Fan Expo Canada 2013 and The Last of Us!

Let me start by saying it was great, and I'd say for the first year being a vender, I'm happy with the outcome and will be attending  next year!

This post however will primarily be about The Last of Us well and the Expo. Now if I'd been more organized and hadn't had a few curve balls, I would have had a post about my costume before the event, but after will have to do. If you are not familiar with The Last of Us it is a Play Station Exclusive video game that has great game play, great graphics and an amazing character driven plot! One of my favorite games of the year. So for Fan Ex I decided to Cosplay as Ellie a strong willed, rough edged teenager.  

 

 I compiled all the part bit by bit including learning how to silk screen so I could wear her signature T-shirt. I noticed when putting this costume together a lot of detail went into the backpacks of the characters concerting your looking at them for most of the game. This lead my to try and recreate the little monster which appears on her bag through out the game and get custom buttons printed.

  
Because of this costume I meet some awesome people including two of the Dangerous Ladies, who happen to know their way around cosplaying quite well. On the last day of the con I (Ellie) met up with  Jenn (Tess), Brad (Joel)  to do a spur of the moment Last of Us photo shoot. Thanks to Josh of JJAB Productions  For taking these grand shoots!

These are a few of my Favs:

Now to get improving my Costume for the Toronto Zombie walk!

Link to Whole Gallary: The Last of Us Shoot

Tomb Raider, a Doll and a Once a Year Grilled Cheese...

So as you can see from the title of this blog there may or may not be a lot going on...who am kidding with Tomb Raider in the mix? Which if you haven't played it yet, do it! So far I have to say it's one of the best ones to date.

In other news I bought a Monster High doll probably about a year ago now with the attempt to mod it as that is a thing, if you did not know of this Etsy or Ebay it. They are some beautiful examples out there. Any who I had started dreading her hair because at the time I'd just learned how to and was excited to try it. Well I did and removed the generic face the doll came with and it sat and sat. No longer though as I intend to make it into a beautiful work of art haza!

Oh and about the grilled cheese it totally is a yearly thing. You know processed cheese, butter, that golden brown bread served with ketchup and pickles. Yep so bad but yet so good! Aw well see you next year when we meet again...not me the cheese, the grilled cheese and me meeting next, I'm not going any where lol.