Cosmic Gemini Cosplay

Yuppers! Gave ye ol' el-jay a new look. Next is to revamp the website with some of the new info I learned in school. >:D Need an idea for a layout before I do that, though...


ANYWAY! Also will eventually make fresh icons for this thing. These are outdated like whoa.

I've also started cosplayer vector art! I have a few more I need to do, and then I'm going to decide pricing and open for business.


Hime no Toki by ~Neko-Kaolla on deviantART

Costume wise, I hope to do the following this year:

METROCON: (aka "Zeldacon")
~Tess of Legendary Frog (if Joey can make it down)
~Link (Ordon Village) of Twilight Princess

AFO:
~Yuria of Fist of the North Star: Rao Den Gekito no Sho
~The Big of Card Captor Sakura

AWA: (if I go)
~Apollo of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

All of these are subject to change. I would also like to make Saria eventually for personal reasons, but I can't do it all!

That's all for now!
~NK

Before I begin, here are the photos from try-outs for METROCON mascot!

Now, for the point of my post, Maboroshi also posted the photos from the mascot photo-shoot. You can see them here. I really love how the costumes all turned out, and I LOVE how the visual aesthetics for each side match! Indra and Dee look all eastern and Arabian-like, and Britani and myself are all western and Gothic (time period, not "emo-goth" as people seem to associate with the term nowadays, LOL). That was purely accidental!

We all still plan to embellish our costumes by the cons, but this is the idea. I only have beading left to do on the lace drapes of my vest part.

I plan to wear this costume until the seams fall apart. XD ♥♥

Enjoy the photos, default is mine. Her character name is "Sang, the Crimson Eye-Patch" (Sang pronounced in the French fashion, not like, "I sang a song." Sang = Blood in French)

Until next entry,

~LM~

NK and I both have new photos to share! We are still in the process of updating the galleries on Cosplay.com, but here are links for everyone.

Elizabeth Swann (LM/me)
Giselle's pink Andalasia dress (NK)

I was also chosen as a Dark mascot for METROCON 2008! Yay! There are 4 mascots this year: Me, Britani (RikkusFaith), Dee (Hooded Woman), and Indra (FantasyNinja). Britani and myself are the dark team, and Dee and Indra make up the light team. We just had our photo shoot with Maboroshi on Sunday, and the photos will be awesome (we saw them). Brochures with shots from that shoot will be handed out beginning at Megacon.

Speaking of Megacon (yay, segway!), CGC will be in attendance! XD I will only be attending on Saturday due to work (LM = broke), but NK will be there all three days! I will be wearing Elizabeth Swann (linked above) on Saturday and NK schedule is as follows:
Friday: Normal attire, with a BJD in tow
Saturday: Giselle (linked above) - it will be hard to find her as she is working on the costume contest with Anime Sushi
Sunday: Kula, if it is returned to her in time

For those of you going, "Why isn't anything new being posted on your website?" Here is the answer: NK is waiting for my mascot costume photos to show up so that she only has to do one BIG update. It should be updated.......eventually....^^;;

See you at Megacon!
~LM~

I updated the website! Added Mello (finally) and Princess Agatha. Also fixed a ton of broken links (every "Cosplay 101" link on the costume pages didn't work...).

Yeah, that's it. =^.^=;;

Changed default icon to the one that matches the layout.

New icon, too. From the Disney Cruise we attended in August of 2006. (We totally recommend them, btw! Going on another next year, most likely!)

Cross-posted from our MySpace Blog:

RisingSun.net has granted a cosplayer spotlight for LM on his website!

Check it out here!

Thank you to Maboroshi for giving this to her!

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Also, NK landed herself a job at the Walt Disney World Resort outside Orlando, Florida!

She first learned that she made it into the Character Pool to become Best Friends with your favorite Disney characters (meaning she is in the "hold basket," so to speak.). then received a call saying she made a position doing Attractions in Adventureland or Liberty Square in the Magic Kingdom Resort. This could include the Haunted Mansion (which is closed for renovation this summer, please let it be for the Nightmare Before Christmas version for the holiday season like in DisneyLand!!!), the Hall of Presidents, the Enchanted Tiki Room, Aladdin's Magic Carpets, Jungle Cruise, the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse, and Pirates of the Carribbean.

Well, she is now going to be seen in the Jungle Cruise!! Go NK!!! Bad puns FTW!!! XD Personally, I (LM) would have liked to see her in the Enchanted Tiki Room to beat on Jose the parrot with a stick. LOL. But, I am not a huge fan of the updated version of the ETR, so I am glad she got a fun position! (hey, WDW, may we have the original back, like at DisneyLand??? Please??)

Congrats, NK!!

I is also currently attempting to get a WDW job based in Tampa (yes, it does exist ^^), so we are keeping our fiingers crossed! She really wants out of Busch Gardens and the insane Florida heat........not to mention an unhealthy desire to work for the Big Cheese! Granted, if she does get the position, she will not be able to attend JaniCon in Jacksonville this November, but will still make appearances at Necromicon in Tampa this October, as well as Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party with a group of friends (where we hope to dress as various Harry Potter Characters!).

Well, that is it for this installment of the CGC blog!

See you real soon! (sorry......had to..XD)

~LM~

AFO8 is now over and done. Wow, hard to believe that the year is almost over and the main con season is coming to an end.

CGC was present at AFO all three days, NK actually was in street clothes for Friday and Saturday when her cosplay plans fell through, but I was in costume every day!

Friday was the first day, obviously, and I wore my Tohru ball gown from the manga that I had made for the Fantasy Masquerade at METROCON 2007 (and by "had made," I do mean that I had it made, I was running out of time to make it fit my personal standards), Kyou plush in tow. Many people recognized me from the FM, and I was attacked with positive feedback about the event! Thank you all for your kind words! NK's mini doll meet was also Friday, and it did a lot of traveling. LOL. We all ended up in a panel room for a good chunk of the afternoon. Ana, NK's Elfdoll Lydia was the only CGCBJD not in attendence, for her foot fell off the previous evening, and she needed repairing. Adele, my Souldoll Miryu, won Best in Show at the costume contest there for the adorable Chii costume NK had made for her.

Saturday was the big day for attendance. I wore my Summer uniform Tohru and had my "Pic of Mom" and a Yuki plush as props, as well as no dolls. Ana came with NK, as her foor was fixed by that time. NK and I got our autographs from Jason David Frank (*squee*), and had the brief opportunity to chat him up before having to rush out of the room. He is sooooo genuinely nice and I hope to see him at another convention. Saturday had nothing really in store, except shopping and hanging out with friends, so it was uneventful.

Sunday was NK's big day. I made an impromptu MisaMisa costume with my EGL amd NK was in her Princess Agatha costume from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Costume Contest. Long story short, NK won first place in the Advanced Category, when she had entered as a novice!!!! Needless to say, when I could not stand to sit there in the audience bawling my eyes out, I ran to her before she could get out of the aisle and there was sisterly sobbing in the aisle while the remaining awards were given out, some to out friends. ^_^ We are all very proud of her!

Overall, we enjoyed the convention and share the same pros and cons. We really liked the Dealer's Room this year, there were lots of variety. We were also disappointed with the rudeness of the staff and volunteers. Never has we seen that kind of bad attitude at a previous AFO. But, that did not ruin our experience at AFO8. We really enjoyed ourselves.

Next convention for CGC~JaniCon in Jacksonville, Florida
(I will be attending Necronomicon in Tampa Florida, as well)

Until next time,
~LM~

Updated the guestbook to match the layout, as well as delete a few offensive messages (finally figured out HOW). Also changed a few of Jamie's Mew pictures and added some pictures of us as Jenny and Mew to their respective pages.

I think I'm done with the site for now... I hope. =>.o=

I got bored so I made a new layout about a week ago, and it's now up and live! Go look!



PLEASE tell me if there are any broken links or errors!!!

I hope to get some things done to get the store up and running soon... *crosses fingers*

Okay, to go with our existing MySpace.com account (found at MySpace.com/CosmicGeminiCosplay), I made a myspace for our BJDs!

MySpace.com/CosmicGeminiBJD

There is still a LOT of tweedling to do on it, like adding pics...lol

Go add us, please, especially if you have a doll myspace!!!

~LM

Updated the site with a new topsite and my Kula costume! Go see!



We are in the process of preparing for the store!! FINALLY.

Jamie was givien the title of METROCON mascot runner up this weekend at tryouts!

Yay, Jamie!

Put up a tutorial for sailor collars! Go take a look!



Any suggestions for future tutorials please comment! May do one for Chii's ears... who knows. =^.~=

Next update will be a tutorial I wrote. Not in the mood to deal with the HTML at the moment.

What's this? AN UPDATE?

Yeah, I know, long overdue. But I have all the images for Allice and Fairy Rikku cropped and ready to place on their pages, plus I'm writing tutorials and drawing diagrams in Adobe (kill me now). I'm hoping to get something done tonight or this weekend... *crosses fingers* At least just the costume pages.

When it comes to tutorials, I'm in the middle of a "bow" one, but I think I'm going to scratch it. At least until I make another one and can photograph it. I don't want to draw some of the diagrams in Adobe... at least the sailor collar one (which is done, by the way) was easy to draw.

I have chess auditions on Saturday and plan on spending the day in Tampa. Jamie auditioned last week. She's going for Lina Inverse from Slayers and I'm going for Sailor Moon. Those are our first choices. Our seconds are Eriya and Naria from Escaflowne. Yup! Cat twins!! If we got them it would be the first time I wouldn't mind being type-casted.

We have reserved our weekend badges for Megacon as well. Unfortunately, most of my Kingdom Hearts 2 group fell through, so I might be flying solo in the contest. I don't know if Jamie is competing or not. Hoping to have Kula finished for Sunday, but I was told that the reason for that might be pushed back, so who knows at this point. But I will be making a White Rabbit costume and a Chii costume for Jamie's new BJD, Adele.

Hopefully sometime within the next few months (April at the LATEST) I hope to open up the store. It may just be custom masks to start with, though. I need to do more reserch on PayPal before I get another account there. I mostly want feedback from people who use it more than I did (I think I used it all of twice... to upgrade my C-Lab account and my ACP account), especially those who have received money from people.

That's all I can think of right now... I'll post when I finish some of the updates.

Made a new layout here. The picture suits us a lot... and I really like it. So I *may* use in in a layout for the site. =^.~=v

Updated the site!



Added a new topsite and the link to our joint MySpace account.

Also expect a new layout on this journal eventually. I'm not liking this one too much. XP

CGC now has a Myspace!

Add us today! XD

http://www.myspace.com/cosmicgeminicosplay

**Layout by Julie

Letsee... I have a few plans in the works for next year.

• Super Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon SuperS (with _princessgarnet as Super Sailor Chibi Moon) ~Perhaps for Megacon and METROCON Mascot Auditions
  
• Fairy Rikku, Kingdom Hearts 2 (with thefrozensnow as Seifer, Cammy as Fairy Yuna, Tony as Hayner, yuffieleonheart as Kairi, lainabug as Donald, sgt_tashigi as Sora, more may come and this list may change) ~Megacon 2007 Saturday, costume contest (kids in separate entry)
  
• Princess Serenity, Sailor Moon ~this is WAY up in the air, like floating in the ozone, for METROCON's Fantasy Masque. pinksenshi asked me if I wanted to.
  
• Mello/Mihael Keehl, DeathNote ~This WILL BE FINISHED sometime before the end of the summer. I SWEAR. =>.o=
  
• Artbook Usagi, Sailor Moon (with _princessgarnet as Chibi Usa) ~this may or may not happen, playing it by ear.
  

That's all I can think of for this... Kula Diamond, King of Fighters will be done by the end of 2006 for the kof_project filming, and be worn to Megacon on Sunday.

Amano's world is coming fast, so here is my tentative lineup for the con. I posted something in my journal not too long ago....but it changed!

Saturday- Saki Hanajima from Fruits Basket, purple gothic/medieval gown for the formal ball
Sunday- Black Bat EGL Pirate

I should have Miyuki with me on and off, too!!

See you there!!