Bitch'n Friday: RTX 2014 ReCap

 

Hi little bots, it's been a busy week getting back to normal mode. I'm pleased to see that blogger posted last weeks post on time, hope you all enjoyed the “progress” photos that I took. I had so much fun down in Austin, seeing old friends that I would only see once a year and making new ones as well. Lets jump into my recap shall we....

So a couple days before we dropped off the cats at my parents house and the day/night before was spent packing/panicking over if I had everything I needed for RTX. We flew out July 3^rd, I expected the airport to be a zoo but to my surprise we breezed threw security and had 2 hours to kill. The flight down was very smooth and no issues until we walked out of the plane. Holy crap, the wave of heat and humidity immediately washed over me. I felt so grungy while waiting for a taxi.

We saw our friend E waiting in line behind us and offered to share a cab with him. It was nice to catch up with an old friend and have the cab expended. We stayed at the Hilton a crossed the street form the convention center, its so nice to walk from a/c to a/c in a matter of 30 seconds. Our room faced north, which had the view of the Longhorn's stadium and the capitol build.

Sorry for the bad photos I was using my Ipad.

Day 1, I dressed up as a pin-up creeper from Minecraft. Simple cosplay but I love doing the make up on this one!

The convention center is rather small and it was cool to attend a smaller convention so you are able to see and do pretty much everything. We ran into a friend of ours on the show floor, and later that night we hung out in downtown, eating and drinking the night away.

Day 2, I was in my Catbug cosplay. Sadly the wrinkles could not be ironed out of the bottom part of the skirt and it also lost it's poof while traveling. It was still great but I want to fix it up and take some better pictures of this costume.

Also on day 2 was a lot of line waiting to get into panels, but we did get into the 343 Halo panel and immersion panel. Saw some awesome stuff for the Halo Master Chief collection: Gungoose!

The funniest part of that day was while waiting for the immersion panel to start, a guy ran (well more like plowed) threw a bunch of people to get a selfie with me in costume. He had his hand all over my man's face while trying to get the best angle for the selfie.

Day 3, I was awoken at 5 in the morning by my man saying he is going to the ER because he had kidney stones. Being the good girlfriend, I offered to go with him but he said to stay and enjoy the convention. He had Kidney stones before so I wasn’t really worried, I just wanted him to feel better. I tried to go to sleep after that but kept waking up to the a/c and texts from my man. When the convention opened I went out and enjoyed myself.

No costume that day, just some shorts and t-shirt. When I ran into my friends they were all concerned about my man, but I was just laughing it off. When he did return from the ER, we were both shocked how little the bill was...Texas is hella cheap! He napped in the room for the entire afternoon, I would go check on him and return to the convention.

Day 4, our flight didn’t leave until 6 at night, so we decided to go explore the capitol grounds until we had to leave for our flight. We took a tone of pictures of the capitol and RTX but most of them were on my man's hone and I just need to confiscate it so I can send them them to me.

Overall we really enjoyed RTX, we both have a few critics on how it can be run better and smoother, but I will save that for another day. We are planning on going back for RTX 2015, new costume is in the works for that one. Cant wait to visit Austin and RTX again!

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Bitchn' Friday: Cosplay Phot Progresses & Packing

Hello little bots, it's been a while since I've done a Friday blog.  I'm writing you from the past! Since I'm going to be at RTX all weekend I will not have time upload blog related things until I get back home on Monday... even then I will post on Tuesday.  So below is a few progress shots of my wing covers and construction, I'm supper bad at taking progress photos...

Foam and Wire for shell

What one cover looked like when finished

Close-up of pre-sew dots

clear wings getting a coat of Mod Podge for extra protection

Mod Podge, It a wonderful thing

how the wings will attach.

Dyed blue cat ears

Hand beaded top

Packing before

Packing After

I'm very pleased that I was able to fit all of my costumes and regular cloths/other junk into my carry on.  I don't want to check my bag and I double checked that it still fit the dimensions labeled on the airline's website. 

Supper psyched to be going to Austin, I'll try to post picture while I'm down there but don't hold your breath.  See you on Tuesday for Monday's recap and pics from Austin and RTX!

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Working For The Vacation

 

Happy Monday little bots! Last week was full of frantic last minute emails and sound editing/mixing on top of trying to finish my cosplay for RTX. If you don’t know what RTX is well it's Rooster Teeth's convention held in Austin Texas. Don t know who Rooster Teeth is... click on the logo here to find out more:

So last week was full of emails back and forth on altering the mix, having a deadline finally, and finishing the film once and for all! I probably did 3 different versions of the mix before today. I'm happy to say that I finished in time for the deadline so Team Awesome can send it out to festivals without having to pay for a late entry. I have not heard back from them since last night about my final mix, so yeah that is a tad nerve wracking but not much we can do at this point.

Aside from work, I've been busy throwing together my costume for RTX and praying everything will fit into my carryon bag. For the better part of week was spent hand sewing beads on my dress. I am so glad the Netflix has all the seasons of Dexter, I've been having that as background noise while I work is very relaxing. I probably spent about over 12 hours beading the dress. I also dyed my cat ears blue, make a harness, construct the wings, and finished my accessories. I took a few pictures but I'm not very good at recording my progress. I'll post some pics of it for Friday's blog.

Some sad news, my man's grandmother past away on Friday. I've only meet her once but she was a very nice lady. I'm very sorry to see her pass but her health was failing and i'm sure she is more comfortable now. Aside from her passing, I'm disappointed with the interaction and communication failure between my man and his mother. Once again they have butted heads, he is unable to make it out to the funeral service and she wants him there. I understand both points and arguments that both parties have made and I'm afraid their differences has driven a wedge further into their relationship. The only plausible outcome for them to every have a healthy relationship is counseling but I know my man would never agree to go. An intervention with them sitting down to talk would only result in them strangling each other so that would be a no go as well.

In the end they are both the same, suborn asses.

This week I'm prepping to fly out to Austin, getting the apartment ready for when we leave and having my mom take care of our cats. I hope Blogger will post Friday's blog without a hitch and instead of a Monday blog it will be on Tuesday. Have a good week everyone, stay tuned for some RTX recap when I get back!

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Project Crunch Time

 

Hi little bots, sorry for not post on friday but I really didn't have much to post about on my cosplay that would fill an entire post. Last week I worked on the final mix for Team Awesome and worked on my Catbug costume for RTX. The majority of my week was spent on hand sewing covers for the outer shell of the ladybug wings. I really do need to get a sewing machine.

But this weekend I made progress on the rest of the wings, made the clear wing part and harness. I have discovered that I will need to assemble the wings in austin due to there size and me not wanting to have them go threw baggage claim. I've spent way to long on them to be broken and tossed around.

So today as I wait to hear back from Team Awesome I will be getting the back piece done so all I have to do in Austin is stick the wings threw it and tape that shit up. After that it is a matter of adding flair to the rest of the costume, I've already cut my wig and dyed my ears. With any luck I should have it done by the end of the week if that is all I have to do.

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