ShortShower

The 4th of October 2018, I sat on a morning train to the capital of my country to go to a introduction day for my new work. It will be my first proper job, that is not just a consultant assignment or student position, it will be a REAL job. 

I’m nervous, very nervous, but I’m excited. I see this as some kind of a victory, I will earn my own money, so I can get my own place, and make my own life. I have relied on other people for so long, I feel ready to do my own thing now. 

I have 5 more weeks of education before I’m out in the field, it feels so long and not enough at the same time. Will I really be ready when these weeks are over? YES, yes I will. 

Hey there.. so.. I have been away for a month or more now. Sorry about that.  Tumblr didn’t want to work on my computer and I where too stressed with school to fix it. Now it just fixed itself so I can get back on the site! 

I am in the middle of moving house now so I have packed away all my sewing stuff for the moment, but I think I will be able to start working on stuff in a couple of weeks again. When I have unpacked everything and gotten some order in the new place that will say.  Thanks for staying around! 

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So I have finally decided on the details for my Victorian top and now the long road towards finishing it begins.  I started with adding.. what is this called in english.. edge-ribbon? That is the straight translation from Swedish so you have to work with that.  It was a bit hard with all the seams but I think I it ended up alright.

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I am going to a burlesque party with a “circus” theme in a couple of weeks, so I felt the need to make my costume. Bloomers, a peplum top and a ruff-collar / cuffs. My inspiration was old trapeze acrobats and vintage clowns.  So I did some research and tried to make these ruff-cuffs, just to get a feeling of it. The technique was quite simple, just a bit of a hassle with all the lengths of ribbon. This on the picture is only half my wrist and it was all the yellow ribbon I had. So the collar will have many meters of ribbon. 

Need to go supply shopping soon! yeey

Hi! So now when I am having a little break from cosplay work I finally have time to finish some of the garments I have laying around.  This vest just needed some buttons and buttonholes, so I could finish it quite quick.  It was mostly something I did for fun. It is my first ever vest, and first men’s wear, so I am really pleased with how it turned out! The back was a bit of a wild card because the fabric was really unforgiving. But the end product really is something my client said he could wear to a wedding, which made me really happy!  Now of to the rest of the pile of unfinished things! 

Hi I am home form Närcon now.  The weekend was okay, not the best con I have attended. But it was mostly because the weather. When there is an outside con you are very dependable on the weather being good and we got some horrible rain on Saturday. We had decided before hand to wear our cosplays on Saturday so that was really unlucky. 

At least we got outside in them but only wore them like two hours and then went back to our sleeping quarters and changed. We didn’t want to risk them getting destroyed by the weather. 

But I got one good picture and you can hardly see the costume in it. I think we will have a photoshoot in the future but right now I just need some time away from cosplay. All in all, I am pleased with how the costume turned out. Sure there is some things I would like to change, there always are, but right now I can let her go for a month or so. 

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Here is something that everyone who makes cosplay should know; There is this thing called “Sweat pads”. You can probably get them in most crafts stores. They are a great thing for cosplays you can’t wash in the washer. You attach them in the armpit on your jacket/top and they gather all the sweat during the day. Then you just was them instead of the whole garment.

Essential for warm cosplays during hot days. 

Pro-tip from an amateur~

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We are reaching the end of stress-week (wich have gone over 7 days now) And I havn’t taken many progress pictures. I have just focused on getting shit done. I got some help from my team to attach the pants to my shoes. I have added the middle ribbons on the jacket and am almost done with the gloves. We are leaving early on Thursday morning so I feel I am done in good time. 

Now I just need help to add the pattern on the pants and I am completely done with this cosplay. It really doesn’t feel like it.  Oh right, I still need to fix the wig as well. Ah well, let’s keep working!

Hi! Things are happening fast now. I finished these babies during the morning hours today. I went surprisingly smooth and it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I find myself really liking this kind of gold after working with it for so many months. If you could see it up front then you would see the very discrete sparkle that reflects like a tiny disco-ball when the sun hits it. It really is pretty. 

(When they had just the middle part painted, doesn’t it look like the Popes hat? I will have tiny Pope hats on my arms during this weekend, hihi) 

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I am really having a great time with my team during this stress week. We haven’t reached the point of hating each other yet so we are still having fun. (too much time together + lots of problems = potential fights)  So during our break today, we just had to try the parts of the costumes that are mostly finished, so here you have: C2 and Zero. The faces are hidden for the black knights are still on the wanted list, but with some makeup and wigs I will be able to show you the whole deal! 

I can not tell you how bubbly I got when we did this picture. I am smiling like a fool. I get butterflies just thinking about walking in full costume at the con next week! GAH!