Sydney Supanova 2014

I'm back again yayy :D

So today's post shall be about *drumroll* ...Sydney Supanova!


Supanova in Sydney was held on June 13-16 and after not being there for two years...I can say I wasn't entirely disappointed :D

First of all, SO much more organised than QLD Supanovas, even with the massive token and Stan Lee lines, I was not hindered once. A few times we struggled to get through crowds, but that was purely from density.

Day 1 - Friday

I made a last minute decision to do a closet cosplay of Elsa from the YouTube Video "How it Should Have Ended - Frozen"
Basically the plot of this video, is that instead of locking her away in her room, Elsa's parents sent her to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, and she became an X-Men member.

Costume: The video only showed Elsa from the torso up so I had to use my imagination for the rest. I already had the dress and boots in my wardrobe so I attached the cloak and painted Elsa's shoe design on the boots with paint. The boots were suede so acrylic paint worked wonders (plus I already had it so yay for no cost). I then made two X clasps for the cloak with craft foam then pinned to the dress.

I spent the day with a few of my Sydney-sider friends and soon grew to regret my shoe choice. I then remembered why I never wore these boots because of how uncomfortable they are. Walking around this day developed 2cm long blisters on each of the bottoms of my feet and ruined me for the rest of the weekend. Despite being in pain, I continued to enjoy the day and luckily grabbed myself a DC Bombshells Black Canary for my collection before they sold out.

I came to the con wanting to meet Jon Heder and Ming-Na Wen but alas when I learnt of the 4 hour queue for photo and autograph tokens, I gave them a miss. Didn't really ruin my weekend though, as I purely came to Sydney to see my friends I haven't seen in years.

Finished the day with a photoshoot with Lark Visuals which I'll hopefully be seeing the photos from soon :)


Day 2 - Saturday

On Saturday I finally got to show off my months of labour: Elsa.
Aside from the obvious foot pain from the previous day, I had an awesome time hanging out with my friend Danica from Newcastle (Pink Pixie Cosplay). I am so happy with how this costume came out (considering the amount of work involved and I still didn't go 100% accurate) and definitely want to wear her again, hopefully to a photoshoot because I wasn't lucky enough to get one done this time.

Costume: The base dress for this costume is Kwik Sew 1356 and I just altered the top to give it a sweetheart neckline. Each of the sequins were handcut from large round sequins which totalled about $50 at $3 a bag. Each round sequin created two rectangle ones. These were all then glued onto the dress with Gem Bond which took a total of about a month to fully complete. My undershirt is actually a leotard design to save it riding up or moving under the dress. The sleeve details are glitter glue.
I had actually created Elsa's ice shoes however within five seconds of wearing them, my feet were in severe pain so I opted for plain blue heels. I decided not to create an accurate train after finding this gorgeous ice design fabric at Spotlight around Christmas time.
My wig was designed by the lovely lady in the photo with me and how to make the snowflake accessories is in a previous blog post.

I had such an awesome time just walking around and enjoying the con with Danica and conversing with other Frozen cosplayers (yes there were a few but not as many as GC Supanova).


Day 3 - Sunday

There is always one costume you're working on the night before, and this is it: Moonstar.
I finished this costume at 12:30am on Friday morning...then woke up at 6am to get to the airport.

Costume: This was supposed to be my easy costume but turned out to be time-consuming in itself. The base bodysuit and black wig were used in previous costumes so I had them lying around. The yellow X of the bodysuit took roughly two days to get right which involved taking the suit on and off countless times to make sure the fabric was not bunching ontop of the black (I hate you stretch fabric). The hair wraps are fake leather trim which I got from Spotlight and have a textured print on the top. The headband is actually a soft headband with the fake leather glued to the front half. I decided on this method purely for comfort on the day. The pouch was also from a previous costume (Fiora Cavazza: Assassin's Creed) which was perfect for carrying all my belongings in (didn't have the bra option that day). The bow was made from wood by my amazing partner and painted with acrylic and conveniently came apart into three pieces for luggage :)
A detail that isn't very noticeable, is the earrings. They are green circles of foam glued to clip-in earrings (as I couldn't get an appropriate base with normal earrings) and one has a feather attached. I soon came to regret choosing clip-on earrings as my ear was swollen the next day.

All day I was with my Sydney friends again and fellow Queenslander Isobel (The Artful Dodger).

left to right: Isobel (The Artful Dodger), Dan (Something Wicked Cosplay), Gen (Mad Maven), Jarrah (Sunday Cosplay), Justin (Justin Acharacter), and me (Bloom Cosplay).

Gotta say, SO much fun hanging out with these guys, they really made my Supanova. We did several shoots throughout the day, and some filming with Deerstalker Pictures. Quite possibly the most exciting parts of my day was when people would ask me for a photo by my character name. To you four people who knew who I was cosplaying as, YOU ROCK! :D


Well I think that covers everything, but before I go, a public thankyou to Justin (Justin Acharacter) for giving me a place to stay for the weekend. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been at Supanova.


Keep on sewing,
Bloom xoxo