Villa'Ness

The journey has been lengthy, full of peaks and valleys, yet here I stand on the other side of my first showing.  Granted it was small, but the costume was not.  I spent a good deal of the event walking sideways. Still I wouldn't trade it! Sadly, I didn't place, but I am honored to lose to the second-place contestant (See picture below).  How she didn't win it all, I don't know.  First place wasn't bad, but I love a homemade costume and I wasn't sure if his was or not. This experience taught me a lot.  Yes, the construction, but also the joy it can bring to other people, not just the person wearing the costume.  I was thrilled that people wanted to take a picture of my outfit, the looks were fun, but what floored me were the kids that enjoyed it.  I only scared one little boy and he's fine.  However, the highlight was a little girl about 4 or 5; she came up to me dressed as Belle and said 'I love your dress, it sparkles.'  She giggled

Tomorrow is the 'big' local con!  One of my minions desired to make their costume, so we did.  The hat is made of foam sheets, hot glued together.  The purple shirt we found at a thrift store and the tie is a pair of ladies socks sewn and knotted into shape (I suspect it will look better when the shirt is tucked in).  The black pants we already had, for a total cost of around $7.    Who is the character?   Purple Guy, if you don't know who that is, don't worry I don't either.   But the kid is happy and learned to sew and use a glue gun safely, I am taking the win. The cosplay seed has been planted into another youngster... *evil laugh* #Cosplay  #PurpleGuy 

It's been a fruitful week, I am 95% of the way done with my costume!  From here it's finishing touches and tinkering till Saturday, when it's the local con.  I am pleased with out it turned out, there are areas for improvement but considering I am self taught and thus have no idea what I am doing, I feel good about it. I am not going to show it on me until the reveal at the con, but it'd be unfair to to tease you with a progress report and not show you the progress.  Here is a one shot, all set up on hangers. I entered it into it's first contest!  It's an online one, but you have to be in the game to win. What's next?  I hope to have my bummer article up by Thursday, but I've already started my zombie draft of this to take to the zombie walk.  I suspect next Minion Monday we'll have that to look forward to! #Rocketman #Cosplay #EltonJohn #MRM

It's a common occurrence in the online word to do Work in Progress (WIP) Wednesday, now don't think I am knocking this tradition, I just haven't thought of a cute acronym for it yet.  I was thinking maybe Minion Monday?  A minion progress report, but it's Tuesday so I either have to wait another week to post an update or come up with another name.  Thus the generic 'Progress Report' title today, just don't be surprise when I change the name. On with the show kids, I am elbow deep in rhinestones and Gem-tac!  This weekend I tackled the next part of my Rocketman cosplay/Halloween costume.  With only a couple hours to spare, I finished the dress construction (I'd give it a C, I wish the library group would have worked out so I could have learned how to do it properly).  Nineties weekend began at 5pm and I was ready to jam and gem! Day one - step one, buy new glue.  Turns out the glue I had planned on using wasn't going to cut it for such a large sca