bones, parties and house keeping

I bet I'm not the only student facing the challenge of fitting sparetime in between studying, work, house keeping and sleep. at the moment I'm attending a biological anthropology course, where we get to handle real human skeletons. It is really exiting and I don't fear the final test before Christmas as I normally do. The other course I'm attending this semester is latin. It's not that hard, but there is a lot of studying to do and I don't look forward to the exam.
I made an improvised beer maiden costume for our october fest and next thing is halloween at thursday. I think I'll do a scary doll thing .
The house needs cleaning and it is really not working for me to do it in stages... I have to clean everything in one go. Now my mission is to find a smart way of getting it alle done and I'm sure I can find some good advice on this interneret! I will update on this issue next week - it really can't wait much longer!



it's me on the far right :)

Brigadine DONE

Some time ago now I finished the brigadine for my fiance who does live role play once a month. It looks awesome! I'll show you the first sketches (that's always fun), some action photos and some WIP shots.

Brigadine:

The basic concept is a leather vest lined with metal squares, fabric and padding. I chose a geometric pattern for the front and back just based on what I thought would look authentic. After all -  it is made from leather of a black couch, so it wouldn't work with a plain vest because the leather is too thin to give it the right look of a hardened leather surface.

I made this with two buckles under the left arm and one on the left shoulder with a prolonged sidepiece so it can be fitted to summer or winter use.

Maid dresses and Morrigan

At the moment I'm really busy sowing dresses for the maid café at Genki con 2012. I need to make 14 dresses - 7 of each design. The actual maid dresses is for the day time café and the kitsune dress is for the night café. Tea designed the dresses - she is very talented and just got in the final selection of new students of the Danish Design academy.

It is a lot of hard work, but some of the maids are helping me cutting, sowing and ironing where they can. Tea also helping and is going to work at the maid café in her own design as well! so cute!

I'm still working on the Morrigan cosplay, but the process is slow - I'm working all the time and when I'm not, I'm at Kraftwerket where we have an entire room to ourselves (not that big) with a high table for cutting fabric and room for 3 sowing machines. 

I would like to finish the Morrigan AND Lilith cosplays for Genki con, but with these 14 dresses and A LOT of working in the toy shop, I'm not sure if I can finish in time.... SUCKS!

I will work as hard and fast as I can without compromising the dresses and then get on with Morrigan  and Lilith. 

Exams

So I'm almost done with the exams for this year.

As every year I never really got the blog flowing, but I really really want to do a better job for the rest of the year.

As you might know, if you're studying hard every spring, you find a billion things you'd rather do! And I've got plenty for this holiday. Here's my list of top three things I need to do first:

1. Update deviant art!
2. Update blogs
3. Finishing Morrigan cosplay

I better get back to studying for my exams.... I'm am really looking forward to getting this under control!

I'm Back!

I broke the power supply for my computer ages ago, and I've now got a new one! finally!

I'm proceeding with the Morrigan cosplay, and will post a progress report next week along with lovely pictures and convention plan for my summer!

Update on current projects

It is definitely time for an update now!

• Christmas stuff
• Morrigan cosplay
• role playing armored vest

Christmas stuff
I didn't get to make any Christmas decorations this year because I was so busy at work (the toy shop), but I did make a gift for my mom!

I made her this sequenced card holder/wallet that she wished for. It is small, but took me a while to make, but she always gets happy when I make her stuff, so it was a thrill to see her unwrap it Christmas eve.

This is teh type of wallet my mom wished for. It holds credit card sized stuff.

This is the final result! I'm so happy with it

The best gift all Christmas eve was the one my sister and I gave our mom together. We went to a photographer and got a bunch of photos taken of the two of us together, but also separately. They turned out really nice, and made a great gift for my dad, mom and uncle - I guess my grandma also gets some, but she boycotted Christmas some years ago, so she wasn't at Christmas eve. she's a bit loony in that way.

Anywho, here are some of the photos we got from the shoot.

The photographer is really talented and has a shop of his own. He is one of my moms old friends, and I will be using him for some future photoshoots of cosplay.

Morrigan cosplay
I had loads of time off to myself after Christmas and new years passed, so I got a really great start on this cosplay. I will make a separate post about the progress and the steps on the way (with lots of photos) soon. But at the moment I have the top allmost done and the base of the wings are ready to be covered in fabric.

the top, unfolded.

The wings needs to be covered in fabric.

Theres no better feeling than just sowing away and seeing it all come together like this and so fast! I love it!

Armored vest
I'm making this for my fiancé. Him and his friends roleplay in the woods once a mont, and he needs some new gear. I'm making him this armoured vest which he helped design himself.

This is the front piece, made from leather we pulled of an old couch.
The numbers help me with seeing which piece goes where. 

This goes inside the leather vest. It's made from linen viscose which I padded in 2 layers.
Inside each square are metal plates. 

The stuff from this post will eventually all have a separate step-by-step walk through.