FAE and Chun Li (yay, it rhymes!)

Hola, it's Laura! Time to update the journal!

This past Saturday Hannah and I attended a brand new con called The Florida Anime Experience. The event was pretty tiny, but there was some great panels and guests like Steve Blum (the voice actor of Spike from Cowboy Bebop) and we got to spend time with our friends OH-Productions and FantasyNinja in the artist alley. The game room had some amusing video games too. We laughed so much at this:

There was also Para Para Paradise and a game called Gal Gun. Read about it: kotaku.com/5638165/galgun-is-t… XD HoodedWoman and Adrianakaninja showed up too and after the con we all went out to eat sushi/ hibachi. It was a great day! Thanks to Melissa and Insane-Pencil for taking photoads of us!

The pics I took at FAE are in our Convention Snapshots gallery: cosplaycousins.deviantart.com/…

For FAE I quickly threw together Chun Li's Street Fighter Alpha sporty outfit to wear with Hannah's Sakura. It was super rushed (I actually finished it the night before I wore it and barely got any sleep so I look super tired in the photos anyway) so I have to fix it up for next time. When it comes to making costumes I'm a terrible procrastinator... I need to stop that! At least the costume had a good practice run since Hannah and I will be wearing them again for a Street Fighter group at AFO.
For Chun Li, I bought the navy blue bodysuit, removed the sleeves and added stripes to the sides. I made the top from scratch out of plain cotton fabric and ironed on the yellow designs then zigzag stitched around the edges. I'm probably going to remake the top or at least sew in some darts because it fits funky. For my hair, I cut out foam donut shaped buns, covered them with hair extensions, and wrapped my real braided pigtails around them. I made them a little too low, so I looked more like Princess Leia. Lol. I am the most happy about the sneakers. My friend just happened to post that she was selling her old Adidas on Facebook so I bought them for $9 and painted them blue and yellow. It was a fun project! I made a shoe painting tutorial too:

The easiest (and silliest) part of my costume was the wristbands. For this outfit, Chun Li has rounded studs so all I had to do was spray paint some googly eyes:
Yay!



We recently got asked to do an interview for bluedrakon's blog and you can read it here: 2old4anime.blogspot.com/2011/0…
Oh yeah, it's my birthday on Saturday! Woooo. Haha. See ya at Metrocon in 2 weeks!