20 days to go!

I swear once we're past July the month of August goes by super fast. Maybe it's because I'm always so pumped up with excitement and normally pretty busy making sure everything is ready to go. I am finally getting out my stressed filled gloom and am beginning to enjoy all the things that I still have to get done. I always feel if I am too excited I really don't sit back and enjoy everything to the fullest.

I need to...

~Fix the part of the hem on the coat
~Fix the collar
~Start on the button holes on the waistcoat
~Put on trim on coat
~Make and sew on ruffles on coat
~Sew black leg piece for Alice
~Finish mini top hat
~Make black band for Oz's pants (His pants came last night! YAY!)
~Make ruffle bow piece for Oz's coat

Not too much to do. Well, it may seem like a lot but I can easily get most of that stuff done within a day or two. I'm guessing I will be 100% finished by the week before con. The coat should be done 100% in a week.


But besides cosplay, I also am writing a novel.

I haven't had much time to write lately because of all this stuff but as I have less and less things to do I now have more time to write! I won't be posting much about my novels on this blog in less something big happens but I thought it might be fun to post a little sneak peek of my work.

The other day I hit one of my word goals of 40,000 words.

I'm so happy! I am hoping that my novel will be at least 80,000 words. That's only 40,000 words left to go! Which will only take a few months to write. I have about three-four other novels planed after this one. My dream would be to become published. As it is my dream career. So I am doing my best to learn, improve and write my arse off. I write YA, or young adult novels. This one is a YA urban fantasy with a twist of supernatural. I miss writing about werewolves but fairies and things that go bump in the night are pretty fun to.

So I'm going to go write now, hopefully I get my dress from Oo Jia soon as well as the other items that have yet to come (Pantyhose, watch and Abel's wig.) Thank you for viewing! I may post another post later on today.