almost completed VHD sword
present from my friend Derek, who rules. More later!

If you guys have been watching our personal LJ's you've probably already seen these, but just for completeness, reposting here. We'll probably have a few more later.

( cut for photos )

mauuuu... more sleeping beauty progress. The skirt is just kinda pinned on, I haven't done the waist band at all yet. Also, needs more rhinestones.

Been working on Sleeping Beauty today. I'd already bought the fabric and patterns (and even done the bodice muslin) months ago (Feb... YIKES.) but I hadn't had time to work on it. I really wanted to get it done for sure for Dragon Con, though.

general gimpy costume sketch/idea:

My friend Derek is making the base for my Vampire Hunter D sword. <3
I owe him a HUGE PILE OF COOKIES.


Judy and I will post some photos from Costume College later. I be a tired thing.

I've been posting on my other LJ and DWCosplay a bit and forgot to post here (I'll make sure to keep this uptodate).

A lot of us went to SDCC this past weekend. I went as Kaylee from Firefly and Rose Tyler from Doctor Who. Judy, AJ and Cheryll did Lord of the Rings Easterlings, Steampunk, and The Good Fairies, etc.

Judy and I have Costume College coming up this weekend. We'll probably wear steampunk and Chevalier D'Eon (and other things). Then a bunch of us are going to Dragon Con in early September. :) If you see us, please say hi!

Me, personally... I'll probably have a lot of progress pics soon. I need to finish up Vampire Hunter D and... I'm still hoping to do my Sleeping Beauty Costume... that and I want to make another 18th century gown. :)

Recent costumey posts.
Rose and the Doctor

Gurren Lagann photos

VHD cape progress
Royal/T party

Be afraid, be very afraid.
I plan to be very obnoxious in this costume (at AX).

Mitch and I finished watching Gurren Lagann, and frankly, I loved it more than any series I've watched for a long while! I'm pretty much done with Mitch's Kamina costume (but I haven't taken a picture of it yet...) And Leeron is love, love enough to make me sew a horrid purple bodysuit. (forgive me) lol.
<3 chuuu!
I hope I can get pictures with Char's Yoko at some point!

Played around with Fosshape today... I think it worked really well! This is my Vampire Hunter D hat. I'm going to paint it black later, obviously. It has a nice felted-hat texture.

Ho ho... I guess this will be the last ghetto-bathroom photo from this particular bathroom you'll get from me, since we're moving...! End of an era. DUN DUN DUN. :)

The arm bit is the beginnings of well.. my arm stuff for D.

mognetcentral just posted our shoot with her in our Chevalier costumes!

Check out the awesome photos here!

Here's a quick preview pic courtesy of Terrence Taylor, who caught us while we were waiting for mognetcentral to cross the street (that sounds like the set up for a bad joke).

We did a shoot with mognetcentral that, from the previews she's leaked to us, look pretty awesome. So expect more pic spam of us soon! The next time we wear these we hope to be joined by tristencitrine as Madame Pompadour!

( Does this dress make my hips look big? )

You know those moments that you think, "oh, I'll just do xyz... it will be fast and easy, no big deal!"

*headdesk*

So, I decided to alter the Chevalier dress to make it slightly more historically accurate so I could wear it to historical events. Maybe not such a good idea to quilt the petticoat two days before the con, eh?

Current status:



Looks done, eh? LIES. The only thing holding it together, and on the mannequin, is pins. But instead of actually assembling it, I decided to spend three hours quilting. *sigh*

( picture of complete piece )

(thanks for the tips, Char!)
... and that does it for me! No more Chevalier pics till after Fanime!
(in fact, no more costume stuff till after then anyway!)

I woke up at 6:30 am this morning worried that I'd messed up the RTV mold. lol. (cause I ran out of the blue stuff, so I wasn't sure if I used enough...) Turned out fine though.

This piece took forever to sculpt and paint. *___* It's still not perfect, but perhaps the imperfections add to the organic quality? I hope?

You can't really tell but the white areas are pearlized a bit. OO SHINEY.

I was smarter this time though when pouring the resin than the last time I tried to do a resin piece of this size. This time, I pressed half a plastic christmas ornament in the back to fake having a back mold. It was hard to get the ornament out in the end, but it worked and reduced the weight and resin usage a lot.

It's a "charm" so to speak for VHD's hat. Based on this image


finished up Lia's sword


.... I'm going to go take a nap now. lol.

Very very not-exciting but I thought I'd post to prove that the rest of us won't be naked come Fanime. It's not that exciting of a costume anyways.

I actually changed characters and am doing Maximilien instead of d'Eon. Maximilien was a lot more interesting and now I get to take romantic incestuous photos with Aimee. =D

The lime green is not liner, it's the material I used for flat-lining cause I have a retarded amount of lime green fabric and I dunno what else I can use it for. =P

Oh and I made a Finding Nemo project bag! Isn't it cute?

resin cast belt buckle for VHD. Based on this image

did the sculpt for my VHD skull belt buckle today and (hopefully) made the RTV mold for it. I'll show you tomorrow if I didn't mess it up. lol.

Lia Sword:
Still have to paint the hilt and do distressing on the blade. Looks ok I guess.
AJ found the base sword. :D

With my Chevalier Lia costume,... The dress is pretty much done. I just need to add a few snaps and hooks here and there to ease wearing and do some ironing on it.

Here's today's work on the wig.
Still needs some sausage curling and some bangs styling, but it's really getting there!
One of the important things to me was getting a good pouf-height on her ponytail.

Please ignore my tired face, cause I'm, well, really tired.