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Saw some people do this and I needed something to pass the time since I cant really do anything till the swelling in my chest goes down (hopefully). The first photo starts at the very top left and move clockwise around the outside.

Jan - When I came back to Florida, the next day I went to "Orlando Anime Day" and wore my only costume I really had that I had made, Steampunk Sailor Moon. I hadn't worn this costume for about 6 months and while I was in WA state, I made the coat. This was the only time I ever wore that coat with the costume.

Feb- I was talking with my (now former) best friend and since I had a red wig laying around that I was going to use for a different cosplay (that never got made), they suggested to do a Kim Possible cosplay. The shirt was bought at goodwill for $3 and fit me perfectally. The pants and belt came from my closet. I wanted to persue this cosplay more and I think I might still later on. However, I'm going to pretty much do a total overall and not use anything I used from the orginal photo.

March- This was Megacon! Since I have 0 photos of my Sailor Scout Princess Luna and I think I made myself more know as Rogue, I chose to do Rogue. I purchased the suit from a website, alter the feet to allow me to wear boots or shoes and I bought the wig and added white extensions into it. I have kinda retired this costume because while I was happy in it, I've seen WAAAAAY better and I rather have something much better.

April - This was the time of the Ren fair and I didn't really make anything new for this, however I kinda mixed and matched clothing so I was in costume each time I went. This was the last and final weekend (and I think the VERY last day too). I found the black top for an amazing price (idk how much it was) and purchased it cause I feel deep in love with it. For 2014, I have several costumes planned to be made for Ren Fair.

May - I debuted two costumes in May. However, this one I loved more. I was Sailor Venus from the anime Sailor Moon at the Florida Anime Experience. I have worn this costume several other times for small outings and cosplay get togethers. I had participated in the Animusical Idol contest, performing "Popular" from the musical "Wicked". I felt really good about myself however, nothing beats two young girls with a planned dance routine. They won fair and square and it's inspired me to really have a set up routine and not half ass it on stage like I normally do.

June - I wore this for Star Wars weekends every weekend (and I pretty much went every day too). I had just started working at Disney and so I had work every weekend and so I'd wake up at the crack of dawn to get to the park in costume with my work clothes in my bag, played in the park and when it was time to head backstage, I hurried out the gate, and around to the cast member entrance, changed and clocked in for work. For 2014, I was invited to a Star Wars photoshoot as the Jedi Ariel (which is amazing cause I've been working on it since then) and for Belle Con I will be debuting this and two other Star Wars Princess cosplays! fav.me/d5sio9s Is the reference I used.

July - July was the time of MetroCon! I debuted 4 new cosplays! My biggest one that I have been working on since April/May time was my World of Warcraft Warlock! Ok, enough excitment building. The helm, shoulders, and soulwell turned out amazing. Everything else in my opinion was crappy junk. While people were able to go "OH YOUR A WARLOCK FROM WOW!" I wasn't 100% happy with this cosplay. The whole dress was utter crap and I could of done better. The truth is, I rushed the dress in 3 days cause I wanted to wear it for Khaotic Kon cause I was told about the costume contest (after only wanting to go one day) and because I couldn't enter a better and already made costume (cause they wanted official artworked characters. like things direct from a video game, nothing orginal concept, or based off fan art like the jedi ariel or the sailor scout princess luna). I felt guilty about not wanting to do the contest cause I felt worried I might make the person that told me about the contest depressed and have to put up with them threatening to kill themselves. So I tried my best and sadly in the end I had to stop cause I felt like I was making it worse and worse. I tried to convince myself over and over and over and over in the time leading up to Metro that I look amazing, that the cosplay looks amazing. However, when I put it on that Sunday for the contest, I almost didn't enter. However mom helped me bake about 12 dozen Healthstones (aka "Lock Cookies" so hence the baking) and I worked so hard on the helm, shoulders and Soulwell that I didn't want to let that go to waste. For MegaCon 2014 I'm going to be attempting another World of Warcraft cosplay, this time one that is more simple, Sally Whitemane.

Aug - This is when my nightmare began for me. I had all these plans of conventions and all these cosplays I wanted to do. However, I had to put a quick tight grip on conventions when I was forced to hire a bodyguard. I had someone make a death threat against me because my mother called the cops on them cause they were on the phone with me and said they wanted to kill themselves. The great county of Polk county failed to handle that call in, because the officer is required to arrest and detain the person and another officer was supposed to go to my house and take mine and my mother statement. That is under review right now by the Sheriff's office as that is a federal standard of operations they failed to do. HOWEVER because of such, I couldn't do a cosplay I had told this person out of fear of been stalked and attacked. So I found a Princess Zelda from Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess on cosplay.com. This was kinda my early birthday gift to myself and I recieved everything that made that cosplay (dress, apron, shoulder armor, crown, wig, and misc accessories). I felt so amazing in this, and I wore it to AFO and I plan to fix it in some places and make slight changes to it.

Sept - I spent most of this month working with my lawyer (who didn't do crap when it came time for court) and so I wasn't working on anything big. In the end, I went to Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween Party with my friend Loki and we went as Shock and Barrel from Nightmare Before Christmas. It was so scary being at the Magic Kingdom and I even had two panic attacks. I knew I should of not gone due to the situation I was in. However I was assured that I was in the right and had every freedom of showing up at Disney, the other person did not unless they were being paid to be there and had no choice. Anyways, I went because I promised Loki that I'd do the cosplay with him and I'd even buy the tickets. So I was obligated to go even with it being before my court date. I have made a few changes to this costume and I'm still working on the hat. The dress came out PERFECT and all I really need is a black poofy skirt to give the right color lace trim on the bottom and give the dress it's fullness. This was also the first time I wore facepaint (and yes, there were lots of zits in the days after XD)

Oct - Nothing really happened here. I wasn't in Florida because I was helping my husband transfer duty stations in the military and I had to go to our home in Washington State to get things situated and arranged for him to transfer. When we came to FL while he was still on leave, I went to the Nightmare Masquarde that was hosted by the Grand Brony Gala as their mascot, Sun Dancer, in halloween wear. fav.me/d6w1hpm (I don't have a copy on my computer so I couldn't add it to the main collage). This image is not posted in the college.

Nov - I was really depressed after my cosplay page on facebook was attacked and I had to temp shut it down. And the ironic thing, after being told personally as well as talking to people that were told as well by the person I've been having problems since Aug, that they want nothing to do with photography and that I could have it because it was "tainted" by me, the person had a random change of heart (which is being investigated by the police) and attacked my facebook page. I had made a choice to stop cosplaying just so I could get this person and their family to stop harassing me (cause I have no idea who sent the harassment emails) and to stop stalking me on DeviantArt (if you've been a regular watcher, you'd know who I'm talking of). Just after making that choice, I had the Juri cosplay from Street Fighter come in. I've worn it a few times and every time my confidence was built up more and more. I felt so happy to be in this cosplay! At the begining of the month I had did a google search for Ranger Stop because I knew two of my former co-workers were going to be attending as that was all they could talk about at work besides Star Wars. Glad I searched it, cause 4 days from that time was the convention. So I was just going to wear a normal cosplay until one of my guild mates from WoW told me I -HAD- to do a Power Ranger cosplay for this convention. IN THREE DAYS I MADE A PINK NINJA RANGER COSPLAY! It came out rather decently, however I wasn't proud enough to call it a Pink Ranger Ninja and enter it into the costume contest (especially since I'd be compared to prolly several other Power Ranger cosplayers and I was right on that too) and so I threw on my Sailor Moon wig and became Pink Ninja Ranger Sailor Moon. I had a ton of fun and even got my guildmate, DD, two shout outs from some of the actors that played Power Rangers.

Dec - 12 months go pretty quick when you don't think about it. I feel right now, on Jan 1, 2014, that it was just yesterday I was hanging out with my former best friend and having tons of fun. Anyways the last two cosplays to talk about (three really). I went to Holiday Matsuri 2013 for the very first time and sometime back I had gotten myself the VIP pass as my personal christmas gift to myself. I really wanted to go as Periwinkle, but because I couldn't finish it in time (it will be finished for Megacon 2014, may not wear it to the event, but it'll be done by then) and so I was going to go as Elsa from Frozen. I had the dress purchased and by the time it was altered and I was ready to start on the extra pieces, I had received my other Elsa dress! This was listed on cosplay.com and I immediately jumped at the post. I was thankful a million times over that the seller allowed me to make payments on the dress and I told her that she could 100% count on me for the payments! The reason I was so excited over this dress is because the owner had this dress COMMISSIONED BY FIREFLY PATH!!! This is the link to the dress from their DA page fav.me/d6lak9l and this is me in the dress fav.me/d6yus5l . There's even a tag in the corset that says "Firefly Path" so I know it's theirs. So I ended up choosing to wear this to the friday of Matsuri (though I had a panic attack at the beginning of the day and did everything to settle it as well as make sure to not mess up the dress). The next day I wore what's in the next photo. A holiday Princess Serenity with actual working lights (suggestion made by my former friend, while I don't care for the person now, the idea was VERY brilliant and I believe I promised I'd make it work and I always keep my promises). You can see an up close version of the dress here as well as my thoughts on the dress fav.me/d6yus5c . Finally, my last cosplay of the year was bringing my Steampunk Sailor Moon out of retirement. I wanted to do Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas but due to having problems on facebook and my page being attacked -again- the costume ended up being ruined. I think that what I put together for Steampunk Sailor Moon was very well done and fitting to finish the year out that way. If anything, I might make a more steampunk like weapon that fits her. I might even switch from the black boots back to my red boots. However, I never fail at getting compliments on this cosplay.

Description
Saw some people do this and I needed something to pass the time since I cant really do anything till the swelling in my chest goes down (hopefully). The first photo starts at the very top left and move clockwise around the outside.

Jan - When I came back to Florida, the next day I went to "Orlando Anime Day" and wore my only costume I really had that I had made, Steampunk Sailor Moon. I hadn't worn this costume for about 6 months and while I was in WA state, I made the coat. This was the only time I ever wore that coat with the costume.

Feb- I was talking with my (now former) best friend and since I had a red wig laying around that I was going to use for a different cosplay (that never got made), they suggested to do a Kim Possible cosplay. The shirt was bought at goodwill for $3 and fit me perfectally. The pants and belt came from my closet. I wanted to persue this cosplay more and I think I might still later on. However, I'm going to pretty much do a total overall and not use anything I used from the orginal photo.

March- This was Megacon! Since I have 0 photos of my Sailor Scout Princess Luna and I think I made myself more know as Rogue, I chose to do Rogue. I purchased the suit from a website, alter the feet to allow me to wear boots or shoes and I bought the wig and added white extensions into it. I have kinda retired this costume because while I was happy in it, I've seen WAAAAAY better and I rather have something much better.

April - This was the time of the Ren fair and I didn't really make anything new for this, however I kinda mixed and matched clothing so I was in costume each time I went. This was the last and final weekend (and I think the VERY last day too). I found the black top for an amazing price (idk how much it was) and purchased it cause I feel deep in love with it. For 2014, I have several costumes planned to be made for Ren Fair.

May - I debuted two costumes in May. However, this one I loved more. I was Sailor Venus from the anime Sailor Moon at the Florida Anime Experience. I have worn this costume several other times for small outings and cosplay get togethers. I had participated in the Animusical Idol contest, performing "Popular" from the musical "Wicked". I felt really good about myself however, nothing beats two young girls with a planned dance routine. They won fair and square and it's inspired me to really have a set up routine and not half ass it on stage like I normally do.

June - I wore this for Star Wars weekends every weekend (and I pretty much went every day too). I had just started working at Disney and so I had work every weekend and so I'd wake up at the crack of dawn to get to the park in costume with my work clothes in my bag, played in the park and when it was time to head backstage, I hurried out the gate, and around to the cast member entrance, changed and clocked in for work. For 2014, I was invited to a Star Wars photoshoot as the Jedi Ariel (which is amazing cause I've been working on it since then) and for Belle Con I will be debuting this and two other Star Wars Princess cosplays! fav.me/d5sio9s Is the reference I used.

July - July was the time of MetroCon! I debuted 4 new cosplays! My biggest one that I have been working on since April/May time was my World of Warcraft Warlock! Ok, enough excitment building. The helm, shoulders, and soulwell turned out amazing. Everything else in my opinion was crappy junk. While people were able to go "OH YOUR A WARLOCK FROM WOW!" I wasn't 100% happy with this cosplay. The whole dress was utter crap and I could of done better. The truth is, I rushed the dress in 3 days cause I wanted to wear it for Khaotic Kon cause I was told about the costume contest (after only wanting to go one day) and because I couldn't enter a better and already made costume (cause they wanted official artworked characters. like things direct from a video game, nothing orginal concept, or based off fan art like the jedi ariel or the sailor scout princess luna). I felt guilty about not wanting to do the contest cause I felt worried I might make the person that told me about the contest depressed and have to put up with them threatening to kill themselves. So I tried my best and sadly in the end I had to stop cause I felt like I was making it worse and worse. I tried to convince myself over and over and over and over in the time leading up to Metro that I look amazing, that the cosplay looks amazing. However, when I put it on that Sunday for the contest, I almost didn't enter. However mom helped me bake about 12 dozen Healthstones (aka "Lock Cookies" so hence the baking) and I worked so hard on the helm, shoulders and Soulwell that I didn't want to let that go to waste. For MegaCon 2014 I'm going to be attempting another World of Warcraft cosplay, this time one that is more simple, Sally Whitemane.

Aug - This is when my nightmare began for me. I had all these plans of conventions and all these cosplays I wanted to do. However, I had to put a quick tight grip on conventions when I was forced to hire a bodyguard. I had someone make a death threat against me because my mother called the cops on them cause they were on the phone with me and said they wanted to kill themselves. The great county of Polk county failed to handle that call in, because the officer is required to arrest and detain the person and another officer was supposed to go to my house and take mine and my mother statement. That is under review right now by the Sheriff's office as that is a federal standard of operations they failed to do. HOWEVER because of such, I couldn't do a cosplay I had told this person out of fear of been stalked and attacked. So I found a Princess Zelda from Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess on cosplay.com. This was kinda my early birthday gift to myself and I recieved everything that made that cosplay (dress, apron, shoulder armor, crown, wig, and misc accessories). I felt so amazing in this, and I wore it to AFO and I plan to fix it in some places and make slight changes to it.

Sept - I spent most of this month working with my lawyer (who didn't do crap when it came time for court) and so I wasn't working on anything big. In the end, I went to Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween Party with my friend Loki and we went as Shock and Barrel from Nightmare Before Christmas. It was so scary being at the Magic Kingdom and I even had two panic attacks. I knew I should of not gone due to the situation I was in. However I was assured that I was in the right and had every freedom of showing up at Disney, the other person did not unless they were being paid to be there and had no choice. Anyways, I went because I promised Loki that I'd do the cosplay with him and I'd even buy the tickets. So I was obligated to go even with it being before my court date. I have made a few changes to this costume and I'm still working on the hat. The dress came out PERFECT and all I really need is a black poofy skirt to give the right color lace trim on the bottom and give the dress it's fullness. This was also the first time I wore facepaint (and yes, there were lots of zits in the days after XD)

Oct - Nothing really happened here. I wasn't in Florida because I was helping my husband transfer duty stations in the military and I had to go to our home in Washington State to get things situated and arranged for him to transfer. When we came to FL while he was still on leave, I went to the Nightmare Masquarde that was hosted by the Grand Brony Gala as their mascot, Sun Dancer, in halloween wear. fav.me/d6w1hpm (I don't have a copy on my computer so I couldn't add it to the main collage). This image is not posted in the college.

Nov - I was really depressed after my cosplay page on facebook was attacked and I had to temp shut it down. And the ironic thing, after being told personally as well as talking to people that were told as well by the person I've been having problems since Aug, that they want nothing to do with photography and that I could have it because it was "tainted" by me, the person had a random change of heart (which is being investigated by the police) and attacked my facebook page. I had made a choice to stop cosplaying just so I could get this person and their family to stop harassing me (cause I have no idea who sent the harassment emails) and to stop stalking me on DeviantArt (if you've been a regular watcher, you'd know who I'm talking of). Just after making that choice, I had the Juri cosplay from Street Fighter come in. I've worn it a few times and every time my confidence was built up more and more. I felt so happy to be in this cosplay! At the begining of the month I had did a google search for Ranger Stop because I knew two of my former co-workers were going to be attending as that was all they could talk about at work besides Star Wars. Glad I searched it, cause 4 days from that time was the convention. So I was just going to wear a normal cosplay until one of my guild mates from WoW told me I -HAD- to do a Power Ranger cosplay for this convention. IN THREE DAYS I MADE A PINK NINJA RANGER COSPLAY! It came out rather decently, however I wasn't proud enough to call it a Pink Ranger Ninja and enter it into the costume contest (especially since I'd be compared to prolly several other Power Ranger cosplayers and I was right on that too) and so I threw on my Sailor Moon wig and became Pink Ninja Ranger Sailor Moon. I had a ton of fun and even got my guildmate, DD, two shout outs from some of the actors that played Power Rangers.

Dec - 12 months go pretty quick when you don't think about it. I feel right now, on Jan 1, 2014, that it was just yesterday I was hanging out with my former best friend and having tons of fun. Anyways the last two cosplays to talk about (three really). I went to Holiday Matsuri 2013 for the very first time and sometime back I had gotten myself the VIP pass as my personal christmas gift to myself. I really wanted to go as Periwinkle, but because I couldn't finish it in time (it will be finished for Megacon 2014, may not wear it to the event, but it'll be done by then) and so I was going to go as Elsa from Frozen. I had the dress purchased and by the time it was altered and I was ready to start on the extra pieces, I had received my other Elsa dress! This was listed on cosplay.com and I immediately jumped at the post. I was thankful a million times over that the seller allowed me to make payments on the dress and I told her that she could 100% count on me for the payments! The reason I was so excited over this dress is because the owner had this dress COMMISSIONED BY FIREFLY PATH!!! This is the link to the dress from their DA page fav.me/d6lak9l and this is me in the dress fav.me/d6yus5l . There's even a tag in the corset that says "Firefly Path" so I know it's theirs. So I ended up choosing to wear this to the friday of Matsuri (though I had a panic attack at the beginning of the day and did everything to settle it as well as make sure to not mess up the dress). The next day I wore what's in the next photo. A holiday Princess Serenity with actual working lights (suggestion made by my former friend, while I don't care for the person now, the idea was VERY brilliant and I believe I promised I'd make it work and I always keep my promises). You can see an up close version of the dress here as well as my thoughts on the dress fav.me/d6yus5c . Finally, my last cosplay of the year was bringing my Steampunk Sailor Moon out of retirement. I wanted to do Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas but due to having problems on facebook and my page being attacked -again- the costume ended up being ruined. I think that what I put together for Steampunk Sailor Moon was very well done and fitting to finish the year out that way. If anything, I might make a more steampunk like weapon that fits her. I might even switch from the black boots back to my red boots. However, I never fail at getting compliments on this cosplay.