Hello there.  I'd like to announce the winner of the 5,000 pageview Kiriban.   managed to screen cap my page at 5,000 views earlier this morning.  They will be receiving a 3 month premium subscription!  They also got to choose a character to see a new picture of.  I will therefore be posting a new Sakuya picture shortly!  Thanks again to everyone for keeping an eye on my page.  Maybe I'll do another one of these someday.  

Over the next week or so, I'll be posting a lot of pictures from the massive Silent Hill photoshoot at the Mansfield reformatory.  So be warned.  Gotta say, I had so much fun that weekend, even if I did drive 24 hours in 4 days.  Haha.  Everyone was so nice and friendly.  I got a chance to meet and work with some of my very favorite Silent Hill cosplayers.  Not to mention chat and be very silly with them.  
I also very much enjoyed getting to go to the Mansfield Reformatory.  That place is stunning.  Desperately creepy, of course.  I mean, so much happened there.  Occasionally you'd walk into a room, and just feel all the pent up negative energy.  I know that sounds really silly, but you could really feel it.  At the same time, it was beautiful.  So huge, with such a natural decay everywhere.  I'd love to visit another time when I'm not wearing contacts that obscure my vision so horribly.   I did wear my Demon Nurse cosplay, so expect lots of pictures of her in the near future.

Finally, Animazement is coming up in less than 2 weeks.  There's still quite a few odds and ends to finish up on most of my costumes, but I'm confident they'll all be finished in time.  I can't make the Charlotte shoot next weekend due to evaporated funds, but I will be wearing my Shattered Memories Cybil to a shoot with the night before Animazement in Raleigh.  So here's my Animazement lineup.  It is (as usual), still a little up in the air, based on how much energy I have after I spend hours putting on makeup in the bathroom.  But I think it'll mostly stay as such:

Thursday: Cybil -- Silent Hill Shattered Memories (Sexualized version) (possibly shoot only)
Friday Day: Demon Nurse -- Silent Hill 3
Friday Evening: Karen -- Mean Girls (part of a group cosplay)
Saturday (afternoon and evening only): Memory of Alessa -- Silent Hill 3
Sunday:  Cybil

Obviously a very Silent Hill-y weekend.  With a random suuuuper girly cosplay thrown in there.  Haha. Mean girls will be a group cosplay with and maybe and .  Memory of Alessa will be accompanied by 's last minute Heather, which will be lots of fun.  It's been far too long since she and I have done horror costumes together.  I'm very excited about all of these. Lots to do still, but it's mostly fun stuff.  Just can't forget anything.

Happy crafting!