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..

Taidekuja

Whooaaa!

Taidekuja/ Artists alley- event is being held for the first time tomorrow (17.11.2013) at Kulttuuriareena Gloria, helsinki. The event starts at 10:00 and lasts till 18:00. I'm going to be there selling some jewelry, decoden and all sorts of cool stuff. I can't wait!!!

..I drew this...

More info about the event:

Taidekuja blogspot

Taidekuja Tumblr

Facebook event

Fanfest feedback

It's feedback time!

I was quite busy the weekend as Artists alley seemed to be full of people most of the time . I didn't eaven get to take pictures of my cosplay since I had to take the wig of because of a major headache. Eighter way it really doesn't matter. 

I had too much fun to really care :D

The Artists alley was-- well.. full of people. Still, given the crampiness of the space, everybody was very nice and realized to ask if they needed to get trough. I really enjoyed the variety of artists and the cheerful atmosphear.. 

And a big thank you for the people on each side of our table: MissAntura & Arlmuffin (I don't know their real names..) And Papermonkey who is infact one of my favourite artists. Ever.

Wurr vol.1-3 by E. Jokinen/ Papermonkey

 Bolt pin by MissAntura.

The only downside of the event was the difficulties of paying the table (I'm still not quite sure if it's settled or not..) and the fact that our seller info wasn't updated on Fanfests Artists alley site as promised.

But I'll overlook it since it was such a nice convention.
 Again next year, please?

Fanfest 2013

It's been ages since I last updated my blog. Again.

I'm going to be at Artists Alley at Fanfest 5.-6.10.2013. 

Hopefully I'll have time to post some pictures of the stuff I have at our table since I finaly made fanart themed items to sell. Mostly jewelry tough..

As for cosplay, I'm going to do the super stylish Photo Finish (Human ver.) from My little pony- Friendship is magic.

So fabulous..

It's my first real female character cosplay so I'm a little nervous..

Let's make it Fabulous!

I bought a vest from a fleamarket for my beloved for our annieversary, eaventough I knew it was too plain for her liking since she's really into the cute japanese gal style. 

So my mission was to make Fab from Drab.

Too plain..

That's more like it!

Annndd a Close up.

Happy 8th Annieversary darling~

Steaming!

I found a plain, brown skirt from the 'Free of charge market' at Recycling Factory held this year on 4. – 5.5.2013. 

(Yeah, it's been a long while since the actual event, but I haven't had the time to post this). 

Still, seeing some potential in it I took it with me as I decided to try to transform it into a Steampunk skirt.

This is how it looked..

The skirt in itself was still in good shape. Eaven the zipper was still intact and working like new. No holes, tears or smudges were on the skirt so I'm quessing it was the overall shape of it and the weird lenght (Low calf, but not ankle lenght eighter).

So I started to style it with pins.. (back)

..And a bit more. (Side)

 After shaping the skirt, I took out my sewing machine and secured the places the pins were holding together with a few back and forth stitches. I also wanted to add buttons to the sides as if they were holding the layers of fabric up.

My button box that I got from my mom. She told me she had once gotten chocolates in it..

Button perfect.

 

Done! (Front)

The hem of the skirt rised quite much so I had to shorten the lining as well so it wouldn't flash from under the dress as I walk. I really love the way it looks now!

Memoirs about Finncon

Finncon is over and man, was it fun! Thank you all <3

And a BIG thank you for Muura who I commissioned to draw sketches of my original characters. 

Her style is just so unique! 

Muuras sketches of my ocs Sabine and Dreameater <3

 Go check her stuff out!

And then there was one of the greatest outfits I've seen in conventions.. This Dinosaur!

..I mean wow. Just look at that!

It was huge and tried to eat people! Most of the people at Artists Alley (expecially the artists) ran outside to see it. There was also a Ghostbusters gang who chased two little ghosts. It was so much fun~

All and all it was a great con. I wish they'd hold more conventions in helsinki..