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From our wedding, on October 31, 2008, which had a Historic Steampunk theme to our garb (yep, that was on Halloween~)

Taken by ~eyes-of-green

Cosplay and Costumes


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Cosplay & costumes are what I create the most, as well as different fashion pieces, such as Steampunk inspired, Japanese wa-loli outfits, and corsetry.

And yes, I do take commissions, thank you for asking XP

You can see a ton of different things in my gallery, or on my web site: BeAnime.com

Cute and Funny Things

I'm a sucker for baby animals, chibi, general cute anime-ish things, and everything in between. And bad jokes. I like those, too. I can't help it. It's a problem, I know, but... but...!

And kitties. Oh gawd, the kitties!

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Costume design rambles

Journal Entry: Sat Dec 19, 2009, 10:50 AM



Long time, no journal?

Naw, not really, but it certainly feels like it. I've been going crazy like you wouldn't believe lately, and it's actually helping a lot of things to be doing so, which is always good.

I got hired on to do the costumes at the High School that ~kellin works at, which I was wary of at first, but am slowly finding out that I'm enjoying it. The show they're doing is "The Boy Friend", and is a cute show, but more importantly, I get to make pretty dresses!

The show is set in the 1920's, but the director didn't want stereotypical flapper dresses - which is fine by me, because if you know me, you know that the words "stereotypical" and myself do not get along well.

I've never had to do a show this big before, though. Anything we did in school was only like 8 renderings, tops, and this has turned into about 30 different renderings :O (dun forget, my degree was in the production end, with one whole class on design :giggle:)Luckily, the Director is very cool and laid back - she basically said "whatever you wanna do is fine by me."

So, hopefully I'll post my rough sketches up soon, and then the actual outfits as I get them built. I have to build about 18 pieces, with the aid of the students for some of the tedious work, and I can call in ~MedeaHiasobi if worse comes to worse, but I'm surprisingly not panicking. Yet ;p

I've tried to keep the outfits to a minimum of variations, so I can use the same basic pattern for most of them.

Although, of course, I found some designer dresses from the 20's that I decided to replicate… but they're so pretty!! I couldn't say no…

On a similar topic, my mother ordered me a copy of Madeline Vionette's book for Christmas! I'm so excited - it got here yesterday, and she let me flip through it (she's still insisting on wrapping it up, though~) and I'm so excited to make odd bias dresses!

Business plan writing is at a standstill until I find my old textbook - I can't do much more without some of the information that was in there, about financials especially. But, I'm still holding myself to my goal of having the roughs of it done by February!

So, busy busy here. I'm still procrastinating starting on a big outfit for myself, because I haven't figured out how I'm going to pay my bills for the next few months, so spending is not an option, unfortunately. Maybe after the holidays, I don't know.

In the end, I'm trying not to let much of anything stress me out, because I get sicker when I get upset. It's hard to do, but I'm just keepin' at it, which is about all you can do :D

If I don't get to spam you with more journals, have a happy holiday, whatever you celebrate! And, don't forget the gingerbread!! *mmm ginger…*

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I'm a sewing maniac, who is willing to sew just about anything (cosplay or otherwise) you could throw at me!

I graduated with a BFA in Costume Production in the Spring of 2008, and have been working diligently for Taeliac Studio, the business I've been running since 2002/2003 (I can't honestly remember which~) specializing in cosplay commissions, with some forays into professional theatre locally when the opportunity arises.

I love sewing, and I am willing to try to help anyone out with their questions (although I'm insanely slow to respond to emails and notes, sorry!)

I'm moving slowly more and more into other areas as well, such as prosthetic work for special effects makeup, leather working, millinery (hat making), and custom alternative bridal but you never know where else I'm going to go!~

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  • Current Residence: Why the cold and then the hot? Geezum... I thought we were supposed to have SEASONS! (in WI)
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: XXL, if it's American Apparel ^_^;
  • Print preference: I really love postcards/small prints cuz I can put them on my wall <3
  • Interests: Sewing. Sleep. Moar sewing. Drawing. Collecting shiny things to put into jewelry. Sleep.
  • Favourite genre of music: ... I'm very picky, so none in particular ^^;
  • Favourite poet or writer: Terry Pratchett, Anne McCaffrey, Douglas Adams, HP Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan
  • Favourite photographer: Truthfully? ^RockstarVanity
  • Operating System: Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) *happy dance*
  • MP3 player of choice: iPod Touch
  • Wallpaper of choice: RPG Motivational Posters cycling
  • Favourite game: Old school table top D&D, EverQuest 2, Spore, Dragon Age: Origins
  • Favourite gaming platform: Other than my laptop? Nintendo systems - DSlite and Wii are great systems! No Microsoft here *stab*
  • Favourite cartoon character: Ms Yukari (Azumanga Daioh)
  • Personal Quote: I NEED A BREAK FROM LEARNING!! ((is currently on that break))
  • Tools of the Trade: Sewing machine, brown paper, pins, muslin, lots & lots of fabric, chalk, money...
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You have been featured in my journal [link] Merry Christmas! And Please thank ~rasilverstorm for suggesting that I feature you :)
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:xmas: Merry Christmas, Sam!!! :xmas:

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Hi!
I just want to know where I can find the list of kanji we can put on your kitty hats. I can't find it. Maybe I'm blind lol
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Thank you so much for the :+fav:

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