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Fanime 2009 & Life

Don’t have a whole lot to say about Fanime. It was fun, and the photos we got from mognetcentral were fanatstic! Her style works so well with period costumes. Pale blond is still a horrific color for me (like that’s going to change anytime soon) but oh well.

I had a really serious family medical emergency come up a couple of weeks ago. That kind of stuff tends to make everything else pale in comparison and I had a hard time working up the will to finish any costumes. Thankfully Cheryll came over the night before Fanime and she kept me going until I finished.

The rest of the girls’ costumes came out so beautiful, it almost makes me want to make an 18th century gown… almost. After hand sewing the bias tape onto one of the corsets though, I’m thinking: never again!

So here we are, years later, and we finally finished our Chevalier costumes. Check out the photos!

Rosebowl Parade Video

I just realized that I never posted a video! Last post about the damn parade, I promise. =D

The video above isn’t super hi-res but it has great footage of us marching. This video has a much clearer picture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkXaMdx-aLc&mode=related&search=

And this was posted by one of the guys from Taiwan:
http://media.putfile.com/STARWARSNEWS
It has a tiny clip of me being interviewed. (If I’d know that’s all they were gonna use, I’d have done the interview in Chinese, not English. =P) This was apparently aired on the Taiwanese equivalent of CNN so everyone and their dog saw it… including a bunch of my relatives whom promptly called up my parents. *dies*

Stormtroopers in the Rose Parade

Happy New Year everyone!
I’m celebrating in Pasadena by… going to bed NOW. ^^;

For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m marching in the Rose Bowl Parade tomorrow with the 501st (stormtroopers). It’s 5.5 miles and we have to be on the buses by 5am. *groan*

If you’re bored, turn on the tv and look for us! I’m in the flag corps and carrying Italy’s flag.

You can also look for scruffyrebel who will be the Leia and zendrag0n who is our Han Solo. They’ll be much easier to spot than me. =D

Wish us luck! =D

P.S. Check out this video that some guys from one of the midwest garrisons did. It’s SO awesome. =D That guy yelling is actually the colonel that’s in charge of training over here.

Ok, time to hit the sack. o_O