Cosplay Related Update

Updates with regards to other things when it's the right time to update.

So tonight I managed via the use of shape and line tools in Photoshop, a tape measure, and a 7mm wide sample image, to create the 21cm wide Happy Kitty face to go on the monster in the darkness umbrella. I may not be able to draw, but I can be perfectionistic, patient, persistent and capable of using maths, a drawing application, and a little judgement to make things right.

So for Minamicon which is some date I do not remember in February, I need to finish the following:

On the Dragon Quest Hero costume
- Make boomerang.
- Acquire Munchee like small soft toy, make and apply a mohican to it.
- Make sure I have the required belts, and bag, and make holster to attach boomerang to belts.
- Acquire suitable base shoes (wellies?) make boot cover things to go over.

For the Monster in the Darkness:
-Print Kitty faces onto transfer fabric, transfer to fabric, attach to umbrella x9.
-Attach black fabric to umbrella securely.
-Add 'viewing window' to black fabric panel.
-Attach panel with viewing window to umbrella securely.
-Make eyes and handles attach to black fabric.
-Find some clever way to strengthen panels so they keep their shape.
-Make plushie Demon cockroach. (Need to acquire filling, and pipe cleaners (red or die to make them red). Maybe make a second.
-Make speech bubble on sticks, including phrases "What Cosplay Con?", "Have you see Xykon or his brothers?", "Hi!" and "Nom, nom, nom."*
-Make write and eraseable speech bubble

Oh and generally for future, acquire about 6m of dark and light grey fleece, appropriate grey thread, furniture foam and appropriate filling to make my Companion Cube Bean Bag Chair thing.

*For when the darkness consumes people, i.e. I walk them the umbrella over them :)

Good times (alternately: The Cake is a Metaphor)

So yes another evening spent Magic, and another Victory for Dom! Such things are good, though I did benefit in the last round from the two other people with three wins deciding 25-30 minutes in to their first game, that the match they were playing (effectively with mirrored drafted decks) was going to be mind numbingly dull. Still I won my matches and I'll happily accept the resultant prizes!

Larping Sunday was good, though I was kindly not killed in the first fight, when it was clear I was woefully out of practise at the whole thing. I'm glad to have taken the break and recharged my interest so to speak, so look forward to doing it more this coming year (though not this Sunday).

And there's the other big news, which cryptic posts aside, I had been delaying posting about because there had been some stuff to resolve. All of which was in my head, in all fairness. Still after several weeks of chatting for hours and hours online, and several pleasant evenings, and one Saturday spent in each others company, myself and the lovely Rachael (purplegirl23) are a couple *insert much bouncing here*.

The delaying really was waiting for things to definitely be there. Things which hadn't been entirely (though were mostly) there and resulted from a combination of catching up in person to where I had been purely in text from the hours and days of chatting over Christmas (which finally happened Monday), the discovery and the healing of a deep wound which was very much tied to the depth, strength, and intended longevity of the promises and commitments I'd made in the past to a person who I had recognised no longer really exists, and lastly just it all clicking together in my head which it did tonight. I've had my brain thinking about things continuously since last Thursday evening, which couples with the general headaches that have come with the (still not gone) sore throat has been particularly unrestful, even the sensation that I've not switched off even in sleep. It took just the complete focussing on the games of Magic I was playing to give my brain the rest from that thought process, and the realisation that I was meeting a couple of new people as Rachael's boyfriend to really make it all click.

So yes very happy and excited (finally). As is she, which she should be considering who I am and I what I'm like :P