MCM Expo October! (And weekend in London)

Just wanted to share a picture of the finished and put together cosplay that I mentioned back in this post!

Here is my boyfriend and I in cosplay as Marshall Lee and Fionna! I painted the makeup and styled the wig for Marshall Lee- Along with the fun task of attaching and painting ears early in the morning...

I also styled the yellow wig that I can be seen wearing and made the Fionna hat from cream fleece! (It is surprisingly warm.

Here is my beloved Hambo looking delightfully matchy with the bedding in the hotel where we stayed. I also whipped up a little felt Cake (A cat character in Adventure Time) to attach to my shirt.

We had a great time in London, the MCM Expo was lots of fun!

As we stayed for the weekend I also got to do a couple of very enjoyable London activities! I went to my first arcade... Managed to buy a couple of lollipops with my tickets hehe.

I also went to the London Aquarium for the first time in nearly ten years and went to the London zoo for the first time ever! I had a great time looking at all the animals.

Here are a couple of my favourite pictures from the Aquarium! I loved all the fish, such interesting patterns and colours. This little guy above had such a cool face. The turtles were cute as well.

We got some awesome pressed coins from the Aquarium as well, along with some cool sealife coins!

Will have to work out how to display them at some point! I also picked up some pressed coins at the zoo... Sadly I still don't have pictures of them.

Was an amazing weekend- have been missing the hotel since we left!

Crafty Cosplay- It's Adventure Time!

 This post will be a bit of a diversion from the last few- nothing new has happened with my lovely bicycle aside from some parts arriving.

It is instead about one of my other interests- sewing. Geeky sewing to be precise.

My boyfriend and I are intending to cosplay Marshall Lee and Fionna from Adventure Time. And I wanted to make sure that we had something to hold in our hands!

Given that my skills are not really in woodworking, and I had no room in order to make a large prop I didn't want to make Marshall Lee's guitar...

Here is a clue as to what I made!

I was fairly confident after figuring out how to make a Fionna hat using a handy tutorial on DeviantArt and also making a tiny cake plush out of felt (Both of which I will share another time) that I could make this for my boyfriend.

 
 I decided to make the entirely adorable Hambo!

 Although so far only shown with Marceline in the Finn and Jake episodes, I felt that having a Hambo plush to carry around was too great an opportunity to pass up (And everybody has a beloved toy when they are younger, Marshall Lee surely included.)

Working with no pattern and just a couple of reference pictures did make my life tricky, given my lack of experience!

 Along with entirely sewing him by hand making me wish I had room to set up a sewing machine...

But he is now finished! And I am beyond proud heh. Yesterday I painted on his purple stain- see left hand side! Using fabric paint and a rough template I cut out.

His bandage on his leg was made by staining a thin regular blanket (brand new!) with chai tea- it smells pretty delicious.

His body is made of fleece and his patches of felt. Where it hopefully appears that his stuffing is coming out, it is in fact cream fleece that I stitched on and padded underneath to attempt to create the look without the potential mess and difficulty using actual stuffing would do.

Some how the body was one of the hardest parts to do, especially matching it in size with the head! At one point I had to rip his first body apart and re cut/ size it to make sure he looked more proportionate.


On his back I made sure to put his bum buttons! Even if not necessarily understanding their purpose...

In this picture you can also see photo bombing dog, my fabric paint and my sample fleece where I experimented with methods of application!

I'll end this post with a picture of his adorable smiling face. Such a cheerful dear despite having survived the apocalypse!

The Adventure Time Wiki has some great pictures of Hambo which I used as inspiration if you want to check out how Hambo is supposed to look! (Please don't judge mine too harshly heh.)