AnimeUSA 2019

  To spoil the ending of this story, I had a great time and I'm so happy I went!!

  While getting ready to go I got out of the shower, towel dried off and noticed a small dark thing tumble off the towel.  I looked down wondering why there is black fuz on a light green towel.  It was a spider.  As I stood there looking at it and wondering how I was going to get it outside while in my current state of attire, it bit me.  I manage to get it outside after flicking it into a trash bag.

  Checked into the hotel and quickly got changed before going to the Halloween showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  As I was buttoning the back of my blouse I was wondering why I was having a hard time of it, then I noticed the button on the floor.  I got everything on and it looked good until I put my shoes on.  I hurt my ankle about a month ago and while it is almost healed, it told me NO!  So I pulled out my backup shoes and out we went.

  It took two Ubers (first dropped the ride when he got within a block of me) and 40 mins waiting in the cold, but I got back to the hotel room.  When I got back I took some pictures with the shoes I wanted.

  I also did a mini photo shoot of my accessories.  I knew I could wait to get better pictures with Bill and his fancy camera, but I wanted to get this done before the other people who were staying in the room got in.  After eating a dinner of beef jerky at 3am, I went to bed.

  I just wore the backup shoes and didn't wear the pins because they belong to my housemate and I'm paranoid I'd lose them.  So many people complimented me on my dress and some even asked me about lolita.  I had a fun time telling people about it and giving them some resources on how to start.
  At an Online Lolita panel, I even got called to the front to show off everything. I also got to meet Raven's Rose, who I met online, and she's adorable and the sweetest!  I even got a cute story where a guy told my that his girlfriend was interested in wearing lolita fashion and didn't know where to start.  I told him about some websites she could shop on and he took notes on his phone so he wouldn't forget.

  I had my favorite BodyLine dress planned for Sat.  I hadn't tried it with my current petticoat so I ended up having to roll the top a bit and hike it up.  The shoes I bought just for this were not cooperating.  I needed to put another set of holes in them and I usually do that with a safety pin and brute force.  This material almost closes the hole after I pulled out the pin.  So backup shoes it was.  However the socks I brought are really wide in the foot and bunched oddly in the other shoes.  So I threw on the grey socks that came with the pumpkin ones. 

  I still got a lot of compliments and people asked what brand my dress was.

  I even learned how to hand sew cute bows. If I make more, I will definitely machine stitch the boring parts.  It took me about two hours to make this.  I had fun chatting with all the people who sat at the same table I did, but that is a bit much for when I'm on my own.

  Sunday I was a bum in leggings and a t-shirt since I was just doing one more run through of the Dealer's Room and Artist Alley.  I wanted to get home to my hubby, who was supposed to attend with me, but was too sick to make it out all weekend.  He kept trying to make it out and then didn't quite get there.  He fell asleep a few times while meaning to leave the house.  He's feeling much better as I type this out.

Anime USA 2014 report.

I love anime conventions.  Though what I do at them have changed over the years.  I used to take so many pictures, at least two disposable camera's worth.  Now I only take a few.  Though I never used to go with large groups of people, and now there are a lot of people I go with.  I don't mind the change really, though I would like to go back to cosplaying some more and taking more pictures.

I love seeing awesome costumes like this one.  She was the cutest Toothless I have ever seen!

This is something else I like to do at cons that I never did before.  The Maid Cafe.  I like getting the Omurice because the maid you get will draw on it with ketchup.

We got cute cupcakes this time.  I'm not sure what they used for the ribbon because it didn't taste like ceiling, but I really liked it.

One of the people I help during the con brought one of her new friends to join our little group.  She brought these.  They are good alone but taste even better with banana milk (which she also brought).

This isn't a food thing, but don't worry, we will get back to food soon.  Wait...isn't this a crafting blog and not a food blog...  Moving on!  This is the hat I started while at the con.  It is based on the faux brioche scarf my mom had found that I had figured out the pattern for.  It took me an oddly long time to try and figure out how to do it.  I was trying to picture it in my head and was having some sort of imagination block.  I then tried figuring it out on a piece of paper and it took me less than a minute.
I started this one more than once because the pattern looks like a ribbing so an inch of regular 2x2 ribbing looked like it was a bit much.

Here is more food!  I have seen the Eat Your Kimchi people eat this food and I've also seen it on Let's Eat(a very fun Korean drama).  I also got the kit to make it at home, but I wanted to taste the real thing myself.  Well, I got to!  There is a place called Lighthouse Tofu not too far from me that has a bunch of different kinds.  I dragged my co-worker with me, those are her hands and arms.
I think I really impressed some of the people who worked there.  I knew the egg went into the super hot soup(not shown) and about the rice to the side.  The rice with liquid to the right is the leftover bits of rice in with some water.  They combine together to make some burnt rice tea.  I was also explaining what the sides were to her.

This is a very short video of the soup.  You can see how hot it is.  I got the beef and pork version with a medium level of heat.  Next time I am going to get the beef and kimchi.  It was so good and it was the perfect level of spicy.  It also turned out that the kits were not too far off from the flavor of the one in the restaurant.
My co-worker wasn't too impressed by it, but I found out one of my convention friends now lives nearby.  I know he also likes food like this.  Much eating will happen.