Life is good. 

Sometimes, we just have to remind ourselves of it.

There's a lot of things going on around me at the moment, and sometimes it can seem hard to catch my breath. Luckily everything is getting better (along side me progressing on my WCS stuff. hmpf.) and I'm starting to feel more at ease. 

I'm so nervous and excited for Japan, and the thought of there only being 24 days until we leave... It's crazy. It feels like we just walked of the stage at J-pop, confused, happy and scared out of our wids. Well I'm still all these things I guess, just more happy. There's a lot of anxiety involved in this that I didn't really see coming to be honest, which is ridiculous. Denmark is such a small country that we hardly get noticed during the WCS and therefore I have nothing to be scared of as such. Also, the danish cosplay community is very supportive and to be frank, just doesn't think much about it I think? That's my impression at least. Don't get me wrong here, I think people think of it as a cool thing and a great chance for Denmark, but compared to other countries cosplay communities we don't give a damn xD  But I still don't want to disappoint myself. I want to be able to look back at this with pride.. so that's what I hope will happen.. Cause changes are I won't be going again. 

So... a bit of a random rant about WCS her eon the blog, after a long time of absence. 

I hope everything is good out there in wonderland!

 

You may have noticed that my pretty little picture to the left changed - yup - new cosplays! 

And besides Twisted Esmeralda which I have on showcase over there, I also debuted another costume recently. 

Katniss Everdeen - Hunger Games

So here you have some progress pictures and - oh, what do you know.. some small photoshoot pictures as well, with just about the best Peeta ever<3 

 The bow is one I bought from Faraos Cigar and then painted. It was black before.

 The arrows were some that my ever so faithful cosplay partner Yoshu gave to me, from her Natalia cosplay. I took the awful pointy ends of (I'm allowed to say that, I'm the one who made them for in the first place) and made some new nifty ones in wonderflex! Really happy about the result. I'm not good with props, but working on it!

The quiver is made out of a tube for posters that I got at the postoffice, covered with fabric and then very quickly painted. Now, the paint job on is HORRIBLE. It's made in a day, so what can you do, time pressure! The strap for it is an old belt I had.

The "glass" looking feather thing, is made out of Plexiglas which I was lucky enough to get help with from my dad. It took me half an hour to make one, then he and a friend came in and made like.. 15 in 10 minutes... But they also used the right tool so I didn't stand a chance.

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So that was the progress of this cosplay. I really hope plan on making more of her outfits in the nearby future. I'm so in love with these books!

Anyway, as I said, here are some photos from a small photosession we had at SvS con.

Photos by the amazing Zarsu
>>GO LOOK AT HER STUFF<<

Peeta is the amazing Bára<3

>>GO LOOK AT HER AS WELL<<

Oh and the location was a freaking BUSH. And Zarsu made that look like a forest. She got skills I tell ya!

I also had an amazing Effie Trinket with me that day, but we didn't get any pictures together ;_;

But she'll be cosplaying Finnick at a point, so I'll get some photos with her then! And we'll have a Effie there too! ... It's my plan to make everyone I know cosplay from this series. 

And that was it for this time!

May the odds be ever in your favor.

,,When you play the game of thrones you win.. or you die."

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It's my new thing - buying lots of wonderful pins for cosplays<3

Oh and a picture of my cat. Cause his name is King, so it seemed appropriate.

I'M ACTUALLY WORKING.

 I swear!

And I can finally show some stuff to you guys! This is a cosplay I am working on for SVS-con this may :D 

You may have noticed I have a slight affection towards Disney and all that comes along with it *possesedCOUCGHpossesed* - SO ... YES, another disney cosplay! Come on, it's a tradition for my SVS conventions ;D

Anyway, I will be cosplaying as Esmeralda from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" - a character I love very much. So much spunk and awesomeness, HELL YES. (I have a thing for power women, who doesn't want to have that kind of courage?)

First of we have a extremely sexy picture of me in the skirt. Sweaters and skirts, it so works.

It was a very simple skirt to do, just a full circle cut out of fabric I have had lying around since... 2009 I think. But hey, it's fantastic to actually make a cosplay where I have not bought one single new thing. Only goes to show how much fabric and stuff I have around my room...

Anyway where was I... oh yes, simple circle skirt with elastic band at the top . SKIRT DONE SIR.

This is the underbust in it's progress. As mentioned before, none of the things I used for this cosplay was bought for this particular cosplay, the green fabric here was something I used for a headband last year. Now, that is very thin lining (I think that's  the right word?) fabric, and therefore it wouldn't have had enough power in it to actually sit proper on its own, so I put it on top of some stronger and more "hard" white fabric, to stabilize it. Next thing was just to put the gold stripes on, which I believe I did with glue... If I remember correctly. I then secured the bottom and top with some green "ribbon" ... Someone is in the need of a dictionary here.

The last thing I did was to sew on some small "hooks" (Where is that dictionary?!) at the back of it and it was ready to go!

Here a picture from before the underbust was properly cut to shape, and the start of the.. other prupe thing...

Oh and the shirt of course >D

The purple thing thing, from now on known as Steve, was made out of a half circle.

I made the shirt by altering a shirt pattern I have from school. I am not 100% satisfied with the puff in the sleeves, but I didn't have more fabric to change it, and it's not a fatal flaw, more just my personal taste in the game x'D

The wig is a old one I had bought for Mother Gothel, but for her it didn't have enough curls or "PUFF" .. But for Esmeralda it was just perfect! Her hair is puffed up the back, and to achieve that look I made a small "pillow" in the form of a half moon stuffed it with cotton and then sewed it onto the wig.
To cover it up, I cut off some lanes of the wig - not so much so that the wig would collapse - and glued those on top of the pillow.

Here you have it pretty much done! I want to make Steve a bit shorter though. Oh and the coins on the Steve is made out of FIMO clay, with carvings of a cross and some random pattern I made, painted with gold and black paint.

 But yes, done Wig, shirt, underbust and skirt - and I love it! 

There's nothing like being a Disney gal ;D Now just have to get a photoshoot done it this baby X'D

Also had a little make up test.. Where I was so lazy to only put in one lense, so retard pose for you guys!

That's all for this time - hope that I will be more active in the near time!

Allons-y my ducklings ~ May the odds be ever in your favor<3

(YES I WENT THERE)