Halloween 2011

I've failed. I will not have finished Anya and she will not be finished for awhile. You see I've run out of money to fund this costume and no I did not budget anymore for this month. So you'll all have to keep on reading because I'm gonna tell you about why I didn't even have time to work on Anya.

You see, last Saturday J and I went to a wedding, J's cousin Rachel was married on October 22nd, 2011 in Narragansett, RI. It was beautiful!

J and I

I had never been inside the Towers before, it was amazing! The food! YUM!

OKAY so we should get back to the costumes becuase will it is October and Halloween is tomorrow.  This halloween I wil be going as Harley Quinn from batman, now we have no parties or anything to do tomorrow. But I do have a costume contest at work tomorrow so I will be driving up to the market as Harley and then goin' to a mall, where my firend is working she's going as Catwoman so I want photos!  I've made my mind up on having a costume party next month, I really want to have a costume party... or go to a costume party. BADLY!!

I still need to take some photos of the COG armor before I update anything. But I'd say that I'm 45% done.



COG Armor

Halloween is coming up fast and this month I told myself, 'listen! your not gonna spend crazy amounts of money this month! okay?' So I'm being a very good girl and only spending my cash (thats right no more credit cards for me) of gas (for the car) and food shopping (which I do a lot of because I love to eat).

I do have a costume list that I need to start punching a dent into, so I've been going through all the materials I have in the apartment and I'm only using those materials! We had about four sheets of the EVA foam, floor mats that a friend of ours was using to make Gears of War COG armor. Well needless to say it was left at the house.

And my rule of thumb is, if its left in my house for more than two hours and I want it, its mine!

Oh don't try and reason with me. >:D

Plus with the new Gears 3 JUST came out and I love the character Anya! Mainly becuase she is the only blonde! But in this game you can fight as her which is really exciting! Which leads me to the title of this post. I started making my own COG armor which will be Anya Stroud!

This was the beginning and I was just doing test runs, I've never used this EVA foam before but I do have to say I kinda like it!

Here it is now! With thinner sheets of the same EVA foam on it only black. Now keep in mind that this isn't weathered, isn't sealed, isn't finished yet. and no the yellow isn't going to be staying that bright! I will tone it down abit.

I wanted to start the back piece and so I spent about two hours looking for photos and even started to play the game again just to see the details on the back plate... Only to get side tracked and I started on the knees instead. Mainly becuase I have a friend who was downloading the templates for those HUGE boots, but than looking at a photo Anya's boots are different then Braid's so are her knees. So I started small and then I'll work my way up.

Though I may need to go purchase some more super glue and model magic for the belt...

Yes those are pins! I found that was the best way to start the rough draft and what was cool was that when I started to glue I would put the pin back to hold everything together. The pin didn't get stuck in the glue or foam. Which was great! Meant I didn't have to sit there and hold the pieces together.

Its getting there, slowly. I'm hoping to have it done for someone's halloween bash!  



Providence Street Painting Festival 2011

http://www.providencerotary.org/BecomeAnArtist.cfm

I've known about the Providence Street Paniting Festival for some years now but never gone to one. Always wanted to, but never did. Until this year, a friend of mine Livy entered and was drawing in a 8x8 square. Insane! So on Sunday around noonish we headed down to vist Livy and to help her if needed.

This is what we walked up to. RIGHT? Amazing.

Livy working with the help of her two younger cousins.

The cousins putting me to work!! :D

Sadly it did start to rain that afternoon and with the fear of losing all the hard work the judges moved up the judging to 3pm instead of 5pm. All hands on deck at that point!!

Can you tell what it is? :)

The finishing touches right at 3pm. The rain finally stopped and the sky cleared up.

After all the hard work Livy pulled it off with abit of help!

This was the best photo of the day! Livy your an amazing artist and I'm proud to say that I helped you! All and all  the BEST day ever... well minus me being sick.

Another curse on you!!

"Another curse on you! May all your bacon burn!" - Calicfer (Howl's Moving Castle)

I'm wicked sick, huge shock right? But I was a good girl I finished my last day of work yesterday even got out early because I finished all my work. Then I had to go to the bank and get my ATM card fixed... for those who dont know, its never a good idea to peel the plastic covering off of ANY card like that. Foolish really. But lesson learned. After I was done at the bank I headed to my mum's house to vist the family even tho I was sick and it felt it I was dieing.... Spent about little more then an hour there. Made my way home and the moment I got home I went to bed! Took a four hour nap, got up tried to eat something which didn't happen, made my way to the living room created alittle nest of pillows and blankets. I watched Howl's Moving Castle, Tangled and Planet Earth until I fell back asleep. Today tho the Firaxan Clan did have an event to go to....which I told Justin to message the woman in charge of the event and let her know that we will not be making it... did he do it? Nope. I woke to one of our friends at the event wondering where we were. Wonderful, now we look like jerks... Thanks Justin. :(

Anyway I got a letter in the mail from my brother, Chuck who is Afganistan. Love reading his letters! They are always well first off hard to read because he has the hand writing of our father (god awful) and he writes things that he wouldn't normally say when having a conversation with him. Which I think is cute. He writes with his heart!

This is a photo of my family before he left. <3 Love my big brother!

I havn't been doing a ton of costuming work mainly because I've been working non-stop for the past two weeks at the Market. But I do have some little updates.

These are some new arm guards for my mando, to go under my shoulder bells. To give it more of the legacy feel to it.

The firaxan clan is also selling clan T-shirts right now and we designed these like over a year ago and I'm not sure if its the best. Well I know its not the 'best' and I think we can do better. So I've been kinda sketchin' out some ideas trying to think of a neat design for the clan. But the Firaxan Shark is just sure an odd creature to draw!

See!? Strange right?

Well I guess that is all I have to tell you right now... SO heres a cute picture of my cat GUEN.

IN A BOX!!