finally got down to spring cleaning!

i have a love-hate relationship with it. after waking up around 1pm today... i dragged myself to clean out the piles of rubbish i have on my table... in my cupboards... everywhere. i have so much things that i couldn't bear to throw away because of 'their possible usage in the future'. it's always 'i could do this with this...' and then i kept it. so that's how the things just grow and grow... and grow.

today i managed to tell myself to JUST throw. the africans are not likely to get your food if you don't finish them. and you're not going to do whatever you want to do with them eventually. SO THROW. and i did throw about 3 big bags of stuff away (which was later ransacked by random people downstairs =.=)

the process is actually pretty funny in a way because i discovered a lot of funny stuff about me since young, and i sort of tweeted them along the way.

i realised that i used to like 赵薇 because of 还珠格格 and i bought her cds. inside there were all these funny pictures of her in weird hairstyles that i find so strange now!! since i didn't like her now and the pictures were just fashion disastrous, i threw everything away.



then i also liked the japanese group called Speed, and i had a stack of mini postcards. another fashion disaster, and i wonder how old they must be now... no further use for a group i didn't like anymore. so off you go!



i had this mooncake box that stored all my seagulls. when i was in primary school i wrote pieces of diary in them and folded them in. reading them, i felt that i was a SUPER emo kid back then that troubled over relationships i probably didn't have a clue about. oh, one of them was on my pet tortoise called Xiaogui that died in 1998. so cute.



then i also folded every single tickets i got from buses. i had a lot of them but i seemed to have either thrown, pasted somewhere or gave to someone. or maybe i had made something out of them... i can't quite remember. but i still have some of them. back were the days i could fold these tickets into a nice little heart using just one hand. think i'm still keeping it so that i can do something with them (yikes bad habit dies hard)



and then i have a whole bag of hearts that someone gave me, with little notes on some of them. i remembered i told him off, asking why it was done on foolscap and scrap paper. but then i still can't bear to throw them away. oh well.



i also collected LOTS of stickers in primary school, and these were those that came in packs and you had to exchange with friends to complete the collection. seriously, why on earth did i spend those money... i had so many of them, from barbie dolls, sailormoon (and 2 books of them at that), batman, power rangers... and even the disgusting insect collection (i think there was some kind of reward if you could complete it, but i never did. always around 98% for mine). not sure what to do with them... and seems a waste to throw...



finally me and my sis cleared our clothes... and we have one HUGE bag of it. $1 a piece, anyone!? Too lazy to auction them off...



with the old stacks gone, time to put on the basic mat for my storage. i reused my titanic, leo dicaprio, harry potter and rain posters - all of which i'm not crazy over now. so these posters are now off to a good use!





and after about 6 hours of work... finally get to rest now but i'm not all done yet... arghh....!!

so i went to read habaek's bride and somehow i related myself to mura. i like her old version too but don't think i have the figure and face to pull it off. at least the young version had fringe to cover the face!

the young and the old



but the version i like is this (and how i wish someone will cosplay that antelope with me)



i especially like her headdress





was quite excited to start on this as it was non-colored, so i get to fill in all the colors! i thought mura the older version was a very reddish-kind of person and young mura probably needs some red as well. not too much, so i lightened it with the white layover.

this is the red skirt with the painted symbol, in gold. i like how red and gold goes together. lined the pattern with gold sequins to bring it out more. however i feel it's still not poofy enough. think i need to add more cloth.





this is her inner wear. the chiffon was torn out from my kyoko... haha.





next is her layover qipao-like thingy. i think i had the base cut too small. OH WELL, this just means i need to shrink horizontally ain't it.



lined it with gold!



and added in silver tie buttons, white laced front, and gold laced the collar.



and now my beloved headdress! the base is made out of corrugated boards.



patterns were made out of foam. i painted the base with acrylic first then sprayed over. corrugated boards are too smooth to spray on immediately, the color will just wear off with a simple scratch. acrylic gives just a little more resistance...





lined the headdress and added jewels to pattern it.



added in the long beads that trickle from her headdress



as well as the chains around the forehead and back



and the final thing!



now, how am i gonna wear it...

the making of AoE mephistopheles

vincent said that the show was as good as FMA so i had to watch it... and it was awesome! so i went to like another xerxes/undertaker-like character called mephisto pheles this time. bwahhhh.





he has this really cute bat-like umbrella and it seems he likes pink a lot.
and he appeared to be the tallest character =.=



just look at how well he goes together with xerxes. hur hur.





so i've more or less completed his stuff. was actually supposed to do it with laogong at AFA, but i was busy chionging for my pitch and didn't have time to complete it. T_T next event please!

started with the modification of my audrey burne top and joining the tail to it.



painted the buttons on it



and attached thick thread for the swirly collar and cuffs



then mended the bottom so it has the v-shape



now it looks like this



next i made the vest with lining



i quite like how it turned out... maybe i'll wear it out. heh.



and the back



easy.

the hat was made using foam. had a previous template from shirogane, so just needed to cut and made sure it fit my head. it's ll kangaroo glued-on, and my handicraft was so bad some parts looked pretty yellowish. oh well.



swirly thing was done with 2 strips stuffed with cotton and twisted together, then glued on.



normal gloves template, just draw the lines around my hand, cut and sew. routine. (but it still looks sucky)



cape is done with 2 colors and in 2 layers cos my white cloth was too little, so i had to cheat... which part did i cheat on, you ask? WELLL... guess!





then added in the ribbon lining. i like this ribbon!



bought pink pants but couldn't bear to paint over it so i bought stockings and drew over it instead. too lazy to draw the whole part so here's what i have only that's enough (since he has shorts and boots to cover the rest anyway)



made the cane using some curtain hanger that is extendable and painted it gold. suppose to build the tip and the ice cream part with clay but the 2 packs of clay i bought was all solidified! there goes my $4 in the bin. ended up using the epoxy i had. well it was much stronger anyway...



and the base of the ice cream is some stuffed cloth. HAHA



that needed LOTS of painting and repainting



to eventually look like this. the green's still a bit dirty though



next is the bat-umbrella. not sure how to convert from bat to umbrella and vice versa, so i just settled for only bat. made the sweets pattern out of felt.



then bought pink cloth to make the bat base. wings had metal wirings to support.



then i stuffed the bat through the rod



wings will be added on separately for easier traveling purposes. so it kinda look like this when i set it up



cute eh? it's lying on top of my CD rack in the living room now. i had to make it face inwards so it wouldn't scare anyone passing by.

also worked a bit on the hp accessory but too lazy to continue for now...

this is the fire ball and the earth ball



he hangs so many weird balls... jeez. this is colorful ball.