Pokemon Trainer

I made the hat for Pokemon Trainer! I bought the plain white hat and painted on all of the pink with fabric paint. The shirt and vest were purchased, and are currently acting as stand-in's only. I plan on buying a different white shirt, and making a new vest (or mangling this one!).

I pretty much have all my supplies gathered, except for base boots, and hair extensions for her GIANT PONYTAIL OF DOOM! Hopefully I can find some locally because I don't have time to order any. I'm hoping to have this completed in time to get some pictures for the day of the game's release :)

JILL PROGRESS!

Jill is almost complete!

I just need to do the bottom hem of the shirt and skirt (and add the grey stripe onto the bottom in the process.) I had purchased a satin material for the skirt that had a sheen similar to leather because no fabric shops seemed to carry black leather, pleather or matte vinyl.  

Instead I ended up buying a leather skirt from a thrift store and cutting it up and resewing it, and I'm a lot happier with the result this way.

My other planned PAX costumes are also in progress. I picked up most of the supplies for pokemon trainer, and I had one more lucky thrift store find;



woo-hoo POKEBALL!



In other Poke-news, you have until March 7th to visit gamestop to get a Celebi for Heartgold/Soulsilver!

Thrift Stores

So cosplay endeavors have brought me to thrift stores more times than I can count. Unfortunately most of the time I don't find what I needed for the costume, but I do sometimes find some neat little treasures.


Found Nightmare for $1.40 2 days ago, and Nightmare 2 yesterday. Its a VHS based game for kids thats meant to be scary, but the hilarious-ness of it all is for all ages :)

At the beginning of the game, you have to write down your 'greatest fear' on a nightmare card, and if you draw this card at the end of the game you lose. Since I got my game at a thrift store, the cards were still filled out from the last people who played it, I lol'd;


I also found these;  I already have most of the subbed DVDs, but I thought these would be fun to watch for nostalgia's sake.

 and a puzzle just because I could;

So I came home with all this stuff, but did not get what I went for, being shoes I could use for Ramona, Pokemon Trainer and Jill. Then I realised that I don't even OWN A VCR. hmmmm. :P

Has anyone else ever found some great stuff at thrift stores? (Cosplay related or not)