2013

After talking with my friend and fellow cosplayer, who we will be rooming with this year at Sakura-con, I've decided to take on a second cosplay to make for our next con in March. But only if I can finish both TB cosplays within a reasonable time. Five months until the con, if I can finish a cosplay, props and all with three weeks I'll have plenty of time to start on an extra project. Thank goodness I have a job now! For a while now I've been wanting to take a break from Sharon and Break (Pandora Hearts) to cosplay another set of characters from the same series. While talking with my friend I brought up the fact I want to do Lacie. I said for Kumori-con 2013 but now that I've found a really good pattern for Lacie's purple and black dress I think I'll take on the challenge of bringing two, fully finished costumes to Sakura-con.

Since Sakura's outfit isn't a good cosplay to wear for long periods of time I think sharing that day with Lacie would be amazing. Plus this would limit my wear of pink (YAY). Sharon's wig is really bad and needs to be replaced but I'm having issues finding one that is of a good price and is the right color so this will help give me a break from that beast. Although Lacie's wig will be worse (I'm just happy it doesn't have a ponytail clip on!) since it will go all the way to my behind or longer since I'm short.

But wait!

I always cosplay couples/pairings with my fiance, who is he going to be? Levi of course! Levi is one of the previous Glens. I love his look, his outfit and character a lot, he's rather interesting and my fiance has agreed to take Levi's role on. He's still catching up in Pandora Hearts but he's read Levi's chapters and likes him, reminds him of Break so we're going to take on Levi and Lacie (Alice's and Will's parents) and will be hopefully bringing them to Sakura-con. But if they aren't done or I'm not pleased with how they turn out, we'll be bringing them to Kumori-con later on in the year.

We already have a Will of the Abyss! That's my friend as mentioned above. She has an awesome Will cosplay she's been bringing to Kumori-con for a while now and since we invited her to Sakura-con after we decided not to go with other people, we are super excited to bring her to her first Sakura-con! So I'm going to try my hardest to whip out four cosplays within five months. It sounds kind of crazy but I think I'll be able to do so if I start soon.  I'm really excited to bring my friend along to Seattle next year for Sakura. Our other guests have been treating us pretty coldly lately and we just didn't feel comfortable spending so much time with them when they act this way, so instead of spending our time alone we invited our friend since she has never gone and wanted to go really badly. I think it's a better choice, she's more mature, knows us pretty well from high school, and is very social. Just what we need!


This is what I'm guessing our days will be like...


Day 0. Trinity Blood (Abel and Caterina)
Day 1. Pandora Hearts (Lacie and Levi or Sharon and Break)
Day 2. Tsubasa/Trinity Blood
Day 3. Trinity Blood or full lolita


I'm spoiling myself and buying a Baby the Stars Shine Bright dress and maybe a coat or something for myself once I get paid, so I'll be wearing that during down time, day zero (maybe) and day three. Not sure just yet. But we will see in the up-coming months how far along our cosplays are.


First two that will be worked on will be Trinity Blood. I'm very excited to be cosplaying from one of my favorite mangas. I'm going to take my time making these costumes, adding in the small details that I love so much. The petticoat under Caterina's dress will be hand-made by me, that includes the lace detailing. I'll be able to try new techniques while making these costumes, I'm seeing it as a skill building experiment, one step closer to finally compelteing my two dream cosplays, Seth Nightlord and Ozma from Return to Oz. Those costumes have so much details I'm not ready to take on something like that just yet. So while I'm still learning I'm using these costumes to build my skills for later. Although each will be made with plenty of excitement towards wearing the costumes.


Now I'm going to go write for a little bit while I wait for my parents to be ready to leave, so we can go get new cell phones. I've never ha a cellphone...I'm excited!