Beads, beads and more beads!

I think I may have a new obsession. Okay, I used to love beads when I was young too but it's been rekindled as of today. I love adding some type of beading to my cosplays. It gives it a personal flair. On Sharon's dress (The one pictures below.) I had sewn on gold seed beads on the tails of the bows on her dress. It shows it looking this way in the manga so I thought why not. It turned out to be a ton of tun and is now something I try to do to each cosplay.

                                                         You can't see the beading. Sorry.

Luckily for me Seth has a lot of detail so I can work in some beading. I have already added pearl beads onto the inner train that is on her underskirt. I'm hoping the light on stage will catch them and make the inner train pop more. I'm also planning on adding some beading (not much.) onto the back of her train and maybe on the lace of her sleeves.

And of course the bead strands on her hat...

It's hard to tell but there are two bead strands on the edge of her hat and on the edge of the breastplate as well the bottom of her sleeves.

So I have a ton of beading I will get to do. Today we bought some of the gold beads that will be used for those strands. I looked for round red and round blue (one large and one medium sized bead strands.) but didn't find any of the right color. Nor did I find the long teardrop green beads.

I'm trying my hardest to stop focusing on Seth but it's not working. I am just so excited to cosplay her finally.








In other news Abel's cape is almost finished. I need to hem the slits on the sides which I already cut and pinned. Sewing those won't take long. Then start on the bias tape. Then it will be finished. I decided to sew on two snaps on the top to keep it closed as well.

Once I am done with that I can start on Abel's cassock then on Seth. I cannot wait to get these done. I just wish I had more time. Due to the fact I am currently writing a novel my focus has been else where. But now that we have a few more pieces for these costumes I'm getting more excited to work on them. I think tomorrow I'll sew most of the day in less we go out to look at more supplies.

I hope these will in fact be done by Sakura-con. Otherwise I may not cosplay and instead may just wear lolita and take lots of pictures. I'm not too sure. I really don't want to bring Alice or Yuuko as her kimono did not fit right and I couldn't figure out how to tie the obi. And I'm hoping to sell Sharon by then. I hate being stuck in between having cosplays we are going to sell and not having any we truly feel passionate about done. It's scary. But I'm sure I can get it done. If I have to I'll have to let my mom help me out.

So that's it for now. I have a lot to do. Thanks for reading!