BeachYukicon event

I wanted to make a beach  Thranduil cosplay for the BeachYukicon- event that was held on  July 5^th 2014.

My original design was to make an old timey stripy swimsuit, but then I found a silver tunic in my wardrobe that I had hardly ever used because it didn’t really suit my tastes and decided to use it instead. 

After all, silver is Thranduils color.

The original shirt...

The idea was to use the same kind of lines and cuts Thranduil had on his original outfit. Since I didn’t want to start cutting the tunic too much, as it did unravel quite easily, I just took it in where I wanted to have the line and secured it with sewing. Simple and easy.

Making the modifications~

Done!

I finished it just a day before the event and then - - I overslept on the event day and woke up late in the evening! Just my luck. Honestly.

Oh well, these things happen. Atleast I’ve now got a cool silver tunic to use~

The original design.

Desucon 2014 aftermath

Desucon 2014 is now behind and it’s time to review the weekend.

I cosplayed Thranduil- the elven king from the movie Hobbit- Desolation of Smaug and I cannot thank enough the people who came to take my photo or talk to me about my cosplay. I had almost decided to not to wear the outfit that day as I was quite tired and out of it. All the positive feedback really cheered me up and I eaven wore the outfit on Sunday aswell. Thank You!

Not forever alone~

I spent most of the Saturday behind my Artist Alley table. I usually share my table with Meg ( in forever alone cosplay on saturday), but this time we decided to get our own tables

 since we both had so much stuff to sell.

I noticed that Desucon hadn’t really informed that the alley would open at 11:00 and not at 10:00 as it usually had, so it was quite a hassle organizing the table while people poured in... Oh well. I managed and the rest of the day went smoothly. Well -- the whole weekend went smoothly actually. I really enjoyed the overall good atmosphere, talkative people and amazing cosplays.

I also played my first multiplayer game of Monster Hunter ultimate on 3Ds at night in front of the karaoke room. I didn’t eaven realize to ask the persons name, but I had a lot of fun! 

So if you happen to read this: I hope we get to play again :)

Usually I’m quite tired on Sunday especially since we had held our Teru teru bozu- workshop in the morning, but Meg (Photo Finish- MLP FIM on sunday) wanted us to go and get our pictures taken in the photobooth place and so we did. It was the second time I’ve ever been to one and these people really knew what they were doing. 

Also the flea market worked more smoothly this year and that is a big +++++.

Photo by Helene Lindfors at Desucon 2014 photobooth

 The My little pony cosplay Meg wore was actually made by me for Fanfest 2013, but I never got a picture of it so it was nice to finaly get that eaventough it wasn't me wearing it. It suited her better anyhow~

In conclusion:  Thanks to everyone for a successful weekend and I cannot wait for the next Desucon!

Thranduil says Thanks! I left this picture on the table as we left artist alley. Hope someone took it home..