Amanda Leo's blog

Halloween Party 2008

So we had a little Halloween celebration this year, costumes required. The result of that was me dressing up at least 5 people (Gerald, Daryl, Clarissa, Lily and Alex) in random things from my cosplay crap. :D

For laughs, I actually changed my costume 3 times over the duration of the night. The wizard costume was brought by Brian and Laina and featured in a pornographic Wizard porn. I refused to put the beard on my face, considering that I'm not sure exactly how many other people have worn it. Not to mention I was thoroughly amused by an entire new concept of "neck beard".

More pictures of everyone from the night. I think Gerald ended up being a Train Conductor rapist by the end of the night. Clarissa wore my Wizard-chan outfit that I made for the Wizard party. Sosa was the ghost of 1976, with hilariously large eyeholes. Andrea started out as some kawaii elf girl, then changed into Officer Jenny, catching Lily/Mudkip on the stairs of my place. And Alina, Laina, Brian and Nikki were random pirate girl(?), B.B.Hood, Piccolo and Sakura, respectively.

Laina and I had a potions lab, making potions for "Being Not a Slut", "Getting a Smaller Penis", "Becoming Last Attractive", and "Mustache Removal". The ending joke about it all was that I switched out the potions that Laina made over the sink with bizarre-flavored Jones sodas, including Candy Corn, Vampire Berry, Candy Cane and Christmas Tree. Unfortunately, my favorite part of the potion-making session, where Laina asks for my help in developing a potion and I just scream for no good reason at the vial she's holding. D: Still, these videos are pretty pro.

Pictures from various games from the night, including the Potion-Making Session. We also had a Post-It/Name Guessing Game where Lily was ecstatic that she was Bella Swan, and Clarissa was Lestat, which she figured out soon after I told her that her character was really gay. Other activities included "Pumpkin Dick", a Halloween version of Fluffy Bunny (which Carolann destroyed all competition at), and some strange game where we made a huge spiderweb by wrapping yarn around various limbs in a circle.

Decorations/Food from around the house.

My Costume Year of 2007

I actually gathered all these pictures together like... 3 months ago, but sort of forgot all about posting... >___>

Anyway, the year started out with a photoshoot at Loch Haven park, which Miko wanted to check out for doing a possible photoshoot with some friends for Megacon. It was fun wearing my ninja girl again, and sort of inspired me again to want to make some more original costumes.

Megacon marked the first con of the year. I made Sokka, which involves a very horrible process of attempting to put on makeup and staying up til 6 in the morning making parkas.

I also wore Edgeworth, with a new sexyfine wig, which came in very handy when taking many sexyfine pictures with Cassie.

For JACON, I sported a new, super sexy suit I chanced across in a Ross for Edgeworth. I also made Edgeworth's totally official artwork uber gay pink pajamas to wear with Risky Business!Phoenix for the Yaoi PJ Party. I rewore Reno for the casino event, which seemed extremely fitting and I got to have  lot of fun acting in character. I also made my very first Tamaki outfit, from the WcDonald's episode, and took a photoshoot in the World's Biggest McDonalds.

Avatarshoot.jpg

We had ourselves an Avatar photoshoot where I rewore Zuko. I started to feel like I was definitely becoming a pro at doing the scar makeup, since I actually wound up doing it on the car ride to the shoot, in the back seat.

Nikki surprised Miko and I by buying us the blue blazers for the normal Host Club outfits, which was a total surprise, since we all had never planned on doing so.This  was SUCH a fun photoshoot, I still can't believe we somehow wound up with THREE different photographers, and we got SO many awesome pics from it! :) And it's pretty funny, considering how many times we wound up wearing the blue blazers after this.

Metrocon wound up not being a good con for taking pictures, as proven by the above selections, one of which was a progress picture taken in my bathroom (lol).  This was actually the first time I got use of my Robin wig, which I think I actually had about a year before this. I do want to cosplay her more though, I really liked how the makeup came out.
I also wore Mori instead of Tamaki (so that CA could wear Tamaki as she ran events for the con). I did wear Tamaki for Friday' night's dance, sporting a mudkip mask, but I never actually got any pictures of me in it.

AFO was pretty laid back, costume-wise, since I just rewore Blue Blazer Tamaki. Planning-wise was a lot more stressful, since we planned our Ouran panel, which was a full hour event that was a HUGE success and was really encouraging for us to want to do more events in the future.

pirateparty.jpg

Laina and I have been wanting to throw  pirate party for years, and were happy to finally get the chance to do so for a joint BDay party. I wish I had gotten some nicer pictures of the outfit, which I really liked how it came out. I burned the edges so that they wouldn't fray and would look more "pirate-y", and Lindsey helped me cover a straw hat and sew it into a pirate hat. I definitely want to wear this to a photoshoot sometime to get some more pictures. :)

While preparing for AWA, the girls and I had some rather epic sewing parties at my apartment, which was free for almost 2 weeks while my roommates were on vacation. The nights were full f staying up til 6 in the morning, making bad jokes while watching every single movie of our childhood, and powerful stuff like Play-Doh Mudkips and eating a lot of fucking cereal.

Well, all the hard work definitely payed off, since I was able to make four new costumes for AWA, all of which I totally loved. Maki was awesome because I've always wanted to make a school girl uniform costume, but wasn't able to find anyone that I wanted to cosplay as, until Miko and I watched Airmaster. Our Ouran waiter outfits were a pretty epic adventure, since we made them all in one night via Chinese Sweat Shop-style.

My Mudkip Lolita was a surprising hit, I couldn't believe how many people actually recognized me at the con. The costume itself was a great achievement, definitely the best costume I made in 2007. It was my first time making a corset, stitching ribbon with a sewing machine, and dying a wig with the alchohol/Sharpie method. I also drafted all the patterns for the skirt and wierd lolita arm things. Overall, I am REALLY proud of this outfit, despite its internet origins. :D

I got to cosplay with Meredith for the first time, which was really awesome, since she is a total sweetie. I made Blue Spirit Zuko, which I think looks pretty sharp, even if the outfit is SUPER hot. I still want to remake the mask, though...

Wizardparty.jpg

Misha followed me and Laina's example and had a Wizard themed party to celebrate his birthday. I was rather happy with the "Wizard-chan" that I whipped up in about an hour and 15 minutes from random shit in my room. : D

I had 2 different outfits for Halloween time. By far the best one was the Dr. House one I made for my friend Steve's party, and I wound up going downtown wearing it and scaring several people there. On the actual day of Halloween, we went trick-or-treating in our Avatar outfits, since they were definitely the most recognizable and would be liked by any kids that watch the show.

The year ended rather epically with Anime South, which was somewhat expected, considering the epic nature of the Anime South from the year before. I made two new outfit, Young Snape, to wear with Meredith's Lily, and Winter Akihiko. Unfortunately, our Persona group wasn't as epic as it was supposed to initially be, but I did have a lot of fun being a complete faggot with Cassie and Miko.

All the costumes I did were really fun to be in, and I wasn't stressed out about them at all. I got to cosplay for the first time with Veronica, who made an awesome and rather voluptuous Angel Starr, be faggots with Cassie, do some power-cosplaying by wearing Christie, Maki AND Snape all on Saturday, and then got to wear Sokka again, which was a vast improvement due to better makeup and ton of sluts for Sokka to pimp. :D

Christmas Party 2007

Going through all of my photos from last year that were never posted, and since I was recently reminded that I HAVE a Vox, and that it's totally awesome, so I'm posting the pictures here bit by bit.

This tree was such a hilarious catastrophe. Since we were in the middle of moving into the apartment, we didn't get to water the tree as much as it needed to be watered, so it was dying. So to fix the huge horrible gaping spots where the branches were too spread out, Nikki's friend Anne and I actually TWINED extra branches into the tree.

As an added bonus, the tree was SO crooked that it could not even stand up straight, so we had to prop it up in the corner. By far the most ghetto tree I have ever encountered.

But it's ok, because we decided that we needed a very mighty "angel" to top the tree, which Cassie and I found in a box of my action figures, in the form of Wing Zero from Gundam Wing.

Some pictures of the party attendees and our mingling/Christmas partying/exploding of Christmas Crackers and enjoying the goodies within.

Pictures of people enjoying the swag they received for Christmas:
Me- Some awesome Phoenix and Edgeworth paper figures that Clarissa made me.
Laina- Sporting the many pink things she received, and the powerful Crazy Cat Lady pin I gave her.
Mathaeis- Got REALLY excited over the $1 store cop set I gave him and Rissy.
Nikki- With one of the many gifts I spoiled her with, a blue stuffed Penguin
Cassie- Looking fashionable wearing all the bows in the room on her hat, and about to open her Shinjiro wig from me.
Carolann- Looking hot in the Mitsuru wig and coat that Nikki and I got her.

Definitely the most epic pictures of the night, and the best way to end this post: Chino and Brandon Eiffel Towering the $1 Blow Up Alligator I got for Chino, and Brian and Laina looking totally pro.

Festival of Pies

This was an especially awesome day in my life. It started out with Brian knocking on my bedroom window, with me totally still wearing my Pajamas, proclaiming that "C'mon, we're gonna go eat some pie!" Laina then stepped into my room about 2 seconds later, the conventional way, since she had come in through the front door (my roomate had let her in). Brian then proceeded to open my window and climb into my room, telling me I needed to put on some clothes, so we could all eat some pie. I unfortunately have no photos taken of these events, but they were entirely too hilarious for me to not at least document with words.

We went back to Brian and Laina's house to meet up with our fellow Pie Eaters, and encountered a Parade of Kittens in Laina's living room.

And so we got to the Pie Festival, where we encountered a suspicious box of pastries that had been left alone on a park bench, got a bitchin' picture at the entrance, and began consuming massive amounts of pie.

I repeat, MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF PIE.

We watched some small children beat things with inflatable aliens behind our table, and then mosied on over to the Pie Eating Competition. I still don't understand the girl on the end, why she would enter this contest. My only reasonable conclusion is that someone made her and her companion join, and they completely failed by sucking at the competition horribly.

IMG_0054.jpg

And we end this with this extremely good picture of all my bros playing their Nintendo DS' in a circle out in front of Target. Please note the very good celebration on Laina's head, which I asked her, if I bought it, if she would wear one with me. Her response was, "Well, if you want to waste a dollar on that, then sure..." And my response was , "Oh, that's not a dollar wasted, I can assure you." :D

Hot Mom Photoshoot

The photoshoot I took of Andrea in her Bulma, AKA Hottest Mom Ever, from Dragonball Z. This was my first time experimenting with the Landscape setting on the camera, and I was quite pleased with the results.

My very favorite out of the pictures that I took, these are also what I entered as Staff Entries for JACON's Shoot Me! contest. My favorite is the second. I really love cosplay photographs where you can't see the person's face, but can tell who they are by distinguishing features (like the boots and dragonballs here). I'm also quite proud of the black and white with red picture, I thought that the red would look amazing like that, since the fabric had such a silky texture to it. That smoke was also a huge pain in the ass to put into the picture, since I had to manually paste it in, erase all th black around it, and blend it in. I think it came out really nice, though.

Ouran- French Toast and Burgers <3

My favorites out of our Ouran pictures. I took a lot more pics with Miko's camera, which came out a lot more impressive than anything my camera could ever do.

Quote from Miko while Nikki and I were playing the I.Q. game at IHOP, "I can't tell if you're acting in character, or are just really serious about that." A little bit of both, most likely. :D

Cosplay Court

Pictures from Cosplay Court, the Lawyer-themed event we ran at JACON this year.

JACON Assorted

My sexy loot. There wasn't much of it, but is all AMAZING.

Random pictures taken in between events, including Brian as Hard Gay (whose butt I awarded a hall Award to), Casey and his FABULOUS gay bag, Wade deflating our mattress unintentionally, and Super Hot Ace.

Casino

PJ Party

My favorites from the PJ Party, featuring, but not limited to: Hot Kyoya, Hot Phoenix x Edgeworth, and Hot One Piece Guys in PJ's that were awesome beyond words.