Cosplay and Crafts~

Hello again~~~! How is everyone so far? Good weekends I hope!

I'm really excited since I just picked up some stuff from Michael's that I'm so excited about! Mostly stuff for decoden, but I can use some for other stuff as well~ (like glitter hot glue sticks, new exacto knife blades, etc.)

My most favorite thing is... TRANSLUCENT SCULPY!!!!! It's SO amazing!! The consistency of it is a lot more.... not creamy, but more malleable, and it has a slight transparency (not clear though) so you can see stuff through it!
I used it here to make Bubble Gum Ice Cream!!


I mixed the translucent with some sky blue clay, and then a little regular blue clay. as you can see, in some parts you can see the gumballs through the clay, just like the ice cream! You can't get that effect with regular clay, so it's really exciting! :D


Here are the ice creams once finished! The syrup/sauce is sculpy bake + bond (TLS substitute kinda~) mixed with pastels for color, and the whipped cream is bake + bond mixed with regular white sculpy for thickness :3 I love how these turned out!! I gave them to my niece for her 6th birthday party yesterday :D <3

So last week (week before? idk) I made a cherry pie for Rachel!!

But, as you can see, most of my little cherries fell out when I sliced it :(. And I'm not super happy with the 'baked' effect paint job, as I only had nail polish in weird colors and lame q-tips (they were bad quality q-tips, lolol). Sooo, I'm currently working on my second pie! I'm still gonna keep my first set of slices, and use them for deco or something, but I know what I can improve to make it much yummier and prettier! :D

here's a look at some other stuff I've been up to!


Cookies, crackers, wafers, etc.~ my first attempt at a lemon cane and my second time making kiwi!


Lollipops!! And micro ones! :D


I'm still really new at ice cream making, but I'm loving how they're turning out! :DD and some pies/cake and doughnut~ hehe


Cookies and cream pie! :DD


My stockpile of goodies, hehe~


Now for cosplay talk!!!!
My coworker/boss Jona is gonna be Sailor Moon for our group, so I've been helping her lookup stuff like wig, boots, etc. But the wig!! Right now we're pretty much at- 1)She commissions someone good to make it for her, which would probably cost a lotttttt, and who knows how long it'll take, 2) Rachel's friend who HANDMAKES AMAZING LOOKING WIGS!!! Rachel is gonna ask her if she could make it, or at least the base and we do the rest, but since she hand makes it it might get really expensive, too. We'll see!! orrr, 3) We/I make the wig for her! After looking up tutorials, materials, etc., I'm pretty confident if we have to go that way. It will involve dying a wig, making odangos, stubbing, styling, but since we can buy a pre-parted wig, I don't think it'd be tooo hard, and it be around $70 - $80, which isn't bad for a Sailor Moon wig~
So once we get word back from Rachel's friend, and look up some commissioners, we'll see!

Andddd, after researching wig dying (the fw ink method), I really want to use it for my Sailor Pluto and Hanon wigs, too! For Pluto, there are noooooooo wigs that are just how I want it! (super super dark green almost black), and no wig is bright enough/the right color for Hanon! For Pluto, I think I'm gonna get a long dark green wig, and since the black fw ink is actually black (not like sharpie black lmao), add black to it until it's dark enough! And for Hanon, I'll try to get a long white curly wig, and make the custom blue/aqua/turquise/sky blue to dye it with! My only concern is, since it'd be precurled, is if I could dye it without it being streaky, but maybe if I do it slowly and carefully i could work. (I dyed a curled wig before, but I was just like whatever and dyed the whole thing without taking time to do it section by section xD) so I know it'll come out better next time!!

That reminds me, I have a lot of work to do on my Hanon mock-up! Tim took a look at it and gave me some critiques, so now I know what to work on/fix. For the skirt, I need to add a layer of ruffles, fix the volume/density of the ruffles, and then adjust my bodice for a better fit/placement~ I should start looking up boots/start working on boot covers!
Oh, should I make my little stars out of sculpy, or resin...? hm~~~~

Oh, I need to start on my Pluto staff, too!! Ahhhhh! Time to get crackin'! One week of January left peoples~~

Workworkwork! ^^
-Rosie

New Year, New Life, New Blog!

Wow, it's been a while, huh?! I can't believe I haven't written an entry in about a year TT______TT~
Well, I'm changing that today!!! As part of my new life regiment, I've decided that I need to blog again! But unlike before, I'm not gonna limit my musings to only past tour memories, or kpop, or cosplay, or deco, or cakes, or sewing.... I want to write it all!! Whatever I'm feeling, whatever I'm thinking, I just want to let it out/share it all! :D

I'll start off by talking about all my new endeavors!

First- I have a jobbbbbb!!!! I am a sandwich artist at Quiznos :D~ I worked here already about... 4 or 5 years ago? (back in 2006), but I only worked for the summer/fall, so only a few months and that was it. Now everything is totally different! I mean, the fundamental ideas are the same, but the details have been all switched up on me! It's hard to re-learn everything, but I'm trying my best and I love it! anddd, our perks are WAY better this time around!! Not only do we get free sandwiches, but FREE MOVIES! OMG! (Saw Black Swan for free today! It was SOOOO crazy, omg.. but, that's another story xD). So far I really like my coworkers, especially my bosses!! They're not scary or intimidating which makes me want to do my best! :D I just started working like.. 2 weeks ago? I hope I wont be too tired/have scheduling problems once school starts, so we'll see how things go~ :3
Oh, and I'm trying to taste most of the sandwiches/items off our menu! I say most because I'm a little picky, so every sandwich might not be exactly how it's supposed to be (like everything without tomatoes or onions, lol), but the best way to learn/sell everything is to taste it myself! :D So far all I've had are the Triple Meat Club, Chicken Carbenara, and Oven Roasted Turkey~ Tomorrow I'll get..... Honey Mustard Chicken? :D
Andddd, one of my coworkers, Jona, goes to anime conventions and loves cosplay and loves pokemon and loves yo gabba gabba, I love her!!! :DDDD I'm so excited!! I've asked her if she wants to be Sailor Moon for our cosplay group, and she said yeah! :DD

Which brings me to my next bullet point: Cosplay!!
Oh how I've missed it!! I haven't cosplayed/gone to a convention in.. over two years now...? WOW. That's WAYY too long, lol! It's about time I make my big comeback! :D So far I only have two cons planned for the year, and several costumes. I'm going at it with a completely new outlook, though! I keep holding on to certain mantras such as 'Work smarter, not harder!', 'Measure twice, cut once', 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket', etc. Those really inspire me to do my best without rushing things/giving anything less than 100% of my best into it! Like before, cosplay was all about quantity versus quality, and I never set solid deadlines/checkpoints so I never even ending up finish costumes as well as I'd like. I'm ahead of the game this time! I love making mock-ups of costumes (making the garment out of muslin to get the look/measurements/etc. right before you use the actual fabric), and then using that to make the costume perfect! And I'm starting off slow- (well, at least slow for me!), and not overloading my plate with costumes, limiting myself to one costume a day for a convention, etc. I'm really excited and have already been working hard!
At the moment, I'm currently working on Hanon from Mermaid Melody! So excited to be a frilly singing mermaid :D hehe~
(picture!! this is her power-up outfit~ ^^)



I've also been working a LOT with polymer clay (like sculpy!) making little mini sweats and treats in order to decoden stuff! Decoden is a Japanese term which means basically decorating the crap out of something, LOL! But seriously, decoden gets SOOOOO adorable!!! I love it so much, and it's so easy to do yourself! I'll post up some pictures soon of all the stuff I've made/decorated so far :DD
(If you're not familiar with decoden, here are a few examples!)



SOOOO cute!! :DD <3


Another thing that I've been working on is my body~ Normally, I am SUCHHH an inactive person. Sitting for 20+ hours? no biggie. lol! But I'm trying to change that!! Not only am I a lot more active and out-and-about because of work, but I've been playing WiiFit [pretty much] everyday!! :D It's so fun, relaxing, and good for me! :D. I've also ben trying to eat healthier, drink more water, etc. ^^

Oh yeah! My 365 project!! I am challenging myself as a[n amateur] photographer to take a photo every single day for the whole year!! So far so good (haven't missed a day!) so yayyy! I have all my pictures uploaded on facebook so far, but I'll post them here from now on, as well! ^^

Something I have to work on more is studying Korean! I was studying/learning a lot during school, but I've been so busy lately I've kind of put it on the back burner TT____TT, but, starting now, I will try to get better at Korean!! 화이팅!!! ^^ (I've already decided to learn Quiznos terms in Korean and practice at work, haha~ :3

Okay. I have a ton more I want to/can talk about, but it's wiifit time!! I'll write more next time~~ I will be sure to update often!! :DD

Phew, even writing this much has been therapeutic already! Maybe it's because I was going crazy after seeing Black Swan today, LOL!

toodles!
~Rosie