Talia is growing up so fast!  This summer she lost three of her baby teeth.  I can hardly believe it.  (I didn't want her baby teeth to come out because it means she's not a baby anymore.  *sniff*)  After the first tooth came out, my husband and I told her about the Tooth Fairy and told her to put her tooth under her pillow.  Then we replaced her ( Read more... )

miri_in_japan , you are too awesome for words.  You need to come back to the States so that I can hug you to death.  ^_^

Seriously.

Thanks to you, Talia has a ton of cool Shugo Chara stuff from Japan.  If I were a kid her age, I'd be sooo jealous!

Talia doesn't know how lucky she is.  I wish my mom had had a friend living in Japan who would send me cool anime ( Read more... )

Someone reminded me that I haven't posted any Nadeshiko pictures yet.  ^^;

Nadeshiko Fujisaki, status: 100% complete!

Remember my last post about Nadeshiko?  I couldn't find the proper boots for this costume (brown, knee high boots with laces up the front) for a reasonable price so I went with inexpensive brown boots (no laces).  There's nothing ( Read more... )

Hurray for last minute cosplay!  ^^;

I've wanted to make the Shugo Chara boys uniform for my son for a while, but I kept changing my mind.  On one hand, he'd look really cute in the boys uniform, I already had all the fabric, and I'd have an excuse to buy him a new soccer ball.  (Kukai is one of my favorite characters.)  On the other hand, he hates ( Read more... )

Amu Hinamori, status: 100% complete!

Nadeshiko Fujisaki, status: 95% complete!

( Cosplay WIP Details... )

I made a lot of progress on our Shugo Chara school uniforms this week.  I feel accomplished.  ^_^

( Uninteresting Cosplay WIP Pictures... )

I'm temporarily putting my plans for K-ON! costumes on hold in favor of making more Shugo Chara! costumes instead.  This is because Shugo Chara costumes are more fun for Talia.  (She even told her swim teacher that Shugo Chara was her favorite TV show.)  She's watched a few episodes of K-ON with me, but she's not into it.  K-ON! is rather slow ( Read more... )

Obscure reference to Shugo Chara episode 9:

A few months ago, over the Christmas holidays, I met up with an old high school friend for lunch.  (Hi, miri_in_japan !)  It was fun.  I probably won't get the chance to hang out with her again until next Christmas though... because she's currently living in Japan - which is so cool!  ^_^  When she found out how much ( Read more... )

Costume Status: 100%

I finished the ribbon bows and the heart visor today.  From start to finish, this costume took about 12 days (with breaks for Real Life stuff).  Hooray for easy costumes!  It's a comfortable costume, too.  Always a plus.  ^_^

Talia's neck and waist ribbon bows were looking pretty sad.  She's worn her Amulet Heart costume many, ( Read more... )

Costume status: 80% complete

This will be the last WIP entry for Amulet Heart.  I should be able to finish the rest of it this week - and maybe get some pictures of the whole thing this weekend.  ^_^

( WIP photo: Amulet Heart legwarmers and armbands )