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Cosplay stuff and books
Oct. 23rd, 2006 09:16 pmMy, it’s been nearly a week since I’ve written a real entry. ^_^;; Let’s see… I’m working on the new outfit for that wedding. I got the sleeves stitched up over the weekend Still need to cut out fabric for a lining and get some gold trim to add for decoration. Took a picture of one of the sleeves earlier. It’s blue brocade with wine-colored crepe back satin as trim. The pic on the right is without flash and gives a more accurate idea of the background color but the patterns showed up more clearly in the one with flash.
Also, over the weekend, I finally made a Cosplay Lab profile: http://www.cosplaylab.com/cosplayers/complete.asp?memberid=31097 I’d been meaning to do that for a long time but kept putting it off to work on costumes and other stuff. XD; Caught up with adding costumes into my cosplay.com costume list, too. Still need to look through my albums sometime and try to tidy them up a bit. And I will hopefully be getting better pictures of the peacock dress next weekend.
With books, I finished “Death in Hyde Park” by Robin Paige last week. It was okay but didn’t appeal to me as much as some of the previous stories. It involved an anarchist that accidentally blew himself up on the day of King Edward VII’s coronation and the resulting investigation. The series normally includes some historical figures among its characters and this title used writer Jack London. I noticed that unlike most of the other real people who have been included as characters, he didn’t really interact with the main characters. They supposedly met him at a party that took place before the story started but we only see one scene where Kate meets him again. Usually, the historic figures interact with the fictional main characters much more, sometimes even helping in the Sheridans’ investigations. The other thing that sticks out in my mind was that there was a passage referring to how a location in the story is being used in the present day. Completely pulled me out of the story’s early 1900s period so I think it would have been better if it wasn’t there. -_-
Picked up “Embroidered Truths” by Monica Ferris yesterday. I’d fallen somewhat behind on reading that series since it went to hardcover a couple of books back and it wasn’t one of my favorites. It’s a mystery series with a needlework shop owner as its protagonist but despite liking needlework, I don’t think it’s as good as some of the other series I read. In particular, the plots for the first few in the series didn’t seem that clever and those early books contained mistakes in the needlework references, too. -_- Hope this one will turn out to be decent.
Also, over the weekend, I finally made a Cosplay Lab profile: http://www.cosplaylab.com/cosplayers/complete.asp?memberid=31097 I’d been meaning to do that for a long time but kept putting it off to work on costumes and other stuff. XD; Caught up with adding costumes into my cosplay.com costume list, too. Still need to look through my albums sometime and try to tidy them up a bit. And I will hopefully be getting better pictures of the peacock dress next weekend.
With books, I finished “Death in Hyde Park” by Robin Paige last week. It was okay but didn’t appeal to me as much as some of the previous stories. It involved an anarchist that accidentally blew himself up on the day of King Edward VII’s coronation and the resulting investigation. The series normally includes some historical figures among its characters and this title used writer Jack London. I noticed that unlike most of the other real people who have been included as characters, he didn’t really interact with the main characters. They supposedly met him at a party that took place before the story started but we only see one scene where Kate meets him again. Usually, the historic figures interact with the fictional main characters much more, sometimes even helping in the Sheridans’ investigations. The other thing that sticks out in my mind was that there was a passage referring to how a location in the story is being used in the present day. Completely pulled me out of the story’s early 1900s period so I think it would have been better if it wasn’t there. -_-
Picked up “Embroidered Truths” by Monica Ferris yesterday. I’d fallen somewhat behind on reading that series since it went to hardcover a couple of books back and it wasn’t one of my favorites. It’s a mystery series with a needlework shop owner as its protagonist but despite liking needlework, I don’t think it’s as good as some of the other series I read. In particular, the plots for the first few in the series didn’t seem that clever and those early books contained mistakes in the needlework references, too. -_- Hope this one will turn out to be decent.
