RB's motivation: So it's been awhile???? We've been working hard

So let's start with I've been in college for a month and a few days now. It's been different, that's for sure. I've gone through phases of fatigue, anxiety, shit I forgot to eat, why am I doing this, I have no money, oh man this is awesome, can't believe I live here, I hate this city, I'm awesome, I suck, I wanna go home, why can't college be the weekend all the time, and why the fuck don't we have a TV guide button? It's been quite a ride so far and we're just at the start of freshman year. 

This is a fun bonding experience with friends.

This is my relaxation because I get homesick a lot more than I thought I would. A very close bookstore with cats walking around

And a really awesome vintage store which i got a bunch of swag from. SO far they sell wigs, sailor senshi outfits, and casual elsa prom dresses for halloween costumes. 

Besides the fun times in Milwaukee, and the schoolwork, I have been working on cosplays and I'll say I am so damn close to finishing Ruby Rose AND Notepad now.

Here is one of the biggest things I accomplished. Notepad's headdress

I used quite a few things, gold card stock, masking tape, gold colored acrylics (quite a few brands), black spray paint, a paper plate, hot glue, soho glue, and super glue. As well as real pencils.

Above is a WIP

Above is the completed look of the front. Below is the back. Hopefully no one will get so close up they can see all the flaws and unevenness. I'm planning to remake it in the next few years b/c new cosplays will be expensive as fuck. But for now I am pretty satisfied

Also worth noting is I can actually pull a real pencil out of the back when I need to write shit down, for funnies. It's kind of difficult to do in a jiffy but it's a nice touch I think.

Now onto the veil. Beautiful torn fabric from Diva off a halloween sale. Here I am with my greasy hair checking the fall and length. And there's my beautiful cellphone that I have now! That I paid for with my own fucking money!

The full veil is pretty heavy and goes down to probably mid calf or ankle. I will have to drape it over my shoulders help balance myself. I'm going to have the stiffest neck from this I know it.

Here it is all together. It's attached by two barrettes glued to the base of the headdress that clip to my hair. There is also a cut in the fabric that the clips slide through to get to my hair. It's a weird system and very different than what I planned originally but things change because of complications as we all have learned so far. 

Originally in concept that opening was going to be for a clamp like hair clip to fit through and grab much more securely to my hair as well as the veil. But that fell through since the clap became far too big after the golden stuff was added. I didn't expect it to make it so much smaller but it did and I rather change the plans then have the clamp break the whole thing.

I was actually very happy at the time

ANd then there's Ruby. She was kind of a pain to get done because it was the start of getting into the groove of "I'm in college, it's hard, I don't have a job anymore, school's actually important, I have to wake up again, what is lack of alone time?" LIIKE seriously all i did was hem lace to a shirt and skirt. And it felt exhausting. 

Watched the social network during the whole process of the skirt, good movie, very david fincher.

Recycled an old Hell Girl skirt and extra red lace from my prom attire

And used even more to do the boots. Now this was a real process. Since I can't sew into the shoes, since they're a rubbery material and shoes I decided to attach it to velcro on the inside

The velcro is hot glued to the inside of the shoes while the lace is sewed to the detachable part of the velcro. So if I want the boots to look normal again I can just take out the red lace. 

I know in the actual design everything is ruffles but honestly I like the consistency of the red lace here much better. Plus it's my own very personal spin since it came from my prom attire

Last but not least I got my wig yesterday! From the Cosplay Chaos Fox since she's doing much better and back on her feet doing commissions.

I really like it. Gives me the emo phase I couldn't afford to go through in middle school. Also fits well and goes with my natural hair incase things peak through.

-waist cincher via Chaos

-bullets

-make the pack

-makeup ideas

Once these are done we can do a giant test run pre con hopefully! Because there are things I did not document that are completely done

Also I made a tumblr! rbvonsrp.tumblr.com

-RB out

RB's motivation: NOTEPAD BEAUTY DRESS :D

So this is the piece di resistance (idk french) I got really far on Notepad! Mainly the dress, I'm officially moving onto the fun parts after this shit!

So Here I cut the bar napkin into two parts and sew them to look like folds on a waist belt.That was easy. And I got to save the rest of the bar napkin for the neck piece!


Here's a blurry pic of both planning it out on the dress and one finished piece together. I really just set it out on the dress, pinned where I needed and sewed it on. Nothing really fancy, it's me....


Pretty much just did the same for the other side, cept couldn't hide as much error b/c it was the fold on top. Also I do know the folds are crooked to the middle of the shirt, I just hope nobody else gets anal.....please no death the kids at Daisho please

(don't feel like flipping the image right now, but this is a mirror selfie)

Then I moved onto the black sides. By cutting a black shirt with medium sleeves. Though I would be using both sleeves but really it was barely even one. I have enough to make elbow sleeves for the gloves!

I forget how small I am compared to normal people sometimes......

And here are the sides completed. I realized I should have pushed them more towards the front, was just following the seams on the dress. I can always add more. So far I'm pretty pleased though

Cause you can't see the black stripes at all in the front view, which idk if that's good or bad with fashion


Here's the whole thing thrown on a chair so far. With the buttons and stuff. All the itty bitty things are done. The only things left for the dress are THE FUN PARTS: 1. building the skirt (basically meat dress without dying fabric) 2. the the gooey bafric paints 3. Get a petti coat but eh that's jsut money!

So fucking excited have no idea
-RB out