Cosplay Update

Hello again

So after a few insane weeks of sweat, tears and recutting/sewing/shaping we are actually getting close to the finish line.
Well I can just about make it out in the distance....
We have come so far............from this

Now I'm sure your thinking is that it? No, no it isn't.
It will be ready for the last minute tweaks when Mawgan gets back from Uni in just under 2wks.
(she is literally coming home for 2 nights for this cosplay)

To this...................

Hey presto, Hatsune Miku 2019 costume complete, it has been a nightmare few month getting this made but I am very pleased with how it turned out.

It is so wonderful to see her get up on stage, no agoraphobia/anxiety to be seen. Thank god for Cosplay

She didn't win a trophy this year but ya never know what the future may hold.

I filmed the whole contest and when I've had a chance to upload it to YouTube, I share the link.

Time to start thinking about next years contest, I think Graham & I will take part next time.

Hugs & Happy Thoughts

Buffy xx

  

Cosplay can change

Hello again,
For those of you who have followed my blog for a while now you will know my youngest daughter is a fan of cosplay (costume role-play) and that I help create her costumes.
This year she had decided to go as Aloy from the game Horizon Zero Dawn

Then she saw the new outfit for Miku. Oh Boy!
On a positive note I have managed to find a detailed sketch of the outfit

On the downside we are talking about a low-backed ballerinas tutu.

I so need my head examining.

BUT I have now promised to make it so watch this space........

Update from Japan

So, a concert to beat all concerts.This is who we went to see

 This is a statue of Hatsune Miku.

The difference being the live Miku is in fact a computer generated vocaloid. The band were actually a live band who play next to a screen where Miku and other vocaloids appear and preform.

The Japanese are definitely passionate fans, two and a half hours of none stop raving. SERIOUSLY! Two and a half hours, they never sat down once, they didn't stop swinging there electronic glowsticks once. Even Mawgan didn't sit down. (She is suffering shoulder pain now)

There was also a Miracle Mirai Expo 2017 in the next event hall, which was fascinating. I fully understood the young girls dressed up like there favourite character (Miku is not the only vocaloid, there are another 5).
Those of you who remember Mawgan's prom outfit will be familiar with this

Mawgan getting a photo with one of the official Miku reps.

I did tell her to take her costume with her, and it is a real shame she didn't because her prom outfit is one of the special edition Miku  costumes and no one else at the expo was wearing it.










Would you believe me if I told you Miku has a racing team? No? Guess again

She has, it's a definite thing over here, there are 3 dedicated drivers.
But back to the Expo, you meet some very colourful characters. Most are warm, sincere youngsters who want to emulate their favourite character, some are downright creepy middle-aged men but then you get the ones who are just there for the shear fun of it

This very manly man was a true delight, whilst most serious male fans wouldn't dream of insulting Miku by being unshaven and makeless this fabulously funny american chap was just having fun.

Much to Mawgan's horror I insisted on taking a piccie of her with the design concept of her favourite costume, whilst holding the prom picture.

It hasn't been only the Expo and concert, oh no, there has also been,

Evening walks along the skywalk.
(a footpath built above the roads, shops and businesses for safe pedestrian travel, genius)

Geocaching, naturally.
We couldn't resist the chance to get Japan on our search history list.

Observing the local wildlife.
It's hard to tell from the photo but this butterfly was larger than my hand. The stripe on the underside might be green but at certain angles it looks more like electric blue. Truly beautiful.

And last but not least (for this update)
No one who works for the railway can possibly come to Japan and not visit the Monorail. Yes, it's an inverted monorail. It's the only one of it's kind in the world.
What is even more clever is the fact that in certain places there is a walkway above the track.
Separating people from traffic seems to be a theme here.
But more people walk and use public transport than drive. Not surprising when you think it cost £4 to get from Oakwood to Derby (3miles) on the bus and yet to cover a distance of 10 mile on a train over here only cost £1.50






It's starting to get late, so I shall leave it there for the moment.
Back soon with much more NON Miku information ;-)
Hugs
Buffy xx

Where has 2017 gone???

I'm not afraid to say I think I must have been in a deep sleep because I have no idea how it is July 2017 already!
I am almost certain my youngest daughter only started senior school 5 minutes ago and yet here she is off to her prom

And yes by all accounts that wing was heavy. This is her Hatsune Miku outfit (a japanese vocaloid...I find it easier to smile and agree, otherwise my head hurts....lol)

We are very proud but more so for finding the courage to go to the prom, she suffers from agoraphobia, so going to the prom was a big thing. The fact that she managed to stay for just over an hour is a true acheivement.
It didn't help that someone who was supposed to be a friend told her she was an embarrasment.
But our eldest daughter and her husband, when I told them what happened at the prom started a Facebook appreciation of her, and she got dozens of supportive comments and likes.

BUT when did she get to Prom age.....?????

Last weekend my husband & I celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary.....Yes 25 years! How did that happen....lol
I made him a card that I felt represented us and our life together

I got quite brave and stamped the image onto mottled background paper then created a silver underlayer.

"Marriage is a journey and I am so proud to have you as my travel companion"

......yeah yeah I know it's a little bit cheesy but hey......one of us has to be 😁

Here is my lovely man & I at our anniversary dinner

Well, I'm off to bed now.....desparately hoping no-one fast forwards the world again, otherwise I'm never going to catch up

Hugs
Buffy xx