Modesty Studios

I hope that during the two days off that I have, I will FINISH fixing the Tali costume and then focus on losing weight. ...I never thought I would ever say I have to do that. For most of my life I was struggling to GAIN weight. Metabolism DOES slow down at 30. LIKE ON THE DOT. Gained 10 pounds in a month or so. /sigh/ Which has made Tali a little snug. ;) I have spanx but they can only do so much. Luckily, I can go on a low carb diet and exercise more. Still waiting on feedback about jobs, looks like I'll have some unemployment time in January. Boooo! But I am making plans for my Inquisitor cosplay. And hopefully finishing the Warden. I have sunk quite some time into it and some money but I really don't have a planned event to wear it at so it's hard to really work on it. Also, want to wear the elf armor to the Ren Faire. :) We'll see how things go though. :)

Curse you inspiration. I'm not saying I'm actually going to MAKE this costume since I need to finish Tali and the Grey Warden costume first. But I am half-tempted to drop the Warden for this. Ugh but so much of it is done. Must finish. So here's the plan. Costume Analysis There are 4 layers: Chainmaille, Green Armor, Limb Armor, Clothe bits Chainmail looks like a bit body suit. but most likely shirt and chaps. There are seams that are visible on the chain itself. For the feet, it looks like clothe sandals. Same with fingerless gloves. Green Armor: A bodice and Tassets. They look like they're a firm leather with some raised designs. Because it's a game, the bodice is all one piece with no discernible method of keeping it on. although I guess you could tie it in the back. The tassets look simple enough and attach to a mystery belt under the bodice. Limb Armor: These (on my screen shots) are coppery/Bronze in color. The Arms have pauldrons mixed of leath...

So various parts of Tali don't stay on well. It's a hodge podge of velcro, glue and tape currently (as a temp solution. I've also got a couple more pieces to make: Arm Bands, magazine clip holders and Shotgun. OH and the omni-tool. I forgot about that thing. :P So here are the bits that broke when I put on my costume: - Left Leg bracer: The d-rings popped off. Needs a better way to keep these together. - Right Foot Armor: Pieces keep popping off. Really need to glue these down. -Bandeau likes to slide around. I think I need to sew some of it onto the belt somehow. -Leather Arm bands, the darn velcro just popped off. Needs to be sew on not glued. - Arm Bracer: Just a touch a velcro will help keep it from sliding off. So I know what I'm doing for Christmas. :D 

The fruits of my thanksgiving weekend labor. And then things immediately started falling apart because yeah...temp attachments are temporary for real. So From here on it's fixing and trying to lose weight. XD As you can see, my other bit of leg armor is not on, due to all the attachment rings breaking off. 

So I spent most of the day at my sewing machine working on some of the accessories and cloth parts of the costume. I'm happy to report that I've finished all the purple cloth parts and the belts. Still to go:  -Finish up the leather arm bands.  - Create the Neck wrap.  - Upgrade helmet  - Upgrade Leg armor  The leg armor is turning into a bigger challenge than I anticipated. More research is needed. :) Pics will come soon. Once I clear some space to set down the camera and get dressed. Probably tomorrow. For now...sleeeeep. Zzzzz...

Sorry about that, I turned 30 about a week ago and many things changed at once, including projects I'm working on. With Thanksgiving coming up, I'll have 4 free days to work on stuff. My plan is to set up my sewing machine and finish up the sewing needs for Tali's Costume. I've been negligent on that part. I will also remake the helmet to suit the new visor eventually, but first the sewing. The other project I've been working on and off is an RPG Maker game, currently unnamed. I made a wiki for it: http://centaurrpg.wikia.com/wiki/Centaur_Game_Wiki Along with that Dragon Age Inquisition came out...and I had to buy a new computer to run it basically. :P She's custom built. But now I have spare parts and computers to get rid of. I still haven't played the game yet...but I AM ready to. I'll post about the game on my Gamer blog.

So it's only a couple of days before Halloween. I found a party to go to. But at the last minute, I had a change of heart about my werewolf queen. It is awesome and I am proud of it, but for this particular party it wouldn't work out. We'll be playing lots of board games with tiny pieces. Not very easy to manipulate with my claw gloves. (I'll use them somewhere.) Instead of a werewolf, I'm re-purposing the costume as a Calavera or Sugar Skull from Dia de Meurtos. I just got some extra white makeup, false eye lashes and Skeleton leggings. I've been having way too much fun on Pintrest and Youtube looking up designs for the makeup. Lol...dead daisy head. I love wigs. This adds the right contrast. Decent look at the design.