DESUCON 2013 MAMA IT'S OVERRR

Hello all our precious little (and big) readers!

We have just returned from Desucon yesterday evening and now we are healing our Con hangover in the Aschan cafe in the Siperia media center where for Tampere Kuplii is held.

Anyway, we had a busy weekend!

Friday:

We woke up in the morning and did the...normal stuff? Like packing things and ironing stuff and so on. Yeah.

Then things got interesting.

Our grandparents picked us up from our place and drove us to their place where Momo took the wheel!'
This was quite (very) terrifying, since Momo has had her license for only three  weeks...

they see me rollin, they hatin~

No one died when we left, so we went to pick up Hansku from her place and played a little Tetris with all her stuff and our stuff (and there was a lot of stuff, no lie).

Anyway, we managed to fit it all in and drove to fetch one more passenger,Ilse.

Then our fully packed NEKOCAR~ was ready to roll

Meaow, bitches

After quite...interesting journey, we finally made it to Lahti! (alive).

We drove around Lahti for about an hour, searching for the gas station and since the traffic in Lahti is quite twisted and u know we have never drove there before, it really took some time.

But we got gas and all so yeah. Everything okay.

After a moment, we made it to our hotel, Omenahotelli, where we shared a room with Ninni who was already there waiting!

After getting our costumes on, we headed to Sibeliustalo and even managed to park the car without killing anyone

We even saw the last minutes of the opening ceremony and got glow sticks and YEAH.

Anygays, we weren't actually cosplaying but we were ^KaWaiIII NEKO_chAn_GiRls^^ aka something figured out 1am on one night before con....the cat ears were made around 3 am, tutorial given if wanted.

 Poke and her..heart-shaped...neko..er...thing

Momo had a nap there (or not but u will never know)

 Neko posing...eh

I have no caption for this

In the evening we had our SpeedMeeting and it was a lot of fun and (again) extremely popular. Momo's job was to talk to the people that were lining up to join the SpeedMeeting and Poke was inside the room, dealing with the time and all. We met a lot of amazing people and are definitely looking forward to seeing them again in future cons. 

 People being social

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The pics are a bit dark because Poke was smart and forgot the batteries of her additional flash home. (She did take the flash itself though, oh brain)

After the SpeedMeeting we went straight to the hotel and to bed because we were just super tired!

Saturday:

We woke up around seven-ish and got into our make up and wigs before heading to Sibeliustalo to get our costumes. (We left the car there over night because of the free parking lot) Then we drove the car to our hotel and filled it up with katanas and some other cosplay stuff of Hansku's.

After parking successfully (AGAIN) we went inside and just hung around for a while before going to our photoshoot (we'll post the photos when we get them) and yeah it was cool and so on

Then we went to help Hansku to help her with her Eurocosplay costume and the show and all, her costume was awesome and I'd show you a photo but guess who didn't take any with her camera? But you can stalk her blog and find out (it's up there u know, use your brain)

Then we hosted the speedmeeting again and so on and yeah

cosplay photos:

 dis is my division

 oh lalaa (c) Hansku (as all of the photos of us two)

We were cosplaying Prince Philip and Aurora from the Sleeping Beauty as you probably gathered by now.

 

In the evening we hosted the SpeedMeeting again and it was even more crowded! we had to tell people to leave so others could get in :(

 

By the way, genuine and loving thank you to all of you who participated to SpeedMeeting! We love hosting it, so it's great that you love coming to it! lovelovelove

 

Sunday:

We woke up (too) early and got into our wigs and make up again and fetched the car like every other day. Once we had parked to Sibeliustalo we went to greenroom for breakfast and it was awesome! Karelian pastries and bread and coffee and cheese and ham and cucumber and oh we loved it. (They did play Gimmel there though, wtf?)

After dining we just hung around the con in our awesome Haku and Chihiro from Spirited away costumes before heading to the Cosplay skit - competition that was...err..well...it had good parts and the winner was really good. Also there was a really cool Fatal Frame skit. Wohoo.

The rest of the day went by just randomly hanging around and photoshooting, and in the end of the day, we headed back to Tampere:(

Here are some photos of Haku and Chihiro:

 

With Love and all,

 

Poke and Momo

 

PS. It took us two days to write this so we are definitely no longer in Aschan

 

 

PPS, Let me play you the song of my people

 

 

DESUCON COUNTDOWN: 4 DAYS

Hello again sweeties!

I will now apologise for the lack of pictures in this post because Poke is somewhere and I have no idea where her camera is so live with it. May update later with some cool photos oh yeah. I will also shamelessly steal photos from Poke's twitter and mine as well. Enough explaining, let's go to the thing itself.

Actually, the reason I'm writing is that our progress with the cosplays for Desucon has come to the point where we just sit and stare with our eyes open. 

Yes, you probably guessed it. Out of four cosplays that are going to be in Desucon, two are finished! Yes, finished. Those two are Chihiro and Prince Philip! 

Unfortunately I don't have any pics of the finished costumes (yet) but Poke did upload some WIPs to her Twitter, see Prince Charming and Aurora as well.

I know we're pretty. Actually what you can see in these pics are the wigs. I could tell something about them but that'd be 5000 words so let's leave that for later. I also have this very pretty WIP of Aurora, from which you can see that it's almost done!

After this pic I've actually made the white collar part and some other stuff. To put it briefly, all Aurora needs is to paint the necklace and do some final stitches and paint the lining of that hem. I just don't like the lighter shade of pink in it so painting it is. Over 6 meters of painting a 1 cm thin lining. Yay?

Something more of Aurora, I've received her contacts. (Also stole this pic from my Twitter)

I would love them to cover more but it's too late to order another pair so they must do!

To leave Aurora Behind and go for Haku, the costume is also almost done! Only thing missing is the hakamas. My Chihiro hakamas took 15 minutes to make so...almost done!

So Desucon, feel free to come. We are ready to face you on Friday!

Other than that, see what I did this time with our costumes!

Here's Aurora and Chihiro in their plastic bags, all labeled which makes it easy to find the unfinished costumes when you can find the time to do so. Easy, easier, easiest, control freak Momo level. 

Speaking of me, I have started something that has nothing to do with cosplay. I have decided to take part on Triathlon and Poke has agreed to come with me. I don't even know how Poke has trained but I've started some pretty intense training! Feels great and allows some more muscly cosplays in the future:D

Have some sporty Momo:

If you don't know what's Triathlon, google the shit lol.

I will try and make Poke update before Desucon where we will be going by car because I got my driver's license. Eek. Our car is from our grandparents and it has MIU on it's plates so NEKOCAR here we come.

See you all in Desucon,,

xoxo

Momo (and Poke who's again nowhere to be found.)

P.s Anyone heading to Fanfest?  We will and may even host a programme so be there!!!!

P.P.S SpeedMeeting in Desucon!!!!!!!! JOIN US.

YO DAWG, WE HERD YOU LIKE PLANS...

...SO WE PUT A PLAN IN YO PLAN SO YOU CAN PLAN WHILE YO PLANNIN'

I think the header pretty much says it all so let me move forward. So we have had some...wat. *A wild dolan appears* *it's SUPER effective*

Oh, alright then. I know. I forgot. Sorry for not updating in a while! I feel like we start our every blog entry by apologising that we never update lol. So back to the start: I apologise for apologising every time I write a blog entry so I can apologise about apologising. *insert another yo dawg face*

For real though, we have been quite busy. Firstly, we haven't really been much to Finland! After Frostbite we flew to London for a week, then spent three weeks in Finland and headed to St. Petersburg by boat. This was the point I, Momo - dropped Poke off and having spent another three weeks in Finland I took off to Germany for 10 days! Needless to say - it has been quite an amazing time for us!

Of course I could mention the fact that I've been struggling with my health and Poke has had her finals and a theatre play to deal with, not to mention the entrance examinations, first of which will be tomorrow to Teatterikorkeakoulu (A Drama/Acting/ Whatever creative related to acting stuff University) so we will be heading to Helsinki later today! Let's all wish her the best of luck!!! (At least she has the best manager with her. *ahem* me *ahem*)

Ok enough memes and personal stuff let's dig in to the serious business and what this blog is about to start with: Cosplay. 

After Desucon Frostbite we sort of forgot cosplay again for a while but quite recently we have had some plans again. And these plans are serious enough to make official so here we go, cosplays and other plans for Desucon 2013:

Friday: Not decided yet. But we do have some plans for Friday because as we told in our previous blog entry, we are hosting a SpeedMeeting again! It is at koivu from 21-23! For Friday we might as well just pull some Amor related outfits on since the day is too short to bother and make new costumes. I have also agreed to go and try this Shibari-workshop with my girlfriend so an interesting day ahead. 

Saturday: Tada! Time to go Disney! We are cosplaying Sleeping beauty and Prince Phillip!

Poke is going to be Phillip and I get to be the princess!!!! I've already started the crown and the wig and I heard that Poke has started her wig as well. On Saturday I'm also going to be quite busy since I have promised to go and help this lady over here with her Euro Cosplay competition. Eek. Let's all wish her luck as well. (If not for her to win, for me, because if she wins, I get to go to London with her! MWAHAHAH)

Later on Saturday I will reunite with Poke and we will be hosting another session of SpeedMeeting! So if you missed us on Friday, you can also come to Koivu on Saturday from 20:30-22:30! I know you all want to come and have new friends and of course - meet us! We're nice and we don't bite. 

Sunday: On Sunday we're just going to chill! So no program to host or any other duties. Whew. We are still making new costumes for Sunday and they're going to be * drum roll* Haku and Chihiro from Spirited away.

We have already ordered the wigs! Cosplay done, eh? nope. We're going to see if we can find some fabric from Helsinki since the fabric stores in Tampere, not to mention Valkeakoski where I live, just suck. 

AAND that was for the Desucon but afraid not! This isn't over yet. As always, I have something going on again. *Mysterious smile* I have been in touch with some people from a certain convention we went last year and cosplayed from Bleach and slept in a tent and it may have been quite far away from our Hometown and an entirely different city...I think you guessed. But nothing's ensured yet so I don't want to make empty promises! All I can say is that we live quite exciting times right now;)

Ok I will now go and kick my girlfriend up from the bed and pack my stuff so that I can head to Helsinki!

Yours,

Momo (And Poke who is about 70km away from me and didn't see this until published.)

P.S Hosting a SpeedMeeting  in Desucon Frostbite also landed us a request to come and host it in Mimicon but sadly we had to turn down that offer:( Still feeling quite great though since this mean we did something right?:D

P.P.S COME AND SEE US ON DESUCON OR I WILL FIND YOU AND I WILL SOCIALISE WITH YOU.

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.