Costume Con 32

This con was pretty good. Friday wasn't so great as today. There were a lot of "how-to" panels which was really neat.
I gotta say, there were SO MANY GREAT COSTUMES!! I commented on a lot of them :)
I got to hang out with some awesome friends, see some friends I havent seen for a while, but I didnt really make any new ones xD;; sadly. I did get to chat with some people though!

It really inspired me to want to make only 1 costume and just work really really hard on it to make it look good. I kind of feel like my work is too rushed all the time and Im trying too hard to make it look nice while leaving things to last minute or whatnot. After Anime North, Im only going to make myself 1 costume....and thats going to be for 2015. It gives me lots of time to think over exactly what I want to make and start the prep work! Itll mean that I'll get it done WAYYYY ahead of whatever con I go to and I will have lots of time to try it on, fix it if needed, and all that jazz. There are so many cosplays that I have dreamed of making, one of those being NiGHTS.....which I think I am going to finally make. NiGHTS was one of the first cosplays I wanted to make, but I felt I obviously was too noob back then xD Now I feel like I've gained enough skill to try!!

I feel my cosplays right now are just too "one-time-use" crafted and I sometimes take a few short cuts here and there to get it done (well actually I havent really been doing that for a while!) But anywasy I have done that and I want to be able to look at my costume and smile and say "Wow I did a really good job on this". I dont really do that. Yea, I am usually happy and proud with the piece I make, but never have I really WOWed myself, nor others.

Lately at cons, I have been entering into the Journeyman devision because I am passed novice and unlike some people, I dont count tiny con awards as a reason to move higher into the divisions. I want to earn my place fair and square. I'm never competitive at con masquerades because I dont even think my work is as spectacular as the other people's....BUT this does not discourage me from entering because at least I have my secret weapon....which is stage presence. I have never really choreographed something before going on stage. Yea I have a general idea of what I want to do before I go up, but I always make stuff up and it seems to work fine for me!

When I go to Comiket in August, I just have to find a cosplay I already have to bring with. Maybe I'll just bring Nausicaa, since she is a well known character and her outfit came out pretty nice~~

I just noticed its 1am LMAO oops xD Maybe I should go to bed xD