OT: I did it!

The boy is off to SakuraCon with his Shinigami-sama costume and I think it looks pretty good. The last time I made him a costume he came home and told me someone at the conference had offered him $400 for it. It was essentially a high-plains drifter coat made in red brushed cotton. I groaned. So before he left today he said if he's offered $400 he's going to sell it. I'm pretty sure we put $150 into the thing, maybe a bit more. And countless hours. But it was worth it.

My son learned to use a sewing machine and a needle and thread with pretty good results. He's promised to help me clean up the sewing room once he gets back. Right now it's a mess of black fabric swatches and bits of foam floating amid strings of Wonder Under and freezer paper.

If it wasn't such a macabre character I might make him a quilt with Shinigami on it. Maybe I will anyway. If it was just flat and not needing to fit a human body the figure would be pretty easy to make. Hmmmmmm...... I do have a lot of black left over......

Sunny

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Sunny
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Oof! I just googled this to see what it looks like -- you're right about it being macabre! But that sort of thing appeals to lots of young boys.

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Sandy

Anime is Japanese and the images and references and characters are all referent to Japanese culture. They don't really come across as being exactly what they look like. So hard to explain. It takes a lot of hours of watching and really paying attention to start to get the idea. My sons are 19 and 22 and seem to be in the middle of a bunch of kids their age, all out of high school now, who found each other through the Anime club at the high school. My son now apparently has one of the most complete collections of anime videos in this part of the world, lol. There are several shows I have watched with them and have come to enjoy. "Soul Eater" isn't one of my favorite, but I understand what's going on. It's a massive battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil, and Shinigami (my son's character) defends the forces of good. Sort of strange for one called "death" but as I said, it's Japanese culture and translations don't always do justice to the underlying ideas.

Anyway, it's fun and the kids are good kids. So far, nobody drinks yet (several are over 21 but it looks like they're going slowly on the alcohol consumption front), no drugs, I've had up to 30 of them in my house at a time for an entire day and night and never had a moment's unpleasantness. And they've given me the opportunity to make costumes with my sons. Wouldn't trade it for anything.

Sunny polishing the camera for when the boy gets home

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onetexsun

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