Shinju's Workshop

I wanted to write about HoldfenyCon from the moment I stepped out the convention center, but I felt so tired that I feared no one would understand what I write.

So now, with a rather fresh mind I am trying to tell the world how HoldfenyCon was for me.

I will skip the adventures we had to go through to get to Budapest (we must always have some sort of adventures, and not the pleasant kind) and go straight to the con.

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So many conventions lately!
That leaves me in a pretty unusual situation: Not enough time to make a cosplay costume for each of them! It usually takes me a few months to make a costume, since I’ve been looking for challenges, and sometimes they can be pricey, so I have to adapt somehow…

But I still want to participate in cosplay competitons! What do I do? I adapt older costumes. That seemed as the best choice.
I always loved my Yoko Nakajima cosplay. Maybe because it was the first cosplay I did with my heart (I didn’t care much about the previous Matsumoto, except for the big boobs) and because it was my first cosplay to participate in a competition.

And thanks to a friend of mine, my boyfriend and I started reading the “Twelve Kingdoms” books. And I fell in love again with this wonderful world and with Yoko. And since we are going next week to HoldfenyCon in Budapest, I took out of the closet my old Yoko cosplay. And to tell you the truth… I was horrified!

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