AOD 2011 . San Francisco.

Hey thar~

Yay, Sheik actually is posting something in this long forgotten blog of hers! How rude of her to have temporarily abandon it. My apologies though. I've been busy and lazy at the same time soooo my top priorities *cough* Ps3, costuming,facebook* have been taking over. Oh and work too. Yeah, work.... I'm doing fine though! ^-^; Some personal stuff kind of went on too but not bad stuff. I'm sure some of you already read my other blog and are caught up!

Soooooooo.........AOD. I'm going to Animation On Display in like 2 weeks. It's an anime convention held at the Kabuki Hotel in Japantown, San Francisco here in Cali. It's a fun con because there's nice people, the hotel is pretty and the underground mall is like right there. It's so fun going to the cute little Japanese shops in your costume. Hehe. Sometimes it weirds the older Japanese people out but you'd think they'd be use to it! Maybe they're weirded out because we're American? Is weirded even a word? My spellchecker disagrees but sometimes it underlines words that are completely acceptable. In any case. I'm going to this con and I'm excited. I just need to actually finish my costumes.

I've decided to go as Ayame Sohma in a maid outfit "he made" and Mai from Avatar. My friends are going as Avatardz so I was like "I'll join!" Let's just hope I can afford the fabric. I'll probably go out to JoAnn's sometime soon to get it. I think today I'll work on my dress.

Also Rikku, Agitha and Bridget are OFFICIAL costumes I'll be taking to Fanime in May. I have started working on the new ones. Agitha will be touched up!

Eee..I got to go potty! I guess I'm done writing now. :D TOODLES.

Rikku's Top

Meh. Some of you may have seen my post about redoing Rikku's top. Well it's true. I've worked on it and fixed things but there's still mistakes and it's inaccurate. ;~; I really want to do well on this costume so I want it to be accurate. I will do as well as I can and with what I can afford.

Aside from that I've been good. My Christmas was great, my new years was alright.. lol...and I've been spending lots of time with Robby.

I'm excited for AOD next month~ I haven't worked on my costume for it yet though and I need a wig, so I'll have to buy it soon X_X

Uuuuuuuuuummmmmmmm........Ya I don't know. I guess I'm not in a blogging mood. I just felt bad that I've neglected this thing. I've been playing a lot of PS3 games and my new DS game, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Hehe....yah..I'm a cosplayer but I'm also a gamer?

k well. Good night for now. I think I might work on the new top tonight.

LAZINESS. It is EVIL.

......Sooooo you guys ever sit around and view cosplay pictures of other cosplayers and you get super pumped up to work on your own costume..? BUT as soon as you sit down with some of your fabric (or all) you get this overwhelming feeling and decided you don't want to work on it anymore?

I get that. A lot. I think I'd have more costumes done if it weren't for that feeling. Sometimes though I don't feel like working on anything so I force myself...and then I go into sewing mode and can't stop working! D: I just don't get it!!!!!!!!! -cries-

Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. I guess I could work on some tonight and tomorrow... but I think I want to play a little Harvest Moonz ;~; I'm such a horrible cosplayer....a lazy one, a real lazy one! If it's such a passionate hobby of mine, wouldn't I be doing it more? I guess I'm not passionate enough. FAIL. D:

I NEED TO GO GET DETERMINDEDEDED. k bye.

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ShEiKcHaN ;3

It only looks complicated as a whole..

But if you take it on piece by piece, it's not so hard. ----
This is how I take in challenging costumes on my own. I may not be as experienced as I want, but the only way to get experienced is to experience right?

I'm really excited about my Rikku costume. The trainer dressphere is not cosplayed enough. Then again I always love cosplaying costumes that aren't as cosplayed much. Hehe. Anyway, I'm taking the costume slowly and I admit I get lazy. BUT I do have almost all the fabric I'll need for it. Almost. I need to buy some RIT dye though for some of it. Rikku has this thing about her costumes where she has a lot of pieces that fade from yellow to orange.... ah well.

If you're wondering about my Sheik costume... I've kind of put her on hold. I haven't found any fabric that will work with the dark blue I got at Wal-mart so I might need to buy some at JoAnn's and just start over! Fun stuff, but it's worth it. I want Sheik to come out as well as I can make it on the first or second try...lol.

P.S.

Sorry for my lack of posting. I've been caught up with other things since Robby has been here. I don't spend a lot of online time as I use to.

Fabric~ YAY

(me practicing with a wig I already have heheh)

I bought vinyl. I'm a bit worried. I've heard it kind of gets tricky making outfits out of Vinyl material but I think I am up to the challenge. I like challenges---sort of.

So I abused JoAnn's sale and bought 5 different types of fabric for the price of $24! I still need fabric for my Rikku and Sheik costumes but I got some to work on Rikku's outfit. I had NO luck with finding a good stretchy blue for Sheik. I might have to start over and get new fabric for the whole body suit part so I can find the right blues together. ;__; Siiiiigh I bought that bolt at Wal-Mart risking this issue and it happened. Oh well, you learn from your mistakes!

I'm super excited to work on all my costumes but even MORE excited to see my fiance this Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh I have someone to help me with my props whenever I run into a random problem at home. ^-^; Yeah, I don't know..I'm so excited though. He's like my best friend, which is good I guess considering I'll be marrying him. :] We both like to work on things alone..so when we're in the room working on stuff it's kind of quiet and relaxing. We get a lot done. So he won't be too much of a distraction... Maaaaybe at first since I haven't seen him in 7 months lol but...yeah. I'm just excited.

In any case. I can't wait to get more RIkku progress done but until he arrives I'm going to keep the room clean ;__; Yeah..I don't feel good right now, my tummy is acting up so I'm going to go now.

JoAnn~ You've made me so happy!

So. JoAnn's is having a sale this week because of Veteran's day! I mean, some of the items that aren't on sale should be but whatever...I'll be happy with what I can get! Today it was gloomy and raining so I went with Kailey to JoAnn's. We bought some fabric. I didn't buy all I need because I NEED A LOT but I bought some stuff to work on which made me happy.

I bought some fabric for my Rikku and Bridget costume. Yay~ I know, my costumes keep changing. I think the costumes I REALLY want to work on for the first half of next year are going to be (in all honesty):


Rikku~ Trainer Dressphere (FFX2)


Sheik: Zelda OOT



Bridget: Guilty Gear


Miki: Vocaloid

Awesome Youtube Widget!

Yaaay, this has nothing to do with cosplay!! Except the fact that I uh, worked on my Sheik costume a tad bit earlier. The front needs a few pieces sewn on and then I'm done with the shawl/flap thing.



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