They tend to pick characters that aren't very well known, so I'll have maybe 2 references photos to try and figure out what is actually going on with the outfit. It can be a little—challenging

Kotoko Utsugi from Dangan Ronpa and Scavenger D.Va from Overwatch, Rika and Mika Jougasaki from Cinderella Girls and Wadanohara from Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea. Along with the dresses for myself, I'm starting my own cosplay of Professor Ursula from Little Witch Academia

Now that I have a brief respite from making cosplays for my daughters (which I really enjoy) I have time to cut out some dresses for myself from the awesome vintage fabric I bought at an estate sale back in November. And then I got a ridiculous cold (after bragging about not having been sick in at least two years) so…

It's also possible she's a strep carrier—I am a little vague on the details, but it's where the strep bacteria is present but grows at a very slow rate. So someone could have a virus causing a sore throat, but a culture will show strep—even though that is not what is causing the sore throat.

Remember when Arthur had an episode about fascism?

Started reading Watchmen after receiving it along with a stack of other books as a birthday gift from a friend. I am really enjoying it, much more than I thought I would.

Flying Witch, which is sort of a gentle, very soothing and cozy Kiki's Delivery Service. It is about a young witch from Yokohama, who moves to a small village to live with some relatives as part of her training. Her relatives aren't witches, but seem to be aware and welcoming that she is a witch. I also started…

Smugness and spite fuels most of my actions.

I've been trying to get to the gym three times a week for a half hour of really basic weight training and a half hour of cardio on the recumbent bike. Mostly it makes me feel that while everything else in my life is spiraling out of control, this is one thing I've remained in control of. So I guess it makes me feel…

Continuing to work on cosplay for an upcoming anime convention in Columbus, Ohio. Highlights (of frustration) were a halter made out of shiny vinyl fabric and trying to paint tights so they could have a stripe pattern specific to the character. Today I'm painting a patch to go on the back of a jacket for D.Va from…

From a costuming point of view, I'm a little disappointed the new series apparently has a contemporary setting. I loved Violet's dresses in the movie

Having attended elementary school in the mid seventies, I'm kind of amazed and impressed at the Sex Ed she received at school. Although the "draw what you think a naked man/woman looks like" is a little—I'm not sure what.

My 18 year old daughter came home from the hospital today after voluntarily checking herself in early Monday morning as a suicide risk. She seems positive, has a good treatment/therapy plan in place, but right now I'm feeling overwhelmed, anxious and kind of hopeless. I'm sure it's just everything catching up with me…

I have the slightly uncomfortable feeling that several of you are actually my husband posting under a variety of user names.

I've kind of felt like —look, people, wonderful, famous, influential, significant people died in 2015, 2015 and all the years before. But Carrie Fisher's death made me sad. Maybe because she was only ten years older than me.

Last summer I was biking outdoors 6 miles a day, 5 days a week. When the days started getting shorter (my best time to ride was around 7PM) I moved to the gym and started doing a half hour of weight training (if you can count the amount I'm lifting as actual weight) and a half hour of cardio on the recumbent bike. I…

My last day of work was last Sunday and I don't go back until the nearly the end of January—sadly I don't get a paycheck during that time so it's really not that great. Plans after Christmas are to sew like a madwoman in preparation for the big anime convention I'm taking my daughter to mid-January.

I found a website for Sears Christmas Wishbook catalogs a few years ago, and found one for 1976, which has toys I remembered asking for and getting—I would have veen 10. I though I would smile nostalgically thinking how cheap everything was—but a lot of toys were actually about the same cost as toys today. Stuffed…

My mother used boiling as a cooking method for everything. I as an adult before I realized vegetables could taste good.

That can be so difficult, but I also know friends who were able to successfully navigate a crush that wasn't fully reciprocated. Hoping it works out the same for you.