Tuesday 9 July 2013

Charles Bazaar Giveaway Part 2!

So we've shown what prints there will be for the giveaway, now Charles Bazaar jewellery :D

I found this really hard to decide, as I love all my jewellery, and I know a lot of people have certain favourites, so I tried to include a lot of them.

I choose to have items of jewellery from my fandom series, We have Doctor Who, Sherlock, Lord of the Rings, Pokemon and a few extra's :)

Doctor Who Earrings (Fez and bow-tie)

Mew Necklace (Made from Hama beads)

BBC Sherlock charm bracelet

Lord of the Rings Lembas Bread necklace

A wee Sailor Moon Magnet (Transformation brooch)

Brave Heart Lion Cameo Necklace (Carebears)

So I think I have a nice selection of goodies up for grabs, though looking at it now, it kinda looks feminine :( I have to stop that for the future!

Monday 8 July 2013

The Walking Dead 400 Days DLC

A bit late to the gun show I know, we had the new Walking Dead DLC come out last Thursday. This isn't a story about Clem or any of the original members of season 1.

400 days isn't season 2, it's 5 mini episodes just to tide you over till season 2. While playing you'll notice that your choices in season 1 can be seen in these episodes, such as with Russell, hide and you'll see someone familiar.

Again, with Russell, you meet this weird fella, Nate? And one thing you might not notice is the shot out light on his truck, hmm. When you play Wyatt you shoot out someone's front light, could Nate be the one who was chasing Wyatt and his friend Eddie? What about the prison guard who ran away from Vince's story, then Wyatt/Eddie hits, that Russell has the option of killing at the gas station.

Even though it's DLC, there are so many options to it, and the only time you can see the effects is the end, where you see you will possibly be joining you at a later date.

Feeling to much excitement for season 2!

Now I'm going to link you to my favourite Let's Play (I'm a total Yogscast Hannah fangirl)

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA3A4C315C39D0890

Sunday 7 July 2013

Life of a 23 year old

So instead of going to Cosplay on the Tyne, ran by Sunnycon, I decided to stay in and work on my Aragorn cosplay.

Slightly regretting this as the photos are getting uploaded, getting drunk on a boat, surrounded by fellow geeks,why wasn't I there! :(

O well, at least I got a fair bit of my cosplay done, bag for my belt is done, currently painting the elvish hunting dagger right now, then get to attach it all to my belt.

And! I'm going to be a cosplay judge at Cherricon, woop woop!

Saturday 6 July 2013

More Legend of Zelda goodies!

I didn't get a chance to update the little bit of stuff I made before NERG, I adore the LOZ style!

Someone liked my Piranha Plants that I made (coming up soon) and wanted to commission me for something but they didn't know what yet!

Later that night I received a message asking if I could make a Hyrule Shield, pfft, course I could!

I changed the way that I had the bottom of this, with the Piranha Plants I had polymer clay as the pot, and I figured that I couldn't use that for this, then realised I could make wee stands with hama beads, I love it!

Hope you guys like this I know I enjoyed making it :)

Friday 5 July 2013

Pokemon!

Gotta catch em all!

So I've been making some Pokemon goodies, and I remembered to snap some pictures of the in-progress-ness :)

And here's the starters

Pika pika!

Jigglypuff

Mew

Mew magnet

Pokeball

And I tried to make some cameos, which was fun!

I enjoy making Pokemon jewellery as I grew up with it (Saturday mornings anyone??) was so good! I need to make more Pokemons, just unsure which ones, maybe Gengar, Mewtwo, Charizard and oters.

Thursday 4 July 2013

Charles Bazaar Giveaway

Woohoo! I have a 1,000 likes giveaway over at my Facebook page

For it we have Charles Bazaar jewellery (which we'll take a better look at later)

And a selection of different artists who have donated some amazing prints!

Goffietwerb Art

Britannia

Sons of Durin

Pai-thagoras

Fiona

Marceline

Sopira-Lou

Adventure Time

Perfect Balance

And last we have Vouschtein

I hope you guys like what you see here, be sure to check them out! Goffietwerb is a close friend of mine who is starting to sell at conventions and I've seen her art style grow and grow! Pai-thagoras is someone I was lucky enough to meet at a burlesque event, and then Screen-con and many more times in the future! A wonderful artist :) Sophira-Lou is someone I have admired for ages! I meet her at Anime Attacks without realising who she was! Definitely someone I look up to. And last but not leat we have Vouschtein, not much is known about this mysterious creature, but there's always time for that in the future :) Look out for their gorgeous water colours, beautiful!

As I said before, please check them out and give them lots of love, and look out for the wee special on what Charles Bazaar jewellery in their :)

Wednesday 3 July 2013

Steam Trading Cards

So Steam has incorporated a new thing, trading cards, what the hell are they?

"Steam Trading Cards are virtual cards earned by playing games on Steam that can be combined into game badges.

Collect cards

Play any of the participating Trading Cards Beta games to get trading cards. Up to half the card set is dropped through game play, the other half is earned through your collecting prowess.

Craft game badges

Once you've collected a set of cards you can craft them into a game badge. Like the current badges, they are tied to your account and are shown on your profile. Unlike the current badges, crafting games badges earns you tradable items like emoticons, profile backgrounds, and coupons. Level up your badge by collecting the set again and earning more items.

Level up

All badges now have XP which contributes to your Steam Level, a summary of your badge collection. You can view someone's Steam Level by hovering over their avatar. Leveling up earns you non-tradable items like profile showcases, extra friends list slots, and more.

Joining the beta

If you'd like to participate in the beta, just join this group! We’ll send out email notifications (plus some extra invites) in the order of members joined."

I managed to get a few invites to the beta (sold one for like 3p? I just wanted a badge) and now I have a level on my profile, I'm level 4 and this makes me sad :(

The games that are currently in the trading card beta, are:

Borderlands 2
CS:GO
Don't Starve
Dota 2
Half-Life 2
Portal 2
Team Fortress 2
L4D2
Sanctum 2
Go Home Dinosaurs
Triple Town
Cubemen 2
Monster Loves You
Really Big Sky
Faerie Solitaire
BIT.TRIP RUNNER 2

And many more to come!

With these cards, you collect them to make a set (all from one game), and then craft them into badges. Once you made the game badge, you get little extra's:

a random emoticon item created for this game, that can use in chat or discussions;
a random profile background item created for this game, that can use on your Steam Community profile
a chance to get a discount coupon for a different game or DLC
100XP, which may increase your Steam Level

If you complete another of the same badge, you get an extra 100XP

I have no idea if this a worthwhile thing to do, but it does seem like a little fun thing to do, and another competitive thing for gamers XD

Tuesday 2 July 2013

FF XIV: A Realm Reborn

So we have Final Fantasy XIV Online coming out this summer.... again, what do we think of this?

I've lost my love of Final Fantasy recently, don't get me wrong I'll play VI to X anytime of the day! Love the story and the music is amazing! Can play XII occasionally, Balthier is kickass. But I'm not big on MMO's and just felt like XIII was something too different (wasn't a big fan on the music and characters were meh too me) but I know other people think it's a great game, that's just peoples opinions. So I'm not sure if I'll give this a shot yet.

Especially as it's the re release

I managed to play a little bit of the beta at my brother's earlier this year, just went for the Hyur so I wouldn't waste too much time making the character. Even though I spent a while trying to find the 'right' hairstyle.

I managed to get lost easily, but that's because I'm silly and don't know how maps work, derp.

Image from IGN

One thing to say about this, is that is so beautiful. As my brother's computer is much better than mine, I could play it with full everything. Fuuuck son.

So I got to do a few quests in Gridania, just simple kill a few monsters, save a farm, pick up some apples, deliver some post kinda quests (I didn't actually do those) it was just fun and so smooth to play, I didn't chat to anyone in-game, as I'm not big on that, one day maybe. I think I'm scarred from when I played WoW a few yeards ago XD.

But yeah, this was just a wee ramble about nothing really!

Sexy mo'fo

So for Manchester MCM Expo I'm cosplaying this bad boy

Oof! A mate of mine has always wanted to cosplay Gimli, and she managed to persuade a friend to do Legolas. I think I would have preferred to do Boromir, but it felt better to make it the trio.

I had to look for reference pictures everywhere! I managed to find an awesome site Alleycatscratch

Reference picture from a London exhibit.

This is my first attempt at vambraces, other than my attempt at mini bracers for my fem!Thorin

Play around with paint. Not sure how to do this yet!

Found a shirt that worked for Aragorn, so I'm just adding details to it.

And now boot covers! Urgh, this was, again, my first try at something, this was an interesting experience :/

Just adding stitching details here.

Clearer shot of the boot (and a double decker)

Aragorn face test, wearing Evenstar.

That's it for now!

Monday 1 July 2013

NERG COMPLETE.

NERG has definitely killed me this weekend, it was brilliant!

Just a shame about the heat and that the lighting wasn't brilliant for photos :(

I had my stall opposite machines such as Daytona USA, 2 Star Wars machines, Road Blasters and others! And I was lucky to be next to the lovely stall, Lair of the Nerd, who make fantastic tshirts and other goodies.