The Good News- Chris got into the AB Cosplay Chess Match, and Anime Boston is in two days. YAY!!!

The Bad News- I'm still working on stuff for both my Rinoa & my Sakura costume at this point.

The Ugly- 1) I don't think I'm gonna be able to complete Rinoa's weapon (the 'Shooting Star') - not b/c of the time running out, but b/c I made it a little too big, and it's most likely not gonna fit in even my large rolling suitcase.  ::imitates season 3 Blackadder::  "D*mn!!!"  I may just leave it 1/2 done to fit in my suitcase, and finish hot gluing it when I get there. Ugh... man, what a pain.....
     2) I still have a bunch of little things to do for my Sakura costume, and time is VERY quickly running out! If I get really desperate (which I'm beginning to be!), I may just end up hot gluing the d*mn thing together - which I don't want to do, because it might look cheap and it'll certainly feel cheap, but... I want it to be done! Waah!  ::poutpout::
     3) I'm gonna have to bring my huge-*$$ rolling suitcase to Boston b/c of my costumes & stuff - and I have 2 classes to go to Thursday morning! Urgh!!! So I can either look retarded & wheel my mini-hearse into my classes with me..... or go to the Sheraton, see if they'll hold my suitcase for me for a few hours, probably be late for my first class, finish my 2nd class at about 12:20pm, go back to the Sheraton, and wait for Chris & Hill to arrive.

.............

::sighs::
.....Once again, nothing is ever easy.

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     So - for the 'Shooting Star', all the cardboard 'wings' are cut out, and more cardboard was placed underneath them to help provide support & prevent possible bending. I used the older wings that I'd cut out first (the ones I was originally going to use, before I decided to improve the shape), so that way they wouldn't go to waste.

     After hot gluing the old cardboard wings to the bottom of the new cardboard wings, I decided to put pieces of 3/16" wood dowel under the wing tips for extra support.  .....I know no one's going to see the underneath of the wings, but they look quite odd, LOL. 
     Then, I put white duct tape around the edges of the wings, to hide the brown edges of the cut cardboard. After that was done, I duct-taped the rest of the wing, so that it would look white. I've only gotten one wing done so far. I'll probably put pics up of them later.

     Once I get home from school (where I am right now), I'm going to finish duct-taping the wings & wing edges white, and then I plan on gluing white feathers to the wings. After THAT is done, I can do the circular middle-part of the weapon that holds all the wings together, and then attatch some white elastic underneath, so I can wear the thing on my arm during the convention.

     Phew! Overall though, so far so good! I'll keep everyone in touch!    ^__^

(Even though no one probably even reads this thing, LOL!!!)

     Along with working on my Sakura costume (which, unfortunately, hasn't progressed much since its last post, LOL), I also decided to start trying to make a version of Rinoa's ultimate weapon, the Shooting Star. I'll try to post some progress/reference pics later. 

     So far, I have some 'wings' cut out of cardboard, and I'm hoping to make those white soon. So... I'll try to keep everyone updated!