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.

Phone Decoration!

I recently bought a new smart phone. I went for the Sony Ericsson xperia Arc (gold) o_0. Anyways, it is very fancy and I love Ericssons phones. My last phone where a Xperia mini (which wasn't actually that good). Aaaaaanyways!

This is me and my phone before the makeover

I wanted to decorate my phone in a decoden inspired way. This is some of the inspiration I found.

pic from ping mag. one of my favorites! <3
Go to link, to see more decoden phones. They have a lot of different styles :)

business card holder by angel-kitty

pic from this very girly glitter  blog

At first I was going for a theme like: My little pony, Hello kitty, or something like that since I have a bunch of decorating stuff like that from old jewelry and such. I also have a lot of nail decorating stones, pearls and gems (only plastic ones though ^^), which I wanted to fill in the spaces between the bigger stuff. I collected these things, and thought they went pretty well together color wise.

I tryed out different positions of the items, and then glued them on when I had decided. From there, it's just being creative with the filler gems!

I started out by adding the biggest decoration pieces, to get an overall look of the outlay.

-pink rose and cameo is from a Lisbeth Dahl bracelet

-red rose broke of a ring.

-big hearts and gems: some are stickers and some are flat back rhinestone leftovers.

-big gold ornament from a ring I bought at H&M.

-small gell roses from nail decoration kit bought on e-bay.

-all smaller rhinestones and flat back pearls allso from nail decoration purchase from e-bay.

-butterfly is from a belly button piercing.

I mostly used regular universal glue.
I used Dana lim, which is definitely not the best glue for this, but it's cheap and easy to acquire (in Denmark).
For the odd shaped pieces I filled in the bigger spaces between the piece and the phone cover, with my glue gun,
and then glued the contacting surfaces with the universal glue.

And then I just kept on filling up the spaces with different sized rhinestones and flat back pearls.
I also added some gems to the roses for extra bling!

This is the final result!

I love every bit of it, and it makes me very happy to look at it every day ^^ 

It took me about 4 straight hours to put this together, and it hurt my neck a lot. But I'm so happy with my awesome phone now.! The best thing is that it doesn't have the same over the top childish cuteness as the ones I found for inspiration.

Buying stuff for decoration:

I allways use ebay to buy decoration stuff like this, because it is ridiculously chap! So here are some sellers I've used and am very happy with. My experience is that the shipping takes about 2 weeks from China.

peikuan123 Has a lot of deco stuff for nail, and scrap booking, like rhinestones and cute resin shapes like cakes.

timtimng Loads of cheap rhinestones.