C2E2 2015

so this past weekend i went to C2E2. i had a blast. it was tons of fun to go. i saw so much and did so much i'm just going to list it off in no particular order. hehe. here are my pictures from the weekend.

-saw amanda connor a comic book artist. didn't get her signature, but i got to see her. which is cool.
-saw chad l colman from the walking dead. my cousin got his signature and a photo with him.
-saw tons of costumes. a cool spy vs spy costume. it was a father son duo who did it. saw a cool mystique costume. saw a cool white bandages 5th element constume. saw tons of spiderman, captain america, stormtroopers and others.
-hung out with my two cousins. for one cousin it was her 3 time coming with me. for another cousin it was her 2nd time coming with me.
-got to hang out with two other friends of mine at the convention also. always nice to see more people at the convention.
-i dressed up in my wheel of time green ajah shawl one day and another day i dressed up as captain america.
-brought my spiderman bag with me to hold everything and got some compliments from it. my sister made me the bag and it's perfect for the convention. hehe.
-bought the offical pint glass from C2E2. it had the logo of the beer they had created for the convention. it was called galaxy hero. i didn't drink the beer with the same name, but i made sure i bought the pint glass. hehe. every convention i go to, i always get some kind of cup/shot glass/coffee mug. it's just a tradition i have. sometimes its an offical thing. sometimes it's captain america. hehe.
-i bought a card game called chrononauts. i actually bought an expansion set. i have the original card set already, but i saw an expansion and i had to get it!
-almost got a tattoo but there was a $100 fee and the tattoo i wanted wouldn't cost anywhere close to that if i just went to a local tattoo shop. so i decided not to get one.

overall had a good time. walked tons and tons. my feet hurt like crazy on sunday. hehe. check out my pictures from the weekend. will definitely go again next year. it's a nice local convention to go to. i suggest for all to go.

the best halloween costume

so i saw this on imgur and i thought it was the greatest halloween costume for a child! show our kids that it's ok to want to be a princess but it's also ok to want to be a supreme court judge! the feminist inside of me loves this!

c2e2 2014

why hello! so what i didn't talk about in my last blog entry was that i went to C2E2 this year. was a total blast! i went with my friend melissa and two of my cousins. we had a grand ole time. in no particular order here's some of the stuff that happened.

-saw a bunch of cool costumes. my favorite was the phantom of the opera. there were three of them. one was the phantom, one was christine diane, and one was meg. so very cool.

-for one of my cousins, it was her first time ever going to a convention. so i'm really glad that i got to be part of the first time for her. hehe. she said she had a good time, hopefully that is true. she seemed like she did. and sounded excited about going again next year. 

-at one place in the convention you could pay $5 to go to a reptile conservation and for the 5 bucks you got to take your picture with a huge python. so me and my cousin both paid the money and then took our picture an albino python. a huge albino python. it was awesome!

-i only went one day this year. sadly. i had just started my new job and didn't want to take too many days off. so i wore my captain america costume. which is now complete. i really don't have any additions to make to it (unlike my steampunk costume which still needs a couple of things).

-my friend melissa got some books signed by some authors at the convention. she was really excited about that.

-all in all it was an awesome time. if you want to see my pictures, here you go. 

Renaissance faire

Yesterday I went to the Bristol, wi renaissance faire with my friend Melissa and her friend Jamie. Melissa dressed up in a cool corset and skirt. Jamie and I just wore 'normal' clothes. Although, I did wear my astrolabe which I got at ren faire in 2010.

I had a good time hanging out with the girls. We saw the barley balanced show and the last joust of the day. I bought a cool cigerret holder that is made out of meerschaum. And I got a cool bullet holder that will wrap around my leg. I got that for my Steampunk costume (I can't wait to wear it with the costume!). I did stuff my face while I was there with a turkey leg that was the size of my fist. Hehe.

While we were at ren faire I introduced the ladies to Letterboxing. We found three stamps. One really Melissa found it not the rest of us. Hehe.

Melissa seemed to really like Letterboxing and wants to go find more stamps! So I told her I'd be happy to go out with her to find new ones! You know me, I love finding letterboxes. :)

Here are some photos from the day. me stuffing my face. melissa with jamie. melissa and i. a little act that was performed right in front of us. some of the letterboxes we found.

Dragoncon 2012 scrapbook

So I finally finished the scrapbook I was making for dragoncon 2012. I'm very pleased with the finished product. I like that its not perfect. I'm happy with how it turned out. For the cover and pages I used an old book. I just cut the covering off of the book and ripped the pages out of the book. I then punched holes into everything and bound it all together with two binder rings. Here are some pictures of the final product.

cos-play photo database

so as you know i went to c2e2 a couple of weeks ago. and as you know i put pictures of my adventures at the con on my flickr page. well i was contacted by a person who has a website that links bunches of different peoples pictures of cos-playing. and this person wanted to add my pictures from c2e2. i was delighted and agreed. so you now can find my pictures along side other peoples pictures from c2e2. here's the link to the website. your going to have to scroll down to chicago comic entertainment expo (c2e2) it is alphabetical. my pictures are under the name little_egan. but please check out all the other photos that are listed from that weekend. there are some great ones. some very professional photos too. i love seeing all the cos-playing that people do. hope you enjoy the database.

c2e2

this past weekend was the chicago comic entertainment expo (C2E2). i went friday and saturday. friday i went by myself. that's right i took off work to go to this. hehe. saturday i went with my cousin. for my cousin it was her first convention so it was cool to show her what they are all about. i hope she enjoyed it and will want to go to more. i know i love going to them! hehe. over all i had a great time. makes me super excited for dragon con this year! hehe. for pictures of my weekend, go to my flickr and instagram.

here's a random breakdown of the weekend. in no particular order:
-this year i dressed up in costume for the first time. friday i dressed up as captain america. it was cool for it was the first time people stopped me and asked for my picture. which is always a compliment. means the hard work that went into the costume paid off. saturday i wore my steampunk costume. my sister made the harness i wear for that, so i was excited to display it for the first time. my sister can sew that is for sure! hehe. no one asked for my photo in my steampunk costume, but i did get some compliments about it.
-got to see my friend jimmy. he was my boss when i worked at a comic shop, so it was cool to see him.
-got to meet some of the people that work for challenger comics. i have been chatting with them on twitter, so it was nice to put a face to the group. all of them were very nice.
-the swag i got this year was: captain america piggy bank - which really it's just a nice cheap bust of captain america. captain america/red skull salt and pepper shakers. a signed poster from cbldf of lil depressed boy. a captain america travel mug. i'm very excited to take that to work. no one will confuse my drink for theirs. hehe. a really sweet necklace. a comic that jae lee did the cover for. i love his art work, he is amazing! a replica river song journal. i'm going to use it as my own journal.
-i got robert atkins signature. he's known for his g.i. joe stuff. but he also has done some marvel work. he drew a really cool cover for spiderman.
-saw some really cool costumes. harley quinn, the joker, batman, iron man, steampunk, dr who, captain america and so many more.
-i saw one of the dr's i work for there. it was cool to see him outside of work. you never think of the dr's as 'normal people' but really they are. hehe.
-the 501st legion: vader's fist were there. they are always at dragon con so it was cool to see them at c2e2. they are people who dress up in exact replica's of star wars empire troopers. their costumes are always pretty sweet.

so over all i had a great time. i was on my feet all weekend and now i'm ready to just lay down for many many hours. hehe.

Steampunk costume

So my sister is an awesome seamstress. She is a teacher at Oregon state university for it. So because of my sisters mad sewing skills I've never really had to buy a dress (thank you sis!). So for dragoncon I've never really dressed in any sort of costume. Well my sister is making me a part of my Steampunk costume. I thought I would share the pictures of it so far. I'm so excited to wear it!

c2e2

on friday (yesterday) i went to c2e2 (chicago comic entertainment expo). it was fun. after being to dragoncon, i can tell how small c2e2 is. but that's ok. nothing wrong with a smaller comic convention.

-i got to see sean autsin (rudy or samwise gamgi). it was cool to see him. also saw tom morello (guitarist for rage against the machine).
-there was some cool stuff there and some cool costumes. there was one full out steampunk costume, but more marvel and dc costumes. there was a harley quinn that had a HUGE mallet.
-there was a little boy dressed as the joker (dark night joker) and there was a guy dressed up as batman walking by him. the boy said hi batman and the guy turned around and said i'm watching you joker. the little boy just smiled. it was cute.
-i saw jimmy, my old boss from when i worked at the comic shop. it was cool seeing him.
-at the convention i bought a captain america cookie jar. that's right a cookie jar. i know your jealous.
-also there was some props from the captain america movie. it was pretty cool to see that stuff.

over all a cool convention and a good start to convention season. the next one i go to is dragoncon in september which i'm totally excited about. c2e2 was a cool first convention of the summer. go to my flickr for some photos.

here's me with my captain america cookie jar.