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I've just been lurking in the shadows, not commenting, not submitting, just silently favoriting once in awhile. 

As you can guess, I haven't been cosplaying at all for the last year. I don't really see much fun in it anymore, I do have a few new cosplays, but I don't make an effort to take pretty pictures in them anymore.  I go to conventions sometimes, but it's mostly to derp around with my husband. Oh yeah, I got married too. Little fact I should probably bring up. 

I also haven't been doing anything creative or artsy, which honestly makes me a little sad. 

But anyway, just an update so everyone knows I am still breathing. 


Also, I'm blonde now. ->> Loook at my blonde-ness<<-
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Keith and Matsuka, according to fm-anime.

Yes, this deserves an entire journal entry because I'm about to bitch about fm-anime and how nobody in their right mind should ever use them. Also, I can't sleep.
Okay, so a lot of good things take time, I understand that, but fm-anime is far too slow for what they charge and the product you end up with. Now, these costumes were only commissioned in July, so two months of waiting isn't that bad. Unfortunately, there seems to be a bit of a hold up, what's the hold up? Oh, they were in the process of making the costumes with shorts. Shorts. Both of these characters are obviously wearing pants. And it's not just this, every single time I've used them, there's been something terribly wrong with the costume. And forget contacting them if there is a problem with the costume after you get it, they never reply after they send out the product. The first costume I ever ordered from them was my Gumi cosplay, the neck piece was huge and the over-skirt was made to fit far too high up on the waist. Then came my Alois cosplay, which I did love, but the shirt they sent was made for someone that was about 5" inches shorter than me (I had to buy the one I ended up for the costume separately) and the coat back was too small so I could never really move without the sleeves riding up too much. And finally, the infamous mysterious meat boots. Not only did the shoes practically fall apart after wearing them to one convention, I call them the meat boots because they had a scent of old tires and some sort of smoked meat. It was pretty gross, not to mention confusing.
Of course, all of these items costs $130+ each (except for the boots, those were $60) plus they're ridiculous shipping costs. The only reason this most recent order isn't $300+ is because they're being shipped to Japan instead of here, so the shipping is thankfully low.

I really hate bad mouthing companies, but I've given them a lot of chances and I've never had a good dealing with them.

Okay, I have interviews tomorrow and need to sleep (they're not until the afternoon, but I should still get my beauty rest ;3) Wish me luck on the interviews and hope that my costume is at least mostly free of flaws. Pretty please~ C:

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I will just this once. It'll be short without any names or specific situations mentioned, but I have to get a few things cleared up if I'm ever to rest peacefully again. I doubt most anyone this involves will even read it, but whatever, I'm still writing it.

To fill everyone from my watchlist in, I'm no longer a part of the Colorado cosplay community, I left. I will definitely still continue cosplaying with friends (probably mostly by myself lol) at little, private photo shoots for fun, but I'm no longer attending any conventions, meet-ups or photo shoots (at least not in Colorado). Not that it will make a difference to what I upload here on DA being as the majority of my cosplay photos are either taken by a close friend of mine or my trusty tripod.

Anyway, I was already going to leave the cosplay community sometime this spring or summer I cannot stress this enough. Some actions and discussions I had with certain people exacerbated it, but not by much at all. I'm not a crybaby or a psycho who can't deal with conflict like most of you are proclaiming, it was just my time to leave the community and it just so happens that I left during a semi-dramatic time. And with my leaving, I deleted my facebook as well just because it was full of cosplay and I wanted to start over. Also, nothing I've done recently was a "personal attack" on anyone, just for the record.

That is all. :heart:

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SRZLY GAAAAAAIS. I need monies.
:iconawwwplz::iconawwwplz::iconawwwplz:

Anyway, you all know what I do, but let me refresh your memory in case you forgot...

:thumb252470848: :thumb167341523: :thumb171634749: :thumb174330191: Funky Color Glasses by starrypenguin :thumb171194626: Vocaloid Matryoshka Shoes by starrypenguin :thumb174330478: :thumb159140611: :thumb205662773: :thumb158536491: :thumb174001154:

Please feel free to request any sort of commission! :) I'll most likely be able to do whatever you request (as long it's not so massive or over the top).

I'd really appreciate anything.

Thanks in advance. :rose::rose:



Also, to clear up any confusion, the Matryoshka shoes and colorful glasses are indeed made by me, they're just uploaded on my second DA account.

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www.cosplay.com/member/293005/

And, more importantly, go check out my ads on cosplay. com :)

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