Hotels, wings and armor.

I don't think we have ever been this organized. Not only do we have Sakura-con fully paid for and our hotel booked earlier than normal but we have a hotel booked for Kumori-con too! Our friend and her girlfriend have decided to have us room with them and we are so thankful and happy to be able to spend K-con with them. Their like family. We've known them since high school and couldn't be happier. Last con we found it very depressing to be alone and didn't have that good of a time but we know we'll have a lot of fun rooming with them. Again, I cannot thank her enough for letting us room with them. I'm so excited. This is the same friend we're taking with us to Sakura-con in the spring. She's very awesome.

We are still waiting for the bia tape maker. It should be here on Monday. If not there will be hell to pay because I cannot wait a moment longer. I HAVE to get started now if I want to finish before the end of next month so I have enough time to work on Seth. I'm going to go modify the cape's collar today since that's all I can really do right now. The cape won't take me long to finish. It's pretty simple. And the cassock appears simple as well. The modifications I need to do are very easy. And are just a few slits on the sides and back. Not much work to be done to it. I'm more worried about Seth and the wings.

Finding the perfect green fabric is hard. They are either too light or too dark. I'm hoping to find something at the big fabric store in Portland but I think I may have to order online which it may turn out to be a lighter green than I wanted but I'm okay with that. It'll be cheaper. I will also need to get a white fabric that isn't shiny like the satin I have. This is because the white fabric will make the outer train. If used the same fabric as the inner train they will blend in too much. I don't want that to happen.

I'm very hopeful we will get the costumes and armor done on time. However I'm starting to worry about the wings. If we finish and there isn't enough time for me to comfortably make them I won't. We won't be entering the contest but like I told my fiance it will still be fun. We'll have a ton of fun walking around in cosplays we both love dearly and with our friend by our side there is no doubt we'll have a good time. So right now I'm not going to worry about it.

The armor is coming along fine. We found out painting Gesso and Mode Podge on Wonderflex before you sand is useless. It gummed up and made more trouble then anything. So I stripped it off and am now repainting mode podge on before painting it silver. It's pretty darn smooth thanks to the tool we used as well as the Mod Podge. So there isn't a ton of sanding to be done.

As for Kumori-con's cosplays we may change it up a bit. But we will do at least three, including our Trinity Blood cosplays I'm making now. With wings.

Right now our ideas are...

Only firm one right now is..

~Sharon and Break (Pandora Hearts.) *For a panel/s.

Maybes:

~Willow and Wilson (Don't Starve) *If we don't get them done by Sakura
~Madam Red and Grell (Black Butler)
~ Cowslip's Pokemon Gijinka (Grimer and Muk)