Our first giveaway of the year!

Hello everyone!

   My apologies for the absence the last two weeks. Between the two jobs, I haven't had a day off in two weeks. But I've been brewing up new things for the Etsy shop, opening very soon, and cooking up our first giveaway of the year. I'll tell you how to enter shortly.

Our bow Shamrock Charm

   I love celebrating holidays! Doesn't matter how small or how big. Any day you wake up is cause for celebration, and honoring some traditions can be really fun. We have two coming up in the next month. St. Patrick's Day and Easter. I've been working almost every night making super cute hair ornaments for St. Patrick's Day and have the materials for the Easter bows.

 

Our Luck o the Irish flower

St. Patrick's Day is one of my favorite holidays. Not for the drinking, I don't do that anymore, but because I am Irish. Well half Irish anyway. Half my DNA is from Ireland. I want to celebrate my heritage. A lot of people believe its just corrupt corporate America trying to get us to buy stuff we don't need anymore and the real meaning of the holidays have been lost, and some of that is totally right. But I see no harm in celebrating anyway.

 

 For our giveaway we are giving away one of our convertible tunics. These beauties were our best sellers last year and they're so versatile. You literally can wear them 100 different ways. I may just post a video on how to wear them.


Our Romantic Red Tunic 2015 Best Seller

   All you have to do is like the post that we announce the giveaway, and comment. We are giving away our Leopard Light Tunic. The giveaway will end on Saturday March 5th at Midnight and we will announce the winner on Monday the 7th.

Our Leopard Light Tunic

Wear it like a poncho.

A beach cover up?

Fabric Detail

So go, like comment, and spread the word!

Thank you!

Prepping for a convention

   If you live in my house, you have cosplayed at least once in your life. If you don't know what cosplay is, I wrote about it a few weeks ago, but basically you dress up in a character or genre just for the fun of it. Often at conventions. Comic Con is huge for this.

   Any way, in our house, prepping for a convention takes a lot of time and planning. For the last several years, we have attended Gen Con in Indianapolis. We don't live that far, so travel in minimal, and tickets for the four days are reasonable.

  While we only live just outside the city limits, we do rent a hotel at the convention center. If you've never been to Indy, just know that we host a lot of conventions. I swear to cheese there is one at least every other weekend. Gen Con is probably the biggest. This year its been expanded to take over Lucas Oil Stadium, the home field of the Indianapolis Colts.


   Tickets go on sale in January and so does the waiting list for the hotel. We could get a hotel outside of the waiting list, but then we wouldn't be eligible for the discount, and the hotel most likely wouldn't be connected to the convention center.

   This year my brother Ryan is joining us. He's huge Flash and Green Arrow fan. While I've had little time to investigate these shows, I am intrigued. Ryan wants to cosplay as the green arrow. I've been trying to make his a mask for ages, and I've been failing miserably. So this time, we are taking a very different approach. We are also taking a bit of time, as Gen Con isn't until August.

We started with a paper mache mold of his face.


Paper strips

   We tore several sections of an old newspaper into strips. If you do paper mache avoid the glossy ads of the newspaper, or magazine pages. In my experience they just don't work as well.

  Second, we dip the strip in the goo. The goo is just water and flour. Equal parts, I've heard of adding glue, but never tried it myself.

  I covered Ryan's face and majority of his scalp in cling wrap and began applying the saturated paper to the upper half of his face. I did a good four or five layers. It didn't take long as we weren't covering a large area. I made him lay there for a half hour. After pulling it off, I propped the mask up on a bowl. Its now dry, and one side has collapsed, but I wasn't going to use that part anyway.

Ryan and I will work on this and post the updates.


   So what do you cosplay as? If you haven't what would you do?

Thanks for reading.

Birthdays! Birthdays Everywhere!

Hi everyone!

   This has been a busy busy week for me. My family celebrates four birthdays this week. My brother on the 28th, me AND my daughter on the 29th, and my mother on the 31st. So when I wasn't working at my regular jobs, I was trying to get things together for birthdays. But I was able to take some beautiful pictures of my daughter for her second birthday. I'd like to share then with you.

 I painted the candle myself. And made the cake. And decorated it. I truly suck at cake decorating.

 Yummy cake








 I love this face! I can't believe she's two already. She's the most amazing little girl to me, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

   A lot of people are wondering where I get her photography done. If the logo in the corner hasn't given it away, I do the photography myself. For me, its tons of fun. Maybe one day I'll share my secrets. But that's for another time.




Thanks so much for reading. See you soon!
Britanni