OH THOSE TIMES

Hello again, our beloved readers!

Today I'm gonna take you to the very roots of our cosplay hobby. Officially, we might have started in 2008 but the hobby was with us all along!

See for yourself!

At first I would like to represent this masterpiece of ours, Poke's Chilly Chick and my Bunny kigurumi!

Our next project was classy, but simple: NINJAS!

And as you might know, Momo loves wig styling. Apparently I started early! See these awesome hairdos!

Next up, we wanted to go with something classy, and came up with these anime school girl outfits. ('dem pants!)

You think I should take part to EuroCosplay with this?..Bahh, all the others would go running scared (Check out that prop!)
As you know, I've cosplayed Voldemort and making the mask was quite a challenge. However, as you see, Poke knew all along how to make it easily:(
Apparently, we found a new favorite serie: Animal planet and decided to cosplay tiger and panther.
Here's Momo with yellow pajama costume!
Space princesses are always nice ones to cosplay. As you see, prop making has always been fun.
When we got tired with cosplaying animals, we decided to go with k-pop bands! This is Su-reepu-over! Don't you just love my room?:D (it's not that pink anymore..)

Here you go! Hope you didn't die of laughter:D

Sincerely,

Momo

P.S Poke has no idea I posted these...*pfftfhfh*

GREETINGS FROM LITHUANIA!

Hello our precious readers!

I wish I had something cosplay related but I don't :(

So, I'm gonna tell you about our trip to Lithuania!!

On the 26th of February we took off with ryanairs (almost) private jet and flew aaall the way to Lithuania!

The first night consisted of tired laughters, unwanted porn channels and memes. This picture tells enough of our first night I guess?

So pretty.

So, after surviving our first night at our luxury hotel we took a Troleybus and traveled to the center of the Kaunas city, Laisves aleja. At first we needed some breakfast so we crashed into this La Crepe cafeteria and ate our first supercheap meal! Here's a photo of us (though it's taken later)

Like a boss - Hugo Boss

Then we started to look for our hotel that was located at the Laisves aleja. The location was just fine but the looks could have been a liittle better...

Here's Hisi trying to open our hotel's door:

Nah, just kidding. For real out hotel was nice little apartment with a huge bed! (and a free wi-fi for 9gag, memebase and memejelly!). After settling down we grabbed our broomsticks and flew back to Hogwarts:

...wait. This isn't Hogwarts! This is a place that cosplayers have found! See it yourself!

Poke's DAFUQ?! face when she found this beautiful graffiti:D

After finding the proof that cosplayers also existed in Kaunas we decided to run away and ended up in North Pole...

AAARGH! IT'S A POLAR BEAR! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

SO WE RAN RAPIDLY UNTIL WE HAD TO STOP SINCE WE FACED THE OCEAN! Suddenly, a wild talking seal appeared and told us she could lead us the way back to Kaunas!

Unfortunately Poke told her that she's fat and she got mad and used her magic wand to get us away. We felt the warm breeze and looked around 'till we saw this snake! Momo was screaming and Poke was trying to play snake with it.

Suddenly Hisi, who had been hiding in the bushes yelled: "I CAN SEE PUMBAAAAA!". Momo and Poke shared the suspicious look until they also noticed Pumba.

As we were watching as Pumba scrubbed himself on a tree we heard a big ROARRRR! We looked behind us and saw this:

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! and we ran until we came up with something faster...CAMELS!

So, we were riding our camels until they just wildly disappeared. We were sitting on the ground, wondering dafuq just happened. Then we heard it...drum'n'base!

Party Rock was calling our names so we went to see him and took this cool photo!

That was the story this time and yes, everything said in here is totally, definitely and absolutely true and talking seals exist.

Sincerely,

Momo, still scared of that snake

JUST A QUICK NOTICE

Yesterday we finally started our food blog!

http://bananascancookit.blogspot.com/

Here you go! Same jokes, same writers, same stuff

But the issue is food

So if you like this blog, you'll like this one too!

I order you to press read!

YO DAWG!

"Try again, fail again. Fail better."
- Samuel Beckett, Gideon

Hello again our fellow cosplayers, readers, stalkers, whatevers! (now you are probably wondering why I update this blog so soon!)

Today I decided to start this blog with a wonderful quote from S. Beckett and I will also end this blog with an awesome quote. (too much Criminal minds: FBI)

Actually there is a good reason for updating today. I visited Aniki and found our pictures! SO I decided that it's now time for showing our costumes round'n'through.

I will start with myself as Abel (because my pics were there first, HA!)

This is Abel front.

..and this is Abel back.


Abel's scythe is made of wood, plastic, paper(!!),glue,paint and fabric. At first I made a pattern and then I (my father actually) cut it from a 3mm thin wood. Then I covered it with plastic and fabric and finally with paper (or to be more specific, tissues and glue). The outfit isn't that special, just sewn and stuff..

Armors are made of plastic foam and glue + paint (Elffi actually asked me if they're made of Wonderflex..cool, btw stalk him, he's a great cosplayer!) and so are Cain's armors. All the jewellery is either bought and edited, made of some type of mass or made of plastic foam. The big chain is made of Fimo..or the other stuff that is almost similar:D

I know you're interested in the wig so I can reveal that it actually carries a hanger inside of it:D That's all I can reveal so far!

Aaand here we have Poke as Cain front:
...And Cain back!

Well, Cain's prop is actually made of a mop. It's just covered with hockey tape and stuff..yeah. And the led-ball inside is a christmas ball I got for christmas present..*poor face* Poke is using my christmas presents:(

There's nothing so special to tell anymore:D We will make another post of the wings.

Now I have 8 minutes to finish this before I need to go to my swedish class..yai, listening comprehension that I've already made!!!!!!11111

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! And about cosplay plans..we have one again!

Check out the red head and the girl with black hair and eye-glasses..them! That's all.

SO now it's finally time for a cheesy quote!

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

- Rose Kennedy, Gideon

Yours, sincerely,

Momo

WATCH OUT, WE GOT A BADASS OVER HERE!

Hello again!(still not dead ha-ha-ha!)

This time it's me, Momo, writing! So Poke can't brag about me being inactive!!111

Yeah.

So it's been a day since we got back from Desucon Frostbite and it was awesome!

We were cosplaying Abel Nightroad crusnik 80% and Cain Nightlord crusnik 100% from Trinity blood. Here is me as Abel Nightroad:

..and this is Poke as Cain. Those little wings were just about 3 meters wide... My wings were 1,2 m high but not as wide, thank god! I think it was a little tricky to walk with those wings..

Now. What are we doing on stage?

Here's what happened: we were just chillin' our costumes when suddenly, a wild cosplay person appears! She told us that we were selected to Hall cosplay! There were two series: Frosti-chan's favourites and Technically hard costumes. We were the ones with technically hard ones.. (no way!) AND when we arrived to back stage (fuck yeah, back stage! V.I.P Bitc...yeah) we saw our cosplay idol who was representing Finland in World cosplay summit just chillin' around and going to compete in a same serie. Wait..what. We have never ever competed with our costumes and then suddenly a wild cosplay competition appears and we are on stage and what?! Being on stage wasn't new to us since we had already been there but then suddenly the wild jury appeared. We hadn't considered the fact that we were to be checked by them. I was deadly nervous and it was quite awkward but I loved the judge called Casper! He was very nice and funny:D

We didn't win anything but at least we have now competed!

After Hall cosplay we went back to our hotel and partied hard! (WHAT IS LOVE!) Later on we saw someone commenting that in our level there were some drunken idiots yelling...well.

WHO WOULD IT BE?

yeah.

Consider the fact that we were totally sober. But it wasn't us.

On Sunday we were cosplaying these triplets from kuroshitshuji:

The third part of the triplet is our fellow cosplayer and friend Hisi :D Thank you for participating!

The funny fact is that we were almost as popular as when we had our 3-meter wings and gravity defying hair...Fate.

Epic cosplay is epic.

Then off to another business: Närcon 2012

We were on the closing of the con and there was this super cute guy from sweden telling about Närcon with all it's swimming pools, Milk shake machines and anything you can imagine...

SO, when I got back to Tampere I googled Närcon and all the prices and stuff and found out that it would only cost about 80 euros all included! SO CHEAP!!!!

Means, we are so going!!

Now. Time to end this blog.

With love,

Momo

PS.Poke would like to give special thanks to Saana and Naru whom without her moving nn saturday would have been impossible! And of course for the lift we got!

THANK YOU!!!

WHY, OH WHY

Hello, pirates!

Few days ago, I began to think, what in the world keeps me cosplaying.

After all it's quite a pain in the ass.

ATM, I probably have like 12 small burns in my hands (and in my feet????!!!11!!) thanks for the hot glue :D

Not to mention my nail polish, that is now ruined thanks to acrylic paint, I also have nice traces of oh-so-famous brown acrylic paint in my arms and I'm tellin' ya, those traces do not look like paint...too much information.

And then there's this moneyloss, all my money goes to cosplay. ALLLLLLLL MY MONEY!!!

Not to mention the fact that I don't have time to my "real life" during the few weeks before the convention.

And oh why, why all this pain!

So you can be a star for one (or two) days! That some nice fangirl can take a nice photo of you and your oh-so-nice cosplay!! YEEEAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh...h..h.hh...not.

As an example, when we were doing our Cain and Abel armors, we simply drove to our leisure home (lol leisure..like cosplayers would have any..) to make those wonderful cosplays for our fellow cosplayers and convention friends to judge in their heads (I'm sure theres lots of wows and noes) and to see how our costumes slowly went broken and again there was more to do....Btw, I think we're gonna spend another leisure-home-non-leisure-but-hard-work week this week :Ddd since the wings still need more feathers and there are few swords (they're no swords n00b, they're Scythes WL:Momo) to do :D

BUT

enough angstifying.

We have actually done something.

Wings are almost done with only (I'll add brackets.."few" -Momo) few feathers loss and stuff :D

I've already done one (There should be six...) shoecover to kuroshitsuji triplet and only vests (yeah, thanks for helping poke! - Momo who almost broke the sewing machine..) need little more job, so you can start clapping and hooraying, triplet really is working out :D

Momo is currently sewing and I should get on to work with the rest of the shoecovers (tutorial coming, I know you want it)

so off to work :D

tweedles!

-Poke (once again...momo hardly updates this)

This blog entry is officially checked by a grammar Nazi called Momo.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND STUFF!

I will start with the oh, so familiar SORRY WE HAVEN'T BEEN UPDATING :(

and oh yeah, HELLO!!!!!

Now here comes the big news...get ready...WE HAVE BEEN ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING!!!

and before anyone comes up with the pic or didn't happen....WE EVEN HAVE SOME PICTURES!!!

...YYEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!11!

..okay.

So we have made some progress with our cosplays, Cain and Abel wings are almost done (and by almost I really mean almost)

these are Cains wings :D pretty, are they n__n

SO MANY FEATHER AND OH...no rly.

these are Cains wings..*rums*...

Wingspan is about 2 meters and length is little over 3 meters :D so they are HUGE.

Here is me with the wings on (or WING on, because by the time that picture was taken, I only had done one wing..) AND I'M TERRIBLY SORRY WITH MY LOOKS!!!

yeah.... POINT IS THE WINGS!!

and then....Abels wings!....*rruuummss*

ERRRORRRR...I kind of forgot to take photo of them :( But here is the photo of the featherfringe momo bought!

TADA!!

speaking about the feathers....I was "little" pissed off when I realized that I should have bought feather fringe instead of feathers but...MOMO MADE THE SAME JOB I DID IN AN HOUR DURING 5 MINUTES!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!! this is my face when I was done with my wings and realized Momo was also done..

yeah.

yeah.

AND OFF TO OTHER COSPLAYS

...meaning the Kuroshitsuji triplet.

We have received the wigs and sewed a little.

that's about it :(

FFUUUUUUUUUU

SO MUCH TO DO AND SO LITTLE TIME!!!!!

but..