Alfie

Post Kitsune Kon Update

2011-02-28T11:34:00.000-08:00

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So I just finished up KitsuneKon this weekend and I gotta say, it's probably the best first Year Con I've ever been to. It felt like a really well established Convention already, despite a few organizational issues-- but that's pretty typical. So hats off to you Kitsune, I'll be returning next year with the Day-Glow Studio yet again <3

As far as things for Day-Glow went, sales were pretty good. My partner, of course always made a killing but I didn't do too bad either. We managed to afford registration for Geek.Kon, and pay off our Hotel room with our profits. My newly created Zelda hats went over really well for their test run. I sold out of green Link hats, and I sold out even faster of Green Link hats with the Navi faerie attached xD So those will definitely be making a come back for No Brand. I also managed to get a few possible orders, and commission for Mochi plushies so I'm pretty pumped about that. Thankfully I don't have to do much restocking of supplies for No Brand which is going to give me a LOT of time to work on Cosplay which I REALLY need.

My Hetalia panel went over really good too for pretty much pulling it out of my ass from Daisho Con. My studio partner had asked Chris Cason to appear for it and he replied stating if he had time he would love too. I didn't get my hopes up for attendance to the panel and Chris Cason appearing since it was at 10 am Saturday, but to my surprise we had about a fourth of the main programming room filled (which was huge). We had all the fancy microphones and water that was DELICIOUS. And then about halfway through the panel just as Sarah and I were running out of things to talk about she tells me we have a special guest with us and points over to the door. I look over to see Chris just chilling in a chair and freak out with happiness. Got a lot of compliments after the panel saying it was really good and that I was funny (yay). Chris definitely made the panel a win though. People had a lot of really good questions for him, and I think he really enjoyed that.

So I'm back home in Mad City now, relaxing for the day and probably going to hit up some cosplay work. I'd like to get both Niche (from Tegami Bachi) done, as well as Feme!America before No Brand Con. I will SO enter Niche in the cosplay contest if I complete her. That wig is gonna be a BITCH. Think I should also hack into Verneli much as possible so I can spend all the good, warm weather days working on Switzerland's Children's Day outfit for Fanime. (God help me) Here's to hoping my next blog update isn't so belated and lengthy xD Hope everyone else that attended Kitsune thought it was as great as I did!

Busy Raifu is Busy

2011-01-10T08:10:00.001-08:00

Ok... it's been a while since I've updated my blog, but it's in between classes on the first day back and I have plenty of time to do this. So let's see, Christmas and New Years. Well, that time period involved a lot of work for me, punched in 36 ours about 2 weeks back and a lot of 28 as of now and such. Been planning out some serious cosplays though and being productive. Fanime funds are ALMOST THERE!!! JUST GOTTA AFFORD TAX!! TT u TT my huge debts are almost gone as well YAY! /o/ And unfortunately my cosplay list has changed... AGAIN xD

Nothing's ever set in stone with me, I need to learn this.

So so far my list is as follows:

Verneli - APH (redone) = 10% complete

Napoleon (uniform) - ASC = 0% complete (pattern bought)

Napoleon (performance) - ASC = 0% complete (some patterns bought)

AA-ko - Q-ko-chan = 20% complete (this may vary if I get the beading done or not)

Mercenary Switzerland - APH = 0% complete

Gakuen Switzerland - APH = 60% complete

Feme!America - APH = 35% complete

Niche - Tegami Bachi = 0% complete (Patterns and fabric bought)

These are going to be all my cosplays for the year, to my knowledge. Some of these have earlier due dates I'd like to get them done by, some have later ones (oh hey look time's passing). I've dropped a few cosplays, but in exchange I've added new ones so my list keeps getting eternally longer OTL Been dorping around this weekend doing a lot of sewing for cosplays. Thankfully, I've really been on top of stock with my crafts so I don't have much work to do there at all. Just some commissioned mochi and mochi restock then I'm done c:

Catch you again later, think I've stalled long enough for lack of things to do while I wait for my next class. WHY DON'T YOU WORK ON MY SCHOOL'S COMPUTERS BATTLE TETRIS... WWWWWHHHHHHYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! \ TT A TT /

A Pile of Conventional NO

2010-12-26T18:08:00.000-08:00

So, my studio and I have finally learned there is no good in first year cons xD We have decided to nix Kitsune Kon as it has been very disorganized and been giving everyone hell in a handbasket of slow to no replies. It hasn't been the happiest journey for us, but I think the deal is sealed now after having trouble with Nakama their first year as well. Instead now, we've shifted our focus to No Brand Con and will be looking into a well established Con, Anime Detour, come next year. So all stars a glow for Day-Glow. See you all at No Brand Con 2011

And on a completely random and uninteresting note, I finished cleaning my room 8D Whoever knew I had a floor under all this crap?

IDKBBQS

2010-12-18T08:03:00.000-08:00

So lately I've been wanting to pick up drawing; just for my own personal pleasures of course. I don't know, just kinda wish I had some free time that wasn't consumed by cleaning or Christmas running around so I could try some styles out. Little progress on the cleaning by the way but there's a lot to be done for a top to bottom sweep of the room. I also want to improve my colouring skills on the computer so I should probably start picking up some tutorials huh?

I've also gotten my cosplay list finalized for the year. And sad to say I'm only going to be doing 2 because they're quite labour intensive. If I have time I may roll out one more. Also have a new con to be planning out to sell out so that'll make things a bit tricky but I think I'll JUST be able to pull it all off xD if I get my butt in gear that is. COME ON MOTIVATION.

On one last note, I found a new manga series I HIGHLY suggest reading for all Hetalia fans, mystery manga fans, and historical fans. AfterSchool Charisma. Check it out c:

http://www.mangadog.com/manga/houkago_no_charisma/

Cleanin' and Growin'

2010-12-03T20:29:00.000-08:00

Cleaning out space at the homestead to prep for all the new stuff I'm getting for my studio space. Boy I have a lot of crap . __ .

BTW... cute inspirational video of cute -waves flags with vigour- \ >w< /

Recap Weekends

2010-12-01T07:18:00.000-08:00

Whoo... been a while. I want to start with an apology because I've actually wanted to do two blog updates for a while now with some photos but alas time was short and after my Chicago trip it was all out flail to get things done for Daisho the following week. But let's discuss them anyways 8D

So... Chicago. My first time there oddly enough. Got up at 4 am packed a shit load of supplies to kill my fingers with on the drive down and glad I did xD we took off at 5 and got there just 5 minutes before 9. We made a few stops but it was very interesting going down. In the past I've only driven North of Madison, never south, and I have to tell you, going south is a lot more interesting xD A lot more to see.

I started freaking like the world's greatest tourist once we finally started getting near Chicago. I flailed at O'Hare's airport and was so happy I brought my Camera along xD We passed an IKEA building and Immediately my Hetalia side started kicking in. IKEA buildings are something else xD More vibrant then a Best Buy for sure. I also freaked out over the metro trains and subways taking hundreds of photos. And then we started getting into downtown Chicago seeing the Sears Tower and all the other skyscrapers. That was my first time ever seeing a skyscraper so it was quite a trip seeing them coming over the horizon of traffic. Despite all its horrid traffic, Chicago's a really beautiful city.

I ended up geeking over Chicago more then I did the fashion seminars, even though they were eventful and informational. I kind of felt out of place with all these prissy little bitches everywhere. Some seemed hard-working and truly wanted to get into the world of fashion, a fair portion were also 'O-M-G liek designer clothes and gossip on my blackberry' who I wanted to punch (big surprise). It was nice meeting my future instructours and some of the other students. They actually knew what cybergoth was and really seemed to like me. I was surprised . A . Hopefully next year will be better and I'll have a bit more confidence.

And that leads us to Daisho.

Well things started great; leaving work 15 minutes late, I hope onto the beltline for Steven's Point only to get majourly backed up in an accident. After about a half hour to an hour of watching turtles and snails pass me I hopped off and decided to go the ORIGINAL way mapquest had planned for me, while the GPS kept yelling at me to get my ass back on the beltline. Eventually I just started bitchfighting with it while trying to figure my way out of downtown west side Madison at rush hour. Eventually I found my old routes and was on the Interstate about an hour behind.

Once arriving at the convention there was the usual flail going on. That hotel is forever a maze to me. Once arriving I saw my panel had been switched to the time I wanted and began flailing to gt everyone dressed. Oddly enough it took a lot longer then I wanted to get everyone dressed and had a small meltdown with some costumming malfunction right before panel.

I was told my panel went ok but I thought it went rather horrid. I think having the time switched didn't help since a fair amount of people were there for Pokemon. But I did manage to catch some people's interest in the music so... who knows.

Sales went ok. It was no Anime Iowa for me, but I made a good amount. Essentially I made my paycheck in a week which was pretty rad. And it didn't drastically decrease my product for the most part. So thankful to my mother and aunt helping me crank those bad boys out while I worked my ass off on 8 hour shifts at work. Gotta make a lot more Englands for he was oddly my big seller . ^ . Don't ask me how he beat America.

My Hetalia panel went oddly awesome for being so last minute. The start was certainly rocky but it got going once I got over my pre-nerves and just went with it and the audience began talking as well. Although my panel started at midnight and was only supposed to go an hour, we ended up going to 3:30 playing Hetalia Apples to Apples due to being the last panel in the room that night. So overall, Daisho was good. No super drama, and I managed to bro around with my friends for a bit, despite being at the table nearly all the time. We've also decided to do Kitsune Kon in February and I'm already working on things to get a good head start. Hopefully this time I'll be able to get a cosplay or two in for a con xD

FREEZE Sunnuva Bitch!

2010-11-11T19:42:00.000-08:00

Well I managed to crank out a new cyberlox set today in another wrap form. God I hate those. I've also been derping about having my mind abosrbed by BT & Celldweller jamming up Suddenly along with DJ SiSeN raping my brain with his music. Fuck my love for foreign EBM right? Managed to get my hands on Eisenfunk's 8bit CD but SiSeN's been another story. Gonna have one hell of a collection here pretty soon.

Next few days are gonna be a bit tricky to get stuff done because I'm bookin' it down to Chicago for a Fashion Expo/Workshop for the day and then clocking two full shifts at Vinny's over the weekend. Thankfully mom's offered to help cut some mochi for me while I'm gone or those little guys were totally not gonna happen for Daisho. Also managed to get my Cyber panel all done so I'm uber excited about that <3 Already having the con dreams of nooooooo xD Managed to finish all the bootcovers as well. I cranked at 22 sets of those in the past few days! THAT'S NUTS!!! Also got a set of falls repaired and even played with my turtle outside on the last nice day we had.

So it seems like I'll be weaving cyberlox in the car tomorrow until my hands bleed, starting at 5 am xD Wish me luck o/ <3

To Do List:

Cyberlox
Cyberheadpieces
Mochi
CyberMasks
Cybergloves

Eisenfunk - Pong

2010-11-08T23:06:00.000-08:00

Ok so... progress made today xD Well... I got most if not all of my cybergoth panel figured out and I actually found a wicked new band and video in the process.

This is a cyber industrial, self recorded band out of Germany called EisenFunk and I gotta say, I'm essentially in love with their CD 8bit. It's like super oldskool videogames meets industrial and it's beautiful. It gave me a lot of motive to get back on track with the cyberland and have been cranking out bootcovers nonstop. Got all the little guys pinned and ready for packaging with only six left to make <3 Gonna try and come out with some more guy's headpieces for cyberlox as well as the masks and gloves I remembered I'd promise to have for sale. WHOOPS~!

So taking those onto the list now I'm basically screwing all my cosplay plans and just rolling cyber. Sucks a bit but I'm really excited about all this thankfully. Hopefully my first time panels go smoothely and create much success. Don't know if I'll want to do a Hetalia Panel again but I'm already looking to do another CyberGoth panel at No Brand Con in '11.

So with that said I'll leave you all to view this glorious video as I roll out to bed. Pressure's on but I'm giving it my all now <3

List to do before November 19:

Finish Bootcovers
Cyberlox
Cyberheadpieces
Cybermasks
Cybergloves (shit gotta find my patterns!!!)

Cospluexes:

Nixed :x

2010-11-07T20:00:00.000-08:00

So I started this little blog as just a log of my happenings as my con life seems to grow. Right now I'm in the preps for Daisho and it's crunching down to the last two weeks. Busy finishing all the boot covers tonight so I can work on the mochi for the rest of the time. Unfortunately most of my cosplays are probably going to get canceled. It sucks but that's what happens when you're busy in a studio and trying to do cosplay at the same time, while working and doing college. There just isn't enough time it seems. Doesn't help I procrastinate like a mofo either xD

So the list for things to do before November 19:

Finish Boot Covers
Mochi re-stock
Cyberlox

Wy Cosplay
Swiss Swimsuit
Ramona Flowers Cosplay

My main doom is going to be the mochi land. If I'm very lucky I might get time to pop out some new crafts... but I make no promises. xD

Test post is a test

2010-11-04T15:24:00.000-07:00

test test test test test :U