First convention of the year! Fairly laidback but also decently busy. I'm very happy with how the weekend turned out. Saturday Lucifer Morningstar v1.5 - Hazbin Hotel I wore my newly completed version of Lucifer from Hazbin Hotel, having finished it in time for the debut of the series on the 19th. The costume included pieces from the original make, as well as fixing up a few pieces and remaking others. More of that on his page here. I spent time with my friends Anniechie Designs and Maegwyn Cosplay at their booth, talking and catching up, all of us excited for the masquerade that day. I didn't do too much beyond talking with friends I hadn't seen in a long time and hugging them before I had my appointment in the Green Room for judging, photos, sound tech, etc. I was not expecting however to be told that I was entry 49, the final entry in the masquerade so I would be closing out the show. I had done it once before (or close to) many years prior, but here I was being the closer! There wasn't much beyond that and the shenanigans I had in the green room with my friends and talking to people who were new to masquerades and giving them encouragement! Sunday Daddy Halsin - Baldur's Gate 3 Sunday I thankfully got to sleep in a bit and my husband and I got to the con sometime around 11. Again much of the day was spent wandering and talking with friends, and went to lunch with our friends Anniechie Designs and Maegwyn, Arcticwerewolf, etc. It was a good time. Sat in as well on Anniechie and Maegwyn's panel about making magical girl cosplays, which I found really informative in helping me with the few magical girls I want to cosplay. Very helpful! After was the award ceremony! I'm so happy for all of my friends who received something in every division! I'm so proud of them all and they are so well deserved! I was in shock when they got to Masters though and the first one they called up was "Honourable Mention for the Lipsync" and said entry 49, MY ENTRY! My first time entering Master and I received a thing! I'm so happy about that and still surprised. Going to work even harder! It was a very good weekend and it was a good chance to also test run how well my compression shirt does during a convention day - or more so how I do wearing it... I'm looking forward to the next convention even more now!
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Normally I try to do this before the end of the year, but things got crazy busy in my personal life in the last couple of weeks so I didn't have much opportunity until now! This year was more relaxed in the costume area, and definitely busier when it came to conventions since I was able to go to them again!
None of us like admitting that we weren't able to complete our projects to what we wanted for the event that we intended to wear it to. We've all been there at some point in time. So far already for this year, I've done it twice. Both for competition costumes and it's only February.
I started planning for Costume Con 38 (2020) back in 2017 at CC35. The one costume was decided on in the January of that year, and due to funds and time didn't do it in that year, and he got pushed to this coming Costume Con.
I started working on my costumes for this event back in the fall, knowing full well that it was going to take a lot of time to work on them and get them finished the way I want. There is still a fair bit of work to be done but I'm confident in what I'll be doing to get them finished for the conference. It's almost insane how busy this year was! To start off with how busy my weekend was, I'll give you a very quick idea: 3 photoshoots (2 Saturday alone!), sign up for masquerade, running around Ottawa Friday, Fashion Show & Masquerade! I don't recall ever being this busy during GAnime, but it was well worth it and I thoroughly enjoyed my time this year - there were some hiccups and such, but that tends to come with the territory of conventions!
Part 2 of my personal evolution blog. It would have been far too long to make this as one post. This covers 2013-2017 for my costumes and my continual growth as a cosplayer.
I had meant to write these blogs more frequently, but that didn't happen. Oops...
Over time people don't always realize just how far they have come when it comes to cosplay - or any hobby really. But it seems especially prominent in cosplay when older work becomes lost in the waves of new. And everyone seems to want to hide what they did when they first started doing cosplay. But it's an evolving hobby and it requires you to learn new things every now and again so that you can continue to grow in this fun and creative (albeit expensive) hobby! I'm so glad I got to go to Costume Con again. The last time was CC32 in 2014 when it was in Toronto. And now that it's going to be in Montreal for CC38 in 2020, time to prepare all the things.
Been working on Zorn so much over the last few weeks and the costume still isn't finished. But thankfully, he's almost done.
Wow, so I hit a bit of a milestone with Cornwall Tiny Con. CoTiCon this year was my FOURTIETH convention! Wow! I've made some more great memories and I was so pleased to be of help to my friend Anniechie for staffing it this year.
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