Otakufest 2012!

Impact Comics in Canberra had their Annual OTAKUFEST celebration on Friday.

My friend and I went along wearing cosplay costumes that I had made us earlier this year for our 'Turning Japanese' themed 21st. 

The last two years we have gone I have made us costumes, but this year because of the whole working full time thing, as well as making the wedding dress, no such time was avaliable. 

Below are our cosplays!

My friend was Misato Katsuragi, from Neon Genesis Evangellion, and I went as Kirsten Dunst as Akihabara Majokko Princess!

   WATCH THIS VIDEO!! ITS AWESOME! haha well it had us in it, and its pretty well made too! We are just after the 2minute mark ^__^

Our friend went as Hei from Darker than Black

Free things I won for my costume!...wooo!

getting our dance on in da clubz!

Before bedtime post

Just some thoughts before bed time....

Firstly. A big WOOHOO to the fact that I have 10....THATS RIGHT

10

FOLLOWERS!

So thank you to all of you double digit followers. 

(and to the one person who I know is email subsribed ;)

Secondly. I am so close to being done with this wedding dress I can taste my sewing freedom!!

Thirdly. I thought people who had left comments were going back and deleting them, which was making me very upset that someone would even bother to do that.

However turns out that some were going to spam?

Can anyone shed some light on why that would happen?

Fourthly. Tomorrow is FRIDAY. But most importantly it is OTAKUFEST, at the local comic book store where I will be dressing up in cosplay and hopefully winning some sweet sweet free anime!

Stay tuned for more piccies!!

To all my lovely follows, and everyone else on the bloggersphere and interwebz, goodnight for now, and enjoy your Friday!

....or what ever other day it may be due to time zone differences

 

isnt this a nice pic

  

Somethings to look forward too!

So....I've been hella busy! The whole wedding dress making thing. Not only fills a lot of my time at the moment, as I need to have it done in about a week; but it also fills my thoughts, pretty much constantly. Every night when I go to bed I lie there for at least 20 minutes thinking about it all. So it's a bit stressful.

So I figured I'd just jump on a put together a list of things I'm really looking forward to at the moment.

Number 1
Finishing this wedding dress! Wedding date is the 10 November. The bodice is now completely finished with all the lace, and ACTUALLY FITS like perfectly! *phewph* that ones been a long time coming! Half of the skirt is done, turns out 9m of chiffon was only half the amount of fabric I would need for the skirt. I have never done a fully chiffon skirt, next time i'll no to over estimate, or double what I think I will need!!

Here are some pics of the lace work!

Number 2
Making my dress for the wedding! This is my fabric that I finally found and bought from E&M Greenfield, the poly crepe was $3.50 a meter hehehe awesome!!!

I ended up coming to the conclusion, that I needed to use a comercial pattern because I definately will not have the time to drape one like I was hoping.

Number 3
Making my hat/fascinator for the wedding as well!! The Gilded Bee is where I have bought this huge array of flowers that I want to make a headpiece with. Aren't they amazing? They are so fantastic for millinery and quite cheap as well which is really good and hard to find with nice little flowers!

Number 4
On the 1st of December is the Canberra Institue of Technology's Gradutating Fashion parade! Last year I modelled and did some machining for another one of the designers, this year I am also modelling for a designer, but I am also helping another one of the designers do some pattern making!! This will be super fun, and I met with her a week or so ago to go over her designs. We get along really well and Im excited to use some pattern making techniques that I wouldn't normally have a reason to use!


I modeled for devaki black last year, and here's a picture of her work from the parade! Can you pick me? hehe!