Great news everyone!

Yes that was a Futurama reference.  ^_^  But seriously great news.  Talked to Pip last night as I was looking on Dragon*Con's website (hoping they had a forum because I wanted confirmation of the YA shoot) and mid convo kinda did a HOLY SHIT, because they are down to TWO, yes two, hotels with rooms open.  So we talked it over and since I was willing to sacrafice Wizard World Chicago *sniff* We're going to Dragon*Con baby!  Of course I still have to make all the arrangements, hotel, badges, etc.  But still he said we would go.  *squee* I'm psyched and its how many months away?  You may notice I did update the con list, as Dragon*Con is in the confirmed list, I did take a couple out, sadly they weren't going to work with our schedules or we needed to be saving our $$ for other cons we were confirmed for.  But none the less I'm still just psyched.
On a completely unrelated note, we're supposed to get snowed on again.  Joy.  Of course I'm seeing this in two lights.  I need the money (cause some jobs failed to pay me last week, /boo), but I have costumes to finish.  I mean it is Valentines and I do want to see Pip (of course I have to close the store tomorrow) but we had planned on a few things in the AM, and I do need to run with him to the fabric store to pick out a couple things, but I have soo much to do!  That's half the reason I haven't posted as frequently in the past couple of weeks.  I work till I'm tired then I crash, sleep a bit, get up go to work, come home, work on something till I'm tired, rinse lather and repeat.  Like I didn't feel bad for the supersonic cheeseburger I ate today, because I'm sure I've burned it off.  >.< Stupid work interfering with my costumes. 

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Update!

Yet again more snow. Joy. Exactly do I have to slaughter to get rid of this stuff? I’m tired of it ten times over. It makes getting to work a pain, it makes getting to the gym even more of a pain, and it’s messy. Don’t get me wrong, it’s pretty but I can do without it. I vote we just skip to spring. Anyone else with me?
But on to better things. I’ve been working diligently on the costumes. V and Tuxedo’s masks are nearly finished. They need another couple good sandings and we need to get one more piece around the eyes cut out on each, but the tool we had been using couldn’t get into that small of a spot so I think Pip found something else that will work.

 If the weather isn’t to yucky tonight I may try sanding on them… unno Mom is home I still need her opinion on Seras. Ok I’m rambling. Back to V. Let’s see I still need to buy some gold spandex for her costume and her shoes, if all goes well I’ll be doing that this week sometime. I started sketching out a pattern for her collar, I’m having issues getting it even though. I figure I’ll have to scratch my current sketch and start over, I can’t tell where my new lines are and my old ones are >.< And I need to get going on Tuxedo, Pip finally bought pants so I need to have him wear them and go to the fabric store with me so I can find something to make his jacket and cape out of. I mean I could use anything so long as its black I guess, but I want them to be at least close. I did work on V’s shoulderguards this weekend. Have a coat of primer on them and gave them a good sanding, but they will need more.
Kusanagi has finally seen some progress, I found a pattern online that I think I will be able to mod, so while I’m at the fabric store I need to get some white gabardine or something that I can use as a base for the satin. But that being said I did get her contacts in last night. They look a little orange in the pictures here, I promise they aren’t in real life. Or at least they won’t turn that way when I put them on (I haven’t yet).

Seras hasn’t seen any progress, at least noteworthy. I started spraying the other side of the Harkonnen and ran out of paint /epic fail. When I’m in town Friday I’ll try to pick more up, it didn’t take long at all to paint, and it felt like I had enough in the can but I guess not. And the patches should be in the mail, I can’t wait to see them. I hope they look a little better than in the pictures, I figure they will and if worst comes to worst I can always grab a sharpie or white paint and clean them up a bit. But the good news is Pip’s wig is styled! It took me a couple of hours because this wig was MASSIVE, and it tangled SO easily. I ended up giving the entire thing a really good coat of hairspray and that seemed to help. The braid was tight against his head but it looks really loose in the picture, it kinda worries me, but I think I’m going to let it sit awhile and see if it won’t take to the shape a bit before I try messing with it.

So let’s see I’m down to:

V
Make top
Make bow
Buy Shoes
Get shoes dyed
Make toppers on gloves
Finish shoulderguards
Tweak Mask

Kusanagi
Buy Gabardine
Buy pattern
Make top
Finish Tachikoma

Seras
Finish top
Finish Harkonnen

Tuxedo Mask
Make Jacket
Make Cape
Tweak Mask

And I have about a month. Wish me luck!

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New year, new look.

As if you can't tell I've updated the look of the blog, for the better I hope.  I'm not 100% in love with it... something about the galaxy at the top doesn't quite work for me but until I get the time to photoshop something it will have to do. 
So lets see, Kusanagi's shoes arrived.  I love them, they are a bit higher then I hoped but I'll survive.  Great part is I'll be able to re-use them for Seras which makes me happy.  I was pretty sure I would be able to do that but I wasn't certain.  Sailor V has had no progress, I think tomorrow I'll work on her mask as Pip is to come over and play with the SLR because guess what?  We got snow. Notice my enthusiasm.  I get 4 whole days off.  Read that FOUR!  I got four days off all last month put together and I get four in a row this week.  Pardon me while I squeal.  Now if I had fabric I could really get something accomplished, well okay I do, I have Kusanagi's fabric but I'm not sold on it... Anyway got off topic there.  Plan on working on her mask, seeing if we can't get it smoothed out and cut out so I can paint it when the weather gets warmer because 4 degrees really isn't conducive to painting.  Course we need to work on his Tuxedo Mask mask so I hope we can get somewhere.  That and we really, really, need to get going on our tango. 
Since we're going as Tuxedo Mask and Codename Sailor V we got the idea that it would be fun to tango at the rave, we saw a couple do it another year and it was neat how everyone reacted... till he dropped her.  But as luck would have it they are planning on doing a formal this year, they said no miniskirts but I think him being in a tux should make up for the lack of length on my skirt.  Anyway I have the cd with the song ordered, its shipping from Hong Kong, hopefully it will arrive in a few days.  But here it is on youtube, which is how I ran across it.



Been talking to a couple people about the Hellsing patches, hopefully one of them will be able to make what I want and have it look the way I want.  I ended up photoshopping the image for one person, it turned out a little smaller then what I wanted but she has cs3 and said she could adapt anything if she needed it now that I gave her a clear image.  I swear I used 2.5" by 3" but it doesn't look it.

Well I have a necklace to finish for another costume so I need to get back to work and quit editing on this thing >.< Hopefully I'll have an update tomorrow, if nothing else I'll be doing a massive upload to my Flickr for all the pictures on the SLR

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