soooo sick of essays

This morning to work on my essay I printed it all out, got a pair of scissors and tape. The scissors were extra difficult to use because they were gummied up by old glue between the blades, and thus the lines i cut were very poor. However, I managed to snip the pages up like a puzzle and rearrange them in a different order, making an entirely new image. My new paper seems a lot more fur-positive, and is a lot more interesting. I'm so proud of myself, and so ready to be done.

Costuming projects out the wazoo

Ok, so I've been in a quite crafty mood lately, so I'm working on designing several projects for the next anime convention in my hometown (unfortunately there aren't any furry cons I know of within the city limits, so my ability to go to those relies on my getting a driver's license). I plan on keeping track of my progress here, and maybe uploading photos of the finished results of my work.

I am currently working on:

• A very cute wolf tail. It's about two to three feet long and has a slight s-shaped curve in the pattern to hopefully avoid it hanging there looking totally dead. I don't think I'm going to use wire armature for this one. If I like it, I'm going to keep it. If I'm not sufficiently pleased with the results, I'll probably sell it to a friend who's not such a perfectionist for $5, just enough to cover the expenses in faux-fur at an extreme markdown. I was lucky enough to go into Joann fabrics when they had 7/8 of a yard left of the grey fur I wanted. When they have less than a yard, they sell it to you at a 50% discount.

I have not started but am planning on making:

• A cat tail for my friend. Also grey material, possibly painting on black stripes with a toothbrush. I hope he decides to pay me for it, but if he doesn't, I'll survive. I hope to get good enough to actually make an income off of fursuit and art commissions someday, seeing as I'm not set out for a high-paying desk job.
• Two pairs of ears: One set of wolf ears for myself, and one set of cat ears with black tips for my friend.
• A Robot Unicorn Attack head out of poster board or plastic sheets if I can get my hands on them. I'm going to look at the pattern here http://www.thedentedhelmet.com/f23/boba-fett-helmet-blueprints-templates-10497/ of a boba-fett helmet, and figure out how to make a similar pattern shaped like an equine head. I like what beastcub did here http://www.beastcub.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=74551706, but plan on going in an entirely different direction. I like suit heads a good deal smaller on partials, and am going to go for a sleeker design without the faux fur mane. If I do a mane, it will be a much thinner and more flowing material.
• Elf ears for my love, using a latex mold or somesuch. LOTR costuming sites should help me a great deal here. 
• A wolf head eventually, but I'm awfully scared to do this one as the materials are expensive and I don't have a lot of experience making heads of any type.

Things I'd like to make but probably won't because of skill and time constraints:

• A Captian Malcom Reynolds browncoat large enough to wear with my partial wolfsuit. The main challenge will be figuring out how to make room for a tail without messing with the original duster design too much.
• An entirely seperate brown Dr. Who coat, but I could use the same one as the Captain Mal one if I make it. Combining it with the proper outfit, as I've been told I look a bit like David Tennant. (if David Tennant was an FTM teenager with a really bad haircut)
• I'd like to help my boyfriend make his Dalek suit because holy crap yes, nerdy couples costumes for the win. He's going to probably be helping me a shitton with sewing because I suck at it.
• A Kahjiit fursuit to wear next year for the release of the next in the series that brought us Oblivion. The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. So psyched.
• A lemur fursuit. Just because. This one will probably never happen, but I've seen some cool ones and think it could be fun.

Holy crap, looking at what I've just written, I have a feeling I'm probably only ever going to do maybe the tails and ears, and possibly the suit heads if I'm feeling brave. This should be enough to keep me busy for, oh, forever. If I ever get any of these done, expect followup posts.

Later on, I think I'll post a list of all of the art projects I want to do that aren't involving costumes.

Happy new years!

No long post today, I'm sitting on the couch at my dad's house cuddling my lovely Elfboy and watching Lord of the Rings. This is the stuff that happy holiday traditions are made of. Don't think that I'll make any new year's resolutions this year. Having a hard enough time sticking to the plans I made at Solstice. Well, hoping you all succeed in your resolutions, my nonexistant readers! Heres hoping all of you fabulous people who are gonna find this blog eventually are having a great time at parties, dancing and raving while wearing tails or just cuddling.
Hoping somebody finds this blog soon (other than the one reading over my shoulder XD)
Actually, that sounds like a good resolution. Get a few subscribers and start taking (and finishing) paid commisions on artworks. AND MOAR CUDDLES. So sayeth my elven Master, so apparently moar cuddles.

Happy new years!