Why you make it yourselves..?

Occasionally on our various accounts people ask us where we got "that 'n' that" and we always answer that we made it ourselves. We are not fans of ready-made costumes or props. Cosplay for us doesn't only mean having fun in odd outfits (which we do enjoy). The whole process counts. We start from patterns, finding fabrics and materials and also solutions how to make different props and accessories. Contructing part isn't always pure joy. We and specially I do have breakdowns and want to quit, but sometimes little pain just pushes you forward. When you see the finished costume you get an urge to pat yourself in the head.We choose to do costumes from scratch, because then they are unique. You can be sure that no one else have made it like you...

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Cosplay-might-happen-list

In the first post I asked what should we cosplay next. Then I remembered that I had this list about characters that we have thought about doing or planning to do when we get done with our current projects. Here is the list. Tell us which pair would be cool to see done and made real!Tokusa and Madarao from D.Gray-man I so sympathize with these guys. They have so little air time in the manga even though they are interesting and complex characters. And in other hand they have kooky design and the fighting uniform would be rather easy and quick to do. And I'm fond of their personalities. Expecially Tokusa seems truly contrasting personality. I would like to portray him, but because I have hunch that he is shorter than Madarao I just can't see it...

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No... please let this be a joke...

I don't know is this bad time for my WMM to start acting like a *beep-beep-be-beep*... No, no the timing isn't bad... It's the the worst possible! I have tried everything but nothing seems to work. I concidered to upload some other editing program, but I'm almost 100% sure that my computer would explode if I did that.We planned to shoot some materials for our vids next month. I hope I can get that shitty program work before that. We can't use yoki's computer for any editing, because it's condition is even worse than mine.Uh, let's see how we manage to crawl out this...

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Starting point

Now it's done. Blog where we post our experiences, tips and thoughts about cosplay spiced with many typos and almost-impossible-to-translate-sentences.CasualtyCosplay is formed from two cosplayers from Finland. We started cosplaying in 2006 and so far have done costumes from Naruto, Bleach and D.Gray-man. Yoki did also single cosplay from Moomin as Snufkin. But in general, we do pair or couple cosplays with characters which are related to each other one way or the other. We have also done casual and street versions of Sasori and Deidara and original character cosplay.We do our costumes ourselves from patterns to some of the props that don't need the hands of an expert. These props usually ends up being swords that we want to be made from metal....

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