Otakon was pretty fun. There were TONS of people there as expected. We only got into 4 of the panels we wanted to get into, but still had a good time. I got tons of compliments on my Yoko cosplay, and I was happy about that b/c I worked super hard on that. One girl even asked me if I bought it ^_^ !! I'll do a post about how I made my boots later. (And I know I'm missing a bracelet. I hadn't finished sewing on the buttons yet, but I did and put it on later that day.)
I really loved my Lucy cosplay. It was super comfortable, but I kept forgetting about the horns and bumping them, lol. There were a bunch of other Lucys there and I took pics with almost all of them. Being that the dress is the first item of clothing I've ever made I think I did a pretty good job. I bought the shirt from Amazon.com, the socks from Sockdreams.com, the shoes from Target, and wig from Epic Cosplay, and made the music box. Well. . .
I bought a pre-made wooden box from Michael's, stained it, lined the inside with some burgundy felt I bought on clearance from Hancock Fabrics. The lines on the top front and back on the box that would be done with a
woodburner "in real life", were just drawn on by my BF with a Sharpie
before I stained. That was totally his idea, and really helped the box
looked authentic. I made the inner and outer "plates" from craft foam and acrylic paint. At some point I'll have a real gold plate engraved for the inside, but I didn't have time this year. For the inner plate, I printed Lilium out on some cardstock, glued that onto the craft foam and them painted it. The box also plays Lilium, with a mechanism I found on Amazon ^_^. Cosplaying turned out to be more fun that I thought it would be. I've already started on my next cosplay which will be, Maka Albarn from Soul Eater; I'll be wearing that for Nekocon in November. I'm knitting the sweater vest myself. I'm using the Academia pattern. It's from Twist Collective, but I found it on Ravelry. I'm hoping to be finished with that before I have to go back to work in September. Wish me luck!!
