I'm working on this costume... I designed it myself, inspired, I suppose you could say, on the fact that I had this red and black wig, and nothing to use it with. So everything started up around that wig. I had a lot of ideas I wanted to incorporate into the design, and a lot of interesting methods I wanted to use in the making. The color scheme was black and red to match the wig, with silver accents. The idea was for a dark, evil sorceress type with elven ears and a curly horn (so everyone knows she's eeevil) on one side of my forehead. Aside from that I wanted sharp edges and long, flowy garments. I definitely wanted something to billow beh

Dragon*Con was a week ago, and it was awesome. After leaving our hotel room and saying goodbye to Spif I went back to my aunt's house for a final night before I took a quick flight to North Carolina to visit my grandma, affectionately called Nanny. Nanny is my crafty gramma. She sews, she crochets, she knits, she does all sorts of little crafts. So at her house we craft together. She's the only family member I have that doesn't mind spending an hour or two cruising through fabric and craft stores with me. We went to Hobby Lobby and browsed forever and ever, and now I really wish that Hobby Lobby was in Hawaii. Sadly the only craft store we h

Off I go to Dragon*Con today! I'm so excited! Not only will I get to meet some cool stars (I'm lookin' at you James Marsters, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Misha Collins!) but I'll also get to see Zaya Spif after a whoooole long year of not seeing ANY of my bestest friendlies over in my lonely cave, AKA, my room in Germy. I think seeing her is 78.6% of all my excitement. The rest is reserved for James Marsters, and then after that I've divided it up into my Vega costume, seeing Spif's newest costume in person, seeing other people's costumes, the Dragon*Con parade, being at a fun convention, and all the other cool stuff that I am sure will c