30 Days of Star Wars: Creating my R2-D2 Costume: Part One

I'm currently taking a costuming class at my local community college and our final project is a costume of our design from our chosen era. Since I knew I wanted to make a new costume to wear for Star Wars, I decided to make an R2-D2 costume, re-imagined in the 1950s.

Upon talking to my teacher, she pointed me in the direction of researching sci-fi films from the 1950s. Here are some of my inspirations for the costume. Once I have it finalized, then I can do the fun part, looking for the items to create it!

From Superheroes to Star Wars

You know what's just as exhausting as being at a convention all day? Travelling to Hollywood and Anaheim to take pictures of cosplayers. That's what I did yesterday with Nerd-Con (there will be a post on that later this week). Our first destination was Hollywood and Highland for the DC Comics Super Hero World Record Event. This was part of a global event for the largest gathering of people dressed up as DC comics super heroes. It started in Australia and also included, Mexico, Spain, France, and the Philippines to name a few. It was a fun event, I had my picture taken with The Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman, got a fun Wonder Woman temporary tattoo courtesy of Hot Topic and even got a free t-shirt from the event. How cool is that?

After spending a few hours in Hollywood, I made my way down to Star Wars Celebration at the Anaheim Convention Center. I didn't have a pass to go on the convention floor. But with all the cosplayers outside, it was the next best thing. There were so many awesome cosplays that I couldn't take pictures of all of them. But here are a few of them with the last one being hands down my favorite on Saturday. Spoilers, "It's a trap!"

The Blog Awakens

Greetings blog readers! It's been way too long since I posted on here, due to me being really lazy about it. But I'm making an effort to start blogging again. I have so many things going on in the next few months that I want to document and share on here.

First off, I'm going to start where I ended my blog back in February '14 with some Star Wars. Today kicked off the Star Wars Celebration in Disneyland, ahem... I mean Anaheim. Sadly I wasn't able to go, so I'll be having some serious FOMO whilst looking scrolling through various social media and watching the live feed from Star Wars Official YouTube account. But you know what really made me have all the feels? The new teaser trailer for the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It debut this morning and I've watched it 20 times today and it still has this unimaginable grip on me. It's because Star Wars was part of my childhood. I vaguely remember watching it when I was younger. but I do remember in middle school, before the prequels came out, I went with my siblings to see the original versions in the movie theater. Star Wars was my gateway to nerdom without me even knowing it. This has bumped Avengers: Age of Ultron to #2 of my must see movie list. December can't come soon enough!

Oh and the part where Han says, "Chewie, we're home"

Here's the trailer again if your feels can handle it. 

Also I have just found my newest cosplay to tackle Rey, a scavenger from the planet Jakku. 

WonderCon, WonderCon!

On Saturday, I went to WonderCon with my friends, Trisha and Steven and we had the best time. Before we even decided to go to WonderCon, I got them both hooked on Doctor Who after seeing my constant DW pins on Pinterest and generally talking about it at work. When we knew that we were definitely going to go, we chose to dress up Doctor Who style. I wore my 50's TARDIS costume, while they were Ten and Rose and it was a big hit.

I'll be honest, it's really cool when people stop you to take your picture and that happened a lot to us, especially for Steven because he looked so much like Ten in his costume. Also, one of the highlights of the con for us was when we were leaving and as we were walking away from the convention center "Belle" came up to us and started talking to us as our characters and she even had her own Sonic Screwdriver. It was so cool talking to others about our love of Doctor Who.

But it wasn't all about the Doctor. The one panel we went to was Steampunk 101 and during the Q&A one of the panelists gave out the best advice when it came to creating things. "Create for yourself and not for others." It's something that we've all heard at one point, but it's good to hear nonetheless. I always leave cons feeling positive because there are others just like me and makes me want to really get myself in gear and pursue my passion.

Cons and Cosplays

Yesterday I got an e-mail about the upcoming volunteer registration for this years Comic-Con and today Wondercon passes went on sale. Which only means I need to start coming up with some cool cosplays this year. I already have a couple of costumes on hand, Ramona Flowers and 1950's Idris, but it's always fun creating new ones. I have a few in mind, but I'm always up for suggestions!

My favorite Wendy centered episode is "Breast Cancer Show Ever" where she beat the crap out of Cartman, because that needs to be done to him every now and then. Lol.

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Butters is one of my favorite South Park characters and it would be awesome to be a femme version of him. Or I can always be his alter ego, Professor Chaos.

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Wreck it Ralph was one of my favorite films from last year and I love Vanellope's spunk in the movie.

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Annie was such a bad ass in  the season 2 paintball episodes. Maybe I can channel that if I dress up as her. :P

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Outfits of the Week: Vegas Edition

I can't believe it took me 15 years to visit Vegas again because I had tons of fun. I'll be posting some of my Vegas pictures later, but for now here's what I wore during my trip.

Friday Afternoon: Vegas or Bust

Dress: LC Lauren Conrad for Kohl's 

Denim Jacket: Gap 

Earrings: Elle for Kohl's 

Purse: Thrifted 

Wedges (not shown): Old Navy

Friday Night: Painting the Town Red

Dress: Vivienne Tam via TJ Maxx

Jacket: Express 

Earrings and Necklace: Forever 21

Heels (not show): Payless

Saturday Afternoon: Laid Back Vegas

Cardigan: UO via TJ Maxx 

Top: Elle via Kohl's 

Shorts: Old Navy 

Bracelets: Loft and Forever 21

Purse: Thrifted

Saturday Night: Ramona Flowers

Faux Leather Jacket: Burlington Coat Factory

Tee: Old Navy

Shorts (dyed) and Silver Studded Belt: Walmart

Gold Studded Belt: Target

Wig: Halloween Store

Subspace Suitcase: Self-made

Tights: Old Navy

Boots: Forever 21

Sunday: Leaving Las Vegas

Dress: Shumaq

Belt: Unknown

Sandals: Steve Madden via Macy's