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I went over to Crystal's house yesterday for some late night cosplay cramming. She's doing Rozalin from Disgaea 2 and we were tackling the wings. I've never made wings so quickly; it would've taken me a week to do what we did in a few hours. I'm just too damn anal to work that fast. But there's no time to wait, Matsuri's on Friday! So with some XPVC and spray adhesive, we made a pair of wings that I'm pretty pleased with. I wasn't 100% sure it would work, I've tried this method for Liz's DoA cosplay, but these wings were on a much bigger scale. I'm just glad it did work because there isn't much time for a do-over.
It sounds like this Disgaea group that's coming together at Matsuri is going to be fun. I'm kinda bummed I won't be able to see it; heck, I would've BEEN in the group if I had known in advance that it was happening. Nippon Ichi all the way! Oh well.
This weekend Liz and I had a . . . disagreement concerning how I balance (or don't balance) my cosplay/friend commitments with my other responsibilities. She made some good points; I can't have my cake and eat it too. I just feel restless and dissatisfied though. Working on commissions keeps me busy, but it doesn't scratch that itch I have, the itch to actually COSPLAY. And helping friends with their cosplay is fun and makes me feel useful and important, but it also makes the itch worse. I know I need to be more responsible and focused about what I can and can't do. I'm just really stubborn about giving up what I want to do. For example, the other day I realized that I'm making an extra $1000 per month in overtime and per diem on this Dallas job. That'll amount to $5000-$6000 over the course of the job, money that is above and beyond what we'd budgeted for the year when we were planning the wedding. As soon as I figured that out, one of my first thoughts was, "Hey, we've got extra money! We can go to AX after all! Woo hoo!"
It took a phone call to Liz to remind me that it wasn't just money that was preventing us from going, there was also the matter of not enough vacation time. Oh right. So yeah, I guess I hadn't really given up on the idea of AX as I'd claimed I had done. My bad.
Regardless of all that con-talk, I started my Wybie cosplay this week. I'm drafting a pretty big pattern for his mask that I think will help put the overall costume in the proper proportions. My interest in this cosplay had kinda been waning since I had announced that I was going to do it, but as soon as I found a good reference picture of his mask (yesterday), the coolness of it's design hit me like a truck and I was all on-board once again. It's gonna be a fun costume.
It sounds like this Disgaea group that's coming together at Matsuri is going to be fun. I'm kinda bummed I won't be able to see it; heck, I would've BEEN in the group if I had known in advance that it was happening. Nippon Ichi all the way! Oh well.
This weekend Liz and I had a . . . disagreement concerning how I balance (or don't balance) my cosplay/friend commitments with my other responsibilities. She made some good points; I can't have my cake and eat it too. I just feel restless and dissatisfied though. Working on commissions keeps me busy, but it doesn't scratch that itch I have, the itch to actually COSPLAY. And helping friends with their cosplay is fun and makes me feel useful and important, but it also makes the itch worse. I know I need to be more responsible and focused about what I can and can't do. I'm just really stubborn about giving up what I want to do. For example, the other day I realized that I'm making an extra $1000 per month in overtime and per diem on this Dallas job. That'll amount to $5000-$6000 over the course of the job, money that is above and beyond what we'd budgeted for the year when we were planning the wedding. As soon as I figured that out, one of my first thoughts was, "Hey, we've got extra money! We can go to AX after all! Woo hoo!"
It took a phone call to Liz to remind me that it wasn't just money that was preventing us from going, there was also the matter of not enough vacation time. Oh right. So yeah, I guess I hadn't really given up on the idea of AX as I'd claimed I had done. My bad.
Regardless of all that con-talk, I started my Wybie cosplay this week. I'm drafting a pretty big pattern for his mask that I think will help put the overall costume in the proper proportions. My interest in this cosplay had kinda been waning since I had announced that I was going to do it, but as soon as I found a good reference picture of his mask (yesterday), the coolness of it's design hit me like a truck and I was all on-board once again. It's gonna be a fun costume.
