Back From Nebraskon 2015!

Well that was a whirlwind of a weekend! I was on the phone near constantly with Logan who was missing the con due to basic training, and we were going here, there, and everywhere! Some of the highlights of our weekend, was Ami meeting the Nostalgia Critic!!!

As well as our Ace Attorney pair meeting another Gavin, a Clay Terran (Ami was thrilled!) an Ema Skye, and a Phoenix Wright!

The BEST part of the weekend, was our Skit getting Second place in the cosplay contest!!

A lot of people loved our Squall and Cloud! And our Mom's plague Doctor was a hit! It even won our local Hancock Fabric's Halloween contest!

Sorry if this post seems really random and off the wall, I'm still all keyed up from the con and super excited to get back to my sewing machine!! Until Next time! Happy sewing/crafting/cosplaying/life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long Time no see! Ace Attorney Cosplay and more!

So...I've been....busy...... Ami and I attended another mini-convention about 5 days ago, as Apollo Justice and Klavier Gavin from Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice! We originally weren't intending to go, despite being invited much earlier in the year (a little after the last con), but while I was chatting away with a friend around 1am a month before the gathering, she convinced my tired brain to say yes, and a lot of complaining from Ami ensued... So, I promised her I'd make both costumes and all she'd have to do is drive, I procrastinated a lot with Apollo, but got him done fairly quickly...when I was actually working on him, in actual hours making him, he only took a couple days, in reality I sort of spaced him out over 2 1/2 weeks...so Klavier was a mad dash to get done, and I spent nearly 3 days straight on him haha....I may now have a very strong aversion to lined jackets.................................... Anyway We did really well with them and had a lot of fun, despite Logan not being around due to basic...It was really hard to work on them without him, I'm used to his constant pestering/motivating me to get things done, so it was kind of sad and lonely...but I persevered and they turned out amazing!

So, if you like Ace Attorney, Without further ado here's Ami as Apollo Justice, and myself as Klavier Gavin!
This first pic is us at the con :)

Here we have some shots from our own personal photoshoot!

And for any Klapollo shippers (KlavierXApollo love) here's a special pic!~

Ami and I are also currently working on a CMV (cosplay music video) to the song Camera Shy with these two characters, To follow that's progress, my cosplay in general, and any other WIP stuff, check out our cosplay page at : https://www.facebook.com/konspiracycoslay :

So it's been a while! (Ramblings, Akua Con and Rave Master Cosplay!)

So I haven't posted in like FOREVER!!! I don't even remember what the last thing I talked about was....but anyway Akua Con was last weekend, and it was a blast! We got our groups outfits done just in time! Logan's Haru wig could have been better, but the rest of his outfit Rocked! And Ami's Elie was Stunning and Sexy!~ My Musica was So-So, but the extending Spear shocked the judges. Cameron also did a Dark Link that was phenomenal. All four of us got prizes in the cosplay contest to boot. So Here is a large group pic of some of us cosplayers! From Left to Right is Cameron's Dark Link, A Fem Link, our friend Rachel in her Kimono Squirtle Gijinka, A Werewolf Red Riding Hood, myself as Musica, Ami as Elie, and Logan as Haru!

And Here are some excellent shots of Cameron as Dark Link, and Ami as Elie

Don't they just look amazing!?

Anyway I haven't had a lot of time for art and such, but that's due to work and my newest obsession! ACE ATTORNEY GAMES!!!!!!!! I've been playing Apollo Justice nonstop for a while now, and Klavier Gavin has stolen my soul..................................... How can he be so amazingly sweet and annoy me so much at the same time?! Lesson learned, if I'm swearing at 3AM, Blame the Prosecution. I also dyed my hair a new color yesterday. I'm a redhead now and I am loving it! It reminds me of my Reno wig, such a lovely reddish maroon blend <3

That's about all I have to say, sorry for the boring post and random ramblings. Until next time <3

Some sad news, another con, and musings

With the end of Logan's High school career fast approaching, and college looming over him, our groups prop master has decided to enter the National Guard. While Ami and I are totally supportive of it, (we're having lots of fun imagining him with a buzz cut!), he'll be in basic training during Nebraskon 2015. That means we had to rework our cosplay lineup, one that we'd had planned for nearly a year. We're putting off his Genesis cosplay and Ami's Cloud, in favor of her being the Laguna to my Squall and having our mom play Irvine. That way I can be Zack for 2016 with Cloud and Genesis. We think that should work out.

On the bright side, we got invited to another Mini-con that is just before he enters Basic!! So, we got together and decided we should do something simple and Nostalgic for all three of us. One that'd be fun and make some good memories for him to hold onto during basic training. We went with Hiro Mashima's Rave Master! If you've been reading this blog since the start, then you'll know for a long time I was in love with Musica from Rave Master, so my cosplay was a natural choice. There was no arguing over who was Haru, Logan got his first choice, I got mine as Musica, and Ami squealed at the thought of making Elie and her Tonfa blasters! I even hand stitched a Plue plushie

The con is on June 27th in Watertown South Dakota. If you're in the area, look up Akuacon on Facebook and see if you can come on out!


I've recently started playing FFXII on the ps2, and I think I may be making a few patterns based on that. I went through Dork Stitch's pattern selection, hoping she'd already covered some of the main party, but sadly she hasn't, and there are barely any other patterns out there (aside from Ashe, whom I rather dislike). I would have loved to perler Balthier and Vaan, as they are some of the most fun FF characters I've encountered in a long time. I'm surprised the game has such negative reviews online when I find it to be so much fun! I'm even on the lookout for the spin off Revenant wings for Nintendo DS. I really like the gambit system, which seems to be the main complaint most people have. If they don't like it, you can turn it off, so just do that!

I also bought a psp from Last Stop CD shop the other day along with Kindom Hearts Birth By Sleep, and FFVII Crisis Core. While I still need a memory stick, I've been replaying Terra's Story in BBS and I may finally get around to making that Ventus pattern! I just need a computer that I can call my own! (yep, still using Ami's...still to broke to buy a new one). I am a little stuck in FFXII if any one can help me, I'm fighting the Demon Wall in King Raithwall's Tomb...and it's kicking my ass! Any help will be appreciated, I believe my party's average level is about 16, and everyone but Fran has a staff that deals about 30 damage. Fran has a bow that does about the same. I have a quickening for everyone but Vaan, and Fran, Basch, Ashe, and Penelo have 2-3 quickenings unlocked....I'm not sure what all spells Fran has but its a lot, and everyone has a cure spell but Penelo. They're wearing Chain armor or strong anti magic armor. That's all I can remember about their stats off the top of my head, any help at all is welcome! And if you just wanna talk about the game or the characters or anything else I've mentioned above just leave me a comment!

Love ya~

Typical Sewing WIP, cosplay, and art dump, plus heads up on upcoming Anime Review!

So, I've gotten more done on Jack, and seeing as how its 2 AM and I can't sleep, I'm posting here instead of agonizing over my 6 hour shift tomorrow that I'm sure to be exhausted during! So here I am to bore you all to death!

As you can see, I've got his hair and goggles blocked out. I'm thinking I'll do some color stitches to alleviate the boredom of doing so much black.

So, Ami and I really love this fanart, of Sora and Riku from KH2 where Riku crowns Sora, and after being inspired by it, we went out and did a photo-shoot today with Crowns, Paopu Fruit, and Sea Salt Ice cream (blue-raspberry Popsicle). I'm gonna spam those here. the first one is the shot inspired by the fanart, the second is a kiss behind a paopu fruit, and the third is us sharing Ice Cream.

This last pic is my absolute favorite pic of us so far! I love how cute and in character it is for Riku to be stealing some of Sora's Ice Cream!

And Lastly here's an art spam for an ADORABLE new addiction of mine. The Anime is called Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! If you've heard of it, you've probably scoffed and thought it's a fucking ridiculous concept, and you're right, and if you haven't then I'll tell you, It's basically sarcastic Sailor Moon with an all guys cast! After the Finale next week, I'll be doing an Anime review! But I absolutely love it, I swear I go into withdrawal as soon as each episode ends, and I don't know how I'm gonna survive without it when it's over! But for now here's a pair of fanarts of my favorite character, Ryuu Zaou, AKA Battle Lover VESTA!~ The first is a plain watercolor scan, and the second one is after I rendered and added a digital background. I really like how it turned out, considering Ryuu's element is fire!

Now that I've bored you half to death with my pointless, and tired update, I'll just remind you that you can find and watch me on Deviantart if you like my drawings and cosplay by copy-pasting this link (http://kakashi-copycat-kun.deviantart.com/) or searching my screenname, and say happy stitching/painting/whatever you're into...I'm gonna sew some more and watch cute boys transform into magical boys!

Our Torii Con adventure, and More Sewing WIP

Torii-con was about two weeks ago, and we had an amazing yet miserable time. Let me explain haha. The night before, we were rushing to get Darkar completed, so Logan stayed the night, and we decided to sleep in our basement workshop...None of us really slept that night, so at about 5:30, we got up and made breakfast, we were packed and out the door by 7. We made it to Vermillion at about 9 and the con didn't start until 10. Ami and I were partially in our cosplays to save time, and Logan and Dylan still needed to change, so we decided to hurry up and find the convention center, which was easier said than done. We were lost for around 45 minutes, but finally made it. Dylan rushed to the ladies room to get changed into his costume (he was too shy to put on a skirt in the mens), while I tried to cram Logan into his outfit the best I could. Ami couldn't really move much because she was afraid of making a slight run in her outfit we'd found the night before any worse. So I was working like a mad woman. It was while trying to get his cod piece on that we found our first problem...he made it too small (never leave these things entirely to Logan....) then his shins were too heavy and kept falling off, so we used some red ducttape to hold it all together and got signed up for the cosplay contest. Then I started on transforming Dylan into a lady, only to find he left his hand made shoes at home. So we sent a text to my dad and told him to bring the shoes and some ducttape. He said he'd be there at about noon. So, we headed up to the con area and started mingling and loafing around. Then Logan said his outfit was too heavy and he wanted to take it off...so he removed all of it but the under clothes and wandered around like that, however there was no rest for him, everyone wanted him to put it on for a picture, so it was off again and right back on again over and over, haha! We hung around and did some trivia, bought stuff and played video games. While we were eating lunch dad called and said he was there, so we met him out front and got the stuff...Eventually, it was about a half hour til our judging time slot, so we tried to cram Logan back into his outfit, which was falling apart worse still. So we taped it all together, and were convinced it looked crappy, but the judges were good friends of ours we'd met at Nebraskon a couple years back. They'd seen it when we first brought it in and said the Ducttape wouldn't count against us. After that, we got through the judging no problem and moved back to where we'd been loafing around to wait for the contest at 7. By then, Ami's custom shoes were digging into her feet and I had a blister forming on my left ankle. So we took our shoes off and sort of just read manga and waited while the boys went and entered some gaming tournaments. 7 rolled around and although 3/4ths of us were in slight pain, we ran on stage and gave it our best, then sat down to await the awards ceremony. After first and second place were awarded, and we won nothing each judge gave out an award for their favorite. The first judge gave hers to a marvelous cosplayer from a series I didn't recognize (her outfit was to die for though!!), and the second said, there was no way he could pick just one costume from our group, so he gave it to us all. We were ecstatic, and took a bow with our little trophy! Afterwards we all got changed into street clothes, and sang karaoke until the con was over. Then we all limped to the car exhausted but happy lol!

PICTURE TIME!

Here we have Ami as Tecna, Logan's Darkar, and my Musa

And here we have Logan's Darkar as a full body pic!

This picture shows off Dylan's cosplay along with the rest of us girls!

And Finally here's our Trophy!

Now that the cosplay talk is over for this post, I've been working on my Jack Spicer pattern some more! Not much to say though aside from the fact his arm is almost done. I'll keep at it and have more progress soon.

~Until Next Time

A picture I made...A story about my life (BORING)...possible fanfic-ness and Sewing WIP (bonus cosplay update)