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After many many years, I have finally convinced my little sister to dress up with me for Connecticon! I fully belived she agreed to do this only to shut me up about it. But I am so happy that we get to do this together.

And what costume pairing won her over you may ask? Well I am glad that your brought that up. When I first proposed this idea to her I was in my Yzma costume phase. I really wanted to do a Kronk/Yzma combo or a Yzma/Kuzko pair from the Emperor's New Groove. I thought this would be amazing since Allie does an amazing Yzma impression. I mean it is pretty spot on. But she wasn't fully into this idea which is totally fine. Who would want to spend hours putting on purple body paint.

Next idea was Shego and Dr. Drakken from Kim Possible. Again the idea was vetoed and I went back to the drawing board.

 By this point I am determined to find something that we could do together. Going though an intensive list, mostly filled with Disney character, I landed on Phineas and Ferb.  Initially I wanted to be Dr. Doofenshmirtz (yes I have a thing for crazy evil doctors) and Allie could be Perry the Platypus. I proposed the idea and it received a lukewarm response. I was ecstatic! This was more interest in an idea than anything I have said before. After talking it over more we thought it would be fun to go as the show's main characters Phineas and Ferb. Please cue the heavenly chorus here.

The duo Phineas and Ferb ( in case you have lived under a rock and don't know who they are)
Of course I would be going as Ferb since I am a good foot taller than my sister and Allie will be going as Phineas. I can't tell you how happy I am to be dressing up with my sister at the next convention. It is going to be a lot of fun. Be sure to look for us on Saturday dressed up at the duo!


Anastasia Cosplay WIP

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It's closing in! Connecticon is just a little over a month away! I am not excited at all (actually I am, but I don't know if sarcasm can be read over the internet). 

It is time for me to start adding in all of the little pieces of my costume. I am sure that I will be doing this for quite a while. The first thing that I did was add the detial to the circles on the dress. In the reference photos it doesn't show a pattern. But I felt like the dress needed a little sprucing up. I googled photos of Russian decals and came up with this.
There were 13 of these I had to do. Whew! 

Next up was adding in the blue sash and jewel. It was a simple add to the costume, but it heighten the look of the costume.
 


Most of the dress is now done. It is just fine tuning the costume to make it fit like a glove. Now I just have to figure out how to sit in this dress. Hmmmm....

WIP PHOTOS OF ANASTASIA CROWN NO. 2

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My what a busy week it has been for me. I do loathe having a real life job that cuts into my costume designing time. I was able to have a day off in between the craziness of the week. I sat down for a straight 5 hours to get the majority of my crown done. I have to say, I am kinda in love with my crown.


Believe it or not, I had to use hot glue to make the lines of the crown. There were a ton of lines to do. Not to mention that I would do a line with the glue then quickly press glitter onto it. After all that was done, I modge podged MORE glitter to the crown. I think I will be eating glitter for weeks after this project.


The only thing that I don't like about the crown is that I made it a tiny bit big. So now I have to figure out a way to add padding to the crown so that it doesn't slip off my head mid-convention.