DESUCON FROSTBITE AND SOME SPEEDMEETING

Hello all the lovely people! This is Poke updating our blog again!
Momo just left back to Valkeakoski so this will be all me! BWAHAHAHHAA

I'll start with the last Thursday, this is not entirely cosplay related, but I just want to show you some cool stuff! So on Thursday we had this thing called Penkkarit  and I dressed up as Harley Quinn! You'll see the photos of Harley Quinn later, what I wanted you to see was these supercool signs our class made, I was helping quite a lot so I'm very proud of these lol.

 So I have painted Bane, Superman, Harley Quinn and Loki to this one (and the text), the others were made by my lovely classmates!

And then there's this one which is absolutely fabulous! I didn't do too much work with this one but JUST LOOK AT IT!!! and these are some huge signs, since they cover the sides of a lorry!

Anyways, enough of the Penkkari's, let's talk about..

DESUCON FROSTBITE

I'll make this cool day by day thing as usually :D

Friday:

We started our journey to Desucon Frostbite on Friday morning, with me, Poke, Momo and Hansku (check her blog btw). I had slept like 2,5 hours on last night due to the Penkkarit After Party and Momo and Hansku were also a bit hungover so we kind of..didn't function :D Anyways, we went to Helsinki and just  rolled around (buying manly and womanly pants) for few hours, doing pretty much nothing. The reason why we went there at all, was that our dad was going there and offered to throw us to Lahti since he was on the move already.

As we arrived to Lahti, it took about five minutes to make our room all messy and well, like a cosplayer room. We basically did Momo's costume the whole evening and drank Megaforce since we needed energy!!!!11 (true badasses)

Later in the evening, our friend Amanda joined us (does she have a blog?)

This photo is from Saturday night but..you get the point?

Saturday:

On Saturday morning we woke up at seven, more or less tired. We were ready way before we were supposed to leave, but there's nothing wrong with being early right?
Anyways, I cosplayed Jim Moriarty from BBC Sherlock, with the crown jewels that were hell to make! I'm planning on making some tutorial/ post about the crown itself if I manage to take detailed photos first.

Look at the make up :( it still needs improvement!

So here you go, photos of Moriarty (let's start the Moriparty ntsnts)

Momo, Hansku and Amanda had their Pandora hearts group and I don't have any photos of them all, but here, have Momo!

Note! the wig has fallen slightly in this photo! but you'll have more of her as the photoshoot pictures arrive!

I'm letting Momo tell you more about this cosplay and so on when she has time.

We also had our Speedmeeting on Saturday and god did it go well?

We were both sure there wouldn't be too many people but we were horribly wrong! Before the whole program even officially started, there were many people waiting and oh my god! At first, we were sure they were just some random people who were just chilling in the room after the previous program but NOPE.

So it went quite well! so well, that we were even  asked if we'd like to arrange it at Desucon too! and yes DO WE DOOO

In the evening we went to the evening party, and what happens in the evening party, stays in the evening party...

Sunday:

On Sunday we all slept way too long and yeah, that's it.

I don't have too much to tell really..we just sort of went around and stuff.

OHHH yeah! the cosplay bootcamp! We were at a panel about Cosplay bootcamp and god yes! it sounds just brilliant! Check their Facebook page for more information

We were  also listening this Digimon vs Pokemon thing and it was cool, even though I hardly listened since I was so tired :( but it was loads of fun!

I cosplayed Harley Quinn (also the Penkkari costume) and here's some photos! We didn't take too many of them since it was FREEZING

Then there's Momo and her Black Canary costume, that we failed to shoot in Tracon so we did that now (though not too much since it was still freezing lol)

SO here it is! My beautiful summary about Desucon Frostbite!

I'm playing sophisticated today and going to watch some Shakespeare's Hamlet so yeah, better get ready :D

Your 5ever,

Poke

PS: Have this fab photo of me

Chin Moriarty

GURLS STEP UP TO THE PARTAYY

Yo mah fellow cosplayas! How's the thug life rollin' in da hoodz?

Yo brotha play dat track whil ya take a luk at this wacka damn post by M.O.M.O and po-K!

It'z supa cool ya know? Just get in da mood shawt's cuz this is gon' b so damn gr8 piece of txt!!

Ok ok ok. Let me get into god news. I'm going to write the rest of this post with a normal(ish) English.

Why did I ask you to play that song? Well firstly, IT'S SO GOD DAMN GREAT. Secondly, the lyrics kind of match our current cosplay motivation and thirdly, our costumes are almost done. Yes you heard right. Almost done. Which is kind of good since Desucon Frostbite will be held in a week. Omg yes. In a week.

For me, Momo, the situation is looking quite good already!! My coat is ready and my bootcovers only lack laces and then boom! I'm done. Ok I need to attach the front piece to the jacket and the bow as well but prfft that's an easy job, isn't it?
As for the scythe, the situation isn't looking as god but I will get to paint it tomorrow so close enough?
Seriously though, I need to give a big applause to myself. During this weekend I've:

- painted all the fucking squares to the whole costume (there were around 30 damn squares.)
- sewn the cuffs to the sleeves
- attached the hem to the upper part
- the collars
- the scythe into the point where I just cover it and paint it.
- bootcovers nearly done
- wigstyling for both me and Poke.
- Ok I've fucking moved this costume from point 20% done to 95% done. THAT'S ALOT.
- (gotten a new phone and finished my school assignments ok lol nope)

Desucon Frostbite is on the worst weekend possible for me since I have a load of exams and assignments coming up just before it and also right after it so you will be finding a bookworm Momo with a cute Marketing book from our hotel room. Haha. Hahahahahaha. Nope. Like I really could study during the convention? Lol nope.
And yes. I'm only doing one cosplay for the whole convention though I may  use one of my old cosplays on Sunday. (Black Canary? Seriously I have no idea:D)

Now let me hand the power over to my bro Pok-E yo dawg.

SSUP  YALL? IT'S POKEY DOKEY POK-E THE BIG E YALL KNOW- oh enough? okay

SO my costumes for the weekend are doing quite fine too! In fact, to speak the truth, both costumes are fucking 90% or more done yissssss.

Okay, so Harley Quinn  is basically ready, all I need to do is some little finish up with the details and stuff like that, so getting in there may I say? But my deadline with Harley Quinn is..oh well in four days, since I'm wearing it to the Penkkari's (scroll down few posts to get the explanation..)
Momo made so cool-looking list so yeah this is me copying her, deal with it.

-Dress is done, all it needs is some basic finishing like you know, cutting the threads and you know, basic.
-The collar lacks few stitches, but I'll get there as soon as I find a needle, seriously, ALL our hand-sewing needles have gone missing...
-Shoes are styled and done
-I made the coolest ring!
-I bought 5 pairs of white stockings, just in case (they were 1.50euros/5 pairs so not a great loss?)
-I made cool hammer with you know, cool stuff and so on.
-The hammer is cooolll
-coool hammer I haz
-HAMMER TIEM
-um yeah. The wig needs fixing but Momo is on it.

AND then I have the lovely Jim Moriarty.

I'm pretty much done with him too, only the crown has lots to do but I'm on it...and I've taken my cosplay to whole new level by learning ALL Jim's lines from the show, how cool is that?
But because  lists are cool:
-The cape has still some stuff to do...like boring sewing stuff
-but it's almost there
-The crown lacks some BLING DA BLING BLING and some FUR DA FUR FUR YO DAWG I'M THE KING YALLLL
-and then there are the trousers...I have no idea.
- make up is being under rehearsals
-shirt and shoes I haz.

I think that's it about them, Momo got anything left?

Well...I could throw a few words about our program during the weekend. BECAUSE POKE MADE THESE AWESOME POSTERS AND AWW YISS.

number 1



AAND number 2



Mad paint skills, huh?

However Desucon Frostbite is going to be Legen...wait for it..dary! (Because we are there, duh?)

Yeah. But really. We are really looking forward to it and if you're coming, then hey IT'S ONLY A WEEK AWAY. Time to flip dat shit if your cosplay is not done or worse, even started.

However it's 1.16 AM and I should really go to bed since I will wake up early tomorrow to make my scythe. "Yay." (Nay.) Good night our dear readers ♥

With love,

Momo and Poke

P.S Listened to that song at the start? THAT'S NOT EVEN A WEIRD SONG FOR US. Yesterday we listened to Darin.

Yes. Darin.

If you still remember him, you're cool.

COSPLAY UPDATE, WHAT'S GOING ON AND TO WHERE?

So Hello..this is Poke updating our blog since Momo nagged me about it. And I admit, Momo has done most of our recent updates.

But here I am and I come with news:

Desucon Frostbite is held 16-17th of .Feb.2013

it's 20th of Jan right now and guess what?

OUR COSTUMES ARE ALMOST DONE!

Now this is new because:

-We have actually started our cosplays over a month before the convention
-We have actually got things done
-We have actually decided what costumes to make over a month before convention. (edit: a lie.)

THIS IS PRETTY COOL ISN'T IT

I'll give you some proof, meaning WIP photos!

First Momo's Alice:

The whole jacket is in very good state, it hasn't been properly ironed in these pictures and so on, but here you go, She's doing real good.

Only problem she's having is that her wig hasn't come yet :( But there's still time right, RIGHT?

Then me and my Moriarty:

 I had some clear diamonds so I painted them blue with Humbrol enamel paint Shade/AO566/52
 if you've used Citadel paint, it's about the same, only more liquid and in my opinion it has wider range of materials it's suitable for, since it had no problems with painting glass! also, when I first thought I would only paint the other side to make the diamonds look better, I decided to paint the both sides, since the paint only gave it colour without changing the surface.
Also, as you can see, I had to embed the diamonds to the..er..silver parts? so they would be translucent.
It was pretty simple, just making a hole and ta-da it fits! I did use hot glue to attach them but yeah.

 For now I have only done silver templates, but as you may see, I'm going to bling them up with spangles, but  guess what? I've been searching the whole Tampere for them and nope. Okay I found a bag of 60 silver spangles for 2.99 euros but seriously? 60? and for that price? I did find some golden ones, orange ones, black ones and fucking rainbow ones in the bags of 200 pieces for 1.99 but REALLY? no silver? But as I am an innovative cosplayer, I figured out that the color is easily removable  with nail polish remover or some other alcohol. Yiss.
So I'm going to polish 200 spangles into silver ones instead of paying more.

This is the full crown right now,  it's been stitched up for this photo, for example, the fur is not going to look like that, or anything. Just to show you the progress.

Okay enough with the WIP's.

Some random reader: But Frostbite lasts two days! 

Poke:*silences with a piece of craft foam and threatens with a hot glue gun* I wasn't finished, you moron.

So.

Yes, our cosplays for first day are doing fine but Sunday..Sunday,Sunday,Sunday.

Momo has no clue and I'm changing my plans:

Instead of Kuzco (Which is still on my cosplay-list, I'm just putting him to the Desucon) I will make my own version of Harley Quinn, and why?

We have this thing called penkkarit here in Finland, and traditionally, ''Abi's'' (meaning candidate for the final exams) dress up according to their theme, I'm not going to spoil what's our theme but since the penkkari's are on the Valentines day (aka two days before convention) I decided to go with the Harley Quinn to the frostbite too.

Brief sketch.

I guess that's it :D

WL:

POKEEEEEEEEEEEEE

PS: Momo is going crazy, she's hugging and kicking a poor wighead :(

MOMO AND THE BAD EXCUSES

Hello everyone!

Today I will write about the progress that I have made with my costume and leave Poke's part to herself when she finds the energy to write this blog. Funny enough, most of the recent posts are written by me, Momo. Oh well, I guess I like writing and tend to be the writer one. Now, however, I'm not even accompanied by Poke as usual. So have some 100% of Momo's beautiful writing. Nope.

Well, first of all I have bought the fabrics! And even cut the fabrics for the coat and actually even sown some of the parts together. Nothing enough to be decent enough to put here but c'mon, I've DONE something. All I need to do is to finish the sewing (or make someone else do it eheehheheeheh) and make the shoes. Yes. The shoes.

*dramatic music from Psycho*



They are something like this. Not exactly though, the heels should be gray and slightly higher but those are pretty close.

I would really like to find a pair of white boots but haven't succeeded so far so I guess my only option is to cover black/etc. boots with white fabric (as I was wonderfully instructed by this lovely person )
I do not want to. The temptation of ordering them is big but come on 50 dollars for cosplay shoes? Nope.



The costume itself is not in a too bad situation since the con is still after over a month. I have cut the fabric for the red parts and the hem for the white and what I should do is that bow and that thing in front of the jacket. What is that even? That skirt is pretty much a basic really short black skirt. I don't even know if it is a skirt? I should really buy the lining for the jacket since it's not going to look good without it. So much sewing asjsdkjgskh.

The wig hasn't arrived yet, (Or then it has but Poke hasn't told me you peasant.) So I can't tell how much work it will require. But wig styling is fun. Ok it's not fun if the wig doesn't do what you tell it to do.

For my personal life, I am currently on a sick leave until next Monday so I think I can actually make some progress this week since I don't need to go to school! Yay. Except for the weekend. I have some other plans.

I could just end this here but wouldn't it be boring? Let me tell you some of my best tactics to (try and) make Poke do the work for me:

- I can't do this. -> Really Momo you can't stitch a piece of fabric to another? Bad excuse.
- I don't know how to do this. -> Usually Poke helps me and finally does it. Success!!
- But I've done so much already. -> Momo, you have been sitting there and tweeted with your phone while eating ice cream. Doesn't work.

And if Poke is not around (like right now)

- I need to update our blog!
- I need to clean the whole apartment and do the laundry.
- Hey this school project is actually really interesting.
- I never really thought doing the dishes was so fun!
- Look who's online!
- But I absolutely need to go to Tumblr.



Ok I know Bad bad bad excuses. Really bad. I should feel bad.

There's one more thing that describes my motivation though. Today my Internet connection was down for a bit over an hour and I was at home and that would've been the perfect time to make my costume but guess what I did.

I played solitaire with my computer.

Solitaire.



Ha. Haha. hahaha. no.

I will now go and make my cosplay aka eat and watch Doctor Who.



With love,

Momo ♥

P.S If you want to see the an anime with flying skinned chickens, watch Jinrui wa Suitaishimashita or more briefly, Jintai. episode 2, The Chicken Conspiracy. Just some really weird shit. But funny. Watch other episodes as well!

P.P.S I will give a cookie and 1000 kisses to anyone who cosplays this:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hello all of you wonderful people still reading this blog:D

To begin with, we are (again) awfully sorry for not posting here in what...78 days but to be honest, we haven't really had anything to update! I (Momo) have been really busy with school and we haven't really had any conventions or on going costumes or anything interesting to put up here. So let's take a whole new point of view to this: We have been saving you from nonsense updates about how to peel a banana without hurting it's feelings. (If you wish to know how to do it though, just request an update and we will tell you)



We have just been lazy. Sorry about that.

Ahem, back to the subject.

So, the next convention we will be attending is Desucon Frostbite that is held from 16th to 17th of February in Lahti as usual. We even have some cosplay plans! We have usually cosplayed from the same series but this time we will not do so. Tragic? Nope. I would make Poke write about her own costume but that amount of text would be horrible so let me tell you what she's cosplaying:

On Saturday:



Jim Moriarty - BBC Sherlock

Oh let me explain this to you: A while ago, me and Poke happened to watch BBC Sherlock and oh my god we loved it and so, Poke decided to make this costume from the adorable scene where Moriarty steals the crown jewels. How cool is that? So far she has bought the fabric and some diamonds for the crown and visited the fabric store and tried to find a good fabric for the gown.
Almost done? :) (no, no sarcasm over here)

And for Sunday she will probably do something fun and cool and awesome aka she doesn't know yet.

And for me Saturday will be:


Alice Baskerville - Pandora Hearts

Aww yiss. I finally found a costume that I actually want to do. Aww yiss.
Guess what I have done to get this one done? I have ordered a wig. YES I HAVE ORDERED A WIG THAT MEANS IT'S 99% DONE THAT MEANS I'M DONE
Clothes and shoes and other stuff is only like 1% of the costume. Isn't it?:)

AAND for the Sunday, Yes Poke got me to do this:




DALEK. FROM DOCTOR WHO.

I know right? SO COOL. What do you mean it's big? What do you mean you will invade all the space? NO, I'm making a fucking Dalek and you bitches better deal with it.
Exterminate.

Ok Ok I may have to do this for some other convention instead of Frostbite (Poke says no, you will do i for Frostbite. IM BEING FORCED TO DO A DALEK COSTUME) because of the size but fine then. FINE. I hope Poke can find a way to fit this inside a car.

So that was it? Oh wait no it wasn't.

I think we are losing it because right now, Poke is planning to make three new costumes for Frostbite. In fact, the third one would be:



Jack Frost - Rise of the Guardians

Yes. Poke joins the army of Jack Frosts in the whole convention. Jack Frosts everywhere!

Oh, I guess that was it. I would promise that we will update again soon but



Really? Let me promise that we will TRY to update again shortly. Now that we have something to write about.

To end this with, I have three things for everyone coming to Desucon Frostbite:

1. Unless you are a peasant and choose to go and see the cosplay competition instead (or you are forced to be there by some peasants) , come here and meet the love of your life:

If you don't speak Finnish, it says: Are you spending lonely winter nights alone by the computer? Do you lack friends to hang out with? Are you a lonely con-goer without company? If you answered Yes to one or more question, SpeedMeeting is made for you. Come and meet other lonely walkers and to have fun. You can come and go whenever you want and if you lack topics we will offer you some. Now, what are you waiting for?

2. Come and see us! Let's have a photoshoot? Let's just crack bad jokes? Let's eat? Let's chase each other with random objects? We are nice people just come and talk to us. Or we will come to you instead. WAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAH

3. There are 47 days left. IS YOUR COSTUME READY? Good. Mine neither.
Now why are you still reading this? That means you are not working!



That's it. Bye bye.

P.S

OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE MOMO DIDN'T LET ME TELL YOU WHY I'M COSPLAYING MORIARTY IN A CROWN, YES I DO LOVE SHERLOCK, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, I LOVE ANDREW SCOTT! HE'S AN UNBELIEVABLY TALENTED ACTOR AND LOOK AT HIS FACE AND HIS VOI-

*sigh* let me stop her here,

Sincerely,

Momo (and Poke)

BANANAS GO AMORE

My oh My it's been a while since we have updated!

But less explaining, more speaking:)

I would like to write a long list of beautiful costumes here and tell how we are proceeding but right now, we don't even have any actual plans!

Mainly because there aren't any conventions closing up and because we live in two different cities and don't discuss as much and get those stupid ideas:D

Have an idea for a cosplay? tell us! We are more than happy to get ideas:D

Oh, but why am I writing if there's nothing cosplay related?

Oh well there is!

I've been sending some e-mails, organizing things a little and BOWCHICKAWAHWAH We are now bringing something new to the finnish conventions!

Back in the summer when we attended Närcon (so many memories ;__;) We also attended to this event called 'SpeedMeeting'

Basically it's an event where people stand facing one another, discuss for 2-3 minutes and switch partners! And if you want to leave, then leave! And come back any time:D

And then, as we sailed back to Finland, our synchronized twin-minds began to come up with an idea:
Why don't we take this idea, and bring it to Finnish conventions as well?

I mean, every Finn knows how hard it is to make new friends?  Finnish conventions need this!

Lonely? Let Momo and Poke find you friends! LET'S BE FRIENDS WITH EACH OTHER!

No one is lonely when everyone has friends, done deal!

Other than that, we are really struggling with choosing the costumes! Maybe we could do something like this?

Would be easy and cheap? I don't know how conventions think about nudity though...

Well, I think I'm done here

Yours,

Momo

(and Poke who has nothing to do with writing this)

P.S

AFTER TRACON

Oh hi,

Yes. We still exist.

Firstly, I'm sorry for this break between our updates. We have been so busy that we've been too busy to be busy. Get it?

No rly. Poke has been having her finals (that are now partly over!) and I, Momo have been doing something unnecessary like moving out from home to another city and starting at a new school. You know, easy stuff.

I guess this explains it well enough:D

Let's get back to business!

After recovering from Närcon, our minds totally forgot cosplay and we left to Italy without actually realizing that after that trip we should be ready with our costumes for Tracon (Black Widow and Iron Man) which, by then were only started  at the state of our minds, and of course - they weren't ready to be wore  to Tracon so we had to make a change of plans!

In a very short period of time (5 hours) we (or Poke) came up with these costumes!

Lady flash and Black Canary both from DC Comics and it was such a relieve to get them done! At least, almost in time, which leads us to the topic of our Panel: 'The collected excuses for cosplayers' or ' cossaajan kootut selitykset (in finnish)' and it was a blast! I'd add a video here but I guess we don't have it (yet?)

From our point of view, it didn't went too well since it was our first panel and all and we finished it *ahem* a *ahem* day *ahem* before *ahem* but all the feedback I've read has been positive and lovely and I've been going like:

Thank you everyone!

The rest of the day went by as we randomly hung around the con area and finally went home - nothing much really!

The next day we were supposed to have a bleach group but we ended up not having it after all since Poke couldn't find her hakamas! And we spent all night looking for them! Just imagine: Us digging up all over our house trying to find a pair of hakamas! We finally ended up like this:

and ended up cosplaying:

These characters you've already seen. So nothing much.

We actually didn't do anything special this day either. Just chilling and stuff-

Actually the whole convention went by without us even noticing it:D

So let's wait until Desucon Frostbite so we can give you an actual con report:D

I've actually got a liittle something going on with that too so we might be there hosting a program!  A more interactive one this time so wait for it!

Okay. That's it for now so byebye little cupcakes<3

With Bananas and love,

Momo (and Poke who almost paid attention while I wrote this)

P.s