I haven't written a blog post in a long time! Things have been crazy busy as we only have one month we get married AND move out. A while back I had been struggling with the idea of quitting cosplay. The last few conventions just weren't fun. We were more stressed than happy. Between friend drama and stress caused by myself and having to rush sewing projects, I couldn't relax and enjoy the experience of cosplaying.
Cosplaying should be about goofing around and having fun. But I held back and it caused a lot more harm than I thought it would. So we've decided to change things. I'll be honest, I got too caught up in contests. And because of that I sort of forgot why I entered contests--to have fun!!! To get the rush of being on stage and preforming.
Instead of having to rush four cosplays in 7 months we've decided to only do one set of cosplays. I didn't have fun on stage last time because Nic wasn't up there with me. So we're sticking with what we used to do--couple cosplays!
For Sakura-con our only cosplays will be Lacie and Levi from Pandora Hearts. I guess you can say we're going back to our "roots". Pandora Hearts was our first series we cosplayed from. Those first few cons were amazing. We were rarely in the hotel and were busy as bees, having fun and meeting new people. And we want to experience those things again.
I cannot start sewing until the end of August or the beginning of September. which will be plenty of time to get Lacie's gown done and two outfits for Levi. I'll be making Levi's past outfit and the outfit as shown above when he's closer to death. I think I might even step it up and start hosting the Pandora Hearts meet-up again. Maybe.
With all the free time we'll have with only one set of cosplays this also means I can start focusing more on building and finishing a full lolita coord. Which is teething I had been planning on doing for years now but cosplay always got in the way and took up all my free time and money. Since my dream dress from Haenuli is...in a tricky situation I'll be building a coord for my other Haenuli JSK, Planetary Dreamer!
Being in lolita will also give me the chance to keep up with the boys. Meaning we can also stay out later, experiencing the convention fully. Maybe I'll even meet up with some other lolita and make some friends. We're also going to do something we never get the chance to do and that's go out of our way to take pictures of cosplayers! I love seeing people's cosplays and always want to go up and take pictures but taking pictures while dressed in crazy cosplays has been a bit challenging for me. So in 2016 I'll be in lolita with my camera ready!
I'm hoping by making these positive changes to ourselves we can find the happiness cons and cosplays used to bring us. I have some pretty big plans with Lacie and Levi and hopefully I can write more blogs about that and if we get enough feedback, maybe even start videos?
