RO: Visuals

Completed and handed over last week.
It was a fun & challenging piece to make to define 'Balance'.

Timelapse coming soon.

Start ordering your custom ornaments NOW!
The sooner the better as these do take time to paint.

Happy Independence Day, Mexico & to all my people on both sides of the border!
I stand proud of where my blood is from & of the culture that IS a part of me.

Salud a todos! Y que hoy celebramos un día de gran importancia!

I have an exciting commission coming up very soon!

I'm taking orders for custom painted ornaments & have adjusted the pricing accordingly considering one style takes longer than the other.
I have separated them into two different price lists.

The aftermath of making my costume.

This was quite the experience. Started out exciting & eager. Went in with good & bad ideas. Well, one bad idea. An assumption really. And it was a rookie assumption. My mind was more wrapped around the idea of having a brand new cosplay that would match my kid's. I was caught up with her joy of me replicating hers for myself. I made the assumption that because I did this once in one month that it should take me less time the second time around. That would've been a true assumption if I had been making a suit of armor...for her. I didn't take into consideration the size difference of the suits which obviously affects the timeframe of the build. I didn't take that into consideration AT ALL. 😅
I have never crammed so much work into a short span of time before until building this costume.
It started out calmly & with ease, but the time constraints became more often, sleep became less, & I was starting to fall asleep while cutting, sanding, & gluing the pieces. Not all at once. Different nights. Eventually, it was the last 3 days of working on it where I started to panic because although the final steps were the easiest, there was a lot of it to do. I got to a point where I almost just stopped.
So what kept me going when I wanted to stop?
I brought it up to Catalina. I told her that I didn't think I would finish my costume, but not to worry because she'll still be able to wear hers anyway. She did not take it well. That's all it took. So I sucked it up & hustled as quickly as I could to the finish line.
I completed my suit just an hour before leaving for Comicpalooza.

There's no stronger motivation to success than that of seeing the split-second transformation of happiness to disappointment on your kid's face.