Library, and Finishing Touches

Last night, one of my coworkers held a program I wanted to attend in our library, so I stuck around after work. That meant I had some spare time to wander the library with Stella and show her a few highlights!

Our glass art "fireplace." It's not actually warm. And it's not Chihuly... It's a local artist
inspired by Chihuly.

The very beginning of what we call "Main Street."
The wall on the left is the public library's adult fiction,
and it stretches the entire length of the building
(which, according to reports when we opened a few years ago,
is a football field).

Then, we had this morning off, so we frantically worked on some of the finishing touches to my cosplay for this weekend, which PerfectlyBohemian correctly identified as being from Attack on Titan!

Fabric glue to fold the edges of the patches under,
and binder clips to hold the edges in place until it dries.
I would have sewn them, but I didn't plan ahead,
and sewing would have gone over some of the drawing.

And the BIG patch for the back of the jacket.

This will be one action-packed weekend! Stella is in for some treats.

Cosplay Preparations

After a whirlwind of library conferences, Stella and I are now preparing for a whirlwind of comic conventions! We have been largely unsuccessful in finishing most of my cosplay ideas, but we have at least one ready for this weekend. For logistics reasons, I need to use an older one for the other day of this con... You'll see why later...

This is the hand-drawn patch (or... going-to-be-patch-piece-of-fabric)
that we made for the back of my jacket...
I'm going to be Zoe Hange from Attack on Titan.

Crafting and Cupcakes

We are going over to a friend's house for Game of Thrones tonight, and I volunteered
to bring dessert again, so we made angel food cupcakes! Some of them aren't very pretty...

But this one is almost as cute as Stella!

We also had to take advantage of the break in the
recently rainy weather to do some spray-painting
for cosplay... But I wanted Stella to stay away for
her own safety, so she watched from inside.

Cosplay Crafting

If cosplay has taught me one thing about myself, it's that I prefer to work under pressure. It's two weeks until Tidewater Comicon, and I don't have any of my cosplays finished. So Stella stepped in to help me.

We made a stencil...

...we peeled labels off of PVC pipe pieces...

...we played with tulle...

...and we built a hammer head out of cardboard!

Still lots of work to go, but we made some significant dents already.

Stella's Bag

Today, we're taking it easy after our trip, doing a little cleaning and planning for the week, things like that. I decided that if Stella is going to spend a lot of time in my purse, she might need something to hide in. Being crocheted, she seems pretty vulnerable to getting snags from things like pens, keys, zippers, etc. So we pulled out the sewing machine and made this!

Stella is hiding...

Peek-a-boo!