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Blah. Got lots of posts to catch up on: Wondercon, Sakura Gathering, SakuraCon & Seattle and Santa Barbara & Florence + the Machine. But in the mean time, you get this! The final(?) Fanime list. (I know it's more for my reference...*cough*)



TO DO LIST
SUU // CLOVER
- Top - Howtf do I do the collar without it looking dumb?
- Waist cincher
- Half skirt thing - Ask Susan how she cut fabric for Rayearth costume...
- Shorts - High-waisted?
- Add detail to gloves
- Garter - Craft foam with pleather over it? Velcro or snap closure?
- Wings - OMGGGG

INORI // GUILTY CROWN
- Dress - Elastic waist instead of zipper closure?
- Pouch things x 2 - Fabric (canvas?) lined w/ craft foam for strux
- Hair accessories
   - Abstract one
   - Bobby pin
   - Pigtail holders
- Red boot pin thing?

LYNETTE // SCOTT PILGRIM
- Fix straps on dress
- Fix/touch up bionic arm
- Borrow/buy glasses

AUEL // GUNDAM SEED DESTINY
- Hope I still fit in his pants... @__@;

So...I'm going to Sakuracon. It was a spur of the moment thing and airfare was a bit of a bitch, but I'm excited to get the chance to explore Seattle. Any suggestions on what sakurae, eeveil, and I could do? Any places we must go to eat? :9 Oh and yeah, there's the con, haha. I still don't know what costumes to bring...

SAKURA GATHERING

I think I'm going later on in the month...like after Wondercon or something. I hope there will still be flowers by then? I should go look at the Facebook group for updates, huh?

SAKURACON

Either Maka again or Yui with sakurae's Mio...or bring both? Idk. I'd bring something from Bleach for that one seiyuu (I totally know my seiyuu...), but I don't want to travel with Apache's horn and I think I'd freeze in Soi Fong. I also doubt I'd be able to meet him nor would I know what to say other than smile, haha.

FANIME

- Suu's the only one that is confirmed.
- Ventus, I'd be wearing by myself so it depends how much time I have left after I finish Suu...not that I have much to finish for him, but lol hi armor.
- Yagyuu is up to melts and eeveil. Yay? Nay?
- Scarlet Kiss is weather permitting and thrown in there for the sake of something else to wear.

It's so weird to have such an empty, up-in-the-air schedule... I know Suu will probably take up a lot time and effort to make, but I feel like I should throw in some rewears or if it's new, something hella easy. Any suggestions? I don't want to wear Suu for more than 2 times over the weekend as I'm sure the wings will be a hindrance after a while.

This week is dragging so badly. u___u; I should be sewing, but haha this glass of wine I had made me so sleepy…so! Hi. Lol.

I had a pretty darn good Valentine's Day this year. I spent it with faithful_muse after fighting tooth and nail through rush hour traffic from Chinatown to Torrance. My stupid GPS took me the lamest way through Downtown LA and I would've totally thrown it on the ground if it weren't also my phone. u___u;

But! Okonomiyaki and beer with a parfait to top it off at Gaja was worth it! Afterwards, we sang out hearts out at karaoke. We did a poor tribute to Whitney by seeing the most obvious song she has that wasn't even her song: "I Will Always Love You." Courtney found out I can rap, which amused her, haha.



I finally tried Umami Burger two days later. It was pretty good for those gourmet "hip" burgers. I had their signature burger and enjoyed the thin crispy thing of cheese on it. I do wish it was a bit thicker, but still delicious overall.

And ALA report:
I had a pretty good time this year. I debuted Lynette Guycott for amandier’s Scott Pilgrim group. Got a few nice pics in that outfit courtesy of sakurae. Thank you! I photobombed konishii, lol. Hm...oh! I attended fattastik and her friend’s duel birthday masquerade party at the insistence of...I forget who. I just remember hakuku and I wanting to be lazy bums and lounge in bed watching TV all night until that someone pushed us to just get ready and head over. Made a few new friends. :] I think we might’ve scared everyone when we suddenly mobbed the hotel lobby at like midnight with our drunken asses.

A group of us ate dinner at the fancy smancy steakhouse in the hotel. I was disappointed at the medallions I ordered, but everyone else’s food that I tried was delicious. Also, I can’t believe the price mark-up they had for a bottle of Coppola’s Claret. It was $15 for a glass or $44 for a bottle, when I can get the bottle for the price of a glass. Wtf!? Ah well. I just drank too much that day -- beer during lunch, wine at dinner, more booze at party, haha.

The last day was shota day for Kristen and I. We wore our art book school boy uniforms from 07-Ghost. The best part was the pink creeper Frau balloon. Hahaha. Thank you, okitasan for taking photos!


Lalala, shoop de woop wall crack, ahaha.


I love the reflection on the glasses here. :D




Aren't we so moe? Haha.

( Very few crappy ass pics from my phone. ^^; )

I'm randomly not hungry for dinner and I'm procrastinating in cleaning my room, so I bring you my 2011 cosplay recap.

New: 4
Rewears: 6
Borrows: 1



- Yui // K-ON!!
- Kasuka // Durarara!!
- [NEW] Taiwan // Hetalia
- [NEW] Ritsuka // LOVELESS [artbook version]
- [NEW] Mikado // Durarara!!
- Izzy // Digimon
- [NEW] Kasuka // Durarara!! [ep 25 outfit]
- [NEW] Ventus // Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
- Teito // 07-Ghost

Geez, I didn't realize I wore both Mikado and Kasuka twice in the same year, lol. Also, I was a lot of boys. XD

I had some great shoots and a great time all around. ♥

Oh, man. I had quite a Halloween this year. I somehow ended up wearing three costumes, lol.



First, I went to Disneyland for Mickey's Not-So-Scary-Halloween or whatever the heck they call it now. It was my first time going so I was real excited even though I've been to the theme park before when decorated for the holiday. I went with a whole slew of us on the first day the event opened. We were all Kingdom Hearts characters, which was fitting and I also finally got to get going on Ventus, which is something I've wanted to do for a while now. I didn't get to finish everything, but it will be done sometime next year; I'm guessing Fanime? Either way, it was really neat to have a lot of the cast members recognize us though. Even some event goers gave us mad props. :D

Though, I'm sad to say that I didn't make it to the park before sundown and I think that really limited us on what we could do before closing time and it didn't help that some of us wanted pics everywhere. I only rode like four rides; Space Mountain was not included in that nor was The Haunted Mansion. The next time I go, I'm definitely riding the rides no matter what y'all say. I didn't pay the amount I did just to treat the park as a photoshoot location. No hard feelings, yeah?

( Pics. )

Second, I was invited to the infamous White Base for a party on Saturday of Halloween weekend. I ended up being a GANGURO, HAHA. It was totally a last minute decision as I was leaning towards being lazy and rewearing my McGee's Alice from the year before, but I figure since I'm going to what was predicted as an epic party, I should get epic for it.


It took WAY longer than I thought it would to put the makeup one and it's not like I used a lot of different products. It was also quite gross putting that much cream stick concealer on your face. At one point, it totally looked more like I was a Cirque du Soleil extra until I tried to go more extreme...then it looked more right. Lol. I needed more jewelry, but didn't feel like spending more than necessary for things I'd never wear on a regular basis. Ah well.

I also didn't realize how unrecognizable I'd look in the makeup until I surprised and shocked everyone at the party cuz to me, it still looked like me kind of, hahaha. My fave reaction was itsuka's. XD

What little photos I took are here.

Then, it was Halloween. I decided that I wanted to wear something to work that wasn't ganguro cuz I didn't want to sit around in that makeup for 8 hrs as much as it'd be HILARIOUS to see all the older fobby office lady's reactions. I ended up as some lolita doll thing...wearing my Suu wig, Speed Grapher button up shirt and Maka black tights with a skirt. Oh and I drew a heart on my lips. Yup. The people in the office were all like, "WAAHH!! HOW PRETTY!!" Still pretty amusing.

I totally forgot I had to go into the WHF Chinatown store to take product shots for the Christmas sales flyer...in costume. Whoops. Well, not that I REALLY cared. Then after work, Ben and I had a few friends over where we watch Silent Hill and Hocus Pocus (my brain's still reeling from Binx = McGee o.o).

( Just one more. )

Even with so many costumes, it was one of the funnest Halloweens I've had. I did so much! Haha. You're never too old to dress up and have some fun~

Gahhh, didn't get as much done as I had wanted over the weekend, but uh at least it was progress? I also haven't watched that many movies over a weekend…like ever, haha.

eeveil came over and we had ourselves a sewing party. We half-worked and half-watched:

• X-Men: First Class - 8)
  
• Robo Geisha - Lol, omg. It was so wtf, it was effin' AWESOME. I kinda want to be her for Halloween one year.
  
• King of Fighters - Uhh...
  
• all of Furuba - B'awwww.
  
• The Fifth Element - ♥
  

I was originally planning to sew on Friday, but uh me finishing Bounen no Xamdou got in the way. While I'm glad to have finally watched it all, the series was as yoshikochan said it, "Well-animated crap." The plot could've been soooo good if only there were more eps to finish it, but instead -- and rumor says it was originally slated for such, but oh look lack of budget -- it ended up being some rushed, crazy mess. There ended up being so many plot holes and arcs that weren't really given closure. :C

Anyway, progress pics. This shirt took for-freakin'-ever. It wasn't even hard, just time consuming. Ugh.

Pinned and ready to be sewn on.


Freakin' symmetry!


It's just missing the solitary white button in the center which apparently I'm fresh out of, so that'll have to wait a bit. I also didn't bother finishing the sleeve holes for now since it'll be covered anyway.

Good food was also to be had this past weekend. We tried this sushi place near my apt with Ben and Sara called Shiki. It was quite delicious and huge portions for about the price of a roll anywhere else. Then today, we had brunch at LAMILL back in Silverlake. Oh, such a delicious place. I don't care if it's crowded with hipsters. Good coffee is good. I'm also a freakin' retarded. I wanted to make mabo tofu and I bought the ground beef, but completely forgot the tofu. GAH. So uh, we had mabo beef instead tonight, LOL.

Ok, I'm going to start on that checkered wristband of his...

Not much to see, but Ventus shirt #1, a.k.a. the black turtleneck, is done. :] Took me about an hour or so with some distraction from Facebook, lol. I didn't bother hemming the edges. It's jersey anyway. Also didn't bother with sleeves. XD;

Wearing it in the room for only a few minutes though...I'm REALLY hoping the 30th will be COOL or else I'll like keel over from heat exhaustion or something cuz he has two more shirts on top of this one. Effin' Nomura, lol.

I also received my wig from Arda. It's such a nice color. :O!! Thank you to those who voted! My lamps make it look more blonde than it really is. The color's closer to what we suspected was the true color in Arda's gallery. I almost want to dye my hair this color. I also almost don't want to spike this wig.../pets

Hm. Okay. Wig help, please?

Has anyone seen or have any Arda wig in sandy brown (124), ginger blonde (027) or light blonde (013)?

Their galleries show inconsistent color thanks to the difference in lighting and post editing in everyone's pics. D:

I'm having a hard time deciding on which color for Ventus from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. References are here. Oh hi, Aku. XDD As you can see, official artwork his him as a lighter blonde. Then in game, he's more of a brown blonde thing…which I think I like better, but not as dark as it can be in some screenshots. So with that in mind, I think I like the last pic in the sandy brown album pretty well, but I'm not sure if it'd be too dark in sunlight because that pic was taken indoors and first pic has the person in the shade. Second choice would be the ginger blonde. I like how the color looks in the head shots of the girl in the striped blue and black shirt and three pics afterwards of it on a wig head, but then you see 2nd and 4th pic in and it's pretty darn dark or ginger. O__o; Light blonde would be my last choice and apparently the popular choice for Roxas/Ventus. So hmmmm...

Oh and I'd be getting the Magnum from Arda. I didn't really want to have to trim the wig cuz I'm not so good with trimming spikes, but alas, I don't think there's a choice.

Another option is this wig from Epic Cosplay. But, I don't know if it'd be thick enough for all the spikes I'll need. Anyone know? One good thing is that I may need to trim it less...I think. Also, this is how it looks on an Asian…WHICH HELPED, LOL.

I apologize for all the clicking around I made you guys do. :x

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Testing out the circle lens I bought recently!

This first one is the Geo Tri Color in blue. I bought them mainly because I accidentally ripped my blue Geo Angel ones just before Fanime. ;( I was also hoping to find a lighter blue as the Geo Angel ones are VERY dark on me.





( All eyes on me in the center of the ring. Just like a circus. )

I fear I may be stuck forever doubling up on contacts for certain colors. -A-;

Uhm, okay. This is my pending schedule for Anime Expo.

I'll be volunteering for ACP's Durarara!! event with Aniplex/Bandai as Mikado. This is the first time I've done anything like this, so I'm quite excited for the opportunity! I get to be a booth babe dude! 8Db Now, it says "pending schedule" because I'm still waiting for them to confirm which shifts I can take, but it's safe to assume that I'm free nights and majority of Saturday.

I'm also going to be staying in a hotel for once. I haven't bothered with rooming since AX's move to LA, but I didn't feel like dealing with carpooling this year. I'm looking forward to enjoying the con after hours. :)

DAY 1 - FRIDAY
:: Half day at work. Leave between 12 - 1 pm.
:: 3 - 6 pm: DRRR!! times (There's a gathering from 4 to 5 pm at the booth, come visit! :D)
:: 6 pm onwards: Go home to grab sakurae and my luggage > check into hotel > OKONOMIYAKI :D > idk

DAY 2 - SATURDAY
:: Early afternoon: Yui [K-ON!] with sakurae or some random costume I bring (maybe Micchon? Hyakurin?)
:: Mid afternoon: Izzy [Digimon] with nerdcore and company
:: Evening: OPEN

DAY 3 - SUNDAY AKA DRRR!! DAY
:: 12 - 1 pm: DRRR!! times (Dating game? Lolz.)
:: 1 - 2:30/3 pm: OPEN, but I probably will just stay in costume. Someone take me out to lunchhh?
:: 2:30/3 - 6 pm (Includes autograph session with the English VA's from 4:30 to 6 pm and possibly Drrr!! panel at 2:30)
:: Evening: K-ON shoot with evalime and Ken

DAY 4 - MONDAY
:: BACK TO WORK I hate my company, stupid thing. And I didn't want to take more vacation days off from my already measly allotted ones. ;A;