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.

DESUCON COUNTDOWN: 24 DAYS

Yes. 24 days.



Or actually...


Because we are actually doing quite well with our costumes ( or I, Momo, am.) ! Let me give you a short update of how we're doing. (with actual pictures *gasp*). I didn't take pictures of everything because I was too lazy to dig them up so you will have to be pleased with only these. Ok, here we go, day by day, costume by costume.

Friday: Still no fucking idea what we're going to do lol. Well, 24 days....

Saturday: Prince Philip and Princess Aurora/ Sleeping beauty

And the best reference picture ever

Philip:

Fabrics (x)
Wig (x)
Shoes ( )
Belt ( )

So far Poke has started to sew the shirt/dress/whatever and I guess the best thing I can show you is this awesome upper part of the sleeve:

Yeah, that dress totally belongs to that sleeve

So what needs to be done is to:

- Sew the rest of the shirt thingy

- Style the wig

- Make the cape

- Get the shoes

- Get the belt

- Come on Poke what have you even done???? Momo's costume heheheh

Aurora:

Fabrics (x)

Crown (/)

Necklace ( )

Shoes ( )

Wig (x)

Contacts (x just ordered hehe)

So far I've done the hem of the dress and started the middle part. Today I WILL sew the sleeves and that odd thingy between the hem and the upper part lol. I've also started the crown. I know, it's so beautiful lol:

What do you mean paint it? No way I love those lemons. Close enough! And yes. It's made of a plastic tablet which btw is a great and cheap material! Also forms itself within heat. (4x 1€ in IKEA too expensive, huh?) I think I will also make the necklace out of this and then paint them and show you how it will look like!

Poke actually made something out of it! See the Moriarty crown?

It's mostly made out of that plastic! Cheap and nice and funny to work with. Also almost all kinds of paints stick into it really nicely. (Citadel, Acrylic paint, Spray paint etc.) Ok done advertising let me get back to Aurora.

Here you can see the hooks I've sown behind it because I prefer hooks over zippers. I just hate sewing zippers. Especially hidden ones.

I ironed some buckram to the upper part to make it more stiff and I will also make a lining inside it with something stronger than the actual fabric because Aurora has a body form of a satan.  Just take a look:




What is that supposed to be? An X? I don't really know lol. Anyway, here's how the dress is now looking. It's still not fully fitted so don't judge me! And yes, that sleeve totally belongs there. We were just too lazy to do Aurora and Philip so we combined them! Good, ay?

 Oh and I lied about not having done the necklase. Don't you see that beautiful thing at the neck? Tape measure is close enough. The hem isn't fully finished either but almost! I wanted to go with organza on the top since it is a princess dress and the hem must be princess-y!

To-do-list.
-Finish the corset part
- Sleeves
- Hem thingy
- Finish the hem
- Paint the crown
- Make the necklace
- Get the shoes
- Collar

Sunday: Haku and Chihiro (Spirited Away)

Ok let me start with Haku.

I'm done with Haku.

All Poke has is the wig and the fabric ( not even all of it!) So I won't dig deeper.

To-do-list for Poke:

- Do the whole fucking costume.

AAAND Chihiro is actually almost done!!!

Here's the yet unstyled wig that I actually did cut yesterday but didn't take a picture:(

it's so prettyyyyy

The costume itself is cut, sown and only to be groomed and ironed! I also need to make the belt but that's nothing too big. I could finish it in one hour. Yes. One hour. TAKE THAT POKE.

No really I've never finished (or almost finished) anything so early! This has been done for  almost two weeks now actually! Yeah. I think I'm losing it.

As for Desucon we've had the hotel booked for months and the tickets are on Desucon for us since we are working there so nothing to worry about! Except how do we get to Lahti but that'll be cleared out tomorrow when I either get my driver's license or not. (Thumbs up for me guys!)

Ok now I'll need to head to do some actual business so Adiós!

With lots of love,

Momo (and Poke who is at Lahti right now thanks to the entrance examinations!)


P.S Have some Disney feels because we are totally singing this for the whole Saturday. Not even sorry!

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

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)