My Astrid Hofferson Cosplay Goal, IS GOING TO BE COMPLETED!

So a long while ago I said I wanted to cosplay (Costume Play is kinda the definition of Cosplay if you are confused.) Astrid Hofferson from the first How To Train Your Dragon movie. I look a lot like Astrid actually, rounded face, big roundish light blue eyes, pale skin, blonde hair, (Well, my hair is like a very dark brown now, my mom said she could put blonde highlights in my hair, so I'm good.)


Anyway, the reason WHY I am able to:


1. HALLOWEEN. It is a total excuse for my mom to spend a bit of money for materials for me, so I'm using it up!


2. I have Astrid's hair! Not just color, length, and consistency, but I have her bangs as well! Yup, a few days ago I got my hair trimmed a bit, and while I was there I asked the stylist if I could have bangs like the picture I showed her. (I did awkwardly show her a good picture of Astrid.... )



And with a month of time the costume will be hopefully completed before Halloween, with enough time for some photoshoots. I want good pictures of me in our woods, and I'm hoping, that maybe just maybe, I can convince my parents to let me post some photos of me all dolled up, well, more like all roughed up like Astrid.


So far in the process I have completed only a few of the many thing I have to do. These things are,


One of her shoulder pad pieces of armor, I got the one for my right shoulder done, it looks decent. Could be better, but I have to make them out of foam due to budget and how hard it is, but the one I have done doesn't look bad.


I also have her braid near perfect, well, I know how to do it, but I might need to have someone do the complicated part on the top of my head, and then braid the, well, lets just say the braid looks cool, but it is still hard.



And of course I have the bangs cut.




The things I still have left to do, make, and get:


Make her shoulder armor for my left shoulder,


Make her shirt, which I will do by getting to or three old t-shirts from a thrift shop, and then cutting them into strips and sewing them back together into a sort of stretchy tube thingy.



I need to make her arm guard things, I'm thinking yellowed out old t-shirt or some canvas, sew it around, and make it over my hand a bit.



By or tailor some boots,


For sure I'm going to buy some blue-ish grey colored leggings,


Her skirt, leather is expensive I'm guessing, So I might just make it out of a thick dark red colored material.



Her headband, I'm thinking leather cord like that of that size and amount would be cheap enough to buy a teeny tiny bit of.


And her axe, yes, I am not going to forget Astrid's trusty axe. I'm going to find a round stick in our woods, have my dad cut it to size, I might make a couple marks on it, and grab this one leather cord I have and tie it around it, and the axe head will be cardboard cut and painted.



After all the work, it will be for sure worth it. I will keep you updated on how I'm doing with it. Bye for now!



Abbie R,

So my dolls rooms have changed.....

The Dolls over at Madness and Fun With The Dolls, got a room change, because our playroom, was rearranged and now I have two small shelves for my dolls!

This one, 

Is more of a storage shelf, with all of my dolls packed onto it to keep them safe up off of the floor. (And WOW they look creepy and weird in this particular photo.)

And the other one,

And this shelf is a room! Actually it is the new bedroom for the set of The Azalea's Willow ! Astrid and, um, Ryder posing as a boy, (Whom isn't a doll or split doll personality, so I have just been calling him 'A gentleman' or 'Gentleman' when I am not shooting for the show. Maybe I should just call him by the character he plays, (Danny.) Anyway, so that are the new storage\rooms for my dolls, and this is part of the new set of The Azalea's Willow, 

(Look closely in this above photo at the pink bookshelf, on the top shelf in front of the pink and green box, is a tiny toy Stormfly from How To Train Your Dragon, it can be seen in the show occasionally and is a joke on Lyla (The character Astrid plays,)'s real name, which is Astrid of course. Haha.

Well, goodbye for now, I will probably have a September Favorite post up as the next thing on here, so keep an eye out for that!

Abbie R,