Time the get off my ass and update a bit of the costumes I worked on for WCS! I'll write about the trip it self in some separate entries~

We ended up choosing to bring five costumes for the events. WCS only requires minimum of 3 costumes (finals + 2), but we felt more comfortable with several costumes in case one gets ruined or simply too gross&sweaty to wear. We chose one more intricate costume pair for the red carpet, and the rest based on what would be easy and comfortable to wear in the heat of Nagoya. One criteria was also that Yumi wasn't in a good position to make lots of new costumes, so we chose something she'd have at hand already. Those ended up being Mia Fey from Ace Attorney and Catherine from Catherine. To pair them I made Maya(Ace Attorney 6) and Trisha.

Lightning Returns was one of our options for the qualifiers last year, so it ended up being quite an easy thing to choose for the red carpet. Afterwards we also decided on Asuka's and Rei's school uniforms from Evangelion. They ended up being an excellent choice for the courtesy visits day.

Even though 2014 included lot of emotions both good and bad I have a generally 'good' feeling about it cosplaywise. I managed to make five costumes all together(well, Azula is still missing couple of zippers and some velcro as we speak but I will benefit her for 2014) which feels really nice since 2013 I only made two costumes. Mostly because I usually have so much going on, I can't work just on a cosplay. Though I have to admit I have been thinking about trying to change my approach and trying maybe 'binge-crafting' something in two weeks and get it over with? It might be ok way to work(and less stresfull) if you do it well before a con.

I swore I wouldn't do updates before I had some more urgent important stuff out of the way and I finally have, so here yay~ I've never been really that into the GoH's of different cons, mostly because I've never been a 'fangirl' of anything or anyone to the extreme(until I bit nowadays). There have been some that I knew and were somewhat interesting in a 'yeah they made a great anime/manga/whatever' but that's about it. And then Animecon announced they would be having Kaoru Mori.
Be still my heart I simply couldn't pass that up. I don't think you understand how much I love Kaoru Mori. I have a deep love for ethnic costumes, folklore fashion and crafts(there are 55 official ethnic minorities in China alone with beautiful traditional costumes) and I love it every time fashion designers are inspired by folklore. Eva Hoscheck makes the most beautiful modern dirndls. Finnish traditional clothing also has some very nice costumes but I've always been a tad sad things have been so simple here. Besides that I just love her style, art, storytelling and characters, generally pretty much everything. I've been planning to cosplay Amir ever since the first Otoyomegatari book hit the shelves.

signed up for Tracon's table as soon as I heard they needed more representatives~

A little entry about the new plugsuit, though there's nothing too spectacular to report about in it. The design is much more simple to make than her original suit, since this one is basically just a skintight suit, and it doesn't have all the plugs, nodes and 3D tidbits that one has.

 Better late than never -seems to be my practice with these entries but better late than never rite?
I didn't have anything special thought for this time, except for the little workshop I already advertised in my earlier entry. Mostly the plan was to do tha thing, then spend rest of the con going to lectures and panels and meet friends.
 The workshop went quite well, I think(hope). There were definitely more people than I anticipated, which was good, but since it was the first time and I wasn't exactly sure about the equipment etc. before starting I did get some improvement ideas for the next time. And yes there's going to be a next time! I was asked to keep the workshop in Desucon as well, so if you missed Frostbite fear not, you will have another chance there~

I had one photoshoot agreed before hand, and one surprise one that made me incredibly happy and I can't wait to get the photos from that one I know they're gonna be goooood ah!
Some of them were with the darling Ilona, apparently a few more NGE costumes were supposed to come but didn't manage them in time for the con... Here, imagine my sad face for a second :( But more about those when they publish!

The best Ritsuko

I was supposed to update after Tracon 8, but somehow I stayed waiting for a few photos so that I'd have something to show and since I still haven't got them, it's been quite long... But here goes a little general up-to-date entry~ (And a little advertisement!)