Is it madness?

Continued work on the Lady Loki diadem. It was an epic journey attempting to find my crafting foil. I looked all over the apartment, no dice. I finally flopped down and nearly fell asleep. Scottie asked me what was up, and I told him I couldn't find my foil. He came back a few minutes later with my foil, which somehow ended up in a kitchen cupboard. *facepalm* Why didn't I think of that? lol I have no idea what I'd do without Scottie.

So anyway, got the horns filled out. Planned some detail work on the computer, transfered some of that onto the base. Shaped the base. Hunted down all my gold clay.



I did want to keep working but it's late and Scottie said it would be a better idea to actually get some sleep so I can be functional tomorrow so I can actually be awake to work. Which is a really smart idea.

Something from this weekend that I wanted to note.
There's a commercial on tv that says something along the lines of "Who you love most tells a lot about you". After it went off we both immediately pointed at each other. Scottie said that since he loves me most, that must make him a psychopath. And then I said I wasn't a psychopath, I'm a highly functioning sociopath. ehehehe

Hey guys! I finalized my costume design! I took the armour and jacket and sort of merged it into a battle dress. xD It's an imperfect drawing, but I was only focused on getting out a design. I have never done a fashion drawing before actually, but I don't think they're terribly concerned with the realism of the model. lol

Please ignore the fact that my model looks like an alien giraffe

I'm not sure exactly what materials I'm going to use. The real costume is leather of course, but that's expensive and heavy. Expensive is the more important thing here though. I'm more concerned with it looking good though over comfort, because if it looks like crap because I have the wrong fabric why did I bother, ya'know? I'm considering looking to snag some thrift store/ebay/etc leather trench coats or something to cannibalize.

I've been trying to figure out exactly how the back of the costume works (the flowy bits in the back are my most favorite design element), but I wasn't having the best luck finding good reference photos of the back. I have seen useful video though, though that can be a hazardous proposition. "Oh, I'm just watching this for, erm, research!" *afterward* "Oops, wasn't paying attention to what I meant to! Gotta watch it again I guess, daaarn."

Shhhhhhhh Loki!

Unrelated, we also started to make candles tonight! I took a couple of pictures of the process, they're under the cut if you want to see them. Basically we need candles for ritual, and we can't ever find the right colours, and we want unscented candles because we burn incense but the large majority of candles seem to be scented already... so we got a candle making kit and are trying out making our own. We just wanted to try some simple white votives for a first try.

( Candle making pictures )

My mom used to make fancy candles when I was growing up, so I have a bit of an idea of how it works. If I was currently speaking to my mom, I would consider asking her about it. xP

I was planning on doing more this weekend, but I actually ended up being really sick. e_e Because of this I haven't been quite as productive as I would have hoped, but I don't think I did too terrible.

I did play Borderlands 2 with Scottie more, we are at an important story point and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE FEELS

Welcome to my new friends! Please keep your hands and feet inside of the vehicle at all times. Hiddles raptors are known to roam freely around here.

Wait, I'm not sure that being caught would be a bad thing. So I guess... do what you want! xD

Sorry things have been so quiet around here so far! n_n' Normally I post more frequently. The last couple of days we've been off doing costume supply recon for Halloween. I've been working on figuring out the design of my Loki costume, and how I'm going to do it. I -think- I'm going to do a paper mache covered in paperclay armour for my costume. I've seen some nice work with that! Normally I work with polymer clay, and I've done stuff with resin, but I don't know that polymer clay is the right stuff for the job and I'm not sure resin would set properly when it's been so cold. Plus I don't think I'd have enough resin. So that's where I am on that.

Scottie is probably going to do book Dresden from the Dresden Files, thank you gweniveve_skyes for the idea! <3 We found a cheap black coat at the thrift store today that will work for the costume, and we're figuring out the rest.

I suggested Thor to Scottie, but erm, neither of us ship Thorki and he brought up the fact that we'd be unintentionally doing that all night. xD Oops! So probably not that. It would be amusing to see if anyone had Loki feels if I was hugging on a different Marvel character though ehehehe

In other news, I've been feeling like this for a lot of the week for various reasons, which has also been a cause for less frequent posts. n_n'

In my headcanon, Twyla and Spectra were destined to be friends since the first time I saw Twyla! xD I haven't seen anything with Twyla in it yet, so I don't know how this actually would work. lol But I decided I'd take my pictures of my new bb with Spectra. :3


Aw, your dust bunny is so cute!

( A few more pictures! )

I was going to take pictures outside, but it was cloudy. It also started to rain, and the wind was really kicking up. I was afraid that we were going to have another windstorm like we did last fall, the one that kicked out my power for a couple days. So far it's not that bad. lol

In other news, on Friday I went with Scottie to a Halloween ball planning meeting for the wiccan group we're looking to become a part of. They want to do a Halloween semi-formal costume ball, and us witches should come dressed as, well, witches.

The first thing that I thought of was LOKI IS TOTALLY A MAGIC USER I CAN BE LADY LOKI. Somehow I don't think that Loki's horned helmet is exactly what they meant by a pointy hat... but what can I say?

And the pointy hat thing was more of a suggestion, since they said we could also come as zombies or whatever. I'm still following a magical theme! And of course, *points up at gif*

I said Scottie could dress as regular Loki. This is what came to mind...

I don't think he's going to do that, but we're not actually sure what he'll want to do. We'll see.

I'm also not sure exactly which Loki I want to be. Avengers Loki? Thor Loki? Which costume out of those? Comic book Lady Loki? I'm probably not going to do kid Loki or comic book Loki.

It just seems so perfect... because I was actually wanting to make a costume for the Loki 2 Thor 2 premiere... And I wanted to do a costume for the work Halloween costume contest (WHICH HOW COULD I BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN LOKI). So uhm, that would be like three times that I'd wear the costume within a couple of weeks? lol There's also a local con sometime this fall that I could go to. I've never been to a con before, but I've always wanted to!

When I was originally thinking about doing this, one part of my brain was saying "But I'm not tall enough/thin enough/imposing enough/whatever enough to pull this off" but the much larger part of my brain was like "THIS IS LOKI WE'RE TALKING ABOUT I DO WHAT I WANT." I think Loki is a good influence on me.

Now... I do a lot of figure sculpting, and I've even made some doll clothes. But I've never made a costume before? I'm not sure how this should work. Scottie had some AMAZING ideas, but I'm not sure if we'll have the time/money to pull them off. Maybe on a different year? Scottie has made clothing for both of us though, so he actually knows what he's doing. I hope that I'll be able to do more than just Kermit flail at the project. n_n'

Anyway, I'm REALLY EXCITED about this idea and I have NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING. What could go wrong? xD

I also am considering dying my hair black with indigo. I've only ever hennaed my hair though, I've never even considered going black! I've actually been meaning to get henna to do my hair again, but I'm so torn because I also want to do black (I'd still have to henna first for the indigo to take though, so I guess that doesn't change). I did Dark Willow one year for Halloween, and I did non-perm black hair. I was trying to find a picture of it to see what I looked like but I couldn't find anything. It's probably all back with my family in MI, boo.

Another thing that I'm concerned about though is that I am currently losing weight, so if I make a costume now I'm going to be smaller by Halloween. I'm not sure how to plan for that. Plus, I'd rather make a costume that I'd be able to use more than one year?