SHERLOCK BBYS, MIDDLE EARTH AND NÄRCON

Hello again our precious readers:)

In this blog post I'm going to tell you so many awesome and lovely things that i'm already sorry for being too excited about everything!

Before I go to the lovely details of last week I will however tell you some cosplay plans since this time...there are plenty! and these are ones that are quite 100% sure.

First of all, our Sherlock cosplays that are mostly done for Poke and half done for me and that will be seen in Tracon and Närcon. Kitty Riley and Jim Moriarty from BBC Sherlock.



Jim's the one on the front and Kitty on the back. Also see our lovely cosplay group (or part of it, there are more!!)

Then for the future, we're about to do these two lovelies from Les Miserables (Cosette and Jean Valjean):

 

And even more to come...Star trek cosplays! (awfully lot of westerns but we're not exactly too fond of anime) Carol Marcus and Keenser from Star Trek! Awesomeness..



And last but not the least, these babies that will be seen in Närcon as well! Galadriel and Samwise Gamgee from The Hobbit/ Lord of the Rings.



WHEW. So many plans for future! I guess our future conventions are quite full...

Actually now that I dug out Galadriel and Sam, I could also talk about the reason we first started to make them. From 8.-11.8 we have this thing called Keskimaan mökkimiitti (Middle earth's cottage meet up wat.) which is held in Kuusamo and just look at the sceneries! It's like made to be a place to shoot LOTR.



Also it's not only the sceneries but also the food is going to be middle earth-ish so basically we're spending 4 days in middle earth. Isn't it perfection? Oh yes it is. I'm actually thrilled now.

Speaking of the things that we're thrilled about, one of them is definitely Närcon! I can't remember if I've told you before but we were actually accepted to host a program in Närcon. It's going to be about the conventions in Finland and how to get here. WE WANT YOU SWEDES. So see you guys in Närcon, please look for Kitty and Jim / Sam and Galadriel.

After Närcon we will be busy with another event called SASSY 2013 which is held  3.8 in Turku. Sassy is a Sherlock event for Sherlockians. What makes this crazy? We were actually invited to attend this event with our awesome Sherlock cosplay group. Please see our tumblr  221B cosplay. It's perfection. We will not only attend SASSY but also go there a day before to chill with our Sherlock bbys. Oh dear these guys are amazing! We've more or less spent the last week with that group...yes, all the nights and all. Amazing. We miss them ;__;

The last but not the least I'm going to tell you something (again) amazing! We are actually hosting a Sherlock programme in Fanfest 2013 this year (5.-6.10.2013) Man we're busy with these conventions lol. No autographs today.

So many things to look forward to! And more to come. I was about to talk about how Sam and Galadriel are doing right now but then I should dig out a memory card and all and meh. Poke will make that update.

I guess this is all, just please all be happy with what you got. And go for it if you get a chance to meet new people they seriously can make your life better. We've met our new cosplay group during the last week and it has been so awesome we just want to cry out of happiness.  You guys deserve a big hug!



With LOVE,

Momo (and Poke)

P.S Poke got accepted to Savonia and will therefore move to Kuopio. Nopenopenope.
P.P.S It turns out Momo isn't the only cosplayer of Valkeakoski. The world has the ability to surprise you.

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.

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)

NÄRCON HAKAMA JUNGLE DANCE

Hi/hej/moi whatever

So Närcon is finally over, the convention we were waiting and waiting and so very excited about.

and...

you know to be honest..

we must say this...

don't be mad..

BUT IT WAS A BLAST!! GANSKA AWESOME, PERFECT!! WHAT ELSE? FRUITY!! FAPPABLE!! dafuq.

We decided to be superlame and make one of these "day-by-day" posts since it's the easiest way and we are lazy. deal with it. A kind of...travel diary or something?

btw, I think this mini text is so cool. and cute. KAWAIII

Here we go!

WEDNESDAY the day of waiting and adventures.

We woke up at 3:30 am.

Well we woke up at 3:30 am.

I think that's pretty much our morning, we woke up and we weren't too tired, which was good, but odd. 

We got ourselves out of our apartment at around 5pm and so the long journey started.

At first we had to travel to Turku/Åbo, to catch our boat to Stockholm, and everything went well and we were having some very nice time on boat!

 

Such a beautiful weather!

 Having too much fun with mini Oreos (ps 5/5)

we were bored so Momo made this to Poke.

After spending too much money in tax-free and eating too much candy and oreos and drinking too many bottles of coca cola zero we finally made it to Stockholm!

And now, here comes the not  funny and very adventurous part where trains are playing the main role.

So yes, we were in Stockholm about a time we were supposed to, only 10 minutes late, and that was 10 minutes too much, because according to our plan, we should have caught the train in 30 minutes after landing... so there we were standing on the front line of the people trying to get out of the boat, ready to smash every unfortunate human being trying to override us, like a fighters we pulled ourselves out and managed to get out in the fresh air first! we were first because we ran the stairs down when other people used escalators....

But this magnificent effort wasn't enough :( We didn't catch our train! so instead of being in Linköping at 10pm, we had to take the bus which was cool because there wi-fi in the bus and we finally got ourselves to Linköping at 11.40pm..

And now we were supposed to drag ourselves to the Linköping university without a single idea where should we go...and after a while we realized there were no buses going in there by that time and we thought we were screwed! but then we spotted a nice man who told us some directions, and even better, we realized that our GPS was working just fine! So we walked and walked with our heavy backpack while Momo was guiding us....AND THERE IT WAS! Linköping university! I can't really describe the feelings we had at a time when we saw these blue lights and painting with a Närcon logo on it, but the joy was just about to begun, because within a minute or two, there were some wonderful Swedish guys helping us out to find the camping area! we love Swedish people♥ The time was something around 1.am when we finally found the camping area and explained our situation and FINALLY started to put up our tent with only the little light our phones gave us! but like that wouldn't have been too late to finally catch some sleep, we ended up wandering around    the Närcon area looking for bathrooms...'nuff said. I think the time was something around 3am when we finally laid our heads to the pillows.

THORSDAY pfschscht thor..clever. The day of triplets!

The clock: around 8 am

Momo: MAD

Reason: Someone waking me up by talking outside our tent

So I woke up. AT 8 AM. After having way too little sleep. I tried to still catch some Z's but I'm one of those who wake up and well, can't sleep anymore so I decided to put up my clothes and leave Poke and Hisi to sleep and go out to check out the con area that was bathing on sunlight! I managed to finally find the showers and then went and bought some breakfast for the two lazies still happily sleeping.

When I came back, I found out that they had gone to showers so I kinda cleaned our tent and waited them up. Once they arrived we decided that it was about the time to go and wear our triplet costumes and guess what: Both of them had forgotten their ribbons! So I went like;

So we looked from all around our tent and finally decided to cut my ribbon in two and leave out the arm ribbons and were all done to leave when POKE CHECKED INSIDE HER SHOE AND FOUND HER FREAKING RIBBONS. So I went like:

However, we finally got out of the camping area and jumped in to our costumes (we managed to get all ribbons for everyone) and went to the Närcon area.

Or so we thought! In Finland, it's not common to queue for the convention so we were quite surprised when we noticed this "little" line! But it wasn't too bad and we met some new people while waiting so it was just cool. After an hour or so we finally got our wristbands and dug in to the convention.

It was quite amusing when people came up to us and started speaking Swedish on multispeed of which even I, Momo who actually know some Swedish couldn't understand so we had to be awkward and ask everyone to translate in English. Lol. We even learned a new word of Swedish: trillingarna = triplets.

We met so many nice people and everyone was so kind, asking us where we came from and what we liked about in Sweden. We also met Valkoinen Samurai who's been commenting our blog for some time and his lovely twin  Jäätynyt Enkeli with whom we also hung up on other days. You guys were awesome and it was cool meeting you!:D

Speaking of twins, there was this awesome Ouran high school host club thingy where you were actually able to talk with the characters (or the one's who cosplayed them) and we decided to go for it and meet the Haruhi twins since we were cosplaying triplets (and me and Poke are also twins...) and because they were so cute and had a nice 20 min chat with them!

We also attended to a thing called 'speed meeting' that was a bit like speed dating but in a friendly way. That was just awesome and I think we will bring it to Finnish conventions as well! Tracon, here we come...

Then we wandered around a little and finally went back to our tent and switched into more casual clothes. While we were walking, the IDGAF mode went on and Poke ended up doing the 'triplet off duty' version:

Poke pls

Our tent and Hisi being faboulous. I'm bending over, lol. SEE THE FINNISH FLAG

We also went to take a studio photo of our triplets:

After going casual we went to McDonald's (surprise) and ate FOOD. We tried to find a store but couldn't so...fuck it, Happy meal it is.

Once we had eaten our nutritious and healthy meal ( Poke got some free nuggets!!!) we headed back to Närcon and saw these awesome Mau5heads:

We are wearing the new wigs we bought! Just need to think of a cosplay for those..

After trolling around we headed back to tent and went to sleep "early" at 2:30 am:D

FRIDAY Bleaching around and so on

The clock: around 7:30

Poke: Tired

Reason: Waking up way too early due to time taking make-up.

So there I was, sitting on our tent's entry hall, still downloading some mind to my body, trying to collect all the stuff I would need to turn myself from blond and pale to black and rastafari.

So I struggled myself to the Campushallen and found out that it was filled with cosplayers, so I put my stuff to it's place and tried to go to shower, soon it turned out that washing my hair was a bad idea, because I had no time to let it dry, and I knew I would be sweating around all day and I had to put the wig with plastic cap inside it, on to my wet hair, also making up in Campushallen wasn't good idea, since there were no too many mirrors..so I got back to our tents and then, when Momo and Hisi had their costumes done, it was time to go to Närcon!

Cosplaying Tousen in Finland is a little different, because in Finland, it's ok to pretend to be black, but I kind of felt like having a few bad looks., since they thought I was making a joke about black people, which I wasn't!! I actually think that black men are hot!! But I decided not to care about it! And on the other hand, there were many people coming to me thumbs up and saying "respect" which made me feel very good♥

So there we were, derping around  the convention and stuff :D Met some awesome people!!

After a while we noticed that something was going on and saw people playing cosplay chess, which basically means people playing chess with cosplayers and everytime you "drop-off" you have to battle!

Then we decided to go go find a store, so I asked directions from the info and was told that somewhere near  would be a "small or medium-size store" and when we actually got there...IT WAS HUGE! way bigger than our nearest grocery store! according to the fact that we do live in the center of the city and it was located somewhere in the middle of suburbs..DAFUQ!'

We were having some pretty weird looks on our way there lol :D

We bought ice-cream, baquettes, pie, juice and all the other cool stuff and enjoyed!

Due to our decision day before, we  didn't go to mcdonals at all! instead, we found out that there was free wi-fi just outside of pressbyrån! so facebook it was!

BTW, earlier that day, we found out that there other finns! It was supercool!

We also met this awesome Grimmjow cosplayer who teached us the term "fappable" since there were two girls making out and stuff :D which was..well..awkward

SATURDAY The day of meeting more people

The clock: 8 am

Momo: Thinking about waking up

Reason: Need to be off to Bleach meet up at 10 am!

In the morning we woke up and jumped into our costumes as fast as possible (Ok, not as fast as we should have) and left from our tent to the main doors of Närcon and attended the Bleach meet up! There were around 30+ Bleach cosplayers and we formed a line and walked around the con as "the bleach army" and ended up having an interesting-ish photoshoot with well, awkward yaoi/yuri poses...

Some of the poses were quite funny, like this one with Starrk (why he is a pimp after all)

'dem girls diggin' Starrk!

We also got these awesome photos taken by someone? (please identify yourself!)

After photoshooting we hung around the place for a while and then decided to go to McDonald's (again) and eat something. I'm not trying to impress you or anything but we had......Happy meals! YAYY

And while we were enjoying our meals, a wild Scout cosplayer appeared and started a McDonald's happy meal battle! That lasted for like...20 minutes to half an hour:D Yup, we're adults!

We later heard that the toy was named Herbert ♥

After the battle we headed back to Närcon and were just chilling around until we were called to have another Bleach photoshoot! It turned out to be awesome since the people we photoshooted with were so lovely and nice and cool and awesome and and...I don't have the words to describe you guys ♥

I just realized that we don't have too many shots from that photoshoot so feel free to tell us if you do!

Now, let me get to the part you've been expecting the most: Jungle Hakama Dancing line!

So, as we were afraid, Poke decided to take a lead and ask all the bleach characters with hakamas to dance the hakama jungle dance (of which I don't have any photos so if you do, please inform us!) And there it goes: about 15 bleach cosplayers in hakamas doing this:

You can only imagine.

After the photoshoot we ended up spending the night with these awesome people we had met! We gathered together to have a campfire-ish thing and talked about...stuff :D Like Finland and Moomins! 

Angel Gin:D

This photo is taken from  "The Twin Sofa" where Poke was sitting with a pair of twins. They were the third twins we met at Närcon...Twincon up next? Poke had already took her costume off by then, since it takes a long time to remove the color..

Around 1 am we headed back to tents with some of the people we had met that night and had some deep-ish conversations on our way back to the tents:D

Then we went to sleep and...*Poke interrupts*

-Momo, you forgot to tell them something. *sarcastic face*

- What.....Oh no...Oh..no!!!

- THIS!

Fine, I admit it. I was fangirling over these awesome Sasuke and Itachi cosplayers. I was fangirling so bad I had to have this picture taken. Happy now?

SUNDAY and MONDAY a Stockholm day.

The clock: 8 am???

Poke: sleepy but still quite active.

Reason: why not?

We woke up quite early, feeling just fine and collected all our stuff  and packed them and went back to Närcon for the last time, we decided not to cosplay, since it was only few hours and it's such a pain in the ass to bind and all :D

But after showering up and putting on our normal clothes, we headed to Närcon yard and fpund our friends from last night, we chatted with them for some time, and wished them well with hugs, since we had to leave to the train station!

Finding a bus stop was our first job, easy, it was near and so on. BUT when the bus came something happened!

We had like totally no idea, that tickets can't be bought from the bus and there was many people waiting to get into bus and we had crushed there first and...the bus driver was like suuuperawesome and perfect, because she let us go free of charge!!! and she even skipped all the other stops! since the bus was full..

And then, train did it again.

We went to the train station and met Valkoinen Samurai and Jäätynyt Enkeli for once again! But when we were about to buy tickets, there was so many people waiting to buy their tickets and only one people serving them that we missed our train AGAIN! and yet, the next train was fully booked so we missed it too! but it was only 4 minutes before the  train we ended up travelling with, so no hard feelings!

(but the train tickets were very expensive!!!)

We pretty much slept the whole journey from Linköping to Stockholm so..yeah :D

When we arrived to Stockholm Momo lead us to our HOTEL!!1! 

BEEEDDDD THE REAL BEEDDDD

Our Hotel was located just in the center of  Stockholm which was great!

Then we spent our day in Stockholm and in the morning we went back to finland with a boat and yeaahhh our parents and dog picked us up from the harbor and took us home. I'm tired of writing...'nuff said.

-Poke and Momo

PS:

Someone ate our brother!

NOOOOO BROTHERRRR 

 Hisi draw this awesome Sasuke! (and Itachi)

UGUUUUUUUUUUUUUU 

Sorry for the long post!!