Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010

Our Tickets, I bought them off a coworker who bought way too many tickets and only wanted to keep his Men's Hockey tickets.  These are two Women's Hockey tickets and we were lucky for it to be later scheduled for a Canada game wohoo!

Went to visit my Aunt and Uncle before the game.  My Aunt took my hat from me to try on.

We went to Vancouver Waterfront to go see the Olympic Cauldron, what an unpretty fence in the way.

On our way to the hockey game.

Ok can't skip the Mascots

I snuck a peak to see what the Media Seats look like (before the game started)

Oh the Slavoski team is coming out for their warm up period

That's the Vancouver Olympic logo, it's suppose to be rocks piled up to form a human shape

Canada warming up too

Olmypic Fags hang from above

Look the Players took a picture with me, well sortof

"With Glowing Hearts" the theme? base of Canada's anthem

Slavoski Lineup announced

Three nets?

Zambonis!!!!! they excite me

What a good gardener, he's watering the ice

Lineup / Faceoff

Wait for it . . . Wait for GO

Where's Quatchi?

Go Go Go

Who lost their hockey stick?

GOAL!

GOAL for the French Canadians

Go Go Go

7-0 First period.  So sad, people started clapping for the SVK team by now when they made a good save or tried to score.  "We applaud you for a Good Job for Good Effort"

Sea of RED fans

Canada's Goalie

Where's Miga

More Action

Final score 18-0

It was actually kinda a boring game, no competiton . . .

Good Job everyone

Look closely and you can see Quatchi on the SVK Goalie's helmet

McDonals Collectables!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Note to Self: Make Hat for Emily

Occasionally you'll find these notes to self throughout my blog. These are basically as they claim to be, notes to self. Things that don't get lost on a specific computer and browser's Favorite's list, or in an email, or on a piece of paper.

Note to self. Make this hat for Emily, use the same coloUr scheme.

More information can be found at this site http://www.cute-plush.com/sadcathat.htm%22

Getting Ready for the Olympics

I love the Olympics and the winter Olympics are only 3 hours away from me this year and from my home country CANADA!! So I've got tickets to go see the Women's Ice Hockey game Canada VS Sloviakia (where's that?). I'm geared up with the Mascot stuff animals, clothing, and now my home made fleece hat. It's going to be cold in the ice area.

Sakura Con Cosplay Ideas

Original Design
Completion: 5%
Just an excuse to wear some AWESOME wings

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Anime: Cardcaptor Sakura
Character Name: Meilin Rae 李 苺鈴
Japanese Anime Release Date: 1998
American Anime Release Date: 1999
Age: 10
Completion: 0%

I've got the Height Covered, the Black Hair, and the Chinese appearence.
I'm doing her as part of a cosplay group

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Game Series: Batman Arkham Asylum
Character Name: Harley Quinn
Japanese Release Date: Jan 2010
American Release Date: Aug 2009
Completion: 90% Complete
Prop: Gun, it will be steampunked for my own personal glee.

She's a villan that works for the Joker

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Game Series: Final Fantasy XIII
Character Name: Lightning
Japanese Release Date: Dec 2009
American Release Date: March 2010
Completion: 90%
Prop: Blaze Edge that is a combination of a gun and a sword, I will be doing the sword version

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Sakura Con Mascot 2010
Release Date: April 2009
Completion: 97%
I got 360 sketches from the original artist.

For the Deivant page for the artist http://chibi-rera.deviantart.com/

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Anime Series: Rozen Maiden
Character Name: Suiseiseki
Japanese Manage Release Date: 2004
Prop: Giant Suitcase
Completion: 100%

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NEW COSPLAY IDEA

Series: Tokidoki
Character Name: Mozzarella
Release Date: July 2008
Prop: Gun and Milk box side kick
Completion: 0%

Craft Tags

This is my first attempt at Tags. I am quite proud of what I got. Because it was a part of a present and I had two ideas I really liked I ended up doing them back to back. I couldn't link the chain to the hole so I burnt the edges which ended up looking very cool.

Sadden by Bad Cosplay Pictures

So through my 7 years of Cosplaying I have learned to make better and better outfits. May I say I've impressed myself, yea sure there's still a little duct tape here and there, but it's still hidden that people don't know. But even though I make these awesome Cosplay outfits, and have learned how much difference a good wig makes, I've yet to master the art of photography.

I've always been envious of good, no great cosplay photos. It's not just the photo but the background as well that is a part of the picture. It turns it from costuming to a story. It really hit me when I wanted to join this Deviant group TheCosplayGroup but reading through their rules it says that cosplayers may submit their "BEST" work. This means people have to self judge if their work is quality or crap. They can't flood the gates with photos just to get publicity but have to pick their prime photos to submit and go through an approval process.

That's when I look at my own pictures. My costumes look great, but

• The Con people in the background
• The bad photographer that just crops you out
• Photos in the toilet room? what was I thinking?
• Bad lighting
• And Awkward poses, ok I don't know how to model, I need to work on this one

This is what I'm going after
Good Poses, Good Lighting, Awesome Background.


Something my friend Hannah tried to teach me last year, but I just didn't understand until she was gone and I saw the pictures she took of me. She annoyed the crap out of me when taking a million pictures, but now I understand how it was soooo worth it.