So AUSAM-Con's theme for 2010 is steampunk. I'm going to dress up for it, potentially doing a semi-formal dress (money and time permitting) for the ball on Friday night, and then a less formal outfit for Saturday. But I'd love to mix the steampunk with cosplay. I've posted some on the Cosplay.com forums, but I'd like to get the help of my f-listers, if anyone out there is reading this.

Hm. Maybe I'll make a cosplay journal.

Got my wig for Izumo today. <333


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Just so everyone knows, the opening for Utopia has been pushed to next Sunday, February 22nd. However, applications and reserves are still open! Please come check it out!

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So no valentine this year. Can't say that I'm surprised, and I'm actually kind of relieved that I don't have to do anything special for anyone. But I'm still buying chocolates for all my guy friends to carry on the tradition my girl friends and I have started, so at least the guys will be happy.

And on the bright side, my idea for a Mardi Gras party for our anime club this Tuesday was chosen, so I'll be taking work off to make gumbo, jambalaya, and king cake. :3

I ordered a Naruto chuunin vest off of eBay for $54.00 plus shipping on the 13th. Got it in today, and it fits everywhere except around my hips, meaning I can't zip it. So now I'm not sure what I'm going to do--I don't know how I can fix it without making it look obvious, especially since the side seams don't extend all the way down the sides.



So I'm kind of at a loss. I've sent a message to the seller to see if I can get a refund; if I can, I might just use that money to buy fabric and make my own.

This is a 4-way tie, though I don't think one of these really counts as a robot. Bender from the TV show Futurama, Jenny XJ-9 from My Life as a Teenage Robot, Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, and HAL 9000 from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm not sure if HAL can be considered a robot, since he was the computer system running the space ship, but I threw him in there anyway because he is artificial intelligence. Especially since Futurama did an homage to HAL in one of their episodes. x3

I'm really having fun with these Writer's Block things. Three of my last four journal entries have been answers to these.

My roommate used two rubber bands and two paper clips to make her bed stop squeaking.

So I woke up Monday morning with a sore throat. Over the course of the next two days it progressed to a sore throat, coughing, stuffy nose and throat, and plugged-up ears. I was to the point where I could barely talk without coughing because of the drainage clogging my throat. I went to the doctor and after 2+ hours of waiting, I get a 5 minute meeting with the doctor, I'm told I have a viral infection. Rather than giving me some OTC decongestant samples, I get a prescription for Allegra-D (which I already take for allergies). Yeaaaah, no. I picked up some Sudafed and Advil instead. Let's just hope that it goes away on its own.

In other news, I've ordered a Naruto chuunin vest off of ebay for cosplay and it should get here sometime next week. Also going to hopefully start on my roommate's Shizune cosplay sometime next week.

Oh my goodness, ALL the TIME. Only at conventions, though, so it's okay. Glomps are fun!

So if any of you reading this are from the bento comms on LJ, you probably saw me pimping out a bento panel I was doing for my school's anime convention the weekend before last. Apparently, I either impressed some people or I'm the only bento "expert" in the South, because I've been invited to do my panel again at Momocon this March. So I'll be at Georgia Tech on March 14-15, and my panel will be on Saturday. I'll be cosplaying as Izumo from Naruto. <3

Cosplay is damn expensive, so I thought I'd pimp out a few things I'm selling to earn some extra cash.

First! I have a complete box set of the anime "Licensed by Royalty" available on eBay. The starting bid is $30 and at this point there haven't been any bids for it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290289828800


Secondly! I'm now in the process of working out a commission system for hats and scarves with handmade anime patches on them! At this time, I am working on three items: an Uchiha clan scarf, and two Gurren Lagann items (a beanie hat with Kamina's sunglasses, and a scarf with the Core Drill). Essentially, the scarf is hand-knitted and then the patches are added, either with fabric or just stitched on in yarn. When these items are completed, I'll post pictures. But until then, if you have any ideas for patches that you can suggest, feel free to comment with them!

Naruto:
Naruto village symbols (all hidden villages would be available)
Uzumaki Swirl
Uchiha Fan
Akatsuki Cloud

Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy:
Keyblade (Only the Kingdom Key for now)
Organization XIII symbol
Sora's Crown symbol
Roxas's Cross symbol
Axel's Chakrams
Griever (Leon's Necklace from Final Fantasy VIII)
Fenrir (Cloud's Wolf Symbol from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children)

Bleach:
Division symbols
Shinigami symbol
Urahara symbol

Gurren Lagann:
Kamina's Sunglasses
Core Drill
flame design from Yoko's costume
Team Dai-Gurren symbol

Short snippets of the interaction between two young men and the animals that surround them in a modern New York City, based loosely on Oliver and Company with references to other animal films and stories.

As a result, I'm taking Paypal donations for Anime Weekend Atlanta, which is next weekend (september 19-21). I know it's late notice, but I just found out that keylimekitten and I have been put in charge of the table where we will be advertising the convention my university's anime club is putting on in January. We have to do the decorations--our theme is bunkasai, or School Cultural Festival, and we are planning to decorate our table to look like a high school-made haunted house (fake spiderwebs, skeleton pieces, etc.). But we have to do it all ourselves, which takes money that we don't have. So any donations are much appreciated, and will be split evenly between us to pay for these decorations and to go toward the convention itself.

If you do donate, please leave me a comment here. You get a small surprise if you donate, and you even get one if you start to donate and then cancel. Hopefully they will make you smile. ^^

Ganked from rex_dart.  <3

1. My username is _____ because ____.

"greatcloudninja", because I wanted something that reflected a) my love for Cloud, b) my desire to be a ninja from the Cloud village (from Naruto) and c) the fact that I'm not Cloud. This all stems from a dream a friend of mine had, by the way.

2. My name is _____ because ______.

"Lela", because that's my nickname among my friends at Auburn.

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.

"The Great Cloud Ninja", because it's my username.

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.

Umm... "Friends" because I'm too lazy and uninspired to change it.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.

The picture keylimekitten drew of me cosplaying as a Cloud ninja, because it's freaking awesome. Seriously, one day I'm actually going to do it. I think it'll become, like, my stock cosplay that I can pull out at any time. 

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I GOT GUITAR HERO III: LEGENDS OF ROCK FOR THE WII FOR CHRISTMAS

Along with $75 gift cards to Wal-Mart and Beauty Brands, a $10 gift card to Burger King, socks, underwear, the fourth and fifth Harry Potter movies, two colors of nail polish, and some yarn for my mom to knit me a hat and purse and for myself to knit a scarf.

This is one of the best Christmases I've ever had in recent memory. Srsly.