イベントレポ：コンニチ
Hello everyone ♪
I originally wanted to wait posting this entry until I had some more pictures, but it seems like that would take just too much time and it's already been almost 4 weeks since Connichi, so here's my belated-but-still-not-quite-complete con report.
The con
I don't know why, but this year's connichi wasn't even close to the awesomeness of last year's. It was stressfull, sometimes annyoing and propably even unhealthy. I can't enjoy conventions as much as I used to anymore, maybe I'm getting old. orz
This doesn't mean that it was totally bad, no. There were a lot of really cool things, as well. For once, I got to meet all the poeple I was looking forward to, especially the_queen_s, raspberry_mio & blackbutterfly, who I met for the first time. Also, maddi_chan, my sister mehli and our friend Sarah sucessfully put up with my bad mood for the whole weekend. I hearth you for that. You may not believe it, but I do. And I'm sorry. And of course, there was the train ride back to Berlin, which was -for whatever reason- the most entertaining and EPPICK train ride I've ever had in my entire life.
The costumes
No big surprises here, because I already wrote about them in my WIP entry, so some parts of the costume desciptions will be copypasta.
Friday - Belle (Disney's Beauty and the Beast)
Remember the poll I had in my last entry, because I couldn't decide which of Belle's dresses I should do? This is the dress that made it. Belle's wearing it for like... 20 seconds in the whole movie: First, when she's being chased by wolves and second, when Beast shows her
the castle's library. And because "almost-eaten-by-wolves-dress" doesn't exactly sound nice, I named it the library dress. It was reeaally easy to sew, even though I had a hard time figuring out how her sleeves are attached to the bodice and how they stay up on Belle's shoulders. I sewed the dress in just two days, so I'm all the more surprised that it turned out so well. If it wasn't for the fact that I look just plain stupid with this centre parting wig, I would really, really love this costume.
↓The 3rd picture shows our little Disney princesses group: My sister wearing my Aurora costume, maddi_chan in her lovely Ariel dress and me.
Saturday - Garnet (Tsukiji Nao original artwork)
This dress was still in the making when I last wrote about it. The most annoying part about this costume was that I had to paint/dye most of the laces, gems and buttons myself, because I couldn't find anything appropriate (and affordable). On the other hand, I had no expenses for the fabrics, seeing that they're all leftovers from older costumes.
As I said before, I went for an empire dress with a train which is why I look hugely preggers on some pictures.
I'm especially fond of the head piece, even though it's not 100% accurate. I also like the fully lined sleeves, but unfortunately I forgot to factor
in all the buttons and laces when I cut the pieces, so the sleeves are quite tight now - I can't bend my arms any further than 90°... orz
Sunday - Yuko Ichihara (xxxHolic)
Yes, my Sunday costume was actually two dresses. I've already wrote all there is to say about the kimono last time and there isn't really much to say about the black dress. I'll have a photo shoot with the latter soon, until then I only have these few on stage photos.
As I said before, maddi_chan and me participated in the German WCS prelims on Sunday with these costumes. Maddi was a disturbingly cute Himawari and did a great acting job on stage ♥ ﾟ+｡(〃▽人)｡+ﾟ Everything we thought could go wrong during the skit went smoothly, so, naturally, it was me in a moment of klutziness who ruined it. How? I tripped. I tripped over my too long trains and trashed our props. I'm so sorry, Maddüüüü! ｡･ﾟ･(>д<)･ﾟ･｡
My incapacity didn't exactly lighten my mood, nor did the fact that none of my favourite groups made it into the top 3. Oh well XD
↓1st picture taken by misskrone, 2nd by Fayuna. The 3rd picture was taken by Maddi and shows me and Titschipoo, who was wearing her beautiful Yuko costume I've been drooling about at Bookfair Leipzig ♥
↓↓ 2nd row: Stage pictures. From left to right taken by Squirrel of doom, Ryo, Nikita666 and lime.
To sum up my Connichi 2010 experience:
+ cosplaying with Maddi_chan ♥ ♥
+ mehli's and Maddi_chan's Gankutsuo cosplay
+ meeting anni_bunny, princess_soffel, kyouzou_dankai, the_queen_s, raspberry_mio & blackbutterfly ♥
+ awesome hotel (close to the convention site, nice staff)
+ foreign convention panel on Saturday
+ nice weather (except for Friday evening)
- crowded
- pricey dealer's room
- people leaving their garbage behind at the park
- no sa_pon ...
- so much drama
---- GRAVITY!!! XDDD
My next con (and the last one for this year) will be AniMaCo in Berlin at the end of this month.
My costumes:
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
BTW,misskrone has uploadad all the pictures from our Nakajerine shoot we had in August, so I'll write an entry on that this weekend, too.