I have a major research project I am working on, hopefully to have it published in the near future and I got a part time job. I have recently (if any frequent visitors have noticed) updated this site’s gallery to be (less annoying?) more user friendly. Also been working on a lot of technical stuff for the site (which no one will care about :p) which I am very pleased with myself for. I’m slowly working on trying to find our missing Anime Expo years as well as scaling the internet for my lost personal photos. Been an adventure!

And most importantly it looks like we are moving again! This time it is not overseas so I will not be disappearing from the face of the earth for years on end. We are moving to the east coast! So naturally it has been hectic preparing for this move in a couple of months.

Anime Expo plans have changed, unfortunately. I will be attending, but depending on the move I may not be attending the whole 4 days. If out move is postpones as I think it will be for late summer then there’s no need to worry. So, FOR Anime Expo I will not be making any new costumes (due to said move) except for one which will be….

Dun-dun-du-duuuun. Humanized Twilight Sparkle! I was recruited for a very large gathering and am looking forward to the designs the organizers have thought up.

It can otherwise be expected for me to return Madam Boss, Nepherenia, Lust, and possibly Wicked Lady if I cannot fill all 4 days with other interests. I hate HAVING to repeat costumes beyond my own accord, but I would much rather create quality costumes I can return to than pump them out on the cheap to throw them away when I’m done.

As far as GenCon this year? We’ll have to see I suppose. If I am moving in August and do not have a solid address by the time tickets need to be purchased then I may be SOL. I dearly hope I’ll be able to return. I’ll make it work if I’m given the chance!

Until I have further updates, ladies and gentlemen, keep it Wicked!

Jasmine is the first in line for the Disney Princess Project it seems. I have some amazing plans for her photoshoot that I will keep to myself all while laughing in random realizations of victory while I keep everyone in suspense for my surprise. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Her wig has come in and needs to be styled, but unless I come into any extra money, I won’t be able to get her costume going until November most likely.

But back to Halloween! I will probably be cutting out Lestat’s pants and maybe his shirt tonight. I will need to wait on Claudia, but I don’t think it will take me more than a week to get these together. Unfortunately, with a new season comes new classes and I have another FULL LOAD until December. Another 32 units within 17 weeks. Don’t expect to hear much from me after Halloween! Hopefully there will be Jasmine updates, but we’ll see how things go.

Bebop
Julia – Kaori
Faye – Kami ?
Ed – Alice

Evangelion
Asuka – Kaori
Rei – Kami?
Misato – Raven

Dead or Alive
Katsune – Kaori

Final Fantasy XII
Sephiroth – Kaori
Aeris – Anne?

Big O
Dorothy – Kaori

I am also bringing back Madam and Lust for the gatherings if we feel so inclined next year. In addition to Madam I’ll be styling Miyamoto’s wig to…. possibly have Anne arrive as my Miyamoto…. even though it would pain me….. I’m going to have a shoot as Miyamoto myself before hand though XP.

I am far more likely to consider bringing back Lust if we have at least 6 of the 7 sins there in our group. We shall see.

Unfortunately the only part stopping me from most of my projects are the need to get the LAST bit of supplies. >( Still need velvet and extra taffeta for my winter dress, need a zipper for my new sun dress, and more snaps for my “night dress”…. which my dearly beloved Violet said she would fetch for me. <3

I have a work coat and skirt I want to make. It won’t take any time besides I’ll have to wait on the skirt zipper, coat buttons and lining. I can at least have most of it done though…. and THEN I’ll work on Whitemane. :p

I seem to have run out of hangers too…. T.T; I’m about ready to pick up a cheap pack of…. *shudder* wire hangers. It will be useful for camping too at least. I’ll try to get some pictures of my soon to be outfits too. I’ll sew up Jessebell’s sleeves and put stuff on for some half-assed pictures.

Domino’s skirt hasn’t even been touched yet and I’m thinking I’ll just have to redo it totally. The white wasn’t cut well enough to do what I wanted to with it. At least I can still use the back of the skirt still. Only the front needs to be redone. I haven’t yet looked for the right fabric for the under shorts, but I’m sure I have it.

I really need to get out my box of fabric and look through it. Right now the thought of working on Anime Expo costumes is just exhausting to me. I guess I should update after this what my plans for next year are! I realized I have yet to announce them publicly.

So, today: I’ll write my AX plans, work on my skirt, coat, start on Whitemane and then take pictures of what I’ve done so far. Easy as pie, right?

So I have the collar and the under skirt done, but I can’t *finish* it until I have the last bit of dark pink. Then the dark blue to make the shoulder bows so I can actually attach the shoulders together… And make the sleeves. I’d rather not do that until I have the shoulders sewn up though–even though it really wouldn’t matter which order I did that in in the end.. >_>

Anyways! Jessebelle really won’t be that long until she’s ready to wear. I think Domino’s bottom is going to get redone to incorporate some boyshorts or something so I can risk a shorter skirt for her. Scandalous! I’ve replotted High Inquisitor Whitemane’s outfit and plan to get to work on her unless we come into some extra funds so I can obsess over Soridormi for a while.

There is also word of me possibly going to PAX. I’m crossing my fingers, but hopefully if I get the go-ahead I might be able to swing bringing Sori there. It’s good incentive to work fast! I think it’s common knowledge I work better under pressure.

So for now, the plan goes:

Jessebelle

• Front of skirt cut
• Skirt sewn and attached to bodice
• Shoulder bows made and attached
• Sleeves sewn and attached
• Hair bow made
• Necklace and earrings made
• Baby doll shoes painted
• Wig?

Domino

• Skirt detached from dress
• Some how attach under-shorts
• Reattach skirt to be shorter
• Buy some damned boots

Whitemane

• Cut and sew corset outer and lining
• Construct outer corset design
• Build red top and bottoms
• Construct over-corset zipper back
• Sew on tabard
• Paint tabard
• Chapeau
• Buy those awesome boots
• Build boot armor
• Build shoulder armor
• Buy word and PVC for staff and figure out wtf to do with it.

Soridormi

• Wtf am I making the top out of?
• Build wtf top with built-in bra
• Make some badass shoulder armor
• Bikini-skirt combo
• Detachable belt?
• Top armor + belt chain
• Make ear mold
• Make mold for latex ears
• Prop? Staff or random hourglass or none?

Must fix model viewer.

I managed to ring up some more loot as well as find some more cosplays while I was running around the hall! Later in the evening I got to demo the pre-released PAX TCG, which I will get to later.

I celebrated my last day of GenCon by buying two amazing metal wine chalices from Red Dragon Shoppe who also have several over medieval interests which I unfortunately could not afford on my limited budget, but is definitely going to stay on my radar for when I have spare money to indulge in my renaissance infatuation. The owner also makes gorgeous blades which I drooled horribly over.

My main goal was foiled by this distraction as I originally stormed the hall for a fabulously macabre gamer shirt which apparently is only a fable among the dealers. I was told it was bought right inside, but no one had heard of it when I went to every T-shirt stand in my path. The chalices were a great way to ease the pain of failing my mission.

As tradition still holds, after we all retreated to our rooms to tear open our brand new packs of WoW trading cards we went to a local Italian restaurant for a Cryptozoic celebratory group dinner. Once dinner was over, Jo-Jo, Sijia and I lingered in the lobby with Matt to play the pre-released PAX TCG.

It was very easy and very fun. You begin with a total of 12 cards (6 power cards, 6 quarter cards) as well as your unique character card. There are rows of stacked (power and token) point cards you can use your designated cards to buy and build your deck. At the end of each row there is a boss for the red (power) stack and green (token/quarter) stack.

Certain cards have special abilities that gives extra value to its suit or has special meaning when played.

The game goes around, buying more cards per turn and drawing 6 each round until either 6 stacks of the cards in the row are depleted or a final boss is completely bought out. At the end, cards with a points value is tallied up and the one with the highest score wins.

I won. Halla.

After that game we played a few rounds of skulls and roses bluff which turned out to be far more intense and entertaining than is legal. After a few rounds of friendly bluff-filled banter we joined some other Cryptozoic team members and played a fun art directing/drawing game. There have certainly been some great ideas for game nights back home. My plane leaves tomorrow in the evening and I miss my family horribly. Traveling always sucks but this convention is well worth it.

Today was the costume contest and my were there some brilliant costumes. Though I was not able to attend the contest I did manage to get photos of the winners! The cosplay parade was not friendly to my camera, so while those pictures are sub-par I got to roam around on my lunch and find some great cosplayers lingering the halls for me to take pictures of.

Cosplays were my first priority, but I also remembered those adorable dragon bracelets from the first day so I hunted that booth down. The owners were very nice and the dragons up close were even cuter than I expected! They are a resin/rubber like mold with a bendable spine that come as plain as you like or with wings and ornate armor. They have a variety of colors as well as facial features. I got the one that reminded me of Toothless from “How To Train Your Dragon”. :3 He hung out on my arm and then around my neck for the rest of my shift. He now resides on my purse strap.

The day has left me with great ideas for decks and costumes that I plan to make just as soon as my latest projects are finished. If I am lucky I will have the materials needed to construct some killer decks that will hopefully get me in the top 8 of some Dark Moon Fairs (coming from a Sailor Moon junky, you know it’s a win for me). I hope to win them in a Dragon costume as well.

Toodles for now!

Cosplay today was many! I learned the costume contest is the third day of the convention and they even have a cosplay parade that marches the hall before the contest. Unfortunately I found out that there seems to be no evening events, so the contest will be during my last working hours.

The contest will be held from 4pm until 6pm just as I get off work so I am highly banking that the parade will hopefully go past my blackjack table. I will be carrying my camera with me to snap some photos while I work so I can at least get a few more photos taken for the site!

Today I was able to capture only a couple photos of cosplay. There was even more anime costumes! I was thrilled to see Sailor Scouts, Dr. Horrible, more Trigun, Bleach, Pokemon (Rockets and poke-jin), old school American cartoons like Inspector Gadget and an Abe Lincoln cosplay whose artist wore 7 foot stilts! That was quite a site to see roaming the halls. It was a fantastic day for cosplay!

I ended this night with a bang too when I was treated to a front row fireworks show from my hotel room window. They were gorgeous! I have no idea what it was in relation to or what was being celebrated, but I like to think it was in honor of GenCon. Indiana is very welcoming and enthusiastic about their conventions. It is phenomenally refreshing.

We worked with the Cryptozoic produced starter decks and then played with some fantastic decks made by Bill himself. It was not soon after the start that I was rolling high cards and showing off my luck and strategic card playing.

It was the longest day we would be working, but it seems like there might not be much time for any convention experiencing with how many demos we will be playing. I am hoping to use my mornings to roam the halls and catch any cosplayers.

Today was a fantastic day for cosplay! I saw a Bell as well as a decent serving of Bleach school girls, Trigun characters, and of course the ever popular Star Wars and original RPG characters. The day was fascinating to witness with the cosplay culture and the bards singing their stories with medieval instruments around the convention hall. It was overall a light hearted and delightful day, despite the sore feet. Spending the hours playing WoW TCG straight was a huge selling point too.

Thankfully those 25 minutes were not in vain. I wore slippers that made my check through effortless and it turns out that the check point led me right into my gate! What a convenient coincidence! I slept through most of the flight and the next as well. Got to the hotel by airport shuttle and found my room in a very roundabout way. The kind only a fatigued bleached blonde could do.

There was not much else to do so I ate a packet of dry Ramen and hung out with some con-mates for a little while at P.F. Chang’s and went fast to sleep I will be in a matter of minutes. Early to bed and early to rise they say, even though I’m terribly exhausted. I hope I rest it off well enough cause I need to be getting up and ready at 7am and down in the lobby by 8:15 to get badges, decks, and to our blackjack tables by 9am.

Gonna be a long day tomorrow.