Monday, April 28, 2008
Japan Update
I’m having a lot of fun in Tokyo right now with my friends. I attended a cosplay event and it was a real blast. I made a lot of new friends and it was probably the most fun I’ve had in a long time cosplaying!! There was an FF7 group that for some reason had every character but Aeris, and we took pictures together. 
It was so fun!! Cloud and Zack were so awesome! I am now determined to learn Japanese so that I can speak to my friends o_O! It was very fun… but it would have been more fun if I didn’t have to go through Jacky to talk to everyone. Thank you so much Jacky! And thank you Ayaka for babysitting me. <3
I enjoyed meeting everyone, and hopefully I will have a blog up soon in Japanese. Today is Kyle’s birthday so we’re going out to have some fun, and then maybe I might even get a tour of Square-Enix from a friend. *_* Won’t that be cool. See you soon guys.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Japan Trip
Going to Japan tomorrow morning for 8 or so days. I’m sorely overdue for a vacation away from Huntington Beach. Being without a car has started to give me cabin fever! Not to mention the fact that my mother sprang on us 3 unexpected guests without telling us in advance… so our house has been rather full. Anyway… enough of that!
While I’m out in Tokyo I’m going to attend one of the special cosplay events, and hopefully it won’t be as scary as Comiket! I’m looking forward to it, and I’m sure you guys can guess which costume I’ll wear. Yep, you guessed it! Aeris -_-;; Much as I don’t want to… it’s definitely the easiest costume to wear and put on, and it’s insanely easy to travel with! So… Aeris it is. ;\
I’ll see you guys when I get back :D
Monday, April 14, 2008
New Belle Costume!~~Saboten-Con Guest Invite
I’ve been invited as a guest at Saboten-Con in Phoenix Arizona! I’m really excited because Phoenix (and Mesa XD) is one of my favorite cities. Arizona cons are some of the best, and the cosplayers from there are sooo nice! I hope to see a big turn out of cosplay at Saboten-Con.. so please spread the word around. Also, I’m curious what kinds of things people would like me to talk about at my panel? I’m not sure if they want me to have one or two panels, so I’m factoring on one and filling it up with stuff to talk about. If you have any suggestions please let me know!
Yay. So remember that bad little digital camera picture I posted a while back of my new Belle costume? I finally got to take pictures of it! It was sooo hot but it was really fun! ^_^
Here’s a teaser until I get the full gallery up! I want so much more than they’ve got plaaaaanned!!!! etc etc XD!
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Cosmode 21! ★COSMODE21号 4月5日発売予定★
ようこそアデラのコスプレサイトへ！ サイトへご訪問いただきまして、 どうも有り難うございます。 雑誌「COSMODE」に参加して、とてもうれしく光栄に存じます。 サイトは今翻訳中であります。 これまでのところ、ページの上の「About Me」と「Contact」が完成しました。
たくさんコスプレの写真を見ることが欲しいなら、クリックして「Cosplays」を選択して下さい。 これから、写真を選択して下さい、どれでもいいのです。 その後、小さな「Gallery」を選択して下さい。 ややこしそうですわ。 本当にすみません！
私に電子メールメッセージを送ったいんですか。 「Contact」を選択して下さい。 私は日本語ができないので、今のところは、英語でメッセージを書いて下さいね！ 色々有り難うございます！
このサイトのメンバーになる事は誰でもできます。 メンバーになると、私のコスチュームとブログについてコメントを投稿する事ができます。 メンバーになるのに必要なことは何ですか？ 簡単ですよ。 ページの右の「Click to Register」をクリックして、オンライン・フォームに記入して下さい。 （その後、急に確認の電子メールが返信されます。） ほら出来上がり！ メンバーになりました。
ちなみにページの右で「Costumes」のメニュー・オプションがあります。 コスプレのキャラの名前のリストです。 ページの上の「Cosplays」のオプションより、このリストの方が少し速いです。
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I was honored by Cosmode Magazine, issue 21, to have my Castlevania: Symphony of the Night costumes given a small feature. Please go check out Issue 21 if you all are interested! You can order your copy of Cosmode Magazine at Cosworx.com within a few days. Today, April 5th, is the date that the magazine is released in Japan. It will take a few days for Cosworx to get their inventory, but by next week you should be able to get a copy.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Car People!--What do you think?
HEY!
I know there’s a lot of car fanatics out there. I’ve pretty much settled with a Corolla, but which one? I test drove the XLE, S, and XRS today. They’re all really nice cars, so I’m kind of torn. the XRS goes really nice and fast, but the XLE and S have a little better gas mileage. What say you internet? Will you share your wisdom with this humble girl?
XLE
XRS
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Dead Cars and The Gym
I made a pact with myself that the moment I finished school at FIDM I would go back to the gym. The work that they gave us was so intense that I wasn’t able to break away for a few minutes, much less a few hours a day to go to the gym. Breaks between quarters were only 2 weeks, and I didn’t want to go to the gym for only 2 weeks and then go back to not at all.
Last week, Wednesday, I finally finished! Perfect 4.0!
So on thursday morning I hit up the gym. Oh god I thought I was going to die. I’m so out of shape it’s not even funny! The first day back Andy had to practically carry me out of there lol. I skipped out on saturday and sunday, and then immediately went back again on monday. Today I felt like I was finally making some headway. I’m not nearly where I was two years ago, but I also don’t think it’ll take me that long to get back to that point. Having Andy around is fun though because we push each other. Though sometimes it’s intimidating because he lifts way more than me… today he got on the calf machine and was annoyed because the weight stack only went to 500 and he couldn’t pack any more weight onto it. WTF? I was like *daintily sets the weight at 65!* ahem! SOMEDAY!!!!~~~
j/k XD
And news of my car. My poor poor hard working car. It blew both head gaskets the last week of finals. *sigh* I asked Pontiac specifically to check the head gaskets and see if they were fine 5 months ago, and they said that there was nothing wrong! So I don’t know what happened, and can’t pretend to know because well… I’m just a girl! I can fix a sewing machine pretty darn well, but I sure as heck can’t fix a head gasket. My car knowledge goes as far as changing engine fluids like oil, coolant, and wiper fluid. that’s about it! All necessities when you’ve got a vehicle that you get into and don’t know if it’ll start or even if it’ll make it to your destination!
Anyway, R.I.P. my good car. You got me through school.
I’m thinking of a Scion XD. Thoughts? It has great gas mileage, great storage for camping equipment and luggage for going to cons, and it’s not super expensive. yay? nay? I’m probably getting a Toyota also because my mother’s friend owns a Toyota dealership and is a really nice guy. I’m hoping my car payments won’t br too terrifying :O! But funny enough they’ll probably be much cheaper than what I was paying in repairs to keep my Pontiac going.
Driving off into the sunset by *Vynnx on deviantART
Saturday, March 22, 2008
New Website Layout!
So I’ve spent an enormous amount of time on this new layout, and I hope it looks alright on most resolutions. There’s a couple of glitches, and a few more things I want to add--but other than that I think it looks pretty okay.
Be looking in the future for when I open up Ask Adella. I’m planning on beginning a tutorial section of my site, however I want to do it in a more interactive and fun way. Once in a while I’m going to select a random email--a random question that perhaps has been asked very frequently, and I’m going to write a sort of editorial-ish article on how to do it. Perhaps it might be Fabric information? Or ruching for Belle’s dress? Or the duct tape dress form? or drafting your own personalized sloper? Eitherway… I like to help people, but I get so many emails so often that it gets really tiring and difficult to reply to them all (especially if it’s a lot of the same question). This way I think I can help a lot of people and save them the trouble of writing me and waiting for a response.
Lastly, I’m going to be sending out an email spam to all of my members letting them know that I’ve fixed their registration issues, and password drama. Everybody -SHOULD- be able to log in and comment now. (keyword SHOULD!)… so please give it a try and if you receive any errors, please email me with the exact phrase of the error! adella @ adellacosplay . com [remove spaces].
Monday, February 18, 2008
Website Glitch Update
So I’ve been getting tons of emails in the past 6 months or so about my website having a very buggy registration and log in feature. Something to messed up in the programming a while ago and I haven’t had the ability to go in and fix it. I’m going to though!! I’ve been working on a new site design and layout, which should be even better than the one I have now. I’ll be fixing the buggy log-in function and 
registration so that you guys can actually comment. I’ve noticed in the server logs that many people have tried to log in and register but only a few ever are successful at it. I really apologize for this and I’m going to fix it very soon!!
In the meantime.. I’ve been meaning to show this to you guys...I whipped up Belle’s blue peasant dress a while ago and just haven’t had a chance to take pictures yet. ^_^