A few recent acquisitions have made my little otaku heart very happy, some cosplay related, others not quite so much (but so cool!) First up, general otaku stuff!
I didn't write about this at the time, but I received the coolest birthday present ever this year (awesome way to wrap up Sakura Con, btw): this fantastic Escaflowne statue I'd been drooling over in a local anime shop for the past three years or so.
Seriously, every time I walked into the shop I'd practically plaster my face to the glass and just salivate over the thing. Escaflowne's my all-time favorite series and it's so hard to find merchandise for it. The fact that I didn't have this ultra-awesome piece on my mantle bothered me for the longest time, and what do I get on my birthday?
Thanks cp. Oh, and any of you Gasukan kids who helped. I hear you had something to do with it, too.
More recently at Emerald City Comic Con, I got my hands on some old-school memorabilia:
What I really wanted was the drop-dead gorgeous Fujiko figure that's supposed to be part of the set, but she doesn't come out until later this year. She may be out by now, though. But I've got Lupin, who is definitely badass enough on his own. I'm sure he's awaiting my acquisition of Fujiko-chan just as eagerly as I am.
I love figures. They're my favorite kind of collectible junk, and one of the saddest things about my current living arrangement is that the majority of my collection is in storage right now. I've been gathering more while I'm living here, though ^^'. I've been working on getting together the entire One Piece crew (no Luffy yet, unfortunately), and I'm still hyper over the entire Cyborg 009 set I found at the Daiso for about $10. I picked up a large Inuyasha (Toyami) and a beautiful Miroku statue last week. Miroku's part of a set I want to eventually collect in its entirety--Kagome and Sango were wonderful. And the 'CLAMP in 3-D Land' sets are adorable...I still want Syaoran, he was the cutest thing.
Anyway, in more cosplay-related news, I finally have a good sewing machine! A Pfaff Smart 200c; while not a higher end model, it's definitely a big step above the $100 Singer hobby machines I've owned until now. I haven't played with it much yet, but with Anime Evolution just around the corner and me with several projects that need finishing, I'll definitely have the opportunity to do so in the next few weeks.
This is the first machine I've owned with computerized settings, or with an automatic needle threader. One of the small things about this model, relevent to recent/in-progress projects is it has a stitch function needed for Romeo's outfit...just a bit of trim on his sleeves that I wasn't sure how to pull off before. It can do letters and numbers too; not quite sure how I'll use them, but it's nice to have. And most importantly, it's got way more power than anything I've owned before. I can actually work with heavy-duty stuff now without worrying my machine's gonna die on me.
Apparently it also does buttonholes on its own, no 4-step process. Now I might actually make buttonholes. Awesome.
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