I had an awfully nice con-season start! First I attended the Hanami in Ludwigshafen and this weekend the DoKomi in Düsseldorf :>. It was really nice to meet some friends and have fun and forget a bit about my current bachelor project stress.

We (that is Chala and me) cosplayed kid!Loki and Leah (Journey into Mystery) and young Randall and Henry, together with Shiho as Angela and Linda as Hershel (Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask) in Ludwigshafen and older Henry, Angela and the Masked Gentleman and again Loki and Leah in Düsseldorf. We also took more serious pictures x’> … but May is very stuffed with conventions here in Germany, so the photographers are naturally quite busy and need some time to upload them. So have some not-so-serious preview pictures before that.

(The first one was actually an outtake, but I love it a lot x’>).
(Older Henrys pants are actually striped, but you can’t really see it on pictures, I fear :’<)

Hello :>!

I’m a bit inactive at the moment as you might have noticed, so I thought I show you what I’m up to at the moment.
1) Today I finally planted some flowers in front if our window! I’ve wanted to do that since we’ve moved here - and that was 3 years ago. The old lady who runs the flowershop around the corner is awfully nice, I guess I’m going there again :>.
2) Still busy with my bachelor work, though lately I spent more time on my other illustration course (I’m not sure if I’m allowed to talk about it online, but we’re (that is our course) doing an awesome book with a really awesome publisher and it will be awesome!). Also, Advanced Norwegian has finally started and is taking some of my time as well. But yes. Have a little Roman time-travelling dog :>!
3) I started sewing on my cosplays for the May conventions and I already finished Leah’s dress. Woohoo!
4) I bought myself a toy piano ;v;. It’s been bothering me for a while that I’m not playing an instrument anymore. I learned the guitar for 1-2 years, but it wasn’t really my instrument. So I did some research to find an instrument that I’d like to play and I fell in love with the Celesta. Of course I’ll never be able to afford one, so I searched some more and discovered the toy piano which has a similar sound (more like a Glockenspiel than a piano). I love it’s sound :>! It’s sound rather cute and a bit creepy and a bit nostalgic and a bit dorky but also pretty at the same time. Now I just have to search for someone who teaches me how to play it. (Or rather teaches me how to play a proper piano). Until then, I’ll teach myself.

I hope you’re having a nice April as well! I’m so happy spring has finally come.

Have another of my old cosplays I never uploaded on Tumblr - Byrne Faraday (together with Chala as Calisto Yew) of Ace Attorney Investigations. There’s also chosenzellos as Kay Faraday on the last picture :>.

I was absolutely too small and unmanly for that one, but I did it nevertheless because somehow I really like that guy. Also, Chala is quite perfect as Calisto :|. Too tall, though. It was a pain in the ass to take that first picture (actually our height difference is the other way around).

Just hung up some cosplay references on the wall over the sewing table.
I’m so looking forward to Chala’s and my cosplay plans for this year *v*! And we’re also going to have Angela (both teenage and adult) and young Hershel and all of the four Tsuritama guys :>.

(No, of course we’re not doing every version of Haru and Yuki, we just couldn’t decide on a version yet).

And since I just replayed Unwound Future once more and realized I never really uploaded this cosplay (just reblogged it once), have me as Claire and Chala as (amazing! I mean - honestly!) Dimitri. Photos taken by Klavier and Chala at Hanami 2011 in Ludwigshafen.

I thought it was time I upload another one of my old cosplays :>.

This is me as Eiji Niizuma, tumblr-less Koneko as Akito Takagi, Chala as Shinta Fukuda and Shiho as Moritaka Mashiro from Bakuman. Worn at Animagic 2011 in Bonn, photos taken by the wonderful Chrissi.

(I coloured the wig myself with Copic pens and one and a half bottles of Various Ink, which was a stupid idea and is not recommended.)

(I think I like Tumblr’s new photo-uploading thing!)

And my other bookfair costume!
Me as Bak Chan from D.Gray-man, together with Koneko (who doesn’t have a tumblr) als Komui Lee. Pictures taken by Ghosty once more! Thank you <3!

It’s funny, as I really don’t care much about DGM anymore but Bak still is something like my favourite favourite character. And my affection for him never got less, it’s really weird. I guess many people just see him as the funny idiot (that he often is) but forget about his serious side and that he’s a freaking genius. You can’t imagine how happy I got when he finally got a background story.

I also wanted to cosplay him since my very first con, Connichi 2008. So I am very very happy I finally did it. Also, I really love his second uniform and - strangely -  never saw anyone who cosplayed it before. All love and credits to Koneko, who planned and bought and crafted really much for the costumes (for example the crests you unfortunately can’t really see). And it would only have been half the fun without you <3.

I hope I can wear it again, this cosplay really makes me happy :>.

shigeako:

CABIN PRESSURE’s Martin Crieff & Arthur Shappey Cosplay

Martin: Chala
Arthur: Lily
Pictures&Edit: me

Sorry to spam you with my cosplay again, but look at the awesome pictures Nini took :>!
We wore it again on the Frankfurt bookfair. The area was quite perfect for it, it really looks kind of airport-y.
(Oh god I love the first picture so much :’>)

And my third Connichi cosplay!
Me as Norway, Chala as Denmark, Shiho as Iceland and Koneko as Sweden from Hetalia / last year’s Hetaween comic strip. This was pretty nostalgic for me as us four got to know each other in 2008 when we all (+ our Finland) cosplayed their standard outfits. We did some other versions after that but then had a long pause as we pretty much grew out of the fandom. But we always wanted to do another version and when the Pirate/Halloween-outfits were realeased I completely fell in love with them, especially Norway’s. I guess it’s the most complicated cosplay I’ve ever sewn so far but I’m quite happy with it and it was so nice to have a revival of our group :>!

Thanks once more to Ghosty who shot the pictures!

And my second Connichi cosplay.

Me as Toph, Chala as Aang and Deena as Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender (Fire Nation disguises). Pictures were taken at the Connichi 2012 in Kassel by Ghosty (who doesn’t have a tumblr account).

I had a wonderful day thanks to those two idiots. Thanks a lot, you were wonderful <3. And thanks again to Glasmond, who had a Korra-thon with us and therefore introduced us into the whole series <3.

(I’ll definitely think of some decent poses before I’ll wear it again :| …)