Wandering through E-Space

It's that crazy time of year again!  Con Season!  Once again my place is littered with little bits and bobs and scraps of material as I try to get my costumes together for Marcon.  This year there's less scraps of material and more bits and bobs as I attempt to make jewelry for my Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff cosplay.  I'm basing it off of her appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron, although truth be told, my hair will look more like hers from Infinity War. 😉 I'm extremely proud of the fact that I was able to make quite a bit of her pieces with items I already had in my stash-but I did have to purchase a few more things.  In terms of the rest of her outfit, I'm using items I already have here at home-black skirt and sleeveless t-shirt, my black riding boots. I ended up purchasing a maroon blazer to complete the outfit-it's not exact, but I'm hoping it's a decent enough representation of the character.   Scarlet Witch is my main cosplay for the wee...

Well, alrighty then!  I really needed to upgrade my blog.  Not sure how I like the new layout, but we'll see if it grows on me.  I feel really bad that I've neglected this blog for so long. I keep thinking about things to post about-the problem is I'm never near a computer when I think of things.  By the time I get home, I'm just to lazy to post. HA.   I miss my old theme, but it hasn't been compatible with Blogger's fancy features for years.  Since the server I was using to house my template (and most of my graphics and photos) no longer exists, I figured it was time to upgrade. I need to gather and repost my links-maybe I'll add a page for them, rather than putting them back on the side bar, like before... It's the beginning of -Con season!  (-Con season for me is March-June)  Last year I attended 4 cons- ConCoction in March, Armada in April, Marcon in May, and Origins in June.  This year I had to skip ConCoction, but the rest are s...

Hope everyone got out to vote today! I did-bright and early (because I knew I would be too tired at the end of the day) ;) For my second Halloween post, I want to share the costume I made-no real character (although from looking at some of the pictures, I could be the Mad Hatter or a character from A Clockwork Orange ...). I wanted to try making a Steampunk themed costume, because I've always loved Steampunk, plus the theme for Marcon next year is alternative history-it will work for that as well! :-) To start off, I needed boots-and as I've mentioned before, my calves are entirely too thick for fancy boots, but I came across a pattern for knitted spats (see my entry in Roknits for more details). Here's a picture of me actually wearing them: Next I wanted to work on a really cool hat. This is where it could get rather expensive, with goggles and clock pieces and all. After finding an inexpensive hat and pair of goggles at Halloween City , I decided I could make stenci...