Kinmoku Revolution!

I have to admit, I totally forgot about this place.

If you want to see what we're doing in real-time, check out our Facebook page. We spend most of our time working on our business, though we do post pictures of personal projects from time to time.

We also have cosplay Facebooks. Yaten's can be found here and Seiya's can be found here

In the meantime, we're getting ready for our artist alley table at Animeland Wasabi next month. If you live in Denver, please come by and say hi! Otherwise, our next convention is Anime Weekend Atlanta where last_chance_myu has a show. :D

That's pretty much it.

We're back from NDK, and we had a blast. We debuted 2 1/2 new costumes. XD Right now, the main pictures we have are on Facebook:

Silver Millenium Senshi, Sailor Moon Princess Dresses, Inuyasha, and some new Myu pictures and more from Fruits Basket.

Also, we're going to be working on a new layout soon for our website. We've been kicking around ideas, and I think we'll have something new and interesting by Thanksgiving. :D

So we've been pretty busy as of late with various commissions, but we're still planning a few things of our own!

First, last_chance_myu will be getting together at Nan Desu Kan 2010 for a photoshoot, so we're busy revamping the costumes. Three years of wear and tear on the stage have taken their toll!

Next, we'll be revamping our Sera Myu 3 Lights costumes for some fun play times with rushing_wind.

We've also put together a full Sailor Moon Princess group - and we'll be hosting a tea party for all those involved in the gathering! Patti will be baking up some delicious noms for the occasion.

Because we miss her dearly and wanted to see her again, we've all chipped in and will be flying the beautiful sunseenli out to join in our shenannigans. With that thought in mind, we'll finally be making the Silver Millenium set that we've been putting off for a couple of years.

And finally, we'll be rewearing our Yuki and Kyo school uniforms on Sunday, along with a good chunk of our friends.

We've got a lot of hard work ahead of us, but it will be worth it in the end.

In the meantime, we've got commissions to do. Once we get our camera back, I'll be uploading some progress photos of our current project: Kahlan Amnell from Legend of the Seeker.

Our Etsy page is now up and running, and we have lots of things for sale. If you have an Etsy, please feel free to add us to your favorites, and we'll add you back.

The special we're running right now is if you buy $20 worth of merchandise, you get a free gift. We'll be adding even more merchandise again soon, as soon as I can get new pictures. Also, if you have Facebook, feel free to join in on our craft page. Feed back is appreciated, so that we can make a better product.

We also take custom requests. Feel free to pm/email me for a quote. I realize the market is saturated right now, so I'm doing my best to keep our prices affordable and offer items that are (hopefully) a little different.

Thanks, guys.

Steph & I now have a Facebook for our cosplays & commissions. It is called Starnigh Industries - Starlit Creations. Please check it out!

In the meantime, we have been taking a hiatus from the cosplay front. In September, we moved from Saint Petersburg, Florida to Fort Collins, Colorado. Steph is now gainfully employed and I am working on our business and going back to school. I've also been taking commissions. :D

Next year, we have several projects we'll be rolling out - things we already have planned and have purchansed materials for. XD We have a photoshoot planned for the spring for our Sesshoumaru and Inu Yasha costumes, and we will (hopefully) be attending Animeland Wasabi in Denver, Colorado as well.

Other than that, not much to report. More updates to come next year, but in the meantime, do keep an eye out on last_chance_myu - we have a few surprises up our sleeve coming soon!

If you vote please help me out by responding the comments with further details or by posting/pasting a link to a picture. For example, if you say Seiya and Yaten, please tell me anime/manga/doujing or post a picture that you think is pretty. OR if you say that we need to use a cosplay picture/s, tell me which one or which set. :) THANK YOU!


I updated the links page today. If you would like to be linked on our website please let me know. :D

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Ok. I need to write this down before I forget and add more crap to our to-do list which is 10,000 miles long to begin with. Here are projects planned for the future (Patti/Steph):

☆ Ryoko & Ayeka from Tenchi Muyo (Both: not started. 99% of items purchased.)
☆ Seiya & Yaten Eien Densetsu Fencing outfits (Both: 50% complete)
☆ Eternal Uranus & Neptune from BSSM manga (Neptune: 65% complete; Uranus: not started. 99% of items needed have been purchased.)
☆ Touga & Utena (duelist) from Utena OAV (Both: Not started. Some items purchased.)
☆ Utena-Dios & Anthy Rosebride from Utena manga (Both: Not started. Some items purchased.)
☆ Nuriko & Tamahome from Fushigi Yuugi (Both: completed but in need of serious repairs.)
☆ Haruka & Michiru Mugen seifuku from BSSM manga (MIchiru: 65% complete, Haruka: 35% complete.)
☆ Sesshomaru & Inuyasha from Inuyasha (Sesshomaru: 95% complete - need to fix the armor. Iniyasha: Not started. Some items purchased.)
☆ Kaolinite & Viluy from the Sailor Moon Musical "Mistress Labyrinth" (Both: Not started. Most items purchased. Group in progress with several friends.)
☆ (Sekrit Project - LCM) ...yes. I know. LAME.
☆ Star Fighter & Star Healer from Sailor Moon Musical "Eien Densetsu" (Both: Not started. Most items purchased. On hold.)
☆ Demand & Prisoner Usagi from BSSM manga (Both: Not started. Some items purchased.)
☆ Princess Uranus & Princess Neptune from BSSM manga (Both: Not started. Uranus fabric purchased. Neptune will be bought this weekend because WE FOUND FABRIC THAT MATCHES STEPH'S WIG! Finally...)
☆ Silver Millenium Uranus & Neptune from BSSM trading cards. (Both: Not started. Nothing collected. Just something Steph really wants to do.)



Yeah. We need to get the stuff we have started made before I go and make any more plans. -.-* And here, I thought I'd be retiring from cosplay soon. HAHAHAHAHAHA

This is where Steph's at so far on her costume. Not too shabby.

Unfortunately, they are now offically on hold, as we are going to concentrate completely on the show Last Chance Myu has coming up for Metrcon 2009. If I haven't mentioned before, it's a Miyuki tribute show. Since this is our 4th show, we wanted to try something a bit more ambitious. We've got 9 new songs.

We've got our work cut out for us this time. LOL

OK, it's about time I started posting over here. I'm going to start putting up some public stuff on what we've done (cosplay-wise), what we're doing, and what we're considering for the future. I might even post some tutorials, provided people are interested.

Would you be interested in seeing how we make some of our more complicated stuff? It is amazing how many details people overlook when making a costume. ^^;

To start with, we recently made our first (test) batch of resin gems. We decided to do something simple - and related to an upcoming holiday so that we can give away the fruits of our labor. We found some silicon molds at the dollar store, and used them for the casting. They aren't perfect, but for our vary first trial, they are pretty good.

If anyone would like more information on how we did it, the steps we used, and so on, let me know and I'll post them.

In the meantime, we're going to play a bit more with the resin goop. We're making Eternal Sailor Neptune and Eternal Sailor Uranus, and we'd like to cast various pieces of our costumes (stars, gems) not only for us, but for the girls in our group. But before we tackle that, we have to make the molds and we have to get a little better at the resin casting.

Wish us luck!