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Flairé costume 2015

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Some pictures of my Hallowe’en costume this year! I finally dressed up as Flairé, mostly because my boss at the one music school I work at asked me to dress up for the entire week so all the students could participate in dressing up. So I had: black dress pants that I bought a couple years ago for work; black boots I bought a couple years ago for fashion and for the intent of someday wearing as Flairé; black turtleneck I bought at Value Village a week beforehand; black wig I bought from Lightinthebox.com a year ago; elf ears that were a Christmas present several years ago; a belt I bought randomly in Toronto when I moved to Ontario; and a tunic I sewed from fabric (the nicest I’ve probably ever handled) which I bought about 18 months ago, on a small sewing machine I bought this month. Continue reading →

Jen Cosplay Sketch

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It's a little tiny elf-person-thing! ...Wait, that's me.

It’s a little tiny elf-person-thing! …Wait, that’s me.

This I drew to illustrate Zela’s sword for the purposes of obtaining my own for Hallowe’en. That’s why this picture DOESN’T LOOK LIKE ZELA AT ALL. I was planning to ink and colour me, and then draw Zela in pencil behind, showing that I’m very short in comparison being her, but am not her. But I never got around to it because this one didn’t turn out as good as I’d hoped. Some other time, I’ll do that. Oh, and that reminds me, I need to bug my dad about the pictures from this Hallowe’en.

I wrote so much on my NNWM last night… something like 4000 words. They just wouldn’t stop coming! I just got inspiration for the scene (the meeting between Zela and Lilar the silver dragon) and wrote and wrote and wrote. Of course, then I slept in until 11:00 this morning and missed my chance of going to study Mendelssohn. But I will still practice piano! After I write just a little more… I’m actually ahead! And I’ll be more ahead this evening! I’ve decided I’m going to try and catch up to XiaoCaity from the True Magic forum. She’s at 25,000 words right now, and I’m at 17,000. The candy thing (little reward after every 200, or 500 words) is actually kind of redundant. But it’s nice to have candy. Mmmm……

Elf archer costume

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Faceless sniper man

Faceless sniper man

This picture must have been drawng AFTER I finished the elf archer costume mentioned above, since it follows pretty faithfully what I wore for Hallowe’en that year. Actually, yes, it does, because I made most of the costume the year before, in the guise of an elf knight. It was a Warhammer High Elf knight, the one from inside the front cover of the rulebook (that one’s really nice-looking). I made a white robe, and cardboard-and-foil armour that laced up with string, and even a cardboard helmet. This year, I took an interest in archery instead of spears – and I didn’t even make a spear – so I made a quiver out of wire and brown cloth, and a bow out of long pieces of bamboo from our bamboo windbreak on the deck, and also I got out the old raggedy cloak that was made from two pieces of gauzy curtain that Mom and Dad were going to throw away. Don’t laugh, this was all quite good for my skill level then! Also I had a white ribbon that I tied around my head a la Fiora. I looked pretty nerdy when I was done, but I was happy with it. Now, if I just had a pointy-ear-maker-mechanism…