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I made a plushie

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:12:57 GMT

Hey look everyone.

He's a drow, or dark elf for non-DnD nerds. And he's very angry. Why? I don't know. Maybe because he's naked. Too bad, little guy. Too bad.

UPDATE: Looks like it's too late to enter AA at AI. And Sogen Con is actually the week before this year. Boo. I need to find a new fall con... hopefully one that stays in fall.

An idea

Mon, 25 May 2009 21:28:35 GMT

So I was browsing the fabric store the other day, looking for stuff to make my wedding veil, when I came across a pattern for 15" plush dolls. They look a lot like most anime plushies. And AI is having trouble filling up the artist alley because of the blanket fanart ban, right? So I thought I could sell "blank" plushies - a body with a face, but no hair or clothes. Whoever buys them can customize them as they like. Not technically fanart... yet! If I got a table, I could also sell other non-fanart things like hair extension clips.

Now to get off my lazy ass and actually do something.

Warning: Emo Inside

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:42:48 GMT

Bah. I gotta vent somewhere.

I kind of hate my life. I must have filled out at least sixty job applications since I graduated, and still no one will hire me. This week has been the worst in a while, probably the whole "after con" effect. I'm bored out of my fucking mind, and volunteering at the animal shelter doesn't seem to be helping. Every single time I buy something, I think, "I can't afford this." Every time I eat anything remotely unhealthy I think, "I'm getting fat." I think I'm getting sick, too - my heart is racing but I'm exhausted, my guts hurt and my arms are so tired it feels like it's taking effort to type. So now I'm depressed as all hell and I only seem to be able to relieve it temporarily. I looked on Anime Detour's con pics thread to try and distract myself. Twenty pages. How many pictures of myself did I find, other than mass group shots? Two. And they both suck. So, yeah, that didn't help. But I also realized that, for the most part, people don't care how good your cosplay is if you're not in their fandom. Unfortunately I'm also guilty of this sometimes... which is probably part of why I don't take many pictures at cons any more. I'm not into any of the new stuff (plus my standards are too high, but that's another issue entirely.)

Cosplay progress... sort of

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:36:45 GMT

I'm having *that* problem again. The one where every time I see/play something new, I come up with a new cosplay idea. Currently on my roster:

Finished (mostly)
Sothe from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Started
Lavi (3rd uniform) from D. Gray-man*
Palla-palla from Sailor Moon SuperS*
Yue from Cardcaptor Sakura
Nico Robin (4th movie outfit)from One Piece

Have pieces for
Franziska Von Karma from Phoenix Wright
Negi from Mahou Sensei Negima
Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged
Raz from Psychonauts
The Blue Spirit from Avatar: The Last Airbender

Really want to do
Nico Robin (kimono artbook version)from One Piece*
Fai D. Flourite (artbook version) from Tsubasa Chronicle

Have considered doing
Waka from Okami
Either Triana Orpheus or Dr. Mrs. The Monarch from The Venture Brothers
The Harvest Goddess from Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
Hyatt from Excel Saga

So yeah. Costumes marked with a * are ones that I have to do at some point or someone will kill me. You know who you are. This list is subject to change at any moment and for no reason other than my whims. Just because something is listed under "started" doesn't mean I've touched it in a year.

So really, I complain a lot about being bored due to unemployment, but I've got plenty to do... not that I will. Sigh.

Art table stuff

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:34:43 GMT

Hey, all. I hope your New Years/Christmas/various winter celebrations were as good as mine were, etc etc.

So, engine_blue's getting an art table for ACen, and she's putting me on the list of people helping. I was thinking of making some stuff to sell, and I'd very much appreciate some suggestions. Here's a list of stuff I've thought of so far.

1. Hair extension clips
2. Resin gems
3. Exorcist coat buttons (D. Gray-man)
4. Memory feathers (Tsubasa)
5. Plush Lumas (Super Mario Galaxy)
6. Companion cube paperweights (Portal)

I'm not very good at drawing, so that's out, but I can sculpt and stuff. Any thoughts?

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:30:21 GMT

Dear Livejournal,

'Sup. It's been a while, I know. I finally started on fixing all the things that need fixing on my various cosplays. There's more to do than I'd like to admit. After I finish repairs I'm starting two new cosplays, both for Detour (maybe.) One is my next big masquerade project, Yue from Card Captor Sakura. I've never seen him done well. The other is Bakura from Yu-gi-oh Abridged, for our club's big group project.

I'm really glad this semester is almost over. It's pretty much sucked hard core. 8 am classes every day, plus Moly Bio is basically chemistry, which as you may or may not know is the bane of my existence. I have no real source of income and I'm living in an apartment for the first time. I injured my arm in a club bakesale that only netted us $19, then when that finally healed I got the flu and then an internal infection. I was sick or injured for about six weeks straight. I'm sick again right now (from getting the flu vaccine, sigh,) but I've got two more writing projects and a presentation for English, then finals, and I've pretty much resigned myself to failure in lab. I just want to go home. At least there, projects don't keep piling up and Mom will make me food when I'm too exhausted to cook.

At least next semester should be better.

Crapfully yours,
Lisa

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:27:20 GMT

Posted by Cat.

1. Your Middle Name: Anne
2. Age: 21
3. Single or Taken: taken
4. Favourite Movie: uhh...
5. Favourite Song or Album: uhm...
6. Favourite Band/Artist: uhh...
7. Dirty or Clean: Clean
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings: Normal earlobe piercings, but they are 100% unusable due to the fact that they used to get red, painful, and oozy withing hours of putting in earrings, so I let them close up. I tried every kind of metal.
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ? Yeah
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty? I'm ashamed to say this, but half-empty.
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? That depends on the nature of the secret.
13. What is your favourite memory of us? I honestly can't decide. AI masquerade was pretty sweet.
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure? Homemade cookies.
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: I will eat pretty much anything that doesn't offend my sense of smell, as long as I see someone else eat it first. I ate an ant in Australia after watching my professor do the same. It tasted like lime juice.
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they? 1. Infinite money 2. A really awesome computer 3. perfect health
17. Can we get together and make a cake? Sure. Chocolate or vanilla?
18. Which country is your spiritual home? America
19. What is your big weakness? I tend to take things too personally.
20. Do you think I'm a good person? Yes.
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school? Biology.
22. Describe your accent. American, but I've been known to say things like "bloody hell" from time to time.
23. If you could change anything about me, would you? Nah. I don't think like that.
24. What do you wear to sleep? Depends how cold it is.
25. Trousers or skirts? Usually trousers, but I'm cool with skirts.
26. Cigarettes or alcohol? Alcohol times 1000.
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? 0_0 Whatever you wanted to do. It's not my last day, after all.
28. Will you repost this so i can fill it out for you? Well, if you really want to do it again...

To whom it may concern

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:28:16 GMT

I've finally posted my ACen pics on my Cosplay.com gallery. Just in time for me to start working on stuff for AI!

http://images.cosplay.com/gallery.php?member=44239&cat=500

I'm going to die

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:10:20 GMT

So this week I have an organic test on Tuesday I haven't studied for and a term paper due Friday that I haven't started. I need to work on *something*, but I just can't bring myself to do it. I'm too tired right now, and there's so much better stuff I could be doing.

Stuff and things

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:49:34 GMT

It's amazing how much I can get done when I'm too sick to go out in sub-zero weather. At the beginning of the week, I had a pile of cut-out pieces of pink fabric and two packs of bias tape. This is what I have now.

I'd like to point out that I also sewed on the collar, the entire length of the 22-inch zipper, and the little bows by hand.

Also, Bonnie finally got her pictures from Nebraskon developed (lol tinycon)and sent me the ones of me as Martel.

That can in front of me contained sparkling apple juice. Not beer. They were definitely not selling alcohol in the dealer's room of an anime convention inside a college campus. Mmmm, melon Pocky. Melon anything is good (bread, mochi, gummies, kittens, etc.)

Martel doesn't quite understand chopsticks...

Actually, the chef forgot to cut my tonkatsu, which was served in a rice bowl without a plate or any Western utensils. I got the knife from a waitress, but I still had a hell of a time eating my dinner.

Progress has been made

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:13:05 GMT

Alright! I'm about 90% done with Nami. I just need to put the circles on the skirt and get some bloomers or something. Otherwise, every time I bend over'll be a free panty shot. :p

Look! I even took the requisite blurry progress picture in my bathroom!

Yes I know my mirror's filthy.

Might as well jump on the bandwagon

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:20:13 GMT

Damn. I didn't know I was that annoying. But I'm sort of on the fence with Rational and Extroverted.
Meme from cattheterrible, engine_blue, and nekokenchan.

Hand-Raiser

You are 57% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant.

You are the Hand-Raiser, that annoying kid in class who always had an answer for everything. No doubt, as a child you probably sat in the front of the class, anxiously waving your hand back and forth in the air while your teacher desperately tried to avoid calling on you because you were the ONLY fucking kid that answered her questions. Clearly, the key traits of your personality are your rationality and your extroversion. You are like a little talkative calculator, in other words. You also tend to be rather gentle and less arrogant than most people. Your presence is a bane to everyone's existence, because you are too nice for your own good and you absolutely will not shut up. So what is your defect, then? Well, you're boring, and when you're not boring, you are just plain annoying with your ultra-logical responses and constant need to talk to others. So keep waving that hand in the air, son. I'm still not calling on you. You are too logical, you talk too much, and your humility and gentleness only makes me hate you more, because they make me feel like I almost SHOULDN'T hate you. But I do. Big time. And by the way, the more you wave your hand in class--your extended hand becoming nothing more than a blur as you insanely wave it, thinking we can't see it--the more smug satisfaction the teacher takes in watching the look of excrutiating pain cross your face as you agonize over not being called on, and the longer we'll wait to call on you, just because we absolutely love torturing you so.

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.

2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Brute.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Braggart, the Haughty Intellectual, and the Robot.

If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.

The other personality types:

The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.

The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.

The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.

The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.

Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does!

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on Rationality
You scored higher than 99% on Extroversion
You scored higher than 99% on Brutality
You scored higher than 99% on Arrogance

Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

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Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:51:36 GMT

So it's well past midnight and I'm updating various things on cosplay.com. I haven't studied for either of my finals tomorrow and I have an urge to watch the second episode of the Hellsing OVA that I downloaded. Yeah, I'm boned.

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:37:45 GMT

I got my wig for Nami in the mail a few days ago, and it's beautiful. I went with a more natural color as opposed to the show's carrot orange. I was really excited the day I got it and styled it right away.

Now all I have to do is actually make the costume.

The first post ever

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:28:48 GMT

I'm finally posting. Woot.

So, this is my Livejournal. My name's Lisa, but I have at least five active internet handles. At least this one matches my Deviant Art account, not that I've ever used it.

A fair amount of what I'll be posting here will be cosplay related. I may also bitch about school, make anime crack theories, talk about the wacky antics of some of my friends, and so on. So... for those of you who know me, this'll keep you up to date with what's going on. And for those of you who don't know me, how the hell did you find this? Were you just typing in LJ names at random?