With the date of my Installation as Worthy Advisor (aka president of my local assembly/charity group) coming up soon, I don't have a lot of time or energy to blog. I'm busy on crocheting and making decorations for the party and planning my 6-month term.
So I'm going to take a break, and I will begin working on cosplay again when the installation is over. c:
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Small update (Repost from personal journal)
Totally slacked on writing my culminating project research paper... But, like I thought, I could do it in my sleep. I have two pages of written words, and two pages of typed worked and I'm already over the page requirement and only on my third bullet on my outline. It's insanely easy to write about. Almost too easy, after having to do one for Honors English with Andrews, writing 55,000 words for NaNo, and just finishing a 27 PAGE technical report last week. It's due tommarrow and I have no worries, especially since it's only the rough draft.
My only sadface is that I found a FANTASTICAL source after I started writing and there was some things I had to go back and insert. But other than that it's been a breeze, just time consuming.
c: It also reminded me I've got to get my butt on line with working on stuff. There is a Gasukan meetup at Seattle Center on December 13th. Anyone want to go? I'm thinking of going as Gakuen Gurren Nia to go with the winter theme and use my cute new coat. c: More info here:http://www.cosplay.com/showthread.php?t=166021
I will probably be able to get rides for everyone there, the problem is getting from ferry to Seattle Center. But we can get directions from the Seattle-savvy moms of the group, na? c:
I might also have time to just make Supreme commander Simon jacket, since tonight is my last final and then I'm ~free~ c:
Uhhh... Well, there's MEW con on new years (Chowder should go. and Emily. My mom was thinking of splurging on a hotel room and going down to Portland while we party at the Con. Hmmm... Maybe I'll be able to roomshare with guild people... I'll have to mention that sunday.) And apparently Kei-con in February, a normal costuming convention in the same month, then Sakuracon. c: I'd like to go to Kumoricon, Anime Evolution and Akicon next fall. I'll just be going to OC and hopefully holding a job, so it'll be fun. c: Just think, in April I was emo that after Sakuracon, the fun of cons and geekdom and cosplay were over for the year. How wrong I was.
I need to find some new anime or something. I want to find something amazing to cosplay, something different from Gurren. Soul Eater is too easy, too plain and too popular. And I don't want to get attacked by any Black Star cosplayers. Black Star annoys me so much... >>; *cough Naruto clone *cough*.
Other than report stuff.. I really have been slacking, jeez. x_x I need to do a few things, like write Christmas cards ( to my Rainbow correspondent especially), get Amanda's Yoko done, figure out wtf I'm going to do for a wig for Yoko, get moving on Nia's cape and belt, figure out what I'm going to do with the resin casting stuff I got [I fail at casting], figure out wtf I'm doing for money...general things.
Augh, I'm finding great wigs, FREE shipping, thirty bucks... But I dont have that much D: I wish someone would buy my Simon wig from me!
My only sadface is that I found a FANTASTICAL source after I started writing and there was some things I had to go back and insert. But other than that it's been a breeze, just time consuming.
c: It also reminded me I've got to get my butt on line with working on stuff. There is a Gasukan meetup at Seattle Center on December 13th. Anyone want to go? I'm thinking of going as Gakuen Gurren Nia to go with the winter theme and use my cute new coat. c: More info here:http://www.cosplay.com/showthread.php?t=166021
I will probably be able to get rides for everyone there, the problem is getting from ferry to Seattle Center. But we can get directions from the Seattle-savvy moms of the group, na? c:
I might also have time to just make Supreme commander Simon jacket, since tonight is my last final and then I'm ~free~ c:
Uhhh... Well, there's MEW con on new years (Chowder should go. and Emily. My mom was thinking of splurging on a hotel room and going down to Portland while we party at the Con. Hmmm... Maybe I'll be able to roomshare with guild people... I'll have to mention that sunday.) And apparently Kei-con in February, a normal costuming convention in the same month, then Sakuracon. c: I'd like to go to Kumoricon, Anime Evolution and Akicon next fall. I'll just be going to OC and hopefully holding a job, so it'll be fun. c: Just think, in April I was emo that after Sakuracon, the fun of cons and geekdom and cosplay were over for the year. How wrong I was.
I need to find some new anime or something. I want to find something amazing to cosplay, something different from Gurren. Soul Eater is too easy, too plain and too popular. And I don't want to get attacked by any Black Star cosplayers. Black Star annoys me so much... >>; *cough Naruto clone *cough*.
Other than report stuff.. I really have been slacking, jeez. x_x I need to do a few things, like write Christmas cards ( to my Rainbow correspondent especially), get Amanda's Yoko done, figure out wtf I'm going to do for a wig for Yoko, get moving on Nia's cape and belt, figure out what I'm going to do with the resin casting stuff I got [I fail at casting], figure out wtf I'm doing for money...general things.
Augh, I'm finding great wigs, FREE shipping, thirty bucks... But I dont have that much D: I wish someone would buy my Simon wig from me!
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Akicon 08
Oh my god. Where does the time go? It's almost the middle of November. CHRISTMAS IS COMING!
Aki Con pictures are up: http://flickr.com/photos/25312209@N02/
This is one of my favorites: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/3017391033_1e25da6329_o.jpg
Here is the guild I was talking about. c: Minus one or two of the Gurren people-- it was decided they had to be pulled in. I am in the center dressed in pink.
Aki Con pictures are up: http://flickr.com/photos/25312209@N02/
This is one of my favorites: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/3017391033_1e25da6329_o.jpg
Here is the guild I was talking about. c: Minus one or two of the Gurren people-- it was decided they had to be pulled in. I am in the center dressed in pink.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Cosplay guild (Reposted from a personal blog)
So, I've been emailing people into cosplay for my culminating project. During a computer lab day with Eisele a couple weeks ago Mandarr helped me found a article on a college website about Sakuracon! It turned out to be awesome, as I found information about the Olympic Cosplay guild. I emailed the guy a week-ish ago, and he emailed me back! Robert Grey is the founder of it, and he seems really awesome. The guild was founded in Sequim, but there are people there, in Seattle, Port Angeles and there's NINE in Port Townsend. Bremerton works out to be the center of it all. Turns out the best place to meet would be Seattle or... the mall! :0
So, since I told him I had several friends interested in joining, I'd thought I'd share. :D
Since we're all under eighteen, there's only one question we have to answer in order to join. Once I get it, I can give it to others to have them join. Pretty cool. :o
During our searches we also found AKI-CON! Which is a small anime convention in Everett November 7-9th. It sounds really awesome, a decent size, and they happened to have a Gurren group last year. :D
I'm excited about this, so sorry if I don't make sense. Talk to me at school. c:
So, since I told him I had several friends interested in joining, I'd thought I'd share. :D
Since we're all under eighteen, there's only one question we have to answer in order to join. Once I get it, I can give it to others to have them join. Pretty cool. :o
During our searches we also found AKI-CON! Which is a small anime convention in Everett November 7-9th. It sounds really awesome, a decent size, and they happened to have a Gurren group last year. :D
I'm excited about this, so sorry if I don't make sense. Talk to me at school. c:
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Cosplay Ramblings (Repost from Personal Journal)
Aaaa. D: I want to cosplay Stein SO much now. He's such a crazy SOB and I LOVE it :D
Just need a lab,coat, lots of grey fabric and some pants :D
Cosplays I want to do now:
Nia (Have the materials)
Commander Simon (Have everything)
Lolita Nia (Have lace,etc)
Maka
Dr.Stein :D
Cut for rambling.
Stein would be the easiest. I'd want to piece together his sweater, but everything else is pretty much goodwill/Halloween clearence and lots of embroidery. Plus, giant screw.
I'd be pretty fun to go through Sakuracon on a wheely chair. But I don't have the truck anymore, so no go. :<
I got bra cups and white pleather for Yoko today. My mom paid for it, which was pretty sweet. c: We got the shorts done. They need to be taken in around the butt.I just need an hour to do the bra and its done. Yoko is pretty simple... I haven't bought the tights or the gloves... Jason can buy those. >>;
I got the fabric for SUPREME commander Simon pants. (That's how the dub translates it :D Makes me happy.)
I'm going to fix up and sell Simon jacket.. It's so godawfully huge on me now and it was before. Since I've dropped 6 pants sizes/shrunk a bit up top, it's better if I have a nice fitted jacket. I'm also replacing Simon wig (Maybe. I bought another one and will compare them if no one has replied to my ad by then.) and I stripped Simon goggles of their paint and have added sculpey and clay onto them to make them the right shape.
I wince every time I look at the pictures from Sakuracon. There's a reason why I don't go on cosfu anymore, cause I know I'm on it. >>;
Cosplaying Maka will be fun as well. I mainly just wanna make soul-scythe c:
Looking through cosplay.com, someone had the really good idea of having the staff screw into the blade part. I should do that. And have Yoko gun be collapsible so we can stuff it into cars, etc.
The one thing I'm kind of iffy about.. is Lolita Nia. I don't really feel like doing it anymore.. it isn't as exciting.. but it was the dress I was going to show off as my product as the most difficult and complicated. I have a bunch of stuff collected for it.. but mainly in appliques and lace. I don't know of anything else complicated.. so I guess I'll do it and sell it.. But I'm rather 'meh' about it.
Just need a lab,coat, lots of grey fabric and some pants :D
Cosplays I want to do now:
Nia (Have the materials)
Commander Simon (Have everything)
Lolita Nia (Have lace,etc)
Maka
Dr.Stein :D
Cut for rambling.
Stein would be the easiest. I'd want to piece together his sweater, but everything else is pretty much goodwill/Halloween clearence and lots of embroidery. Plus, giant screw.
I'd be pretty fun to go through Sakuracon on a wheely chair. But I don't have the truck anymore, so no go. :<
I got bra cups and white pleather for Yoko today. My mom paid for it, which was pretty sweet. c: We got the shorts done. They need to be taken in around the butt.I just need an hour to do the bra and its done. Yoko is pretty simple... I haven't bought the tights or the gloves... Jason can buy those. >>;
I got the fabric for SUPREME commander Simon pants. (That's how the dub translates it :D Makes me happy.)
I'm going to fix up and sell Simon jacket.. It's so godawfully huge on me now and it was before. Since I've dropped 6 pants sizes/shrunk a bit up top, it's better if I have a nice fitted jacket. I'm also replacing Simon wig (Maybe. I bought another one and will compare them if no one has replied to my ad by then.) and I stripped Simon goggles of their paint and have added sculpey and clay onto them to make them the right shape.
I wince every time I look at the pictures from Sakuracon. There's a reason why I don't go on cosfu anymore, cause I know I'm on it. >>;
Cosplaying Maka will be fun as well. I mainly just wanna make soul-scythe c:
Looking through cosplay.com, someone had the really good idea of having the staff screw into the blade part. I should do that. And have Yoko gun be collapsible so we can stuff it into cars, etc.
The one thing I'm kind of iffy about.. is Lolita Nia. I don't really feel like doing it anymore.. it isn't as exciting.. but it was the dress I was going to show off as my product as the most difficult and complicated. I have a bunch of stuff collected for it.. but mainly in appliques and lace. I don't know of anything else complicated.. so I guess I'll do it and sell it.. But I'm rather 'meh' about it.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Cosplay Planning (Reposted from my personal journal)
I'm thinking about going for a walk tommarrow to the costume shop and pricing things. The big ticket items are gonna be Mandarr's Yoko wig/boots along with the shoes/wigs for my costumes.
So, between this July and next, I'd like to make:
*Yoko for Mandarr (Hopefully we can split the $$ involved in it. I am NOT sewing pleather shorts, and the super long wig + size 12 gogo boots are all special order anyway. I really want to make her giant gun.
*Nia for me. I think I want to do young Nia with her jewelery and head-flower. But with shorter hair. I might just buy another long wig. Mandarr worked for her Wig-of-unmentionable-origins.
* RO Alchemist for me. The biggest part is the knee-high tan lace up boots. I already have the fabric and pattern for a dress. I also want to make a cart to tote around.
* Commander Simon. This is for Sakuracon, and is relatively easy. For Sakuracon I'll most likely be Simon, commander Simon, and (hopefully we stay all day sunday) and my alchemist or Nia. I might mix it up, I'm not totally sure if theres a lot of Ragnarok people up here. I also plan to use a different method of binding next year.. or at least change OUT of it for the rave.
*Also, since my culminating project is on sewing and learning techniques.. I might pick something out of either a Clamp Artbook, or one of the Gurren ones that are coming out. There's a Nia one out, and theres a two page spread of thee different Nia's in fancy dresses.. And that's what I really want to do, to show off for my presentation. (Its pretty much gonna be a powerpoint of basic sewing explanation, and then pictures of the other outfits and so on. Along with a sewing mannequin displaying the fanciest outfit. :3
Um... That's about it for now. Also thinking about remaking Simons drill in clearish resin and having it glow with a LED :D
So, between this July and next, I'd like to make:
*Yoko for Mandarr (Hopefully we can split the $$ involved in it. I am NOT sewing pleather shorts, and the super long wig + size 12 gogo boots are all special order anyway. I really want to make her giant gun.
*Nia for me. I think I want to do young Nia with her jewelery and head-flower. But with shorter hair. I might just buy another long wig. Mandarr worked for her Wig-of-unmentionable-origins.
* RO Alchemist for me. The biggest part is the knee-high tan lace up boots. I already have the fabric and pattern for a dress. I also want to make a cart to tote around.
* Commander Simon. This is for Sakuracon, and is relatively easy. For Sakuracon I'll most likely be Simon, commander Simon, and (hopefully we stay all day sunday) and my alchemist or Nia. I might mix it up, I'm not totally sure if theres a lot of Ragnarok people up here. I also plan to use a different method of binding next year.. or at least change OUT of it for the rave.
*Also, since my culminating project is on sewing and learning techniques.. I might pick something out of either a Clamp Artbook, or one of the Gurren ones that are coming out. There's a Nia one out, and theres a two page spread of thee different Nia's in fancy dresses.. And that's what I really want to do, to show off for my presentation. (Its pretty much gonna be a powerpoint of basic sewing explanation, and then pictures of the other outfits and so on. Along with a sewing mannequin displaying the fanciest outfit. :3
Um... That's about it for now. Also thinking about remaking Simons drill in clearish resin and having it glow with a LED :D
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