oh ya and one more...

lulubell d'gray man

jacket: $10
blue satin tie: $5
golden bells: $0.50 x 2 = $1
blue cotton ribbons: $1.50
gloves: $2/pair
formal shoes: $25
haircut: $8
golden contacts: $35

total: $88.50

reflections/stuff learnt
did my first photoshoot for this one... and my, the picture shows EVERY detail. and i realised for the first time, how my white hairs stuck out like wires. it was horrible. i realised the need for perfection after this, because up close, no matter how minute, you can tell whether the person has really taken care of the littlest detail. especially for characters that look simple enough, it makes the effort to be detailed. yeah, down to the shoes she wore.

rhode kamelot

white cloth: $1 (had it long ago and only needed it for a very small part
striped socks: $5 (owned it long ago anyway...)
pink umbrella: $1.50 (what a steal)
blue hair spray: $7

total: $14.50

reflections/lessons learnt
cosplay below $20! can you believe it. a lot of pre-owned items did the trick (skirt, top), so i won't count them as prop costs...
first time using hair spray, made my hair all hard. and i wasn't able to spike it. was really disastrous since rhode has to have a spiked head.
didn't want to ruin my top so i attached the zigzag patterns to it instead of cutting. shows in photographs. oh well.
not bad for a newspaper+masking tape stuffed pumpkin, but still chui.

i just realised that i took some very funny pictures for my cosplay. haha.

rhode and tykki performing magic tricks: (nemo looks in awe)































gaara using lero and rhode hiding behind his gourd:

2nd day of cosfest at d'tent.
we got cheated by the malay uncle at the entrance of the chalet who directed us to the opposite end when the real d'tent was just to walk straight ahead. i'm gonna turn rascist man.
well anyway i got this picture from the forum... and it seems like the best picture out of my entire collection:


and then we took with astarte from angel sanctuary, who did juclesia from magna carta the next day. ARGHHH i didn't take with juclesia!! i'm so sad. and tykki looks good with astarte. wedding no maru de ne~


too lazy to upload so many photos. eh heh

here's a picture of rhode with her pink umbrella and tykki... looks like you need a pack of cards indeed, fritzooo...

i finally finished my rero. the color is still wrong and the leaves shape a bit different, but ARGHH i'll change it IF i am bored enough. drew the pumpkin lines and wrapped the green thing around the stalk... in case no difference is spotted. oh! and the face is sharper on the sides now.

ok... time to work on my next project - d'gray man! i'm gonna be doing rhode kamelot / road camelot whatever the name is spelt as... i prefer the former though. i'll try to find a colored picture of her, but man, her pictures are rare! but here's a video of her singing!







tried doing the little pumpkin called rero on her umbrella yesterday.



i'm doing the evil face but that's the only shot i got that's big enough from the anime. i have lots of orange paint but they were so bright i tried mixing with brown, and it turned dull, so i painted some more orange over again. so this is how it turned out...



mashed all the paper and masking taped it into this form...





think it looks a wee thin, don't ya think? and i need to work on getting the right shade of orange. maybe i'll just paint again later in the evening... or tomorrow.