2 posts tagged “bioshock”

Jared and I were invited to a Halloween party last night (my first ever, actually) and you know I never turn down an offer to play dress up.  It was a perfect opportunity to make something that I had been wanting to make since the game came out.

Splicers.

Well, originally, I wanted to make a Big Daddy suit but that doesn't really work all that well in a party atmosphere.  But making outfits fashioned from the 40's with masks and listening to old-timey music is just as good.  I wanted to be a lead-head, but unfortunately, I found that no costume or toy shops carry plastic guns any more.  I know that California law says that they have to be some retarded color, but I guess nobody wants to bother jumping through hoops for a bright orange revolver.

Lame.

So we both opted to be thugs with pipes.

And here they are on the dress form with better lighting.  We rolled around in dirt.  Not really.

Theres still some little things to tweak, but they came out really nice for me having made the majority of them yesterday.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm a pussy.

A giant one.

More than once I've risked injury to friends while watching them play scary games.  And with some, I've actually punched them in the back of the head.  Out of instinct, of course.  So it shouldn't come as a shock when I say that I've jumped out of chairs and thrown controllers while playing BioShock and I haven't even fought my first Big Daddy.

That in itself is pretty bad.  But Momo takes it a step further.  She's been with me every step of the way and when I freak out, she freaks out.   She also knows that when we talk about Splicers and Big Daddies, it's time to shit bricks.

I wish I was joking. 

She's not allowed at work anymore because of this.

Mr Bubbles

I've also been hard at work taking commissions and I dropped off a monster of one today.   It was so big that I had to ask my dad to take me and it in his truck.  There was no way both of us were going to fit in my jellybean.

Guess what I am

My clients own a water purifying and bottling company here in town and wanted a mascot (I drew those angry eyes on.  It's not part of the costume).   I was exciting to make such a big costume.  It was really out of the norm for me and I enjoyed it.  I was very happy to get it out of the house, but I enjoyed making it and seeing the end result.  And they're happy with it and customers love it.  So that's all that really matters.

Commission #2 involves another mascot.  This time it's KC the Bull from the Kern County Fair.  He needs some new parts and shirts so they contacted Jen and she passed it on to me.   I'm hoping to get that done this weekend.

But wait, there's more.   Commission #3 is a nice little Pioneer styled squaredance dress made out of red gingham.

So why am I killing myself by working 10 hours days at a costume shop and GameStop and then coming home and sewing til one in the morning?   I'm moving in a week.  And I'm not sure yet that I'm going to be able to get a transfer so I'm trying to collect as much money as possible so that Momo and I wont have to walk the streets and back alleys of Hayward selling foot jobs in a Toph costume.