Vote for Julia! (please)

Hey guys, I'm still taking a small break from my blog, but Sunday was a small costume competition at my local Anime merch store, Anime Zakka. I somehow managed to scrounge together a Sailor Jupiter costume the day of the event, after helping my friend make a costume for herself. I was super lazy and stressed, so I never got personal pictures of our costumes, but the photographer they had did an amazing job.
So First off, here's how the contest works: Anime Zakka posted our pictures on their facebook page and whichever costume gets the most "likes" before Monday (11/4) will win the prize of a gift card for their store. easy peasy, right? I'd really appreciate if my readers could help me or my friend win (you can vote for as many entries as you like, so also look at the other contestants).

 As I mentioned, I made this costume the day of, with some help from my mom (she had to sew me in because there wasn't enough time for a zipper). I still need to put the sleeves on, then closures, then I wan wear it again. You can vote for me here.

Winnie is definitely on my list of cutest Kiki cosplayers,and by far the cutest I've seen in real life. She even borrowed a little Jiji and a broom like the one used to save Tombo. You can vote for Winnie here.

I've taken up embriodery

and it's going pretty well.
I've had a project that I'd been embroidering for a long while, but lost while moving home from the dorms and back. A while ago I made a hooded scarf based on Altiar of Assassin's Creed (because I cannot get enough of that series) and decided I wanted to make one for Connor as well. Here's the only progress I've made:

And here's my new project:

I've been wanting to make a new business card case (I lost my old one a while ago) and have also been reading Kuroko No Basuke, a manga about a high school basketball team. So I'm making a card case with the main protagonists on it:

and a basketball because basketball is a main protagonist too

Princess Jellyfish

I was obsessed with anime at one point. While I don't really show it or talk about it much, there are still some manga I read and anime that I watch. My personal favorite at the moment is called Kuregehime or Princess Jellyfish. I started reading it a while back, but got distracted.

I'm not going to bore you with the story too much, but the point is that the main character is a jellyfish fanatic who lives with other girls with similarly extreme obsessions. Through a course of events, she makes friends with a boy who crossdresses and is convinced to make dresses based on jellyfish with the help of her friends.

this basically looks like my home in the days leading up to a convention/ historical dance

Basically, replace fanatics with art students and jellyfish with superheroes and you have my current life in a nutshell. 

This scene reminded me of my sister when I ask for her input on my designs.

If I go to Anime Boston this year, I wanna make this costume:

the original from the manga

and an anime screenshot for the coloration

Doesn't this dress look super easy? I don't even need to hem it since in the story she just cut the skirt of a dress.

Previously, on Juia Goes to College:

I painted my nails again:

This time, Fullmetal Alchemist style! (because it took me this long to finally finish FMA:Brotherhood)

I went to the College Night at the Museum of Science:

"turn on thrusters!"

"draw me like one of your french girls... IN SPACE!"

playing around in the models exhibit means making Captain America and Iron Man squiggles:

Also, my college activities board is putting together a New York trip to see Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark which means I'll need to make a more formal Spider-man dress.

seriously, I spent months listening to the soundtrack.