I know I haven’t posted much, and I’m sorry about it! Â A lot has been happening and I haven’t had much time to update, but I’ll be sure to update again regularly from now on.
First off, a few changes and/or updates on my life.  I’m officially part of the AniMaid Café staff as the Webmaster, so I pretty much have all control over the website design and whatnot.  I’m currently working on re-designing the whole site into a Wordpress based site, just like this one.
Secondly, I’m also now part of the ePublications staff of Anime Expo. Â I’m the graphics designer of the site, which makes me feel rather proud. Â I’ve already done a few small things on the website such as creating some of the banners, making the design of the countdown widget, and a few other things that haven’t been released yet. Â I will soon be designing some more major aspects of the Anime Expo website… I’ll announce it once things are published.
Thirdly, I’ve completed my Miku Maid cosplay as my maid design for AniMaid Café.  Here are a few of the highlight shots from the photoshoot I did with Fiverings:
I’ve been trying to do more artwork, so that I can finally join artist alley at either Fanime Con or Anime Expo. Â I just recently completed this out-of-character painting of Miku Hatsune. I’ll have prints available of “Sexy Miku” at Fanime and/or Anime Expo.
I’ve also finalized my Cosplay list for 2010. Â My main main cosplay is Miku Hatsune, but [...]
So after talking with the ebay user, they decided they would send me a whole new wig and ponytails altogether, sweet deal! Â At least they’re thinking ahead well, cuz they decided to send me the whole thing to avoid color differences between the new ponytails and the old base wig. Â I’m pretty psyched. Â I’m going to do one of two things with the new wig. Â I’ll either just sell off the old one (to someone who is willing to fix it?) or I’ll use the old wig to build up the new one and make it more fuller. =3 Â The wig got shipped today (Sunday night as in Monday in China haha). Â I can’t wait to get it.
I also finally got off my lazy ass and ordered the styrene plastic I will be using to construct the ponytail accessories and my headset! Â I’m going to have to snag some resistors from Ben for the headset’s LEDs. Â It’ll be so awesome in the end! Â I also picked up some a cheap base headset from the swap meet. =] Â I spray painted that black today, just gotta build up the headphones on them now and color the microphone part of it with two teal rectangles. Â I’ll probably order my EL wire as soon as I get my plastic, it shouldn’t be too expensive thankfully.
So after the long wait, my Miku wigs finally came in… Â The wavy wig, at first, really upset me because it looks really green and weird in person.. but in photographs it looks beautiful, so I guess that’s all that matters, eh? Â I really love wearing it, though I’m a little afraid of dancing with it on. Â Wondering if the curls will undo if I bounce around too much? Â I guess time will tell… and I can technically learn how to make the curls/wigs to redo them if it does flatten out I guess.
I’ll get better pictures on Saturday at the Anime Expo Forum Meet & Greet. For now these are just some shots that I tried to take by myself. Â Headset is temporary placeholder, going to make some myself.
My other wig came in today, and I can say I’m really upset with how it is. Â
Today I went to the fashion district of downtown L.A. and found some relatively cheap grey and teal-ish fabric. I bought some today to mess around with for Miku. I’m not quite happy with how the grey is (could be darker), but I really don’t mind redoing the top a few times, considering each time I’ll simply be improving more and more each time. I might as well get as much practice as I can.
The teal material is very nice and silky so it will look especially nice as her tie. I still have to order 3yds of PVC Vinyl for my skirt, but I’m not rushing on that, considering I need to find (enough) teal material to line the bottom of it, otherwise it’s pointless.
I’ll post pictures of what fabric I bought later (maybe).
Yeah! I just ordered my two wigs for my Miku Hatsune cosplay!  I bought a normal one and a second one – wavy hair version. I spent a lot of money, but I think I’ll be very happy with these two wigs!  Especially since now I’m set for Miku in more than one way…. for the cosplay itself and the AniMaid Café.  I like to call myself the “cosplay maid” because from now on all my maid appearances will be in some sort of cosplay (Yoko or Miku).
My Yoko ponytail was 100cm long, and the Miku ponytails are 120cm… and considering how much trouble I had with the 100cm long ponytail, I don’t think there’s any way I’ll be wanting to dance with two 120cm ponytails, so the wavy version wig is to make up for that.. =3 Plus, I just love how the wavy one looks and I’ll be able to wear that regularly, since it looks fairly comfortable. ^_^
I went to Ross to look for shoes for Miku (and to see if there was anything better for Yoko), but I didn’t have any luck. Â That’s fine though cuz I’m sure I’ll be going to fashion district quite a few times between now and the next convention~
Vensy is very happy. :3 Â I’ll post pictures of myself in these wigs when I get them. ^_^
his weekend was one of my most laid back weekends in a while. Â On Saturday Kerry and I went to an AXF Get together, which was a lot of fun! Â Got to see pretty much everyone in one place! Â Though Hayley didn’t go.. and Maoh was there for so short. D: Â But otherwise it was a lot of fun. Â When we got there Cookie was playing some of his techno on the speakers, but then Kerry and I jacked it to play Hatsune Miku: Project Diva, haha~ Â So Vocaloid music was playing the entire time, practically – since everyone wanted to play the game.
So I’ve decided I’m going to put my Akito/Agito cosplay “on hold” for a while, or at least put it off to the side and focus on my Miku Hatsune cosplay.  I’m really excited about it!  Going to order my wig within the next few days.  I’ve gotta buy some hangers for my wall or something for all these long ponytails (Yoko + Miku Hatsune [x2]) lmao.  Right now my Yoko ponytail is hanging in my closet, which I don’t feel all that secure about…  I’ve got to work on remaking my gun as well. Gah! So much to do. Been researching some of the materials needed for my Miku cosplay, and damn. I better not mess up, or this will end up being one expensive cosplay.
Tomorrow I better not be lazy, and actually work on stuff. Lol  Might as well practice some dances tomorrow too.