Accidentally working for 12 hours

I have bad habits.

Some days, I will not do anything. It’s not because I’m lazy, but rather that I know I’ll start working TOO hard. Working on something for just one hour? Never heard of that. It doesn’t matter if it is 3 in the morning, I will work for hours on end.

Not on school work, of course. Cosplay.

At this point, just putting fabric next to me is a dangerous decision. I cannot be trusted with it. That curtain over there? boom. Now it’s a dress. That pillow? It’s now being used to stuff my sailor moon sleeves. Those black boots? Now they’re red. I can even turn plastic into armor if i need to.

To be honest, I don’t know how I got to this point. When I started back in 2014, it took me months to even sew a simple dress. Yet, this past weekend, I managed to do nearly an entire outfit within a day. Sure, now I know how to sew. Therefore, it’s easier to get stuff done. However, I don’t really remember anything from it. At one point I was cutting fabric, and then sewing, and suddenly is was 2AM. And I swear it was just 3PM a few minutes ago.

Maybe its the stress? I do put the ‘stress’ in seamstress.

This particular project is one that I’m very stressed about. In November, this lovely sailor scout will be presented alongside a group of 23 Sailor Moon characters. There’s no repeat of characters, so that means I got really lucky in having being picked to be one of the scouts. Especially this one. Of course the mains were the first to get chosen- Sailor Moon, Sailor V, Chibi Moon, ect… But still, they were going pretty fast. I had always wanted to cosplay Neptune, and thankfully I was able to grab that spot while it was still open.

The villains and background characters aren’t bad- don’t get me wrong. I just,,, I really wanted to be Neptune.

Excuse my face.

Anyways, once I got started on her, I just didn’t really stop. Some call that hard work. Others call it an addiction. I’ll let you decide.

In other news, when I went to go get fabric for this, I saw my friend! There’s an older lady named Jan that works at the Jo-Anns where I get my fabric. We always enjoy talking to each other. She’ll ask about my projects, We’ll talk about cats. Shes just my cool older friend that works across the counter.

And that was pretty much my whole weekend summed up!

Author: Kerri Bland

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