Dream Angel's Paradise

All right, all right. I know my tiara's crooked!! A lot of people seemed to think I make a good-looking Sailor Moon. I was aiming for the manga design but it didn't quite turn out as I wanted it to. That darn Lady Gadaiva wig just wouldn't cooperate! Every time I tried to adjust the wig, the tiara would go crooked. Most of these shots were taken after the unfortunate incident with the Storm Trooper that spooked Ashley. All he did was walk by, but he spooked her. I bent down to try to comfort her and my brooch broke off and broke. It was only clay, but I did work quite hard on it. It was one of those "darn it!" things. There was nothing I could do about it. It wasn't Ashley's fault. Anyway, the earrings are hand-crafted oven bake clay painted with fingernail polish and glow in the dark paint. The tiara's a modified wreath hanger with a clear plant gem on top of some red cardboard. The choker is fabric with painted wood pieces that have a nail polish finish. The "odango" covers are oversize costume rings. The boots are regular costume boots and hand made shoe covers. If you look close enough at the second image, you can see a bit of the brooch that broke. *sniff* I wish it hadn't. The third image is both Ashley and me. The wand I hold is solid clay and hand painted with glow in the dark paint and nail polish. You can see the wand better in the fourth image. Obviously, Ashley was having fun hamming it up for the crowd. Unfortunately, my silly tiara was crooked again. For the contest, I took off the mask since the sunglasses under it didn't let me see things very well inside. I still think the judges should have come up with some little participation prize for Ashley. Something to show they appreciated her effort and bravery at being the youngest in the show and the only four-year-old that knows how to sew. They didn't give her anything, though but in my eyes, she still won. She won a full day of fun.

If anyone's interested, I could create tutorials on making this costume and my Neptune one.

All right, all right. I know my tiara's crooked!! A lot of people seemed to think I make a good-looking Sailor Moon. I was aiming for the manga design but it didn't quite turn out as I wanted it to. That darn Lady Gadaiva wig just wouldn't cooperate! Every time I tried to adjust the wig, the tiara would go crooked. Most of these shots were taken after the unfortunate incident with the Storm Trooper that spooked Ashley. All he did was walk by, but he spooked her. I bent down to try to comfort her and my brooch broke off and broke. It was only clay, but I did work quite hard on it. It was one of those "darn it!" things. There was nothing I could do about it. It wasn't Ashley's fault. Anyway, the earrings are hand-crafted oven bake clay painted with fingernail polish and glow in the dark paint. The tiara's a modified wreath hanger with a clear plant gem on top of some red cardboard. The choker is fabric with painted wood pieces that have a nail polish finish. The "odango" covers are oversize costume rings. The boots are regular costume boots and hand made shoe covers. If you look close enough at the second image, you can see a bit of the brooch that broke. *sniff* I wish it hadn't. The third image is both Ashley and me. The wand I hold is solid clay and hand painted with glow in the dark paint and nail polish. You can see the wand better in the fourth image. Obviously, Ashley was having fun hamming it up for the crowd. Unfortunately, my silly tiara was crooked again. For the contest, I took off the mask since the sunglasses under it didn't let me see things very well inside. I still think the judges should have come up with some little participation prize for Ashley. Something to show they appreciated her effort and bravery at being the youngest in the show and the only four-year-old that knows how to sew. They didn't give her anything, though but in my eyes, she still won. She won a full day of fun.

If anyone's interested, I could create tutorials on making this costume and my Neptune one.

All right, all right. I know my tiara's crooked!! A lot of people seemed to think I make a good-looking Sailor Moon. I was aiming for the manga design but it didn't quite turn out as I wanted it to. That darn Lady Gadaiva wig just wouldn't cooperate! Every time I tried to adjust the wig, the tiara would go crooked. Most of these shots were taken after the unfortunate incident with the Storm Trooper that spooked Ashley. All he did was walk by, but he spooked her. I bent down to try to comfort her and my brooch broke off and broke. It was only clay, but I did work quite hard on it. It was one of those "darn it!" things. There was nothing I could do about it. It wasn't Ashley's fault. Anyway, the earrings are hand-crafted oven bake clay painted with fingernail polish and glow in the dark paint. The tiara's a modified wreath hanger with a clear plant gem on top of some red cardboard. The choker is fabric with painted wood pieces that have a nail polish finish. The "odango" covers are oversize costume rings. The boots are regular costume boots and hand made shoe covers. If you look close enough at the second image, you can see a bit of the brooch that broke. *sniff* I wish it hadn't. The third image is both Ashley and me. The wand I hold is solid clay and hand painted with glow in the dark paint and nail polish. You can see the wand better in the fourth image. Obviously, Ashley was having fun hamming it up for the crowd. Unfortunately, my silly tiara was crooked again. For the contest, I took off the mask since the sunglasses under it didn't let me see things very well inside. I still think the judges should have come up with some little participation prize for Ashley. Something to show they appreciated her effort and bravery at being the youngest in the show and the only four-year-old that knows how to sew. They didn't give her anything, though but in my eyes, she still won. She won a full day of fun.

If anyone's interested, I could create tutorials on making this costume and my Neptune one.

All right, all right. I know my tiara's crooked!! A lot of people seemed to think I make a good-looking Sailor Moon. I was aiming for the manga design but it didn't quite turn out as I wanted it to. That darn Lady Gadaiva wig just wouldn't cooperate! Every time I tried to adjust the wig, the tiara would go crooked. Most of these shots were taken after the unfortunate incident with the Storm Trooper that spooked Ashley. All he did was walk by, but he spooked her. I bent down to try to comfort her and my brooch broke off and broke. It was only clay, but I did work quite hard on it. It was one of those "darn it!" things. There was nothing I could do about it. It wasn't Ashley's fault. Anyway, the earrings are hand-crafted oven bake clay painted with fingernail polish and glow in the dark paint. The tiara's a modified wreath hanger with a clear plant gem on top of some red cardboard. The choker is fabric with painted wood pieces that have a nail polish finish. The "odango" covers are oversize costume rings. The boots are regular costume boots and hand made shoe covers. If you look close enough at the second image, you can see a bit of the brooch that broke. *sniff* I wish it hadn't. The third image is both Ashley and me. The wand I hold is solid clay and hand painted with glow in the dark paint and nail polish. You can see the wand better in the fourth image. Obviously, Ashley was having fun hamming it up for the crowd. Unfortunately, my silly tiara was crooked again. For the contest, I took off the mask since the sunglasses under it didn't let me see things very well inside. I still think the judges should have come up with some little participation prize for Ashley. Something to show they appreciated her effort and bravery at being the youngest in the show and the only four-year-old that knows how to sew. They didn't give her anything, though but in my eyes, she still won. She won a full day of fun.

If anyone's interested, I could create tutorials on making this costume and my Neptune one.

This is about how I usually look. Vulcan ears and pinned back hair included.

Club day 2006 at the College. The miko next to me is Sensei. I'm the one in the pink kimono.

For anyone who knows even a little Japanese history and anime, this is sort of an odd conglomeration. Left to right: a samurai, a Japanese lady - a bit more historic than my own kimono, a ninja, Kikyou from Inuyasha and what sensei told me was a princess-style kimono. The sleeves on my pink kimono would indicate nobility.

Club day 2007.

This is me, taking a video of Ashley going down a slide on Father's day 2008.

This is a chicken Mom found walking Cookie one morning in fall 2008. We thought we'd have a nice source of eggs until it crowed! This is how he reacted when Cookie discovered him in HER yard!

Same rooster, just a slightly better shot of him - less upset by Cookie's prescence and simply walking around.

This is again, the same rooster, this time with me holding him tight. This is a week after Mom found him. We got tired of his constant crowing, so we included him in our garage sale that day with a free rooster sign at the end of the driveway. A gentleman that lives in our area and works in real estate, decided to take him and give him a home that day. He was put in a cardboard box and tied onto the back of the guy's bike on his way to a new home.

These costumes were all Ashley's idea. She's since grown into her Luna costume as I reused the patterns for her Chibimoon costume.

Again with the well-loved Luna costume. Nobody seems to believe me when I say that Ashley made the bodice herself. The picture seems to be lost, but Mike got a shot of the two of us sitting at my sewing machine: my hands are up and nowhere near the machine, Ashley is on my lap concentrating on sewing her project. My foot was on the pedal controlling the speed of the machine. There was no finger guard on the machine, either. It seems to have disappeared. She didn't seem to need it after I pointed out that the needle is sharp like the pins she used to pin her patterns to the fabric. She kept her fingers well away from the needle. She only did straight seams, but she had fun doing it.

Here she's playing with a fan as part of her costume. Unfortunately, the fan broke so she couldn't take it to the convention.