragoncon #cosplay #inquisitor
(Photo by Thomas Spanos, 2025)
September 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
And just like that …
My Etsy shopping budget for 2025 has tripled.
#etsywitches #takemymoney
September 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The projection is off the charts here
April 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The message is: crowd large.

Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.

Events like this puncture that delusion.
You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.
www.motherjones.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
For my friends who knew this would happen under Project 2025 and did all they could to stop it - I’m so sorry for the suffering ahead.

For those who voted for the GOP and these predictable promised outcomes - Take your medicine. Sleep in the bed you made. And Fuck your upcoming GoFundMe.
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Transforming our century-old pump organ into a usable desk gives us another 100 years with this beauty ❤️.
Irreparable as an instrument but important as family heirloom, making her an active part of our lives again with this update feels great! #pumporgan #antique #diy #renovation #transformation
March 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We are all pennies.
Marked with Liberty and E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One), a Penny is the individual American currency that all larger sums are built from. You can’t have a dollar without 100 pennies.
Pennies, altogether, are powerful.
We are all pennies.
#epluribusunum #penny
February 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Built over 30 days from a shower curtain, thrifted clothes and decor with sharp scissors, zip ties and fabric glue ‘Baba Divina’ wandered @wildwestcon.bsky.social in 2020. Photo by @melissawambolt.bsky.social #tarot #fortuneteller #costume #diy #cosplay #magic #headpiece #mask #tarotcard #skirt
February 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Recommended follow @nakedpastor.bsky.social Every bit of his Art hits home. ❤️
Have you noticed it is most often the privileged and protected who say this?
February 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
As a tech-clumsy old lady with an iPhone, I prob make things harder than they have to be, when trying to protect my privacy from Apple, Google and their ilk.
So anyway, I just went app-by-app in Settings to reduce access from Siri’s nosey ass. Learn elsewhere.
February 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
1) Devastate the US population economically.
2) Demoralize the US population and sow division.
3) Test population’s resolve to protect freedom with attacks on minorities.
4) Invite external assault (911-esque) to allow for US martial law.
This is the plan.
#project2026 #oligarchy #gaza
Trump: "The US will take over the Gaza Strip."
February 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Santa got the surreal horror treatment in this thrift store masterpiece.
(Even background Santa is concerned 👀).
#thrift #art #christmas #horror #santa
February 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Resistance was futile when John F. Goddamn Strangeway badgered me into throwing together Ackmena from the 1978 Star Wars Christmas Special. I did it for Bea Arthur. #starwars #Christmas #ackmena #cosplay #pestered #beaarthur #closetcosplay
@strangeway.bsky.social @brettkingsteam.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Salvaged a t-shirt graphic I liked and used Aleene’s Fabric Fusion to glue it onto a thrifted cap. It’s a little scrubby on the bill, but I can still wear it 😊👍 #thrifted #cap #diy #salvaged #tshirt #tequila #aleenes
January 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Yesterday, on my late mother’s bday, I found this photo in the organ project, tucked away in a compartment. This was her organ. She learned to play on it, and spent the following decades playing each next modern interaction of organ at various churches. This is the photo I’ll keep with organ desk😊❤️
January 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Captured by @dimhorizonstudio.bsky.social under Sloss Furnace in scorching Alabama July temps. This is what heat exhaustion in a latex costume looks like. Exquisite art 😊🙌. Alas, the costume is no more.
#alien #hrgiger #aliens #cosplay #latex #costume #xenomorph
January 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
‘Madame Mantis’ was an extra beta project in 2019. Test photo by Subversively, had amazing shadows on the ground. She’s been seriously reworked. I just need to take her out again. #cosplay #mantis #stainedglass #diy #costume @dragoncon
January 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Absolute favorite video of Inquisitor Oriza by Legend of Micah @dragoncon.org
#warhammer40k #cosplay #sisterofbattle #costume #armor #gamesworkshop
January 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Finally committed to reconfiguring our 1910 Weaver pump organ into a desk, transforming a family relic into functional furniture for daily use. Will share a link soon with the journey. Here’s a bouquet of reed stops that will remind us of her old life as she moves into her new one. #organ #desk
January 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This stupid DOORMAT in an Alabama thrift store. #idiots
January 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Thrifted this big, old doll and discovered that “Follow Me!” Eyes were a thing for a time. 😮 Her name is now Ebaybee. She’s my office mgr, sits on my desk with motivational ‘get to work’ quotes. CON: I can’t escape her gaze PRO: Judgy staring apparently ups my productivity. #vintagedoll #bossbaby
December 30, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Tried my hand at visible mending a son’s favorite pants. Telling myself it’s supposed to be messy 😂. Also, bees.🐝
#visiblemending #sewing #beginner #bees
December 23, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Lu in his “missing his favorite person” heated blanket. #spoiled #saddog
December 20, 2024 at 3:45 AM