oh, wow. I haven't updated my little part of cyberspace in
forever! Lots of things have happened since my last update in march including,
summer internships, semesters of college, hospital stays, Disney Vacations and
of course conventions and lots of toy buying. I have been meaning to get back
into blogging for a while now and wish to share my adventures with you!
I feel like I should
start with a general update and post pictures and slightly embarrassing
completion stories of my Vanellope cosplay,
which I did manage to debut at Dallas Comic Con!
This cosplay was the very first costume I ever completed
from scratch! It gave me a whole new level of respect for the
hard work that goes in to cosplaying. My costume was by no means perfect but I
loved the process and the final product. I want to break down the individual
pieces before posting the final product.
Vanellope's hoodie was VERY hard to
find. I searched thrift shops relentlessly. I finally found a teal hoodie that
matched Vanellope’s but it was a zip up instead of a pull over. Sometimes you
have to work within a budget and with what is readily available to you. I used
yarn to add the licorice hood strings and embellishments. The flash
unfortunately distorted the colors a bit so you may get a better idea from the
final product photos.
The Leggings were just as tricky to track down and
duplicate. Thankfully, I found a pair of teal/ mint colored tights at my local
target. I do not remember the price but I know they were pretty inexpensive.
Target is the place to go for Tights if you are looking for slightly oddball
color choices. At this point, I enlisted the help of my friend Kat for panting
the stripes. This is largely due to the fact that I have very little artistic
talent and frankly, she would be painting the tights while they were on my
body. This act of true friendship, resulted
in standing backyard on a warm day while singing Disney songs (badly on my part
but Kat has a wonderful singing voice) at the top of our lungs. She expertly
wrapped the stripes around my legs using a Martha Stewart fabric paint with a
small paint roller. Once the paint dried
( in like 20 minutes) she used a purple sharpie to add detail. Could we have
found an easier way? Yeah, probably but where would the fun be in that?
We also coated candy pieces in Mod Podge to add to the wig I bought from ebay but I failed to take pictures of that process. Now, on to the finished product. It was
imperfect but for my very first Cosplay it was not Bad!
The second is my favorite photo because a racer is still a racer regardless of what galaxy she is in. Sometimes you just feel it in in your code!
I have lots of other cosplays planned like Lydia Deetz and a school girl version of Madoka from Madoka Magica. Plus, a blog about my recent trip to Disney World!
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