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EXCITED!!!
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WTF??? When the hell did they change the journal format? Sheesh...
So it’s about time I update this thing (I’m sick of looking at such a negative journal).
I’m in a nice state of excitement right now. My work gives out these things called Trio Awards for when we meet or exceed goals and such. What they are is basically they have a money value that you redeem on a website and can get gift cards from a number of places. I’ve collected a decent handful of these since they started doing it and finally decided I should put some of them to use. So I redeemed a couple of them, and ordered some stuff from amazon.com. Of the items I ordered, the one I’m the most excited to get is…
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^.^ Yep. I ordered myself a tablet. I’ve been debating for some time now whether or not I wanted a tablet. I never saw a real reason for me to have once, since I don’t plan on making a career out of my art (like I could). But I’ve been drawing a lot lately (Much to mother’s annoyance. She says I should be writing, not drawing. Which… well she’s right I should, but that’s beside the point >.>) and have been getting frustrated when I color my drawings because I can’t do the shading properly either because I don’t have the proper colors, or don’t know how. Will a tablet make that easier? Beats the hell out of me. Quite frankly I could end up getting even more annoyed. I know it’s gonna take time before I get the hang of using not only the table, but photoshop. Oh got photoshop… Learning how to use that is going to be the biggest headache…
I got it off a friend with the intention of using it to make like, sig banners and stuff. But there’s so many different buttons and functions and god knows what else that I never used it and resorted to paint. >.> So it’s just been sitting lonely and forgotten on my laptop (for shame I know).
Either way, as big a pain as it’s gonna be learning to use the thing, I’m still excited to get it. I’m working on a simple picture now that I plan on coloring using the tablet. That’s gonna be interesting… Also might try and fix a picture I was working on that got messed up in the inking process… (stupid pen). I'm really hoping I can fix it on the computer cause if I have to redraw this picture I'll scream...
On another note, thanks to my roommates I am now obsessed with Yu Yu Hakusho. ^.^ I have this one song on my phone called Wild Wind that's sung by Kurama and Hiei that I don't even know how many times I've listened to. It's a good song. ^.^ But anyway, assuming I don't get distracted by something shiny you'll be seeing some Yu Yu Hakusho inspired art at some point.
And... That's all the exciting news I have for now. I lead such a dull life... -.- Oh well. Ja!
So it’s about time I update this thing (I’m sick of looking at such a negative journal).
I’m in a nice state of excitement right now. My work gives out these things called Trio Awards for when we meet or exceed goals and such. What they are is basically they have a money value that you redeem on a website and can get gift cards from a number of places. I’ve collected a decent handful of these since they started doing it and finally decided I should put some of them to use. So I redeemed a couple of them, and ordered some stuff from amazon.com. Of the items I ordered, the one I’m the most excited to get is…
ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I…
^.^ Yep. I ordered myself a tablet. I’ve been debating for some time now whether or not I wanted a tablet. I never saw a real reason for me to have once, since I don’t plan on making a career out of my art (like I could). But I’ve been drawing a lot lately (Much to mother’s annoyance. She says I should be writing, not drawing. Which… well she’s right I should, but that’s beside the point >.>) and have been getting frustrated when I color my drawings because I can’t do the shading properly either because I don’t have the proper colors, or don’t know how. Will a tablet make that easier? Beats the hell out of me. Quite frankly I could end up getting even more annoyed. I know it’s gonna take time before I get the hang of using not only the table, but photoshop. Oh got photoshop… Learning how to use that is going to be the biggest headache…
I got it off a friend with the intention of using it to make like, sig banners and stuff. But there’s so many different buttons and functions and god knows what else that I never used it and resorted to paint. >.> So it’s just been sitting lonely and forgotten on my laptop (for shame I know).
Either way, as big a pain as it’s gonna be learning to use the thing, I’m still excited to get it. I’m working on a simple picture now that I plan on coloring using the tablet. That’s gonna be interesting… Also might try and fix a picture I was working on that got messed up in the inking process… (stupid pen). I'm really hoping I can fix it on the computer cause if I have to redraw this picture I'll scream...
On another note, thanks to my roommates I am now obsessed with Yu Yu Hakusho. ^.^ I have this one song on my phone called Wild Wind that's sung by Kurama and Hiei that I don't even know how many times I've listened to. It's a good song. ^.^ But anyway, assuming I don't get distracted by something shiny you'll be seeing some Yu Yu Hakusho inspired art at some point.
And... That's all the exciting news I have for now. I lead such a dull life... -.- Oh well. Ja!
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BEYOND PISSED
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… So I am just BEYOND pissed right now… Like, you can’t even comprehend just how pissed I am.
Last night was my weekly game night right? A day I always look forward to cause the games are fun and I get to see my friends. Last night the game was Legend of the Five Rings (feudal Japan samurai basically). During the game, our characters found out who they had become engaged to. So the GM starts with Heihachi (going by character names) and before he says the name of Hei’s fiancée he looks at me and says, “By the way Seishin will recognize the name.” And my first thought was. “… Okay…” Turns out the reason he recognized it was because he had met her and her younger sister, the younger sister being one of the potential girls Seishin would get engaged to. This made even less sense to me because the night before game I had told the GM that my char had managed to avoid getting married. Which to me would have included even looking into potential partners, but I went with it.
So then it was my turn, and low and behold, Seishin is engaged to the younger sister. And at first I laughed with everyone else cause not only is she 16 (Seishin is 21), she’s the younger sister of the girl someone else in the group is marrying. So yeah it’s kinda funny. And then I learn that Seishin will be marrying into her clan. In the game, there eight clans, Crab, Crane, Dragon, Lion, Mantis, Phoenix, Scorpion, and Unicorn. My character is from the Crane clan, the girl is from Phoenix. At this point I stop being amused.
I built Seishin to specifically be a Crane, nothing else. If I had wanted a bloody Phoenix, I would have built a flippin Phoenix. So now, all the back story and everything I had in mind for Seishin is completely useless. What pisses me off more is the other characters were matched with people who worked with the kind of character they had. Hell, one of them is even marrying the guy she WANTED her character to marry (tell me how that’s fair).
It’s almost as if Seishin’s match was an after thought. Like, the GM realized, “Oops, he needs someone. I’ll just give one of the others a younger sister and throw her at him.” I’m not even kidding, that’s how it feels. First, yeah, she’s the younger sister of the girl someone else in the group is marrying. I mean really, he couldn’t have come up with something original? Second, she’s sixteen. Granted in the time period this is taking place, that was common, so whatever. I can put up with those. I don’t even care that she’s from a different clan. That’s very common as well. The part I’m furious about is that my char is marrying into her clan. I don’t want this. AT ALL. But there’s not going to be a damn thing I can do about it, because this GM (and I feel kinda bad saying this cause he is a friend) has a really bad habit of doing whatever he wants in games without taking into consideration how the players will feel. I can tell him until I’m blue in the face I don’t want this, and he’ll sit there and try and convince me it’ll be fine. I know that’s what he’ll do.
Ugh! I’m just so sick of getting f***** over in his games. In the Star Wars game he runs, my character is completely useless. I’m not even exaggerating. I decided to build a character that would work to be a Jedi. And from how other people had talked, I was fairly sure she’d be the only one. Which she is, but she’s not the only force sensitive person in the group. The one thing that I thought would make her different from the others, and two or three other people are force sensitive. Add to that she can’t shoot worth a damn (she once shot an ally ship) nor can she ever land a hit with her flippin lightsaber. It’s gotten to the point that I actually dread Star Wars night, because nine time out of ten I sit there bored the whole night. Star Wars used to be the game I looked forward to the most.
Then there was my first L5R character. Before Seishin, I played a Scorpion named Eriko. Why am I no longer playing Eriko? Because some things happened in game and she was unable to continue traveling with the group. Granted I knew there was a chance of this happening, so I can’t be too overly annoyed at this, and I’m not. What I was annoyed about was the dark family secret she had being sprung on me completely out of the blue. I knew Eriko had a dark secret, I just hadn’t figured out what it was. The GM had given me a suggestion, which I said could work, but would have to think about. After that nothing more was said and I forgot about it. Then one day in game that same suggestion came up as her secret and I was completely oblivious. I made it work (what other choice did I have?) but I really didn’t appreciate it being sprung on me like that. Since it was something Eriko would know, he should have brought it up with me again before he brought it into game and making me look like a complete moron.
And now there's this whole mess with Seishin. Not only is he being married into another clan, but we found out last night that our group is heading to the last area they have to travel to. Once finished there, their travel's are over. Which I can only assume means the game will be over. Which means all the time I put into building Seishin was wasted, because I hardly got to play him. And I was REALLY enjoying him too. If I had known that the game was almost over, I would have saved him for the next game. Because from the the sounds of it we'll be doing another L5R game once this one is finished.
I cam so close to walking out on game last night it's not even funny. That is literally how pissed i am. I'm going to have to talk to the GM about last night, I know that. Otherwise things are just going to go really bad. Who knows, maybe by some miracle something can be worked out, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Last night was my weekly game night right? A day I always look forward to cause the games are fun and I get to see my friends. Last night the game was Legend of the Five Rings (feudal Japan samurai basically). During the game, our characters found out who they had become engaged to. So the GM starts with Heihachi (going by character names) and before he says the name of Hei’s fiancée he looks at me and says, “By the way Seishin will recognize the name.” And my first thought was. “… Okay…” Turns out the reason he recognized it was because he had met her and her younger sister, the younger sister being one of the potential girls Seishin would get engaged to. This made even less sense to me because the night before game I had told the GM that my char had managed to avoid getting married. Which to me would have included even looking into potential partners, but I went with it.
So then it was my turn, and low and behold, Seishin is engaged to the younger sister. And at first I laughed with everyone else cause not only is she 16 (Seishin is 21), she’s the younger sister of the girl someone else in the group is marrying. So yeah it’s kinda funny. And then I learn that Seishin will be marrying into her clan. In the game, there eight clans, Crab, Crane, Dragon, Lion, Mantis, Phoenix, Scorpion, and Unicorn. My character is from the Crane clan, the girl is from Phoenix. At this point I stop being amused.
I built Seishin to specifically be a Crane, nothing else. If I had wanted a bloody Phoenix, I would have built a flippin Phoenix. So now, all the back story and everything I had in mind for Seishin is completely useless. What pisses me off more is the other characters were matched with people who worked with the kind of character they had. Hell, one of them is even marrying the guy she WANTED her character to marry (tell me how that’s fair).
It’s almost as if Seishin’s match was an after thought. Like, the GM realized, “Oops, he needs someone. I’ll just give one of the others a younger sister and throw her at him.” I’m not even kidding, that’s how it feels. First, yeah, she’s the younger sister of the girl someone else in the group is marrying. I mean really, he couldn’t have come up with something original? Second, she’s sixteen. Granted in the time period this is taking place, that was common, so whatever. I can put up with those. I don’t even care that she’s from a different clan. That’s very common as well. The part I’m furious about is that my char is marrying into her clan. I don’t want this. AT ALL. But there’s not going to be a damn thing I can do about it, because this GM (and I feel kinda bad saying this cause he is a friend) has a really bad habit of doing whatever he wants in games without taking into consideration how the players will feel. I can tell him until I’m blue in the face I don’t want this, and he’ll sit there and try and convince me it’ll be fine. I know that’s what he’ll do.
Ugh! I’m just so sick of getting f***** over in his games. In the Star Wars game he runs, my character is completely useless. I’m not even exaggerating. I decided to build a character that would work to be a Jedi. And from how other people had talked, I was fairly sure she’d be the only one. Which she is, but she’s not the only force sensitive person in the group. The one thing that I thought would make her different from the others, and two or three other people are force sensitive. Add to that she can’t shoot worth a damn (she once shot an ally ship) nor can she ever land a hit with her flippin lightsaber. It’s gotten to the point that I actually dread Star Wars night, because nine time out of ten I sit there bored the whole night. Star Wars used to be the game I looked forward to the most.
Then there was my first L5R character. Before Seishin, I played a Scorpion named Eriko. Why am I no longer playing Eriko? Because some things happened in game and she was unable to continue traveling with the group. Granted I knew there was a chance of this happening, so I can’t be too overly annoyed at this, and I’m not. What I was annoyed about was the dark family secret she had being sprung on me completely out of the blue. I knew Eriko had a dark secret, I just hadn’t figured out what it was. The GM had given me a suggestion, which I said could work, but would have to think about. After that nothing more was said and I forgot about it. Then one day in game that same suggestion came up as her secret and I was completely oblivious. I made it work (what other choice did I have?) but I really didn’t appreciate it being sprung on me like that. Since it was something Eriko would know, he should have brought it up with me again before he brought it into game and making me look like a complete moron.
And now there's this whole mess with Seishin. Not only is he being married into another clan, but we found out last night that our group is heading to the last area they have to travel to. Once finished there, their travel's are over. Which I can only assume means the game will be over. Which means all the time I put into building Seishin was wasted, because I hardly got to play him. And I was REALLY enjoying him too. If I had known that the game was almost over, I would have saved him for the next game. Because from the the sounds of it we'll be doing another L5R game once this one is finished.
I cam so close to walking out on game last night it's not even funny. That is literally how pissed i am. I'm going to have to talk to the GM about last night, I know that. Otherwise things are just going to go really bad. Who knows, maybe by some miracle something can be worked out, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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Fighting Back the Tears...
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I'm such an idiot... I really am... Why did I think things would work out... I should know better by now... Things never work out for me... Why did I think this time would be any different...
I was bored at work yesterday, so I started poking at friend profiles on facebook. I poked on the profile of my technically ex-boyfriend (who I still have strong feelings for, and discover he's engaged...
... I didn't even know he was dating anyone... Last we had talked about it he wasn't looking to be in a relationship. And now he's engaged...
Was that all a lie? If so why? If he wasn't interested in me he should have said so. Sure it would have hurt, but I would have got over it... Instead I was given false hope... And have been left feeling confused and lied to...
I was bored at work yesterday, so I started poking at friend profiles on facebook. I poked on the profile of my technically ex-boyfriend (who I still have strong feelings for, and discover he's engaged...
... I didn't even know he was dating anyone... Last we had talked about it he wasn't looking to be in a relationship. And now he's engaged...
Was that all a lie? If so why? If he wasn't interested in me he should have said so. Sure it would have hurt, but I would have got over it... Instead I was given false hope... And have been left feeling confused and lied to...
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Cruel Day
3 min read
Well it's almost that time of year again. A time for loved ones to get together, exchange gifts of love, and realize just how lucky they are to have each other. No I'm not talking about Christmas, I'm talking about the cruel joke that is Valentine's day.
The holiday that causes stores everywhere to stock up on cutsey stuffed animals proclaiming, "I Love You" in some way. Where the colors red and pink glare at you until you're eyes want to bleed. And where everything seems to magically take on the shape of a heart.
Seriously, why do we need Valentine's Day? Not everyone is happily in love. This overly biased holiday serves as nothing more then a reminder to those with no significant other that they are alone.
I hate Valentine's Day. Always have. I dread when it comes around because then the fact that I'm pathetic and alone is slammed full force into my face. It's times like this I was I were still in grade school. Back then Valentine's Day was nothing more to me then a day to buy a box of valentines and give one to everyone in my class. Back then I was too young to know what love was, and thus had no real need for the holiday. Now, here I am, twenty-three, very aware of what love is, and very alone.
It would be nice if once, just once, I could experience Valentine's Day the way it's meant to be experienced. But I don't see that happening. Ever.
And of course it will only be a matter of time before I have to put on my, "I'm happy, nothing's bothering me face" as my friends who do have someone are telling me what they got for their significant other, what they got from their significant other, or their plans for the day with their significant other. Over and and over I'll be reminded that I have no one and will thus sink deeper and deeper into depression. I know they don't do it intentionally, but sometimes I wish my friends would just... not talk about their significant others with me. Don't get my wrong, I'm happy for them, I really am. But hearing how happy they are with that special person is hard. And it only gets harder each time the topic comes up.
I really thought this year would have been different. I thought I would have someone. I almost did. But like everything else in my life, hope and happiness is not meant to last...
The holiday that causes stores everywhere to stock up on cutsey stuffed animals proclaiming, "I Love You" in some way. Where the colors red and pink glare at you until you're eyes want to bleed. And where everything seems to magically take on the shape of a heart.
Seriously, why do we need Valentine's Day? Not everyone is happily in love. This overly biased holiday serves as nothing more then a reminder to those with no significant other that they are alone.
I hate Valentine's Day. Always have. I dread when it comes around because then the fact that I'm pathetic and alone is slammed full force into my face. It's times like this I was I were still in grade school. Back then Valentine's Day was nothing more to me then a day to buy a box of valentines and give one to everyone in my class. Back then I was too young to know what love was, and thus had no real need for the holiday. Now, here I am, twenty-three, very aware of what love is, and very alone.
It would be nice if once, just once, I could experience Valentine's Day the way it's meant to be experienced. But I don't see that happening. Ever.
And of course it will only be a matter of time before I have to put on my, "I'm happy, nothing's bothering me face" as my friends who do have someone are telling me what they got for their significant other, what they got from their significant other, or their plans for the day with their significant other. Over and and over I'll be reminded that I have no one and will thus sink deeper and deeper into depression. I know they don't do it intentionally, but sometimes I wish my friends would just... not talk about their significant others with me. Don't get my wrong, I'm happy for them, I really am. But hearing how happy they are with that special person is hard. And it only gets harder each time the topic comes up.
I really thought this year would have been different. I thought I would have someone. I almost did. But like everything else in my life, hope and happiness is not meant to last...
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Madness
8 min read
So the last like… month or so has been rather hectic. I've been so scatter brained lately it's not even funny. It's actually quite annoying, because it often makes me look incompetent. Here's what's all been going on:
First and foremost, Sugoicon is coming up at the end of the month. That means a new costume, and as usual, had issues with it. Starting with the fact that I had to hold off getting anything for the costume because the character had yet to be in the show for more then like… ten seconds. I'm doing the human form of Hyourinmaru (Hyourinmaru as in Toushiro Hitsugaya's Zanpakuto) from the current filler arc of Bleach.
Next, the wig. Hyourinmaru has long, thick hair. Two qualities that are hard to find together in a wig. Add to the fact it's an odd color and you've got instant wig headache. I could find a wig style I liked, or a color I felt worked, but could not for the life of me find them together. I'm sure any cosplayers reading this will understand where I'm coming from. I finally found a style I liked, but of course, it didn't have the color I needed. So my next plan was to get it and dye it to try and get the right color. Well… I ended up being stupid and didn't get the color I was going to get. I got a different color, hoping it would be fine. It wasn't. Hyourinmaru's hair is like… a sea green color. The wig I got was blue. >.< So now I'm back to the dyeing plan. Not sure how well it's gonna work.
The wig also isn't as thick as I'd like. Originally was going to get hair extensions and add them to the wig, but due to money constraints I was unable to do so. So will have to do that at a later time.
Next, arms. Hyourinmaru's arms are made of ice, and since I don't feel like freezing my arms, had to find a way to make them look like ice. Well there was no way in hell I was painting my arms. That would just be a disaster. So I came up with the idea to use long wedding gloves. Went to three stores, two bridal shops (one of them being David's Bridal) and one costume shop. NONE of them had blue gloves. So I had to order them on-line. Which was no big deal, except I wasn't able to get all my fabric. Hyourinmaru's legs are also ice, so I needed the gloves in order to get fabric that would match. Still haven't actually done that. >.<
I'd have to say the only thing that didn't give me a headache was the fabric. Didn't have any problems getting that. I even have most of it cut. Just a matter of sewing it together. Did I mention the con is next weekend? *headdesk* Fortunately the costume is relatively simple, so hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a headache to put together. Hopefully…
But, before I start on that, I have repairs/corrections to make to my other two costumes I'll be wearing first. The main one being my Haori for my Histugaya costume. I'm redoing the black designs on it because they look like ick. When I first made the Haori I had wanted to sew on fabric designs, but the thing was already taking forever, so I nixed that idea. Then I was going to paint them on. Didn't do that for the same reason as not sewing them on. Finally I decided to use iron on paper. It worked. Ish. Took forever because the designs didn't want to transfer from the paper to the fabric. It wasn't until after I'd finished I actually read the package and it said to use the paper on cotton. My Haori is saten. Whoops. So while wearing it a few of the designs along the bottom started flaking. So now I'm sewing fabric designs on. The rest is minor repairs or sewing snaps on to a jacket.
Aside from costume work, there's also been various plannings for the con.
is going to try and go with us, so there was planning between him and me on that. Though for about two weeks we lost contact because he wasn't getting my e-mails. Still isn't actually, but now we have each other phone numbers so we're good there. Will figure out the e-mail thing later.
Now aside from con stuff, I've also got like… four art projects. Two of which are contest entries I haven't even started yet. >.< One is a meme that's for fun, and the fourth is a set of costume designs for Ohayocon in January. You'd think I'd be keeping my mind on the con coming up, but I said I'd try to have at least some of the designs done by Sugoicon. What are the designs? Bleach meets Sailor Moon.
Allow me to explain. My friend Amanda and I went to Kennywood a few months ago, and I dunno what we were smoking, but while walking around we started talking about the Bleach boys dressed as Sailor Senshi. And thus our new costumes for Ohayocon were born. Yes. We will be doing this. I offered to draw up some designs for those of us doing it and bring them to Sugoicon. Right now it's me, and my friends Amanda, Holly, and Athena doing it. Amanda, Holly, and I cosplay as Histugaya (me), Byakuya (Holly), and Renji (Amanda), and we'll be the Senshi. Athena, who does Rangiku, will be doing her as Tuxedo Mask. It's gonna be interesting.
Currently I only have three designs done. One each for Amanda, Holly, and myself. I decided to take those three to the con, then while with Amanda and Holly, work on others while getting their input. The contest entries… dunno if I'll get to those. One I might be able to, cause it's a bit simpler. The other one needs more detail, and like I said, haven't even started on it yet. So we'll see what happens with that. As for the meme, like I said, it's for fun, so it's not something that demands my attention, but I'm having fun doing it, which makes me want to work on it more.
I also just recently started my own Pampered Chef business. My grand opening was the other day, so now I've got that on my plate.
I also have work, so that cut into overall to do time. Plus life in general. My Tuesday games, or just getting together with friends. Not to mention I've got like… four fan fics floating around in my head that are just begging to be written.
As you can see, my brain is being pulled in many many different directions all at once. I'm waiting for it to just give out and explode. But because of all this, I've been forgetting things a lot. Like renew my license. I kid you not, I completely forgot I had to renew my license this month. So for two days I was driving with an expired license. o.o Only reason I remember was because my sister asked me about my license photo card. I had no idea what she was talking about, but her saying license reminded me that mine had expired. So that night I went on-line and renewed it. Now just waiting for to get something in the mail telling me to go get my picture taken for it.
I'm a little relieved my friends and I are taking a break for a couple weeks from our group play through of Tales of Symphonia. It's a bit of a bummer, but at the same time, I need the time for other stuff.
Needless to say I'm looking forward to next weekend. Three stress free days of con goodness. The only thing I'm a little afraid of is Saturday night. Amanda and Holly are hosting the Yaoi panel. Our friend Chelsea will also be there, and since we're all doing Bleach, I got roped in to sit at the head table as well. Though you want to know the main reason why I got roped in? Because Chelsea is doing Gin. So basically, I'm there for them to torture. >.<
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Yaoi. Hell Amanda shoves it in my face often enough, so I've gotten used to it. But that doesn't mean my friends don't still enjoy screwing with me. So I'll be basically sitting at the table, glaring at them and wondering how I let them talk me into this. Well, I'll try and glare at them the whole time. I had a hard time staying in character when I did Hitsugaya at Otakon, so it'll be interesting. Like I said, it's a Yaoi panel, so god only knows what'll come out of people's mouths.
First and foremost, Sugoicon is coming up at the end of the month. That means a new costume, and as usual, had issues with it. Starting with the fact that I had to hold off getting anything for the costume because the character had yet to be in the show for more then like… ten seconds. I'm doing the human form of Hyourinmaru (Hyourinmaru as in Toushiro Hitsugaya's Zanpakuto) from the current filler arc of Bleach.
Next, the wig. Hyourinmaru has long, thick hair. Two qualities that are hard to find together in a wig. Add to the fact it's an odd color and you've got instant wig headache. I could find a wig style I liked, or a color I felt worked, but could not for the life of me find them together. I'm sure any cosplayers reading this will understand where I'm coming from. I finally found a style I liked, but of course, it didn't have the color I needed. So my next plan was to get it and dye it to try and get the right color. Well… I ended up being stupid and didn't get the color I was going to get. I got a different color, hoping it would be fine. It wasn't. Hyourinmaru's hair is like… a sea green color. The wig I got was blue. >.< So now I'm back to the dyeing plan. Not sure how well it's gonna work.
The wig also isn't as thick as I'd like. Originally was going to get hair extensions and add them to the wig, but due to money constraints I was unable to do so. So will have to do that at a later time.
Next, arms. Hyourinmaru's arms are made of ice, and since I don't feel like freezing my arms, had to find a way to make them look like ice. Well there was no way in hell I was painting my arms. That would just be a disaster. So I came up with the idea to use long wedding gloves. Went to three stores, two bridal shops (one of them being David's Bridal) and one costume shop. NONE of them had blue gloves. So I had to order them on-line. Which was no big deal, except I wasn't able to get all my fabric. Hyourinmaru's legs are also ice, so I needed the gloves in order to get fabric that would match. Still haven't actually done that. >.<
I'd have to say the only thing that didn't give me a headache was the fabric. Didn't have any problems getting that. I even have most of it cut. Just a matter of sewing it together. Did I mention the con is next weekend? *headdesk* Fortunately the costume is relatively simple, so hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a headache to put together. Hopefully…
But, before I start on that, I have repairs/corrections to make to my other two costumes I'll be wearing first. The main one being my Haori for my Histugaya costume. I'm redoing the black designs on it because they look like ick. When I first made the Haori I had wanted to sew on fabric designs, but the thing was already taking forever, so I nixed that idea. Then I was going to paint them on. Didn't do that for the same reason as not sewing them on. Finally I decided to use iron on paper. It worked. Ish. Took forever because the designs didn't want to transfer from the paper to the fabric. It wasn't until after I'd finished I actually read the package and it said to use the paper on cotton. My Haori is saten. Whoops. So while wearing it a few of the designs along the bottom started flaking. So now I'm sewing fabric designs on. The rest is minor repairs or sewing snaps on to a jacket.
Aside from costume work, there's also been various plannings for the con.
is going to try and go with us, so there was planning between him and me on that. Though for about two weeks we lost contact because he wasn't getting my e-mails. Still isn't actually, but now we have each other phone numbers so we're good there. Will figure out the e-mail thing later.Now aside from con stuff, I've also got like… four art projects. Two of which are contest entries I haven't even started yet. >.< One is a meme that's for fun, and the fourth is a set of costume designs for Ohayocon in January. You'd think I'd be keeping my mind on the con coming up, but I said I'd try to have at least some of the designs done by Sugoicon. What are the designs? Bleach meets Sailor Moon.
Allow me to explain. My friend Amanda and I went to Kennywood a few months ago, and I dunno what we were smoking, but while walking around we started talking about the Bleach boys dressed as Sailor Senshi. And thus our new costumes for Ohayocon were born. Yes. We will be doing this. I offered to draw up some designs for those of us doing it and bring them to Sugoicon. Right now it's me, and my friends Amanda, Holly, and Athena doing it. Amanda, Holly, and I cosplay as Histugaya (me), Byakuya (Holly), and Renji (Amanda), and we'll be the Senshi. Athena, who does Rangiku, will be doing her as Tuxedo Mask. It's gonna be interesting.
Currently I only have three designs done. One each for Amanda, Holly, and myself. I decided to take those three to the con, then while with Amanda and Holly, work on others while getting their input. The contest entries… dunno if I'll get to those. One I might be able to, cause it's a bit simpler. The other one needs more detail, and like I said, haven't even started on it yet. So we'll see what happens with that. As for the meme, like I said, it's for fun, so it's not something that demands my attention, but I'm having fun doing it, which makes me want to work on it more.
I also just recently started my own Pampered Chef business. My grand opening was the other day, so now I've got that on my plate.
I also have work, so that cut into overall to do time. Plus life in general. My Tuesday games, or just getting together with friends. Not to mention I've got like… four fan fics floating around in my head that are just begging to be written.
As you can see, my brain is being pulled in many many different directions all at once. I'm waiting for it to just give out and explode. But because of all this, I've been forgetting things a lot. Like renew my license. I kid you not, I completely forgot I had to renew my license this month. So for two days I was driving with an expired license. o.o Only reason I remember was because my sister asked me about my license photo card. I had no idea what she was talking about, but her saying license reminded me that mine had expired. So that night I went on-line and renewed it. Now just waiting for to get something in the mail telling me to go get my picture taken for it.
I'm a little relieved my friends and I are taking a break for a couple weeks from our group play through of Tales of Symphonia. It's a bit of a bummer, but at the same time, I need the time for other stuff.
Needless to say I'm looking forward to next weekend. Three stress free days of con goodness. The only thing I'm a little afraid of is Saturday night. Amanda and Holly are hosting the Yaoi panel. Our friend Chelsea will also be there, and since we're all doing Bleach, I got roped in to sit at the head table as well. Though you want to know the main reason why I got roped in? Because Chelsea is doing Gin. So basically, I'm there for them to torture. >.<
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Yaoi. Hell Amanda shoves it in my face often enough, so I've gotten used to it. But that doesn't mean my friends don't still enjoy screwing with me. So I'll be basically sitting at the table, glaring at them and wondering how I let them talk me into this. Well, I'll try and glare at them the whole time. I had a hard time staying in character when I did Hitsugaya at Otakon, so it'll be interesting. Like I said, it's a Yaoi panel, so god only knows what'll come out of people's mouths.
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