Well, hell. I figured out my zipper, and everything was looking, if not perfect, certainly adequate for my first pair of pants, and what do I do? In preparation for adding the waistband I cut off the ends, then totally forget and pulled the zipper pull all the way up and off. It is not going back on, now matter how many internet tutorials I try ( Read more... )

After many hours meditation on the subject, I have concluded haberdashery is not the career for me. Also, I am very glad my mother always insisted on the low-temperature glue guns.

It's the weekend before the last weekend before Anime Expo, and that means it's time to get down to business to defeat the Huns and actually do some real work on my cosplay!

Done so far:
Most of the orange shirt

Not done so far:
Everything else

Time to crank up the Initial D megamixes and get cracking!

Having beaten the game (well, if you don't count those two puzzles that I missed even though I clicked everywhere but couldn't find), I'm now semi-seriously thinking of cosplaying the good professor himselfDownsides: it'd be my first crossplay that's actually supposed to look like a guy (my others being Nuriko and Kurapica, who are supposed to look ( Read more... )

( At last, the last of my AX pictures. )

So anyway, Anime Expo. I went there.

( Can you guess my favorite Kingdom Hearts II character? )

Last weekend Two weekends ago was Anime Expo (need to work on getting these up faster), and I, perhaps unsurprisingly, attended.

( You would like to see photos, yes? )

Fun questions to ask yourself at two in the morning ( Read more... )

Oh, math. How would I ever make cosplay without you? (Now stop being so picky about just when and where Euclidean geometry is appropriate ( Read more... )

Scrubbing the bathtub with clorox at one in the morning after using it to dye six yards of linen slightly black.

It must be cosplay season.