Hi!
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This is mostly for my reference, but here's a rough estimation of my Otakon goods:

Plushies:

• Cats - ? I need to recount this. I think I have about 10.
  
• Bunnies - 5? Need to recount.
  
• Owls - 4
  
• Germany (Hetalia) - 2
  
• Italy (Hetalia) - 2
  
• Japan (Hetalia) 2
  
• Light (Death Note) - 2
  
• L (Death Note) - 2
  
• Lelouch (Code Geass) - 1
  
• Naruto - 2
  
• Tieria, XL (Gundam 00) - 1
  

Keychains:

• Cats: Oh crap, no clue. D: 20, I think.
  
• Owls: 5
  
• Chicks: 5
  

Badges:

• Kitsune: 20
  
• Tanuki: 20
  
• Bakeneko: 20
  
• Yuurei: 20
  
• Oni: 20
  
• Kappa: 20
  

Bookmarks:

• Kitsune: 10
  
• Tanuki: 10
  
• Bakeneko: 10
  
• Yuurei: 10
  
• Oni: 10
  
• Kappa: 10
  

Buttons: 10

Still to do:

• Finish sewing and stuffing owls.
  
• Finish sewing and stuffing Ls.
  
• Laminate Yuurei and Tanuki badges; attach clips.
  
• Finish fray-checking ribbon and attach to remaining bookmarks.
  
• Re-stuff certain cats and bunnies (if time allows).
  
• Make more buttons (if time allows).
  
  Phew! As you can see I've been very, very busy - but I feel really psyched! Hello-Neko is going to rock the hell out of Otakon. X3

Just a hint of things to come for Otakon: I made six badge and bookmark designs featuring Japanese mythological creatures. :3 Here they are!

Kitsune (fox):


( +5 )

What do you think? :)

T-minus three days and counting until we leave for Otakon! Holy crap! :O

Today started off well - met sakura_oki in Greensboro for pizza, coffee, and fabric shopping, and had a great time.

Then I got home, checked my Facebook, and...read this.

Jeremy Mullins was an amazing professor, and a wonderful friend. Even after I graduated, he made it a point to check in on me - an email, sometimes a message on Facebook, just to see how I was doing. He was one of the few professors I ever had that was truly inspiring - that encouraged his students to be themselves, to grow and create art instead of trying to simply 'fit in.' He was a dynamic personality, and he never let anyone feel left out - you felt like you were his best friend even after talking with him for just a few minutes.

I don't even know what else to say. I've been in shock all evening. I want to cry, but I can't, because I just cannot believe this is happening.

This is just...it's just...wrong.

I've decided to take a small hiatus. I won't be checking my Livejournal at all, and my instant messengers will be turned off. If anyone needs to get in touch with me, you can email me, but I probably won't be checking that much either.

Hikoubear will keep you all company while I'm gone. Later.

I think most people that this relates to are there already, but I wanted to put a head's up out there that I won't be at Animazement until Saturday.

I did not sleep at all last night, and am not too optimistic about tonight either. Being unable to breath through one's nose does make it difficult to sleep. So I've had a sore throat, severe congestion, an upset stomach, and extreme exhaustion to deal with all day today. To be blunt, I have felt fucking awful. I feel almost, but not quite, as bad as I did last year when we went to NYC Dolpa. And I still recall just what a hellish experience that was.

I imagine all this is brought on by stress. :/ I have spent SO MUCH GODDAMN MONEY the past couple of weeks; it just doesn't seem to stop. And now I'm behind on my bills and trying to swing a full convention? Oh, God. So yes. Saturday looks pretty good.

Not that there's much going on Friday anyway? AZ got pretty screwed up this year with all their Japanese guests canceling at the last minute (oh, and I am SO CRUSHED about Tomokazu Seki. Gonna cry forever over that one, dead serious). But still, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of interesting panels. And the vid rooms are all no-fansubs - and most of the shows I'd want to watch haven't been released over here.

Meh. Anyway. A little bummed, but I think the weekend will still be fun. I'm going to see friends, not the convention really, anyway. Please all send feel-better vibes my way; I've never been sick at a con before, I really don't want this to be the first time. Oh, to be ten years younger! I never got sick at all, worried about nothing, could go without sleep or food for days, and weighed about 40 pounds less. Teenage self, you didn't know how good you had it.

Quick question - I would really appreciate input on this, if you can!

So, for Animazement, I'm cosplaying Reira Serizawa from NANA. I'm doing the concert dress she first appears in - easy enough, but I'm stuck on what do for my wig!

I found one at Cosworx that I think will work:

http://www.cosworx.com/product.php?productid=25860&cat=0&page=2

But as for the color, I'm totally stuck. I've seen people interpret her hair color as almost every shade of the rainbow: dark brown, blond, auburn, even pink. It's impossible for me to tell what the best thing to do would be.

Here are some pics for reference:
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Now me, personally, I'm leaning towards pink - just because, you know, I like pink. But I also think an ash blond/light brown could work really well. These are the exact colors:

http://www.cosworx.com/images/sepia/PINK-.jpg

or

http://www.cosworx.com/images/sepia/18-.jpg

Here's the rest of the color chart, for the curious: http://www.cosworx.com/pages.php?pageid=13

I just haven't made up my mind completely. So, what do you guys think? :X

Poll #1397854 which color?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which color wig should I go with?

Update: Daddy's out of the hospital and back at Ft. Pickett. He's doing fine - and I think I may have finally, finally talked him into changing his diet habits a bit, so hooray!

I've been insanely busy recently, and super tired. I'm taking a weekend trip to Asheville, NC this weekend with my mom; I think it will be very, very nice.

Meanwhile, I've finally uploaded my pictures from Sakura Matsuri. Took me long enough, didn't it?

( a day in review; super image heavy! 31 pics, 3 vids )

And that's all she wrote!

I'll have pictures from my trip to Roanoke, next. :3

This Easter morning, imagine my surprise when I looked into the kitchen and found this:



A little angel hard at work!

( a little Easter magic; +5 )

Eggs!



I was going to eat them, but then I didn't have the heart to. :(

Macabre is for sale.

I love my little Mackie-face, I really do, but - well, look guys, it's been a solid year since I even took any pictures of him. He's always the last one to be picked up or played with, and I just feel like, well, he's not getting the attention he deserves. There are other dolls that I know I would play with more; or (more likely) I'll just use the money from selling him to pay down some bills. Anything would be better than leaving him on a shelf collecting dust. :(

I'd love to see him go to someone on the f-list, but do pass the word about? He's a really hard doll to find; who knows, maybe he's been someone's grail doll all this time?

Unexpectedly, I went to Sakura Matsuri in Washington, D.C. today!

I've been gone from my house since 5:30 AM yesterday, and only just now got back at 1:15 AM. That's eleven hours of transit, including the train, and let me tell you, I feel every second of it.

It was so worth it though.

Anyway I just wanted to let the people I saw there know I made it home safely, and that I had a lovely time today. ♥

More details and pictars later!

Happy belated Valentine's/White Day. :)

Friends cut time!

I've taken several people off my list just now; if I did so, it was for at least one of several reasons:

1) You don't comment on my journal
2) I don't comment on your journal
3) I feel we have little in common
4) You have an inactive/deleted journal.

No hard feelings, I hope? Please feel free to keep me on your lists if you'd like; a good number of my posts are public anyway. :)

Really, though, I doubt this will affect anyone, as everyone I removed has either never commented here, or has deleted their journal. That said, if I removed you by accident, please do let me know!

♥

~ char

It was awfully late in the year for such a snow, but, the little angel decided, one should certainly make the best of it.

( cricket's snowday, +6 )

Dorky story are dorky, hurr. :B I had a lot of fun romping through the snow today, though! ♥

This isn't new, but I realize I never got around to posting pictures. :O



I made this for my sister's Christmas present. My sister is a kappa, too.

( +4 )

I haven't been doing a lot of sewing lately. I hope I can pick it up again soon!

This is a little old now, but I was just watching it again tonight and thought I'd share for those that hadn't seen it before. Seriously, one of the coolest things I've ever seen:

Oh-kay.

Because I fail at mailing things in a timely manner, Valentine's cards will instead be postmarked on V-Day. So, uh, technically, that's not too bad?

I blame it on the dolls. Lazy bums won't get their cards done, hmph.

Anyways, what this means is, you have until tomorrow to claim a Valentine! Jirou and Aki need some love, guys!

This weekend was awesome. I have a couple of pictures to post, but this is solely to remind everyone to sign up for Valentine's Day cards! There's just a couple of days left if you want to get one. :3

The post is here!

One of Mina's favorite spots is underneath the area rug in my bedroom. She'll burrow under there and go to sleep; I keep telling her that it's a bad place for a kitty cat, as, y'know, people walk on the rug, but you know cats. They never listen.