Sewing Classes?

My cosplay selfie as Christa from SNK,
Shingeki no Kyojin.

There's a new costume shop in town, and they were planning to offer sewing classes in September.  When I went to the store's grand opening with my boyfriend and my brother to check it out, I became interested in their promotions of the classes and may end up enrolling in their beginners course because I'm only self-taught and I learn better in a more structured school-like environment.  I have my own sewing machine, and so that makes things a bit easier for them.

As some of you may know, I wish to learn more about sewing techniques and the general basics of sewing to have a better foundation knowledge for fashion design classes that I'll be taking later in 2016 (it's one of the core requirements; otherwise, I won't be able to take any of the classes unless I take a pre-requirement course--but I want to jump right in immediately during my first year).

The entry form to enter the city fair's Clothing department contest is due in September too, so I'll have to see when I can finally turn my form in with the money fee.

After September though, I'll be applying to college since I'm ready to go back to school.

Then, of course, in January, FAFSA.

There's long list of many more things to do, but I'm excited for 2015-2016!

And hopefully, you--my readers--are as well.


Take care,

Yoko~

Cute Accessories!

Last night, I made a couple of white-and-gold bows.

The center pieces for the bows are from a local shop, A&A Textiles.

The buttons are $0.10 each, 10 buttons for a dollar.  I picked out the prettiest
and shiniest ones of them all. 

Isn't it pretty?

I'm thinking of turning them into hair piece accessories--or perhaps, saving one of them for a nice dress I can create later on.

Also, I'm planning on opening a store when I make enough fashion accessories, most of them revolving around the themes in between gothic lolita and vintage.

I hope that you all enjoy viewing the pictures!


Sincerely,

Yoko~

Current Projects of Costume-making

Hello, readers!

I got done, with my recycled skirt from a previous post.  I decided to make some last-minute changes to it, which was different from the original planned-out design--adding lace overall straps to the skirt.

Other than that, as of right now, I'm currently working on two costumes: a wedding dress ballgown from the anime, Sword Art Online, and an outfit from God Eater, a PSP game--turned to an anime recently.

Wedding dress costume in-progress.  Sorry for the poor quality.

Sword Art Online's heroine, Asuna, in a wedding dress.
Image source to www.cute-pop.com

Alisha Illinichina Amiella from God Eater.  Photo source to senpaigamer.com

I'm taking my time with the costumes right now and when I'm able to start on Alisa's gun weapon prop--of course, it's gonna take a lot of work and dedication into building it.  I've already made the plaid skirt, the overall straps, and last night, I got done cutting out Worbla pieces for the metal hooks.  Tomorrow, I'll be using a heat-gun to mold the plastic--and hopefully, things will work out! //crosses fingers//

Image source to godeater.wikia.com

And here's a random picture of our (boyfriend and mine) cat, Kilala:

I hope that you enjoyed looking through the pictures of my progress work c:  and I hope that you'll be here next time to see more work of mine in the future as well!