Preparing for Hal-con

I'm getting things ready for next month. I'm doing some touch-ups on the Kagura outfit. I'm excited to go, this will be my first time at Halcon, it's going to be big. After Hal-con, I'm going to be starting my work on spidey and keeping up with post.  

Next Year Plans

For next Animaritimes, I'm going to be join up with a team.

(Internet picture)

We will be the "Historical Avengers"

I have already chosen to be Spiderman. I have been collecting fabric and materials during my time off (Halloween is the best time to get web fabric).

Most of the group is made up of girls, so most of the Avengers will be females.

My outfit was inspired from the Classic Spiderman and Spiderman Noir. I'm very excited to get started on this outfit.

Rough Week

Hey, it been a while. The last I updated my blog was during Animaritimes, not my best week. During that time I was finishing my costume; at the same time I found out the place i was working at was closing down next week. Then at Animaritimes I forgot to apply to the costumes contest the day before. Not a great week for me.

Now I'm back, with a new job an d planning to going to Hal-con to redeem my mistake.

Here are the finish outfits, enjoy! 

Pictures done Larry Holder

http://www.pointoflightproductions.com

Nanami's Kagure Outfit

Nanami's School Outfit #1

Nanami's School Outfit #2

Almost There!

I'm really excited about how things are turning out. I had the hakama pants finish on the weekend and the fit wonderfully. Today I'm finish up the painting the back panel of the kimono and going the sewing up the collar/ shoulder area as well. 

Here's a brief look at the finish butterflies. Each size of butterflies has there own look. I will taking more pictures one I assemble the kimono more.

Nanami's Kagura Bell

Took me a while, but I got it done.

I did get some help with the welding and sawing, but I did the majority of work.

Sewing, Pinning, and Painting, Oh My!

I have complete the under- shirt and I have already started to sew the hakama pants.

Usually the under-shirt would have sleeves, but I decided to leave them out. You only get to see the torso and it's going to be very hot in the convention building.

I finishing off the white butterflies on the sleeve right now. Once I'm done painting the base coat I'm going to start paint the designs on them. 

I'm also finishing the Nanami's kagura bell today. Once complete, I'll take a few pictures of it. 

Busy Like a Bee!

Hey guys! There has been a lot happening on my end. It involves a lot of purple paint.

This is the back piece of the kimono that I've done with the purple butterflies. It's kind of hard to take a good picture of this because in certain light you can't even see the butterflies. Where I'm at with the stencil work, I still have one sleeve to do in purple, then I'm starting the white base of the coloured butterflies. 

Between my stencil work I been doing other things on the side. I made this necklace last night. Originally I was going to buy a necklace but I couldn't anything. It was harder to find beads that match and necklace- clasps.

The kagura bell, here what it looks like with the bells attached. I also made a "good luck knot" too attach the ribbons to the bell. I still have to get the ribbons.

Today I'm going the working on the last of the purple stencil work and starting to work on the white under shirt.