Otakon is this weekend, and it shall hopefully be a very fun time! I'm going to be staying at the Best Western that's relatively close to the convention (walking distance, though not close walking distance, from what I've been told). It's not one of those that's attached by the sky bridge, but still! Apparently it's about a ten minute walk. Part of ( Read more... )

To bring myself back to life on LJ in a fun way, I shall be attempting something in honor of the day. I shall attempt to put my hair into proper Princess Leia buns. I'll post pictures of the results if they are at all effective ( Read more... )

While going through my things to pack, I found a Roy Mustang cosplay I bought from animalboything a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, it doesn't fit me - my hips are too big (they do not lie, either ( Read more... )

This is what I'm going to be wearing tomorrow - I've only just finished up the last tweaks to it. We're going to be taking our time in arriving, so we probably won't be there until after noon or so. *grin*

And, uh...don't mind the bare feet. I was lazy. I have shoes I'll be wearing tomorrow.

( Cissnei from Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core and Before Crisis )

I am rather proud of this: finished it off this morning, and it's awesome.

( Shuriken! )

I are at Jenn's and it is awesome here. Also, I have completed the prop for one cosplay, and it is awesome. I need to fiddle with Helen's shirt and wig tomorrow, and then I can see about posting pictures up for people to see what I will be looking like! =D ( Read more... )

So the wig shop in Poughkeepsie has jack-all in terms of wigs that I can use, and the lady there didn't seem particularly interested in putting forth too much effort to help me. I mean, she was nice, but she didn't exactly do much. Of course, it might have been the fact that I was a white woman, of middle-upper class, in a neighborhood that...wasn' ( Read more... )