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AnimeNext Stuff
Jun. 29th, 2007 04:29 pmJust a week left until AnimeNext. The schedule is up and I’m feeling a bit more excited about it now. Although the Japanese guests of honor this year are being touted mainly as Romeo x Juliet guests, one of them also worked on Kaleido Star and there’s a Kaleido Star panel scheduled. ^_^ The bad thing is that it’s supposed to be Sunday during the second half of cosplay chess. A guest and panel for one of my favorite series and it has to conflict with the one event I have to be in. -_-; Bah. Maybe, I can run over to catch the end of the panel if chess finishes early or if I get killed off early on. I don’t want to back out of chess since I know Jamie had difficulty finding enough people to fill the board. [Poll #1012558]
I did say a few weeks back that I wanted to bring my nyosen uniform but the thought of all those layers in July and how easily it wrinkles is making me reconsider although I’d like to wear it again at a con sometime. Plus, I haven’t had time to figure out how to better do my hair for that costume. I could just throw some flowers in my hair and be a generic nyosen but it wouldn’t look as impressive without Youka’s big loops of hair.
My old Ayame should be simple to bring; the only thing I’d particularly need to do would be to find the shoes since I haven’t worn it since Otakon last year. I guess the one downside would be that it’s not the greatest costume for a summer con with the long black coat. ^_^; But it’d probably be better than Youka or my newer Ayame which has more layers.
There are my two older Count D outfits and it’d be nice to bring one so I’d have more than just the simple vacation outfit for him, especially since I finally have mismatched contacts for him. I’ve worn the peacock dress a lot; it’s been to every con since I’ve made it so I thought it might be about time to give it a break. Around here, I’ve only worn it to MangaNext (on Friday where few people saw it) and NYCC (on Sunday where I didn’t run into many cosplayers that I knew) though so I’m wondering if I should bring it out one more time before putting it in the closet until next year.
The blue brocade robe has been worn a bit less so I might go with that one. If I had a friend willing to wear it while I’m D’s sister, I’d definitely bring this but that’s probably just wishful thinking since I’m sure most people have their costume schedules more planned out than me. ^_^;
I thought I wasn’t going to bring my formal Terra but I’m a bit tempted to now. It’d give me one more elaborate costume to wear if I don’t bring the nyosen uniform. Both of my definite costumes look relatively simple so I’d like to bring at least one elaborate looking one.
Progress on the costume for D’s sister is still moving along. I went out Wednesday and got some pink silk chiffon to use for the shawl. I cut the fabric yesterday and I’m working on a hand-rolled hem for it now. I don’t think I’ve ever done a hand-rolled hem before (not that I recall, anyway) but I’m getting lots of practice with the 20 feet or so of hem. ^_^;
I bought shoes Wednesday, too, but I need to go return them and get other ones. I got pink Chinese satin slippers but I tried them on with the dress and they’re too bright. That’s been the big problem with finding shoes to go with this dress. Going by the reference pics, I should have flat slippers somewhat darker than the dress. I want them in pink to coordinate with the trim and shawl. But even though flats seem popular now, the pink ones seem to come in only pastel pink and hot pink with practically nothing in between and neither extreme is what I want. >_< I might be stuck having to buy an Aldo pair I saw at the mall last weekend. The color leaned a bit towards purple (sort of a berry shade) but it looked like it would work with the dress. The reason I hadn’t bought them was that the toe part was really shallow and the edges dug into my bones near my little toes. *has wide feet* -_-; The company doesn’t make half sizes and the next larger size was way too long for me.
On the bright side, I did get the new wig I ordered a couple of weeks back. I was a bit worried it wouldn’t arrive in time because I hadn’t gotten any e-mails from Cosworx nearly a week after Paypal went through. Got in touch with them and it seems they had missed the payment clearing. But they apologized and sent the wig overnight. ^_^ Need to cut and style it sometime over the next few days so that I’ll have wigs for both Count D and his sister.
I did say a few weeks back that I wanted to bring my nyosen uniform but the thought of all those layers in July and how easily it wrinkles is making me reconsider although I’d like to wear it again at a con sometime. Plus, I haven’t had time to figure out how to better do my hair for that costume. I could just throw some flowers in my hair and be a generic nyosen but it wouldn’t look as impressive without Youka’s big loops of hair.
My old Ayame should be simple to bring; the only thing I’d particularly need to do would be to find the shoes since I haven’t worn it since Otakon last year. I guess the one downside would be that it’s not the greatest costume for a summer con with the long black coat. ^_^; But it’d probably be better than Youka or my newer Ayame which has more layers.
There are my two older Count D outfits and it’d be nice to bring one so I’d have more than just the simple vacation outfit for him, especially since I finally have mismatched contacts for him. I’ve worn the peacock dress a lot; it’s been to every con since I’ve made it so I thought it might be about time to give it a break. Around here, I’ve only worn it to MangaNext (on Friday where few people saw it) and NYCC (on Sunday where I didn’t run into many cosplayers that I knew) though so I’m wondering if I should bring it out one more time before putting it in the closet until next year.
The blue brocade robe has been worn a bit less so I might go with that one. If I had a friend willing to wear it while I’m D’s sister, I’d definitely bring this but that’s probably just wishful thinking since I’m sure most people have their costume schedules more planned out than me. ^_^;
I thought I wasn’t going to bring my formal Terra but I’m a bit tempted to now. It’d give me one more elaborate costume to wear if I don’t bring the nyosen uniform. Both of my definite costumes look relatively simple so I’d like to bring at least one elaborate looking one.
Progress on the costume for D’s sister is still moving along. I went out Wednesday and got some pink silk chiffon to use for the shawl. I cut the fabric yesterday and I’m working on a hand-rolled hem for it now. I don’t think I’ve ever done a hand-rolled hem before (not that I recall, anyway) but I’m getting lots of practice with the 20 feet or so of hem. ^_^;
I bought shoes Wednesday, too, but I need to go return them and get other ones. I got pink Chinese satin slippers but I tried them on with the dress and they’re too bright. That’s been the big problem with finding shoes to go with this dress. Going by the reference pics, I should have flat slippers somewhat darker than the dress. I want them in pink to coordinate with the trim and shawl. But even though flats seem popular now, the pink ones seem to come in only pastel pink and hot pink with practically nothing in between and neither extreme is what I want. >_< I might be stuck having to buy an Aldo pair I saw at the mall last weekend. The color leaned a bit towards purple (sort of a berry shade) but it looked like it would work with the dress. The reason I hadn’t bought them was that the toe part was really shallow and the edges dug into my bones near my little toes. *has wide feet* -_-; The company doesn’t make half sizes and the next larger size was way too long for me.
On the bright side, I did get the new wig I ordered a couple of weeks back. I was a bit worried it wouldn’t arrive in time because I hadn’t gotten any e-mails from Cosworx nearly a week after Paypal went through. Got in touch with them and it seems they had missed the payment clearing. But they apologized and sent the wig overnight. ^_^ Need to cut and style it sometime over the next few days so that I’ll have wigs for both Count D and his sister.
