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 [...]
ell, I have the photoshoot pictures now! Â I’m really happy with them! Â These shots just seem so professional, they amaze me. @_@ Â I’ve been spoiled with amazing photographers, haha. Â This shoot has really inspired me to improve myself though… I’m trying to learn to use make up better now and I’m going to be working out more, dieting better, and whatnot to get a better figure. ^_^ Â It’s really amazing how much cosplay can help someone, hehe. (If you happen to be a cosplayer looking for a photographer, ask Tim Vo or Omar Hussain! Â They’re both wonderful, as you can see with these beautiful shots!)
To the right is a sketch I worked on for my next mini cosplay project, gothic-lolita Miku. Â I’m going to be using my wavy wig and black yukata as well as making little accessories for the ponytails. Â I’m going to look into purchasing tattoo paper so I can design myself something for my cheek. Â I need to get some shoes and some cute socks, and possibly buy some mini bows to enhance a few spots (ie; socks). Â Really looking forward to getting this look down, though I need to figure out what kind of make up would look good with it.
Working on AniMaid Café stuff and commissions now, as well as juggling school work, so busy! And I just realized I need to finish writing the step-by-step tutorial of my gun, though I ended up not getting progress pictures of the end steps.. >_> Oops, but [...]
Oops, I haven’t posted in way too long! Â I guess I’ll try to recap everything that’s gone on this past week.
ast weekend as some of you may know/remember, was MikomiCon. Â I didn’t get to spend too much time there, but there were a few things that were really awesome. Â I discovered that on our way to the convention that my gun’s magazine and pistol had broken off my gun. Â I was pretty upset because I was looking forward to showing off my revamped gun and hopefully getting a photoshoot done with Magume as Kamina. Â I tried to take it to the convention with me, but they fell right off.. So decided it was time to take it back to the car after all. Â My friend Impulse offered for us to go to his house and possibly try to fix the gun up with hot glue, so we took the offer.
Once we got there though, he unfortunately couldn’t find his hot glue gun. ><” So we just decided that the gun would take a break, haha. Â We stopped by at 7-11 and grabbed slurpies and headed back to the convention. Â Kerry, Impulse, Carl, Kat, and a few others were hanging out together at MikomiCon. Â Got a few pictures taken, inlcuding the one on the right (taken by Cephas of cosplay.com). Â I “met” Tim Vo for the first time and saw April again (another Yoko cosplayer – wonderful one at that), which was nice. Â Didn’t really get to talk to [...]
ast two days have been pretty busy!  On Wednesday I had a Psychology test, which eh, didn’t go all that great.. But I always give myself leeway on the first test, since I use the first test to see what to study for and whatnot.  I didn’t memorize too many of the dates (I never do) and that was a large focus on the exam.  Oh well~
Today I woke up kind of late, so I was in a big rush to get to class in time.  I was lucky with parking so I made it there alright.  Design actually went by extremely fast because we were working on our assignments rather than listening to a boring lecture, haha.  Worked on sketching Rhgenkoba’s next commission between my clsases, and geology was the usual.  We watched a movie about a volcano in the Philippine, which killed most of the class’s time, woot.
After I came home from class, I immediately dashed off to Office Max to get the pattern for the butt of my Yoko rifle laminated. After that I pretty much mainly worked on my gun all day! Â Getting little pieces cut and getting things all together in general.. It’s looking good, thankfully. :3 Â Tomorrow I have to make the end barrel and make the “holders” for the scope out of sculpey, and then I’ll be able to spray paint it and finish, woot! Â As soon as it gets spray painted, there’s really not much left to take care of, so I’m happy. ^^ Â I’ll [...]
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.
irst off, today feels like a very nice day. Â To begin when I woke up I immediately checked my e-mail as usual, and I had received a reply to my complaint about the wig. Â Here’s what I sent to the seller last night:
“After spending about half an hour trying to adjust the ponytail to hide the clip, I was unable to ever get it to work right. This is unsatisfactory quality and I definitely could NOT use this for cosplay. There’s so little wig hair that even the back part of the clip (the part that you press to open the comb) sticks out through the hair. Terrible!
Is there any way I can get a replacement? Because this is really unsatisfactory.
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Here is a picture of how bad it looks.”
I felt pretty bad when I sent it, but it worked out to my advantage. Â I got two replies from the seller. Â They follow as:
“Hello~! I am very sorry for the inconvenient, I will be able to get back to you with a satisfactory answer in few hours, for I will be talking to the resposable who checked quality for this wig before shipping, thank you very much for the picture!! May I ask when is you upcoming deadline? Best wishes,FashionCos.”
“Hello~! First of all my apologies for the inconvenience! I already talked to the wig stylist, and the wig was checked with neglect. We are arranging shipping of good clip ons asap to let you receive them as soon as possible! sorry again for the inconvenience, may I [...]
My dad woke me up around 8:30 am today so that we could go pick up my mom from the hospital. Â it’s really nice having my mom back at home with us. Â Though I do feel really bad for her because she still can’t see properly, still has balance problems, and sometimes has some issues with speaking… but for the most part she’s fine. Â All day today though I’ve constantly felt like it’s two hours later. Â Even now I feel like it’s 4:00 am or something, haha.
I finished off another commission today finally, so I only have two left for now! Â From the references I was provided, the character seemed rather silly.. so I immediately had this sort of pose/idea pop into my mind… I think it came out cute.. I hope Hean likes it. :3
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