Day 3. It begins

Cosplay Insanity

Day 3.

Today I walked into a Joann's with equal parts nerves and excitement. I have been a cosplayer for about three and a half years now. I discovered cosplay partway through my first (and only) sewing class in college. I decided that for our first convention I would sew costumes for all of my friends. In about a week. There were seven of us. This probably should have been the first clue that I have a tendency of throwing myself in over my head. There was panic, sleepless nights, and some shoddy hems, but they were done in time and I got my first taste of seeing my work walking around a convention floor. And in the car ride home that day we discussed what we were going to be doing next year. And then I promptly didn't make anything for almost a year.

Procrastination is my strong suit. Followed closely by an overabundance of exuberance, and a lack of time management skills. I work my butt off, burn out, and then can't pick up a costume for at least a few months.

The last costume I made was almost two months ago now. So when 2017 rolled around and my best friend gave me a calendar with Joann's coupons for christmas (Thank you Chryssi) I decided to reach the pinnacle of my own insanity, and make a costume a month for an entire year. This is going to stretch me in every way, time management, procrastination, financial management, my skills and my creativity. So of course I decide I need to blog about it. We'll see how this is going to go. Tomorrow I sit down to get started on the first costume, panicking more than a little the entire time. But hey, in the end hopefully I'll learn something, even if its just the next time I get a moment of cosplay insanity, I learn to say no.