cosplay life
The weird life of a cosplayer.
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I tried to sew with my feet and it didn’t work out so well
(recap: July 2nd I caught the side of my foot on a broken, bent sewing needle stuck in my carpet in my sewing room. 7/6 went to the dr and was put on antibiotics and got a tetanus shot.) So my foot got a ton better last week. I had finished the antibiotics Wednesday, and by Friday I was walking…
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A Crazy Day
Today was crazy. Mel was in town with the baby (who is adorable) so we met her for breakfast. Waited nearly an hour and a half for a table, after being told 30min wait. Would’ve left if we realised it would be so long, but the manager comped our meals over it which was super nice. After we ate, walked…
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Cleaning up my Flickr
Going through my photosets on flickr, removing unnecessary photos and just cleaning stuff up. I just finished going through my Belle folder, and generally I don’t like the way I look in the costume – I mean, I don’t hate it, far from it, but I never thought that wig/hairstyle looked very good on me. But I noticed something funny…
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shall i embarrass myself some more?
Digging through my old hard-drive for that Sailor Moon pic yesterday, I came across quite a few “lost” costume pics from a decade ago. I don’t have a date on this one, though I’m thinking it’s sometime in 2001 also, very early on in my costuming making. I bought this costume off ebay – Sailor Mars: I tossed on a…
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random memory
Here’s a random memory of a costume I never did. Back in the dark ages, I used to look around on ebay pretty often for costumes. This was way before the influx of chinese commissioners, and the search term “cosplay” would only bring up about a page or two of results, if that. I would go search just to see…
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end of an era
So, last night, I used up the last of my aisle runner. This thing: Super cheap shiny fraying white satin. I don’t even remember how many yards I ended up with. It was a LOT. I never expected to get it back, for some reason I never thought of that – but when we got home from the honeymoon, there…
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a few thoughts about dragoncon pics on flickr
from surfing flickr. 1. photos of some random fetish chick in spandex taken in your basement should not be tagged “dragoncon”, because they aren’t. 2. photos of fish at the aquarium should not be tagged “dragoncon”, because they aren’t. 3. editing is awesome. i know its cool you got pics of your fav celebrity but do we really need to…
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an odd worry
While at conventions, I’m always worried someone’s going to ask me something about the character I’m dressed as, or ask me to pose in a certain way, and I have no idea what they’re talking about. I think the only reason I worry about it because I’ve had it happen – one time when I was wearing Belldandy, and guy…
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a note
dear basement dwellers, I realise there’s no way to keep you from taking picture of girls’ butts at conventions. I personally really don’t care. But, for the love of God, why do you upload them to flickr and photobucket, etc? Just keep those pics to yourselves. I really don’t want to come across 20+ pics of BUTTS when looking at…
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an interesting link
This is a great read & food for thought for costumers: Your opinion? What makes you think I want it?
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i need some incentive.
Someone sent me this a while back and I never got a chance to look at it til today – random forum where some of my costumes were posted and I had to share one of the replies: “I wonder if she was auditioning for a series, or trying for an acting job and has downloaded her portfolio? Otherwise that…
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eyelashes are not bugs
today we have Padme… So the truth is I wear fake eyelashes with most of my costumes. This is for two reasons: the first, I have thin, fine eyelashes that, while they’re actually decently long, they just don’t look like much even with mascara. Everyday wear, mascara is fine, but not for costuming/getting your pic taken, etc. And secondly, I…
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Interview with me
Here’s an interview w/me at PinkRayGun.com – I really enjoyed doing this one, I have to say thanks to Amy for her kind words!! 🙂 eta, today’s princess, Padme. Don’t like how her face turned out, but oh well. also, any requests for which Padme people would like to see next? I still have quite a few of hers to…
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365 Project – Tatooine Padme + Copycats??
I finished everything. I’m so proud of myself for getting everything done a day early! The only thing not finished is my mask, and it can ride in the suitcase if it’s not done in time for me to send in the box tomorrow. Tonight is packing & cleaning and tomorrow night is more cleaning – we’ve got to get…
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I found it!!
I found the costume that’s been missing from my Dragoncon line up!! It’s something I wanted to make like 2 years ago, but forgot all about until tonight. I’m super excited about it, it brings my costume list a sort of balance I think it needed. So I’m dropping Anne Boleyn in favour of this costume. And if I have…
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a sudden realization
i have too many dang costumes
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2012
a conversation with Chase, after he looked at my blog today. Chase: you are officially now banned from adding more costumes you want to do, you have reached the official time and space continum limit Chase: youre going to upset the balance of the universe Me: just because I posted pics out of my want-to-do folder? Chase: yes, the planets…
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C4 all over again
We couldn’t go to Celebration 4 because of the wedding – we just couldn’t afford it AND a wedding in the same year. Hearing people talking about it, and people constantly asking if we were going just made me so sad that year, because I really wanted to be there! I was so disappointed we couldn’t go. And now the…
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Latest flickr comment
I don’t think so
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Wizard scan
I didn’t get around to scanning the magazine last night – but thanks to tetsuyacasshern on LOH I can at least give a sneak peek 🙂 Still going to scan my copy, so I’ll post a better version probably when I start posting pics from the photoshoot today. Speaking of which, we’re off!
