Villa'Ness

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...

It has begun... although to be fair it started in July, but I am having difficulty getting back into the swing of blogging.  Either way, we are going to pretend that it started here and now... my 2019 Cosplay Halloween greatness!!! I am not blind without my glasses.  However, I enjoy activities a lot more when I can see what's going on, thus my first hurdle. I found the perfect pair of glasses on sale for the perfect price of $5!!  Now, I know I can't have prescription lens put into a cheap frame like this, but I still want to see. I found a pair of glasses I never wore, luckily they were wire frames, and popped the lens out.  Next, I glued the lens to the inside of the plastic heart frames, another stroke of luck they were wide enough!  Let the glue cure overnight and presto I have a pair of glasses I can see through! For the final touch, I added red gemstones! Now they are worthy enough to be part of an Elton John themed cosplay....

I am a villain and I've embraced it, I hope to one day achieve super villain accreditation.  But being a villain doesn't mean checking your heart at the door.  Wreck it Ralph taught many, that just because you are a bad guy, doesn't mean you are a bad guy.  So when I saw this baby turtle trapped in my stairwell, I launched a full scale rescue, complete with box. There was no way this little stow away would ever make it back up the stairs.  I suspect he fell or was washed down. I was required to give him a once over, just in case it was a tumble, other than being gnarly and rank he seemed okay. I walked him to the back of my property where it's overgrown and down the way there is a stream, he should be good to do all the things turtles do.   Good luck little dude, may you grow to be a mighty force. Blends in nicely doesn't he?  I suspect he's a snapping turtle, which combined with the dirt and smell makes him pretty punk rock i...