NYCC has come and gone – it turned out to be something of a logistical nightmare.  I am never staying in Jersey again for it, the commute was absolutely ridiculous!  At least I’ve learned my lesson for next year?  Did get to meet and see a lot of fantastic people though!

Following NYCC, I got bronchitis and missed Halloween and Albany Comic Con… so that was a bit lame.  I guess note to self for next year: Don’t get bronchitis?

Other than that- trying to drag myself out of the non-costumey coma I’ve been in for a little over a year-  we’ll see how that goes.  I feel awful having not updated this since May since I do like to go back and gigglesnort at it from time to time.

Also, CFAC Calendars are still on sale here - go take a look!

I had a fantastic time at Free Comic Book Day a few weeks ago with Kelly (Dr. Natu) and Larissa (Enchantress).  More photos from FCBD behind the cut.

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I was honored to be asked to take part in ‘Cosplay for a Cause’ – a project full of never before seen photos of cosplayers and illustrations from several professional comic book artists.  All proceeds go to the Japanese Red Cross Society to assist in Japan’s Disaster relief aid.  For lots more information and ordering, check out the site:  CosplayforaCause.com

Seriously, it’s cool stuff.  :D

I exist!  I got engaged last month to that saucy Kelly girl (I like her a lot.  :B  ) – and we’ve both actually been working on costumes.  Unfortunately, a lot of costumes.  I’m making an effort not to post any progress pictures until I finish something in the hopes that it will keep me motivated and I won’t just end up with a bajillion more half-made costumes.  I don’t know, costume motivation seems hard to come by these days.  Sad.

Plans for Anime Boston are kind of meh.  Might stop by for a day, but not the whole weekend.

Let’s finish something this week.  Seriously.  SOMETHING.  Boxes of half completed costumes is not sane, I’ve got to cut out these shenanigans.

Happy Holidays!  As with all of my updates lately – I haven’t really done much cosplay-wise.  Though Kelly made a outfit based on the Tonner Dolls (Ghost of Christmas Future) and let me do her makeup and take some pictures which was extremely fun.  I still have an unhealthy number of unfinished costumes which continue to stare mournfully at me every time I enter the workroom.  I feel like I’ve learned a lot more about photo stuff in the past year that I haven’t really had a chance to incorporate in my own cosplay photos which… is a bit annoying.  That, combined with my newly cleaned work area and swanky new toys (camera accessories) may finally drive me to finish some of this crap and get some new photos.  …or maybe I’ll just have more tea and watch movies with Kelly.  We’ll see.

While I don’t usually post about bits in zines, etc. I’m making an exception here.  Mechademia is a very cool publication put out by the University of Minnesota Press, and they did a piece about cosplay photography which they were kind enough to include me in!  Thank you so much Eron, Christopher, and Jenny (though none of you are likely to ever see this post!).  I’m really honored to have my work included and reviewed so highly!  @_@  Mechademia 5: Fanthropologies is available here.

Potter Party Potter Party Potter Party – Yay!

We hung a bunch of fake candles from the ceiling to imitate the great hall at Hogwarts, made Butterbeer and Firewhiskey labels to cover our beer with (Magic Hat, appropriately), had faaaar too much wizard themed food, and were extremely nerdy with HP related games and trivia.  Also, dry ice makes everything and anything loads more fun!

Thanks for coming, guys!  :B

Hello my poor neglected costume journal.

I have still done no costuming lately (Halloween really doesn’t count).  However, since I am super excited about the new HP movie this month (and a certain HP themed release party) I’m just going to post some random HP crap.  Sounds good?  No?  That’s fine, deal with it.

I’m selling Sailor V – !  I have no intention of wearing her again and rather than take up space in my closet I’d like to see her go to someone who wants to wear her.

eBay listing is > here <

My motivation for cosplay lately has been nonexistant.  I don’t know if it’s the unbearably hot weather or just general apathy.  I still have a pantload of unfinished costumes in various stages of unfinished-ness… what else is new?

I NEED TO FINISH SOMETHING.  WHY AM I SO LAZY?

I’m going to go give myself a pep talk.

Took some pictures of Kelly’s Poison Ivy today…

So, hey, shiny things are pretty awesome.

I also get a lot of questions about tiaras and figured I may as well write a quick tutorial for them since it’s pretty easy and I kind of love this technique and use it for lots of things other than bob moon tiaras.  Who knows, maybe it’ll help someone else out down the road and that’d be pretty cool.

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Cancelled on Dragon*Con.
While it would’ve been intense amounts of fun, it just wouldn’t be worth how much it was going to cost.  In its place Kelly and I are going to hit up NYAF because it’s a  hell of a lot closer and a lot of fabulous people are going to be there to hang out with.

Obviously I meant to post the above image in January… since, you know, we’re about halfway through the year now.

…Better late than never?

I was going to add the page for Usagi related costumes today and realized that the majority of photos I have of those costumes were taken during debaucherous hours of the morning at conventions.  There are really folders full of climbing on statues and photo-bombing other people in these costumes -  OH THE MEMORIES.  Anyway, here are a few of the less awful photos (I’m pretty sure all of these are from ’07).

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Since there’s something of a gap before the next convention I went about organizing the work room and figuring out how many started-but-not-finished costumes I have that I actually plan on finishing. It’s hilarious actually, there are eleven of them. I’m pretty sure that says something about my attention span.
I’m sick of them taking up room with their unifinished-ness and intend to make a dent in the pile (then again, you know what they say about the road to hell…).

I’ll be uploading a new site design sometime today, so if there’s any wonky-ness on the site that’s probably why.

New design is uploaded… mostly.  Some pages are missing here and there and it’s a bit rough around the edges, but I’m happier with it, so wooooo.

The drive was only around 13 hours, but on an hour of sleep it was awful and made stupid o’clock last foreveeeeeeerrrr.

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