Maitsuki meet

Hello everyone, again one more weekend one more event:)
This time Maitsuki Meet.
It was held at orfeão do Porto, I've never been there before but I liked the space. It had a bar, proper stage, lots of sofas to sit and rest, a big mural to write that was more used has a clean background for photos and it was sponsored once again by Aniplay, I love that store.

The day started for me doing my make up, lenses and getting self conscious of walking out the house with shorts shorts(part of the cosplay)XD;
It was sushi lunch with friends:

before the event sushi with friends:)

After we took a short trip to mascarilha to get some cosplay supplies for my friends, one cosplaying as Lara Croft and the other, who was going to participate in the contest as Sakura; We then get there pay the ticket  and get dressed.
Overral:

The good points were

• the maid cafe, all the maids were lovely and beautiful and it also had a few butlers; They had a great menu with food, drinks and lots of Japanese treats; 
• I liked the stage though not that big contestants had sound and video, its a nice change from the usual gallery walk-on;
• It was held at a nice location with good access and atm;
• CPC, I think its a really good initiative; 

alright, now for the bad points

The prices of stands were to high, i tipped a friend and she, after informing herself, told me the stands were almost the same price as in Iberanime but the cake goes to the lack of entertainment, for a paying event there were not much things that differentiate it from others, in fact I felt that Haruhi was a more fulfilling experience in comparison and it had a 0€ entrance. If It wasn't for photoshoots I would have been a bit bored most of the time. I also want to point the lack of updates and little information so close to the date. It made not take that seriously Maitsuki and the CPC. I feel next time things should be more organized and only announced once all the details are taken care of, It also makes things easier to us cosplayers.

 Now I obviously am not involved in events of any kind  and I don't know the difficulties that comes in organizing one so I'll just drop some suggestions:

gaming zone, karaoke, maybe partnerships with other organizations that would allow to have exhibitions in the area (figures, drawings, anything japan related), some members of the community have a lot to offer in terms of knowledge and possessions too and can perform small workshops or lectures, some stands dont necessary have to be busyness, they can be only display and therefore a plus for the event; since there's a stage there could be para para, ramen, whatever contest, they are usually seen in every con and serve to at least fill in gaps between main events etccc... 

anyway this was my cosplay:

Hotglueing stuff the night before the con FTW

The winner:)

And this is my report, i do hope I can attend the next one and hope for improvements:)

Haruhi 2013

Hello:3

Oh nooo its been to long since I last wrote hereD: When I came from Iberanime I was so dead tired that I didnt write the report and then it slipped my mind--'.

Oh well  this past Saturday I went to a fan made event called Haruhi 2013 held at a public school, Escola Secundária Inês de Castro. It was really fun and I met so many people:) I sadly have no photos whatsoever of the place and the people because I was really busy most of the time and forgot to record;________;

I made a cosplay super last minute:

I was supposed to be accompanied in this little duo but cosplay plans fall apart all of the time lol.

Anyway I put a lot of effort on the jacket and finally successively made a collar that stood up and used interfacing for the first time. gloves and armor were pretty easy, I dyed a pair of old boots and the only true hard part was to make his triangular strip. Oh dear so many work. Overall It was a pretty cheap cosplay, I already owned the shirt, trousers, boots and wig and had the red and white fabric. The only things purchased was the blue fabric, red spray paint, craft foam and blue shadow, everything together was around 8 euros. Noone knew who I was but i still got lots of compliments:)

here's some pictures:

Its so coool cosplaying with more people and its so rare for me to things work out that way that I feel I had the most fun in this cosplay*3* thank you Sandra for cosplaying with me:)

I participated in the cosplay contest and got 4th place*__*. Apart from that I was shot for a cosplay video which I cant wait to see!! so excited:) And that's pretty much about it, I didn't participated in many activities, just had fun with my friends:)

Till next time:)

Usagi meet

Last Friday I attended a easter meet:)
I took the oportunitie to make use of a new cosplay, Nai from the manga Karneval.

Honestly it still misses lots of details. I made the shirt and shorts but ended up with not enough fabric to finish the bunny ears which would have worked perfectly with the meet theme being Easter haha and maybe i'm a bit colorblind because honestly I fest his outfit was red and now it sure does look pink. >_<.

I left details to much for the last minute and made his bracelet the night before and was to tired to cut his wigXD I thought I would get time the day itself and totally forgot and had to cut it in a tiny changing room on my knees on the bottom of a mirror while my WCS partner and her gigantic petticoat were occupying the upper mirror half. It still provided cute pictures though:

My favorite part were the cute hearts on my assXD

more photos:

I had lots of fun but had to leave early for workOTL. Thank God that next week i'm on vacations and did I meantion Iberanime too*___*?

see you<3

  

Aniplay

So last Saturday was the opening of a new Anime Store in my city:)
It had a few contests like quiz, poki and cosplay and It was a pleasure to be with my friends again:)
Sadly I don´t have pictures of the store itself but It was lovely, bright and had a lot of variety! I ended up Buying Camus to add to my saint seiya collection. besides the merchandise and cosplays they also sell contact lenses*__*. They import from Youknowit, a company that I started to hate but that's a story for another time. They do have nice lenses so if i can get them without the hassle of shipping I definitely will catch the opportunity:)

About the cosplay contest I ended up wining best costumeXD I was so happy, first time winning first place:)

There weren't many competitors but the skits were lovely. I didnt took any pictures so have a bit of cosplay silliness: 

Trophy and prize

Sadly I think I wont be able to go to AONime this next saturday;________; noes!!!! wanted to debut Link there so I guess Iberanime is next in line?
See you soon.

First 2013 post

whohohohoho first 2013 post and It comes this late--'.
But I have many news coming so prepare for incoming long journal.
Lets begin to announce that my sister has decided to abandon cosplay and engage all her forces to lolita. This made me very sad at first but she promise that if I asked her she would still make one or two cosplay with me and truth be told, in three years of cosplay we only did it together once. The good thing is that she gave me all her cosplay suplies that were piling up so I have now one more bag full of fabrics, sewing material, wigs and possibilities of new costumes.
So one of my new years resolution and challenge  was to cosplay completely on a budget and every time I can, do it for absolutely 0€. I'm pretty confident about it has I have lots of stuff to use that I need to take proper care of.
Another resolution was to diminish significantly my box of unfinished costumes that on the spam of three day increased a lot due to my bad planning--' Its something I hope to fix on my own and quickly.
As you probably saw already my cosplay list was updated, projects that I didn't conclude last year passed on to this one I will definitely make them despite me always changing my mind and adding more stuff OTL(already planning stuff that wasnt origininally).
Some Wip:

 Next i'll post about a small aniparty I went so stay tuned:)

Shoot Thorfinn

Hello!
haven't been updating here properly--'

Yesterday I had a shoot with my photographer Tânia:). I finally finished Thorfinn and debuted it. I actually started this costume two years ago, the pants and the brown shirt were the first ones I ever made and they're full of mistakesXD the dress and small cape was what i finished and I also rushed the boot covers because my sewing machine isn't sewing properly so they're hand sewed. papapapapapapa. I'm in love with Vinland Saga because I love Vikings and Nordic stuff and this manga is actually serious and the mangaka toke time to research to make accurate portraits of the characters and the time. I definitely suggest you read it:)

Now for the shoot part:
It didnt planed this very ahead, we just picked up a day and hoped for the best it wouldn't rain and thank God it didn't though it was quite cloudy. After work I went to Palácio de Cristal, dress in the bathroom and them we sailed to find cool places without people.

As usual I super suck at posingXD

 And I was always laughing

I chose this place because there was a small dungeon that fitted the theme. we had to trespass it because it was in danger of collapsing so I didn't climb it and took some poses next to it instead. 

´We didnt take many pictures, about 150 in 4 diferent locations.

My sister came later to join us to ruin the pictures as always

It was a fun day and i'm finally learning more about portraying characters which is my main flaw after costume construction, definetly doing more shoots with the costumes I have piling up around me but right now the weather is really cold so only warm costumes in the nexts few weeks.

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Iberanime + Holloween + Previews

howdy!

Ok Iberanime came and went aaaaaaaaand I really enjoyed it again but I already made a huge post in my DA with pictures so I won´t talk about it that much. i just want to add that it was lovely meeting the ladies of AC Portugal and be a part of the group and skit. I actually didnt stick to the cosplay schedule and use Alisa on Saturday and Female apprentice on sunday because of it. Onto the news>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This year Halloween I will be celebrating with a couple of friends on the mall and later we will be watching Silent hill revelations  yoshshshshshsh. This movie will be focusing on Silent hill 3 which is Heather's game and as some of you might remember, Heather was my first SH cosplay(well not exactly, it was Lisa but that's not important right now). I really hope this franchise will have a better outcome then Resi wich now is completely boring and lame. I might cosplay and make a shoot hopefully. Maybe I'll bring Claire. I really need some pictures.
And now the previews\\\\\\\\\\\000////////////


Because I was a bit bored and my vacations are almost over here's a few previews that I made of lots of cosplays that will soon see the Light of a convention:)

I had already talked about this costume in another post and look, finished it today finally. The robe was all made with materials I had in home and I love how it came out. Altogether it took me 4 hours to finish. Its all lined and the red is the rest from one of Claire's vest:) yay recyclement of materials. I bought the Gryffindor emblem, the scarf and the tie on Ebay:). the wig I already had<3.

 Woohohohohoho I look so weird with no hair onXD. I didnt put a wig because I use my hair for this cosplay and because I was to lazy to take the wig cap offXD. I had made this jacket ages ago but I still needed to finish it as in put the light blue triangle and the fur on the collar and sleeves. Now i'm just missing her blue emblem. This is probably the next cosplay i'm using and also, because I dyed my hair red again and I have a brown wig laying around, I think I'm gonna style it and make a Korra wig.

 

Ilya\0/
I stopped watching anime a few months ago and have only made two exceptions, one of those being fate zero which my sister, enthusiastically, I may add, suggested me and  really enjoyed it. I also have to say that I'm a fan of humonculus and djiins and Ilya fits the profile:) This costume however needs to be improved greatly. I need to iron the seams and the pleats of the skirt better (as you can see in the picture) and her shirt needs to be fitted to my body a whole lot better. You cant really see but I put a lot of effort on the sleeves. My sister told me they really feel like a royal model and the fabric is really pretty too. The wig is one of those lucky biddings where only you seem to be interested in and I got a really long silver wig for around 10€. I finally am able to wear my red lenses too.

So the other exception of my anime strike was fairy tail. Its a bit long for my taste but its amazing. I adopted Natsu as my new Husbando and Lucy as my waifu. You actually already saw this last post. I sewed it in two afternoons after finishing Lucy's arc. When my sister was looking for something to wear on Sunday at Iberanime she saw this costume and asked if she could take it so I quickly finished the final bits and it was ready. She never saw Fairy tail however, what a poser, didn't even know she was missing her blue ribbon on her ponytail, her tatoo, her black bracelet, her belt or hers keysD: What you see on the picture is the costume after being worn on the convention so it needs a lot of ironing now and i would like to fix the chest area where the blue stripe seems to not be parallel like I want:(

Jean greay!!!!!

This is actually a dream costume of mine though i'm not sure i'm bringing this anytime soon, it feels like i'm nakedx_x and i'm not exactly on my best shape right nowXD or at least is what my sister keeps telling me>s.


So this is all for now. if you have questions i'll be happy to answer them.

XOXO