Leah Rose FTW!

I'm obviously very delayed in posting this to my blog proper, but I'd like to introduce you all to my newest pet project! I think the easiest way to explain what I'm doing is to show you one of the letters I sent to a super talented commissioner I came across. Hi there! How’s it going? My name’s Leah, I’m a cosplayer from Hawaii. I’m writing to ask if you’d like to get involved with a project I have going on right now involving Daenerys from Game of Thrones. And I already know what you’re thinking, no, I’m not asking you to work for free, haha. Saving you the long details, basically I’m sick of the attitude that a lot of people are starting to get of “you are less of a fan if you don’t handmake all your own costumes by yourself” thing that’s going on, you know? Especially when there are cosplayers that get help on things then lie about it, mostly because of that whole stigma. And to expand on that, I feel like a lot of crafters are underappreciated and need more public

(Note: Thanks to a website glitch and by glitch I mean I clicked something wrong, I unpublished this on accident. Here is is again, a year and a half late I guess!) Okay okay stop yelling at me, I'll finish updating! Gah!! So I hope everyone has been doing well, I know most of you keep in touch on my Facebook page (COUGH HUNT COUGH Facebook.com/leahroseaz) and please keep/start doing that!! It's so easy!! Anyway, Phoenix Comic Con 2013 went so SO much better than the last few years for me personally, though it was bananas. This time, I personally worked three (!!!!!!) jobs this year, which I'm never ever trying again. It worked well only because the clients are all friends and knew what I was trying to do. First half of the day was with Media Collectibles, an hour and some with Cosplay Calendar, and then the last half of the day with Japanime Games. Hnnnng. This was the time we got to surprise Aspen Comics with their three title women in their logo swimsuits (po