[28 May 2009 | 03:52pm] 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! 12 meows|say meow!

[11 Apr 2009 | 08:39am] Wa Dance Practice Video I finally got set up to transfer from my camcorder directly to my computer! It's awesome... now that I got it working! It just took me all week thanks to defective hardware. Anyways, I'm gonna start uploading dance practices for the girls I dance with, so I thought I'd share some of the more fun ones. This one is us practicing our lifts at Stanford. Please excuse the retarded aspect ratio. I turned the camcorder sideways thinking it'd be ok. Obviously NOT. We looked like beached whales in sections of this video. -_- It obviously has a long way to go but I'm gonna be really proud of this dance. We taught ourselves the whole thing and re-choreographed it for 5 people (the original only had 3). I should really start sewing for Fanime... >.> 6 meows|say meow!

[04 Mar 2009 | 12:51pm] WonderCon 2009 I had a lot of fun at WonderCon! Despite scrambling to finish our fairy costumes in a week, we weren't that stressed. We wore steampunk costumes on Saturday and the Sleeping Beauty fairies on Sunday. We didn't attend a single panel and spent all the time just wandering around seeing people and browsing the dealers hall. I was so glad to have been able to see just about everyone we knew there and even spend time with them! Thanks to people who braved our panel and sorry it was so held back on the AV front. I'll try to remember to bring my laptop next time so we're not stuck with the equipment there. The fairies were so fun to wear! More photos by Ziggy. I have never had to fit for such a large bust size on myself so it was pretty interesting. Nothing in my prior sewing experience had prepared me for trying to fit myself with DDs. LOL. Judy had to come in and bail me out after I screwed up my first fitting. Aren't the hats so awesome?! All Judy as well. Yays for having a millinery expert for a roommate. Somehow I have managed to escape making all my hats thanks to Judy. It's like... I try, and then I'm so slow that Judy just comes in and finishes my hat for me in a day. ^^; And I really need to do something about fixing my petticoats cause that last hoop showing so badly is driving me bananas. I swear, there are petticoats under my skirt but they kept riding up. I think I'll tack a layer or ruffles onto the bottom hoop as well. I think I need to start my Fanime costumes now. Of course, I say that now, but then don't start until the week before... P.S. Anyone Claymore fans out there feeling a little let-down over the conclusion with Isley? It feels so... anti-climatic. 35 meows|say meow!

[24 Feb 2009 | 04:42pm] Then & Now Then - Terra and Kendappa. I made both for my first con which was Fanime 2002. I guess technically my Mummy Returns costume pre-dated these but I didn't know what cosplay was at the time so I'm not counting it. Now - Steampunk costume. This was my latest costume made in November 2008. The meme said most recent costume to show how much you've improved. Most recent does not necessarily equal most awesome... o_O Good thing I didn't fill this survey out next week, 'cause then I'd have to list this as my most recent costume. LOL. And the only impressive thing about that costume is the size of my bra. Also... Ulquiorra's released form! <3 5 meows|say meow!

[16 Jan 2009 | 11:07am] OHEMGEE... Dance Videos! So after 2 (maybe 3) years of talking about it, I finally figured out how to upload videos to youtube. Watch out world! :: starts digitizing everything in sight :: Last night, I spent 2 hours and uploaded a bunch of performance videos. The one above is a Dai dance. They're a minority in the south of China and share a lot of similarities with Thai culture. They have this thing for peacocks too... lots and lots of peacock dances out there. This is me and Aki's Mongolian dance from last year. The video recorder operator is a bit... held back. He got much better this year but some of the videos from previous years were pretty special. A water sleeves dance. We're supposed to be flowers... try not to laugh too hard at the costumes. =D I've had worse but these were pretty bad. This is my trio group - same ladies I did the peacock dance with. We do dances together every year. We're not that great but we have fun and that's the whole point right? =D Ok enough spam for now. I'll post group dances later this weekend or something. (Anyone who comments on my name is getting a kick to the shins.) 47 meows|say meow!

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