Leaving tomorrow for the con!

Tomorrow is day zero. The day before the con. We're leaving no later than 11:00 am, since it takes about 30 minutes to get up there (It's not far) and we're stopping at Sonic! Day zero I do have a lolita meet-up and photo-shoot which I'm looking forward to. I feel awesome about my lolita outfit. Plus I have my new lolita wig to wear. I'll be wearing it all day tomorrow. I love seeing people's reactions to lolita. It's shocking I guess. But in a good way not like when I wore all black and had raccoon eyes.

I'll be updating during the con but if I get too busy or stressed I won't. Pictures will come out slowly as well.

Day Zero- Sweet lolita
Day One-  Sakura-Tsubasa
Day Two- Sharon(Pandora Hearts) then later Sakura
Day Three- Unknown (Lolita or Sakura)

But everything is done! The sewing, the props. I'm so happy but stressed at the same time. Mainly because it's hard to type with fake nails.I'm in a good mood. I'm excited and I wont allow the bad to affect me like I have in the past. We'll learn from mistakes. That's how people grow. I know for a fact we made a huge mistake but.....we made the bad we need to sleep in it.

Day 2

With only a few days to go I'm focusing on packing (Making lists so I don't forgot any item.) Everything is ready to go now. There is no more sewing, no more hot gluing, nothing left to do but pack and get ready to have some fun. I'm so excited about wearing my new costume, especially since it's so loud (Lots of bells) and the fabric is so nice and flowy.

Tomorrow (day before we leave) we'll be looking over all our lists, buying food for the trip as well as some medical supplies (Someone always needs a bandaid) and relaxing. Luckily for me I get to pack up all my casual clothing that day since I'll be wearing lolita to the con.

Day zero- We plan to leave no later than 10:30. Since the con isn't far away we aren't stressed about time. Unlike how it is when we're headed up to Seattle. Since we plan on stopping by a Sonic (A food place we don't have in Gresham/Portland) we're leaving a bit earlier than we really need to. I'll be wearing full lolita which I may post a picture of later. We'll be just hanging around until 3:00pm when we can check into our hotel with our roommates. Then at 5:00pm is the lolita meet-up. It'll be my first and I'm hoping to meet a lot of local lolitas and maybe make a new friend.

Day one- Will be so exciting. I'll be wearing my new Sakura costume all day. We have only one panel planed so the day will be open. I'm guessing we'll be shopping most of the day. I have a feeling we'll be stopped every few steps to be taken a picture of so we'll be staying out in plain sight a lot of the time. Sadly I have new medical issues that I have to be wary of so I wont be able to stay outside for long periods of time without a break. Might go to the ball at night.

Day Two-Is our Pandora Hearts day! In the morning we have a autograph signing then right after is the Pandora Hearts photo shoot with two of our high school friends. I can't wait to see them again. Then at three is the interview and photo shoot with the author of the new cosplay book "BREAKING ALL THE RULES" Which I am looking forward to so much! This is going to be the main focal point of the whole con. I really feel honored to have been chosen. Even though I may not make it into the book, At least I'll get to meet and talk with the author. After that we'll change back into our Tsubasa costumes and the rest of the day is unplanned.

Day Three- Not sure what's going on yet. May dress up as Sakura, may just walk around in lolita. Not sure yet.

Day 4- Drama

With four days to go I should be excited, pumped up and ready to pack. But now...I'm very disappointed.Our new costumes are Sakura and Syaoran. We were lucky enough to get those on time (a day early too!) but now the one photo shoot we've been looking forward to isn't happening. The Tsubasa/XXXHolic photo shoot isn't happening because I'm the only one who's tried to set a time and place, while everyone else dropped off the face of the world. That really made me saddened. I was hoping to meet more CLAMP cosplayers and hopefully make some new friends for future cosplay groups.

Before that happened I found out my friend isn't able to go because her group decided to exclude her and we had already had a full room. I wish she would have told me a head of time so I could have shared a room with her so she would be able to go.

I'm just so disappointed this year wont go as planned. Besides wearing our cosplays, shopping is the only other thing we're looking forward to. I have a feeling we're going to be excluded from what friends are going and are going to be stuck by ourselves at lot. Which isn't bad, Nic and I like being alone. We were just hoping to meet a lot of new people and make friends at this con since we were unable to during Sakura-con.

I really don't understand why things are falling a part four days before the con but I just can't get excited or even happy about going. We might wind up skipping the next K-con. I have only been to this con once but already I'm not feeling it. It's heart breaking because I love this hobby so much. I just don't understand why I'm feeling so upset about it. I don't think I'll ever do a con photo shoot again, that's for sure. Too much of a hassle. Pictures don't turn out well anyway.

It's weird being glum over a con. My hubby is excited. He's pumped to wear his new cosplay but I feel like this has been a waste of time and we're never going to be able to meet new people when they keep flaking on us. We did have a little CLAMP photo shoot planned with a Yuko but she never replied with a time or location so I'm guessing that won't happen either.


At this point I'm done dealing with people. I try really hard to be nice and help. But they never are willing to do the same. To be there for us and ask us to do things with them. It's tiring. Don't get me wrong. We'll keep cosplaying. We love it too much. I love sewing and styling wigs, putting on our make-up. I'm not giving that up. We'll just be more private I guess. Let people come up to us. I feel like I'm stuck in high school again. This drama is so old. I just want to have fun.

So I guess I'll just have to focus on my hubby and enjoy my costumes. The interview will be fun too. So as long as I look forward to the fun things and not what could have been I think I might be okay. At least I hope so.

Day 5- Keeping busy

Trying to keep my mind off of the con so I don't wind up being overly excited. Otherwise I'd get no sleep and talk nonstop about con stuff. My hubby can only take so much of my nonstop cosplay rambles. Although he's into cosplay he doesn't always feel like talking about the same stuff over and over and over. XD

So I've been focusing on writing my novel. And been cutting out and creating Adventure Time cut outs.

What time is it?

These are so much fun! Cutting them out and taping them together is keeping me very busy. I've done Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum and now I'm working on my favorite character, Lumpy Space Princess. These are so addicting.

I've also been playing Darksiders. It's a fun game. I'm a big fan of the Grim Reaper. I have a novel planned about the Grim himself but I may not write that for a while. Anyway it's a fun game, keeps both me and my hubby busy because I'm not good at some of the puzzles. But it's fun so far.

Day 6- Don't do this to yourself

Staying away from FB for a while. Simply because I'm sick of seeing things and posts about people comparing themselves to someone else, saying no matter what they do they will never be as good as that person. That isn't true at all. Cosplay is called cosPLAY for a reason. It's for fun!!!! Not for slandering other cosplayers's who happen to be wearing the same outfit as you, or telling yourself you aren't good enough, you'll never do as awesome as an cosplay as that person.

I've seen this go on in forums and that's a main reason I don't bother with them often. People can be mean, even in the cosplay world. But it's not right. Give yourself some credit.

I remember reading one post about a girl saying she hated people who bought their costumes and they acted like it was all about themselves because they had the money to buy nice costumes. It got me really upset because we send a lot of money for the costumes. Sure we could make them but I'm still learning the in and outs of sewing. I don't want to rush myself. I found it a low hit.

It shouldn't matter if you buy or make your costumes. It shouldn't matter if your crossplaying or genderbending. It should NEVER matter what skin color you have. Or if you don't wear contacts.

Loosen up cosplayers.

I would hate for someone on the street to ask a cosplayer what they are doing and get s horribly negative review about the hobby.  Not sure where all this "They're better" thing is coming from. I'm guessing the interest. Supposedly there is a new site like FB but for cosplayers only. I'll be skipping going there.


If your a new cosplayer and you have those thoughts running through your mind when you see a costumes that is very complex, don't hate yourself. It's not bad, it's not evil, it's okay to admire someone else's work. Don't feel bad if you aren't wearing a wig or have contacts or maybe aren't the best at make-up. You'll learn as time goes on. Just have fun and enjoy the con and your cosplay/s. That's what this hobby should be about is having FUN.


That's enough for my rant. I need to go write if I ever want this book to be published. Remember have fun. Be happy. And smile. People will like you more if you smile.

Day 7- Sewing is done

One week now! Getting pumped. I finished all the sewing touch ups. Sewed lace onto Break's Cravat, sewn on an extra snap onto Sakura's top so it wouldn't bunch up when I put on the corset, sewn back in the bottom part of the zipper on Sharon's gown. So now I'm done. There is nothing left for me to do for the con. Now I'm just going to focus on working out and starting to pack up. 

Sorry for the short post. I'm rather tired.

FMA plans

The topic came up about Sakura-con today and we were talking about how to plan for the con and a wedding. Having a huge con and a wedding back to back is going to be hard. But we've been together for six years and are ready to become husband and wife so we can start our lives as a family. A family who coooooossssplays!

So in order to save as much as we can we decided to only get one new cosplay and not buy them online from our new favorite cosplay site (CosplayHolic) since we'll be saving towards the wedding. So we're going to stick with our FMA cosplays. Since it'll be casual which will be a huge relief cause our other cosplays are huge and fancy. So since Sakura-con is going FMA next year with Vic (Who we've been dying to meet) we'll be doing Trisha and Hohenheim.

Hohenheim's outfit is pretty simple, not as much as Trisha's but it's fairly casual. He can wear the pieces of clothing for other things too. From what I've seen in pictures his outfit consists of....

• Brown trench coat
• White button-up shirt
• Dark brown/black vest 
• Matching pants
• Brown dress shoes
• Tie (colors changes.)

Trisha's outfit is by far the most simple cosplay I'll own. Plus if my hair grows out by then I'll be able to use my natural hair since brown is my normal hair color. And I have green contacts already from my Sakura cosplay so there isn't much we need.

• Light purple dress
• White long apron
• Brown sandels

Simple as simple could get. I love it. Plus I'll be able to go to any Edward or Alphonse and be like "MY BABY CHILD!" Yeah...I'm a weirdo like that. But anyway. I'm excited to craft a simple outfit. We'll most likely go thrift shopping hoping to find most items that way or ordering them online. Everything should be way cheaper than having to buy a fancier outfit.