Title is a quote from Boxxy. Find out about the strange phenomenon here.
I still love my new layout. I was thinking of changing the words in the speech bubbles from time to time, but when no one comes to visit your blog there's really no point because no one would notice when it changes. :'c
I feel like I've been getting so crafty lately it's weird. But at the same time, I don't feel like it's being crafty because I always found that word to be more associated with scrapbooking and making ugly things cute and other such creative junk. I don't do that stuff. What I do like to do, though, is knit. And now make costumes. Yeah, costumes. Because I hate that Halloween is the ONE day every year that you're allowed to dress up. I love dressing up, 'kay? It's fun to pretend to be someone you're not. And it's fun bringing characters alive, whether they're ones you came up with or ones someone else invented. I suppose part of this comes from the "writer" in me. I love making characters. It's fun playing with different personality combinations (uh, Blogger? Why are you putting a red spelling squiggle under "combinations"? :\ ) and imagining how these different personalities would interact with each other.
So back to feeling crafty. Here's why: I just finished making a Faris (Final Fantasy V) costume that I wore to Saboten Con 2010, I'm planning on doing an Orange Caramel (and also maybe Perfume if time permits) with Emily and Maggie for another con in January (that I found out about only a day after Saboten, pahaha. Mom's sure gonna be happy... 8D; ), I'm also putting together a Hufflepuff costume (or persona, rather, hehe~) for the Harry Potter movie and for a Harry Potter party, I'm "knitting" a blocked stripe scarf for that costume, I want to knit a Sackboy for cousin Jessica (andthenoneformyselfahhhsocute~) for Christmas and maybe some little accessories, and then after that I want to really knit a trapped bar striped Hufflepuff scarf for Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2. I'm super excited to do all this, but I almost feel a little overwhelmed too. Oh, and then there's Phoenix Comic Con next summer too! What am I going to cosplay for that?! @A@
With all this stuff going on, I'm surprisingly not going to spend a lot of time on a Halloween costume this year. If I wasn't doing all these other costumes then sure, but I think add on one more to the load so soon would be too much. That's not to say I'm not going to dress up, though. I'm going to be a cow~! :3 I'll use my cow pajamas that Emily gave me for Christmas (looooove iitttttttttt, loooooove herrrrrr~) and wear black gloves and black socks over some flip flops. I thought about maybe painting a black patch around my eye, too. I think we're going to a cardboard box maze on Halloween and I'm pretty stoked. It'll be fun crawling around in a cow costume. :D
So my Harry Potter/Hogwarts/Hufflepuff costume is getting me real excited. I found THE perfect skirt at Goodwill the other day!! I was just in awe at how good my luck was that day. It completely made my day. So much. You don't even know. It's gray and the perfect length and PLEATED. I didn't really expect to find a pleated skirt anywhere. I was just going to go with a plain gray skirt. I found one there that I would've been completely content with, but then I thought, "Let's try looking just a little bit more." AND THEN FIVE STEPS DOWN IT WAS THERE. ; A; Those are tears right there. Tears of joy. I was looking at some character stills from the movies the other day and saw one with Hermione wearing basically the same exact skirt that I got. Seriously. I found a Hogwarts skirt, guys. All the way over here in America.
Wizards do exist.
I also found a good plain white button-up shirt at the same Goodwill. At DI the next day, I found a good black v-neck knit vest and a black graduation gown that I might use. I already had black knee-high socks with yellow stripes and Shauna is letting me use some old, black, slip-on shoes of hers that work great. I'm working on my scarf. I'm going to sand down a scrap of pine wood we have into a simple wand. I would love to actually buy a legit wand because some are just gorgeously made and it would just be awesome. Buuut they're also a little on the expensive side and I don't want to invest too much into this costume. Maybe I'll buy one for Pt. 2. And then the tie. I can't decide if I should buy an officially licensed one for $20 or if I should make one by modifying a yellow tie. It might be cheaper to modify, but would it turn out just as nice? :\ And then maybe I'll get a Hufflepuff patch. Dunno.
Sooo that's my life right now. c: The semester is halfway over hallelujah. That also means I need to go in and see an adviser so I know what to do with my life. D;
