I love my son’s faith in my abilities. Less than a month before Halloween he asks me to create an octoling costume. “What, those squid people from the video game…
Tag: <span>cosplay</span>
I’m thinking about designing some felt costume masks for Etsy, which made me go looking for the sugar skull mask I made for my son years ago. That one doesn’t…
Sewing a Katara Costume I created a costume without using a pattern. This is akin to driving without a map in a foreign country, or performing a musical after seeing…
The Art of Creating Fake Armor One of the things I love about GiSHwhes (the greatest internet scavenger hunt the world has ever seen) is that it challenges me to…
Working on the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds costume for my daughter. I made the helmet out of sheets of felt and some old plastic sunglass lenses.
Dragoncon (Get off my lawn!) This year I brought my whole family to Dragoncon. There were over 62,000 people there, and it showed. What happens is each year, everyone who…
Whirlwind Tour of Dragoncon 2013 I’m taking my family to Dragoncon 2014. I have some costume ideas, but thought I would look back at last year for some inspiration… alternate…
Stealing The Amazon fan fiction proposal started me thinking. All good art is inspired by every influence in an artist’s life, but sometimes you are so captivated by another person’s…
