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Finals, and Anime-Expo
So this is my final post for school. AKA the last blog where I have to explain what certain terms mean. For the unenlightened among you, I have been doing this blog for a two credit independent study class. AKA I write a fun blog, learn a little bit about blogging, and get credit for it. I'm going to keep on doing this blog, so don't click the un- ( Read more... ) -
Fabulous and cheap fun!
Cons are super expensive, everyone who goes to one will probably know this. You can spend hundreds on costume, registration, hotels, and food. Here are some pretty basic but highly useful things I have learned over my years of con-foolery. When you get to a con, it is pretty easy to regret not having enough money ( Read more... ) -
Do I want to hug you? No; you're gross.
This is going to be my longest post, since I have been compiling a list for about two months of things of this nature. The topic is, as you may have gleaned from the title, is about Convention ettiquette. If you've ever been to a Convention, you have probably seen a few people that you would feel really good popping in the face a couple times. If ( Read more... ) -
Glue guns! Oh my!
The smell of hot glue is comforting to me. The revolting scent of molten glue solidifying between two pieces of fabric smells like progress to me. I know that if I use hot glue, a lot of stuff is gonna get done way faster, and might even look better than if I had sewed it ( Read more... ) -
Tools of the Trade, What to get and why.
So let me start out by saying that everything posted in the next post is purely my opinion, and should not be taken as pure fact. You simply saying that I'm wrong without any sort of critique will be swiftly ignored by me, the head jerk of this blog ( Read more... ) -
I <3 Good Pleather
I've gotten a few PMs of why I put links to pictures for many well known characters. Well, the thing is at the end of the day, that I am doing this for a grade, not just for my entertainment. I have to put these things in here for people reading this for school who have no clue who these strange animated people are, who have no clue why Gai-sensei ( Read more... ) -
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Wow, life got away from me! I was busy with school, and then started work on a mini-costume project, and before I knew it, nearly three weeks of not posting had gone by! Let me just jump right into it! This post is about the top four fabrics which shouldn't be used and often are. All pictures of bad cosplay have already been posted as pictures of ( Read more... ) -
Addressing previous post and design/patterns.
Let me first just dive right into the critiques I recieved on my last journal. I think a general misunderstanding happened in the previous post, and I want to fix it. The general intended audience of this blog is people who aren't into the play part of cosplay as much as the costuming. This is a blog for people who do want to make good costumes, ( Read more... ) -
What costume should you choose? Do it over tea.
I am in no way expecting this to be like Martha Stewart (I post how to do stuff, and in a certain order, and you do it on my schedule), this is just something for me to do and enjoy, and to get to (hopefully) fix some things that I see.
So the very first thing you do on the process of cosplay, is of course, picking your character. Picking things to ( Read more... ) -
Hello...
This is the mind-explosion of a boy in college in the Pacific Northwest. I am writing this blog not only for the purpose of doing this blog (although I have been thinking of doing something like this for some time), but also for some college credit, so know that I'm going to be making weekly or bi-weekly posts. Keep in mind that this is a blog of ( Read more... )