My birthday celebration and some updates on some costumes

Hey all,

Alot of things to show and tell.

Birthday celebration:

This year is the year of the rabbit and that happens to be my Chinese zodiac.
My mother-in-law said it should bring good fortune if I'd celebrate my b-day this year.
So I decided that I should invite the whole family, some of the dudes, let my fiancee make sushi, let my mom make yakitori and set up a karaoke (singstar) game.

It was a huge succes!!
My fiancee even had a line with his sushibar, the yakitori was gone in not even 3 minutes and some members of the family found the karaoke game a funthing.

Recieved alot of lovely cards and my auntie and uncle even made a Japanese card with a stamp of my maiko outfit XD

Got many more present that I haven;t made picture of but here are some more:

This was my outfit for the evening:
Wanted to try out something completely new with bronish colors.

Also made sushi for the kids by using bread and filled it up with chocolate sprinkles, jam, cheese and some kind of fruittasty sprinkles.

 My fiancee as sushicook ^__^

Costume for the Elf Fantasy Fair:

Been busy with a quick costume for the Elf Fantasy Fair that is coming up on 16th and 17th of April.
Going with a friend of mine and this might be the first time going to the fair in a costume XD
I chose for a design that looks like a kaftan and a kimono. 
It's a very lightweighted fabric so when I walk the dress will flow and move around me.

I'm not 100% satisfied with the obi (belt) on the back....might want to get rid of the ribbon or only the tails of the ribbon....dunno :/

Also kinda want to have a print in the dress but I'm scared I might screw it up.
I should look like a geisha / ninja and it should look sexy. So maybe red and black sakura flowers or something like that should do fine I guess...

Still should work on some little details like the accesoires, shoes and make-up. But I SUCK at make-up T___T

 I kinda think I should either skin the ribbon or the ribbon AND bow...

 Will be using a longer golden rope.

 Hairpins: bought at a Indonesian market

Shuriken: made of old CD's and spraypainted them with silver decoration spray. Hope the paint will hold XD

My fiancee made them for me ^__^

Cosplay progress; Oruha:

Also been working on Oruha's costume.
It's only a small update and 3 pics but hey...it's something.

Been busy with my mic and finding the right color of gold.

I will be using the 3th one.

The middle one should be silver but it does have a golden glow in it.

Added the wings I made out of foam.

I'll be using clay to make the rest of the mic.

Should harden the clay up with pretex before I glue it all together.

I'm happy with the golden paint but unfortunately you can see the strokes >__<

You don't see them on the wooden staff because it's a different type of wood so I don't hope it looks very bad when I put them together.

Ok that was it for today. Going to pack some of my stuff or just go straight to bed.

-xx-
Kimberley (Megumii)

My room and it's metamorphosis

Hey all,

WAAAUUWWW.....just had a complete change in my room and created alot of space!!!

Some of you might know that my room is a livingroom + sleepingroom + computerroom+ sewing / cosplay room which is equal to the word 'OMGWTFHUGEFRIGGINMESS!!!!'.

It started with the fact that my dad wanted to give me a new computerdesk (mom and dad lives separated so my dad didn't knew how much space I had left in my room....)
And it turned out to be a HUGE desk X__X
It just couldn't fit in my room.
I was a bit disappointed so my mom said I should take a look at the IKEA stuff cause they have many nice desks.
Found a perfect desk which was a desk + closet in one.

You can decide where you want the deskpart to be. Either it could be in the middle or more to the back or front.

The only way that this desk could fit was to get my 2 grey closets and move them to other rooms. That means I might not have all of my clothes and stuff in my room but in some cases I would say 'f*ck it'.
And here are the pictures WHY I would say this.

*WARNING* HUUUUUUGGGGGEEEEE mess *WARNING*

My computerdesk at the left and my sewingdesk at the right....though you can't see both because of the mess.

A grey closet is underneath the other one and ALOT of mess in front of it. Why? because my closet is full.

The grey closet next to my computerdesk. My drawer broke because of the amount of weight.

Also my GymFrom VibroMAX isn't really usable without getting rid of the mess first.

 At the right my bed (covered with white sheets because of the cats.

The white small closet/table you see is my patterndrawingtable with my moms old sewingmachine of 30 kilo on it.

You can imagine what that means right....yup not touching my table.

I normally don't need the heavy sewingmachine cause I have my own sewingmachine but this one goes alot more easier with sewing leather and heavy fabrics.

 

TIME TO EMPTY MY CLOSETS AND CLEAN THIS MESS

ALOT of dust and an empty old computerdesk.

My fiancee was also helping me out be getting my new night table fixed ^____^

He was having troubles with the dust and stuff so he was wearing his scarf.

Ok you've seen alot of mess, dust and many more and might think I'm a dirty girl who doesn't clean up her room and get rid of her mess.

In the beginning I cleaned my room every saturday but after several years and getting more stuff and things and a hobby that takes over more space then you want to, it's kinda hard to keep up with it. If I cleaned my room it looked good though but I started to lose so much space.

Anyway.

After throwing away 4 up to 5 bags of junk and cleaned up everything in my room it now looks like this.

 

My bed and my new night table. Underneath some dumbells and my gymclothes.

Also YEAAAY for new covers for my bed.

My game and gymcorner.

I still have my old night table and the drawers won't go open very easily but at least there is more space.

I will get rid of the guitar hero guitars and give them back to my fiancee.

 

Next to my vibroMAX there's the closet that was standing on the grey one.

Make-up corner on the top, hobbystuff on the first row, patterns and books and the 2nd and 3th row.

My pattern drawing table opened. When closed I've got so much space and when I want to work on my table I can just open it up.

You can see my mirror and next to it a part of my new desk.

Next to the mirror my mom will hang some kind of wardrobe bar so I can hang my cosplays up thet I'm working on.

Also my fittingdoll will need to get a spot...

YEAAAAY for my new desk.

SO MUCH SPAAAAACCCEEE!!!!!!

Where I putt my EGG and other Japanese magazines in and some other papers.

Hairproducts

Such a huge deskspace!!!!

And this is how my sewingspace looks.

Still alot of stuff on 1 table but it looks neat enough to work on it again ^___^

So....I guess I've showed you everything of my new and improved room and I hope I will be able to keep it this way.

The only point is that dark furniture looks easily dusty and stuff...

Oh well, time to get started on some cosplay projects again since I only have 8,5 week to go X_____X

-xx-

Kimberley (Megumii)

Oruha's mic and cups

Hey all,

Last weekend I had some time to start drawing Oruha's microphone.
It wasn't an easy job to be honest to get everything as straight as possible.
Found a lovely Oruha cosplayer and she had such a beautifull mic in her hands so I started out to draw my patterns by looking at her mic.
*picture of the Oruha cosplayer and her mic*

 I then copied the drawing and cutted out the pieces.

Used 2 different thicknesses of wood. 2 thick ones for the outer parts and 1 thinner wood for the inner part

 The inner part has those parts sticking out for the wings.

Glued the whole thing together and filed (if I say that correct..) the mic in a more smoother surface.
Still nog 100% satisfied but it looks much better for a second wood prop.

Now I'm testing the colors of the mic. Though I'd probably be able to really see this tomorrow morning since it's evening.

Upper part of the gold is 1 layer of varnish and gold powder.
Lower part is 2 layers of varnish and gold powder.
And at the very right is just yellow / brownish paint.
I'd like to give it some kind of a wood look so maybe I should try something else like special wooden paint or something.
I only know the dutch word for it and it's called "beits".

Oruha's Cups
Remember that I told you guys that I wanted to pimp up Oruha's bra cups?
Well bought 15 meters of pearlsband and this is how it came out.

Except for the weird point in the 3th wing of the left, it looks pretty awesome to me.


Tomorrow I start late so I might have some good time to make something out of my mic and maybe working on my SPD projects.

-xx-
Kimberley (Megumii)