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Tigerlily

I just got awesome photos of my Tigerlily costume from kuronosho. We were supposed to do a Arrancar photoshoot on Yaoi Con weekend but due to a number of snafus and me really not wanting to do Ulquiorra make-up again, we ended up just choosing other costumes to shoot. I picked Tigerlily ’cause I have no good photos of her.

ziggybecket brought his lighting setup and the guys went to town. The results are amaaaazing. You can’t even tell we were shooting in a hotel lobby! I can’t wait to see the rest of the photos.

Thanks so much for all the comments on my dance photos! I was so flattered! *blush*

I spent all of this past weekend in NYC. I was there for a wedding and nearly didn’t make it back. I missed my plane back thanks to NYC subway repairs and nearly got stranded on the east coast. It was rather stressful. -_-

On the plus side, I got to see a lot of college friends I haven’t seen in years, attend a dear friend’s wedding, see my brother’s swanky new apartment (2 blocks from Wall Street!), and check out the bubble tea in NYC.

I’m so done with traveling for weddings. To all my friends out there planning weddings… California is a GREAT location. kthx. =D

I am currently stressing out over my steampunk costume which has to be done this weekend and my dance performance which is next weekend. Yay.

And finally, been closet cleaning again: Costumes for sale on ebay!

Of unflattering hairstyles and big butts

We’re back! Jetlagged all to hell but happy to be home. Because my body kicked me awake at 5am today, I started processing photos. I did our victorian photoshoot first…

My dress was finished in 4 days with massive amounts of help from Marcus and Judy. MASSIVE. They did all the pleating on my trim which ended up being around 16 yards of fabric. And Judy did all the detailing on my skirt which includes the maroon panels in front (which I love to death) and all the trimmings on the back and bottom. Thanks soooo much guys!

Things I noticed about this costume:
– Ohmigod could this hair style be any less flattering on me? I’m still trying to figure out how to fix that for next time.

– My butt is really really big in this dress. Ok, I know that’s the point… but still!

– I dunno how you historical costumers do it! I was so sick of having to wrestle 15 yards of fabric 1/2 way through and wearing all that fabric? UGH. It’ll take some slick talking from Judy to get me to do that again.

– I had more complaints but I can’t think of them right now. =D

We dragged dmk26 out with us to take photos. It was just like old times!

Shaddup AJ and let me see the photos.

Fanime photos – Guess what? MORE Bleach!

We did Fanime on Sunday and Monday morning. I spotted a lot of people and managed to say hi to almost everyone (I think) so that was good!

Sunday was all Bleach. This time I managed to rope Ikky-sempai into donning pogo101‘s Kyouraku costume. We did a small photoshoot with kuronosho and then managed to meet up with binkxy, utenatai, singingraisin, and tidus_dream (despite cell phone problems galore) and there were more Bleach photos taken. Those were spread across a couple cameras so they’ll turn up eventually.

We ended the day with our two panels which were packed! Thanks to everyone who came and hopefully it was somewhat useful!

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WonderCon 2008 was full of Bleach

WonderCon was fun in a quiet kinda way. We did Bleach on Saturday with a bunch of first-time cosplayers! I think they had fun which was awesome. ^_^

Our little 12-year old buddy, Marc, is a huge Bleach fan and Hitsugaya is his favorite character so of course I was like: ohmigod, you’re even the right size! We have to make you a Hitsugaya costume and Judy can be Matsumoto again! =D

His dad, Anthony, made the best Iba too.

We stuck Aki in my old Nanao costume, and Marcus and I did Arrancars. My Ulquiorra costume needs some serious re-vamping (hi headpiece of DOOM), but I’m really happy with how Marcus looked as Grimmjow.

It was fun and we ran into a Yoruichi and Soi Fong who know gogolotus.

On Sunday, Judy and I woke up super lazy so instead of putting on real costumes, we put on our kigurumi pajamas and gave the costuming panel as a flying squirrel and kangaroo. We also went to a yuppie tea place for lunch. I think the rest of the clientele didn’t know what to make of us. =D

P.S. I totally cheated on the Arrancar costumes! =D They fabric parts were purchased off of eBay. I refuse to make hakama. (Noooo pleats.) When the price of a hakama from a martial arts store is only $20 less than the entire costume, I figured I might as well buy the entire costume from China. Yay sweatshops. =P

Of course I had to do so much fixing on the tops, I’m not sure I made the right decision. I ended up tearing apart both tops and re-doing them because they didn’t fit and they weren’t accurate. I guess the lesson here is: next time just buy the hakama and make the top from scratch.