Boston Comic Con 2014

I had a pretty uneventful comic con this year. My sister and I only went for Friday because of a historical weekend in Nahant which we attended Saturday and Sunday.

But anyways, Boston Comic Con was fun, even though we only went the one day. I wore my Blue Beetle dress that I had made for my first Comic Con, while my sister wore a hipster-esque Superman ensemble. I was really distressed because I cannot for the life of me find the over skirt from my dress. In all it was pretty uneventful, so here's a picture dump.

Antonia, in all her hipster glory.

Got some (more) books signed by my favorite comic writer, Mark Waid

There's a cute little park near the convention center where we took pictures.

comparison between my first comic con, and this year's

Had a very small haul this year. Mostly bombshell variants and Booster Gold.

Okay, so...

I really shouldn't be making more Polyvore sets. I've just been using it a procrastination tool. Like, if I want to wear cute outfits like that why don't I focus on making myself cute first?
Of course, you all know the answer: "But you're already so cute, Julia!" jkjk, I'm just lazy and don't feel like I need to be cute if I'm not in costume. But if I wanted to be cute out of costume, here's some outfits I'd wear:

The dress was pointed out by Miss Betty Felon on her blog and I just rolled with it (geddit? cause racecars have wheels and wheels roll?) In place of a neckerchief, I thought one of those headbands with ties up top would be cute. And you all know how much I love red tights.

This one's for my lovely sister because you all know how much she loves Hawkie-poo. I'm thinking how hard would it be to recreate the dress (since it looks like it sold out a long while ago and I can't find it on ebay). And the earrings are ones that my sister got after she fell in love with Hawkeye so it fits.

This isn't my first time posting about Animal Man and admitting that I haven't read any of his comics yet (but I do want to). It mostly came about because I saw that shirt and my first reaction was "Animal Man!" I actually would have gone with shorts on this outfit if I could find any the right orange. I don't know why but I think peplum tops with shorts are cute.

I love Jaime and I've been meaning to make another Blue Beetle dress but this is already so cute. I don't even know what I was looking for when I stumbled upon this dress. Of course there's gotta be a ton of accessories with Egyptian scarabs.

what has Julia been up to?

I've mostly been shopping. My sister and Raven want to do a pin-ups and comic books photoshoot, but I found something to add:

Why not have some pictures of cute pin-up girls playing a cute retro board game? (I'm wondering how many people actually remember this movie. It was basically Jumanji in space.)

I also designed some custom fabric:

I made hair bows with the samples I ordered (and decided to brighten the yellow a bit)

and I might have bought myself some valentines candy because of the boxes.

I'm running out of titles for nothing posts

So I've been a horrible blogger recently. mostly because I haven't. been, blogging. recently.
Nope, been too busy doing nothing and wasting my money. here's some things I've gotten since my last post:

The wonderful bows were a Booster-day present for myself. They're sold by the lovely etsy seller: SirenLovesYou and there are some of her other designs on her art tumblr. (I'm keeping my eye open for if she restocks her set of young justice hair bows)

I got this from claire's when I went to the mall with my sister.

I got to see The Hobbit with some friends and fell in love with it. Sadly, I'm not much into reading (which always surprises people for some reason) so I don't think I'm gonna read the Tolkien books, but I will probably watch the extended cuts of the Lord of the Rings movies to satiate my need for the next movie.
So yeah, I bought the key on a keychain but then just took of the keychain part and put it on a chain to make a necklace because I do stuff like that.

New York Comic Con part one

I like that the first ad I see in NYC is SHIRTLESS GREEN ARROW!

The return of Batman-girl and Robin

Guest starring Marvel Girl

 That awesome moment when you find cosplayers of your favorite character(s)

Boston Comic Con - Sunday

Sorry, getting pics from my mum is a total pain and takes more time than I ever think it will.

Anyways, here's my Blue Beetle inspired costume from BCC:

Next project is a booster gold dress (which I've cut out all the pieces of), then finally finishing my Riddler costume (should the question marks be appliques, sequins, or rhinestones? so many choices >v<), and then a Jamie Rayes Blue Beetle dress (because you can never get too much Blue Beetle and I wanna make his cool backpack).

Day two of sewing

Since I lost my elastic and yellow fabric (ORZ) I can't finish my Robin costume yet.
 Therefore today I'm trying to work on my Blue Beetle jumper.

Here's the jumper in progress

and a closeup of the in-progress applique and reference

After the applique I'll be making an over skirt. If I finish all that early-ish, I'll probably go out fabric shopping (to replace the missing robin pieces) and then to the dollar store to look at toy guns.

Sewing Hiatus

So unlike Ted Kord here, I don't sew naked, but you pretty much get the gist of what's going on.
And I guess this is a hint to my next sewing project.