A Year in Review: 2008

Jan 01, 2009 11:39

Time for a year of review and this year has to be one roller coaster I must say. SO pop in Paremore into the player, drink some sunkist and grab your snack of chose and follow me into my year in review.

You think going to Disneyland, and living in TX would have given me a big year in 2007 but I think 2008 was more of a kick. I still didn't get everything I wanted done but I still have 2009 to fill with joys, sorrows and adventures.

2008 started with a new costume, but not so new because it was Cardcaptor Sakura's Middle school uniform from the manga.


 

Costume details: McCall little girls cheer uniform made this costume really easy. I will need to make a new tie as I gave mine to Shar for her Liz costume but thats ok. This has only scene a photoshoot at  Thanksgiving Point last winter but I don't know when or where I'll wear it again. It is really my old winter uniform with a new skirt.

Shortly after finching this the house turned upside down when my grandma fell down and broke her arm. My mom had to quit OfficeMax onthe spot and give my grandma 24/7 care, untill she passed away Feb. 4. I still miss her but at least she left me with a load of wonderfull memories and some good character traits.




The drama didn't stop with my grandma's passes, Hyrum was wanting to call it quits with his wife and came to live with us the same week that my grandma passed away. He did return to his wife but stayed with us till May. It was fun at times to have a person around the house to play Mario Cart wii with and walk about Aria.  InMarch was VGL. I think the coast and wait just wasn't all together worth it to me. It was good but once is enough for me. I did mange to make a last min costume, Toadette.


 


Also in march is when I stared my Akari costume and was able to wear it to Fannatiku, where I won my first cosplay award, (and might be my only cosplay award.) I meet Garnet_Runstar and that started a wonderfull friendship. Tuliup Festival so making me busy at work but I still mange to do a cosplay photoshoot/picnic in hopes of getting to know my local cosplayers a little better. Everyone was last but it was still fun and being with the local cosplayers was a blast and I hope I can host another one again this year, but a little later in may so its pretter for a local shoot.


 


May it still get warmer and weather was better so I was also able to wear my new Lolita dress to Thanksgiving point with my Dad and get some photos of the christmas present my mom made for me. In june, I become a full time worker at the deli as warm weather beings people out to the deli. I worked on and off on my Sakura princess dress that I had started in May but already was having my douts but with getting LillyXander to do my assories and I had already bought the fabric, I was going to finch it. In june I did figure out I could go to AnimeFest. In june was the great news of my best friend getting Married. I did her engament pictures as a wedding gift because in all truth, I don't make much money as a food worker and rather give my talent ina gift then some object that can be disgarded in a few years. So June is, work, cosplay, playing at work (gardens) and one art work that (what I think) my best for the year. June was also the month my brother went to Japan. I waited till he retured to go see Kung Fu Panda and Wall e. Now both I have on blue-ray.



               Color Version

By mid-july I was hard broken and just plan frustrated with my Sakura princess and so need a distraction from the project. With scraps from Akari, the non-finch Lucia dress that was going to be for video games live but didn't happen, and  left over pink from the sakura project, in five days I made on of the most over made Sakura outfits ever, the cupcake dress. But it wouldn't be any good just to make it, so I had my first shoot with garnet_runstar as my photographer and Mel as my wonderfull Tomoyo. Note: Katie must ALWAYS keep sunscreen in her car. What was just going to be a hour shot turned into 3-4 but was the best shoot EVER! (164 photos in all and I had a hard time cutting down to my favorites.) LJ Post Here


 
 


If you didn't get enought Sakura (ccs) I also did her summer fun outfit just to be crazy cosplayer I am and go up provo canyon. I kind of liked my closet version of the outfit better then tring to make the real version.


 
 


By the end of July I fully planed to go to AnimeFest over AnimeVegas. That place work on me. I wanted to improve my Akari, and get my Sakura princess dress done. Most of augest was spent at work, cosplay fixing and also doing last min wedding photos for Alicia as her photographer, family, coldn't do it. I then knew, I didn't want to do wedding photos. Enagement is ok, wedding, no. That said, I'm totally just eloping. I did do a photoshoot in the Gardens with my done Sakura princess a week before AnimeFest. I wanted to make sure I got photos in the gardens before I draging to to TX and in turn, might ruin it.


 


Then came AnimeFest. The Text Report I think I have an image report but K-man didn't get my last photo shoot done till november but it was worth is as it was my Bell (now retire) and they where great shoots. All in all, I was kind of disapoint, mostly in myself.  I think you can kind of tell as I just didn't say or do much for the rest of the month of sept. Early Oct. brought my parents mission call in, so I just couldn't think and then I had my 25th brithday  (blah) and then before I knew it Anime Banzai, where I had made Tsubasa Sakura spirit town, and Shar's Alicia costume. (that came out wrong. -_-)The tossed me into november, with my parents leaving me and my brother with the house right before thanksgiving, having my first thanksgiving with out parents. Holidays just don't care for me any more. But for one last swing, I made Sakura's holiday outfit (making my last cosplay for the year.) December grows slow as I freeze in my house unwilling to place the heater up.  Chirstmas was spent shoveling the driveway and doing house chorse, as now my new year is.


 
 


For New Year Eve, I went to bed early as I wasn't feeling my best but at least I was able to see my new nephew Redd and play with is sister before the year was over.

Plans for 2009....to be contuned in next post. XD

cosplay, new year post, review, sakura

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