Bleed in Blue

Anime USA was in a new location this year. In DC, near the Omni which was Katsucon's hotel for several years. And I actually REALLY liked the new hotel. It had a bit of a confusing layout but it was rather pretty. And definitely A LOT better for photos than the Hyatt. Also being in DC made it very easy to find cheap food with a large range of options, just across the street. I also found the atmosphere and staff to be better than the Omni. And yeah, I'm sure the Omni had the prettiest outside area but I just got so turned off that hotel due to past experiences there. And AUSA is a bit too small to be able to afford that hotel, I'd think. So really I thought this hotel was a good choice for it.

The only real major issues I found with the hotel were the parking and the size of the event rooms. Like they had an alright sized room for the main events room. Nowhere as large as many other cons, but AUSA isn't too big so I thought it worked well. Granted I only was in there for the concert, so not sure how well it worked for the Masq and events with actual chairs. But this seemed to be the ONLY large room the con had. All the panel rooms were really small. Like ok, they'd be fine for small panels but this was also the rooms used for events such as guest panels and the Cosplay Burlesque. And so there wasn't nearly enough seating and many people had to be turned away. Also the viewing rooms were itty bitty. But this seems to be more of an issue of the hotel itself. There was another event going on so I don't know if maybe next year the con may get some of those bigger rooms or if this is all we're allowed to have. Either way...its going to make some events really hard to do at this con if they still decide to use such small rooms.

Anyways, onto what I actually did at the con...

( AUSA '12 Report )

~Lyn

Almost forgot to make an actual entry about the festival. This year's was really good for me. Despite the fact that it was rather cold and that this was the first year ever they started actually charging for the event, it managed to be really fun for Ren and I. And we both agreed on this.

( DC Cherry Blossom Street Festival 2011 )

And I will make another entry when I get the rest of the photos from my shoot. Very excited to see the rest as I actually really like how my costume came out. Especially since I made it in less than a week. XD Needs a few touch-ups but otherwise I'm pretty satisfied.

~Lyn

Just a little preview of the madness I've been working on...



Well, one half of it. Still working on the other side.

Yes, that is all embroidered.

Yes, it is time consuming.

Yes, it is taking up a lot of thread.

And yes, it's a pain the ass. But oh it looks so good~

And btw, I had to put that design together myself. By creative photoshopping several diff parts of the koi from diff parts of one image, combining them together to make one koi and then filling in the missing sections myself. x_x;; Just because I was that anal to get it exactly like the design on the outfit. ...except I missed a few leaves on the flower and didn't realize this til I was half-way done with this part. >>;

~Lyn