Back from Japan on Tuesday, and although we've only been there for 2 weeks it felt more like 2 months. I've missed you, flist, hope you've all been well ^_^ Certainly have been missing out on some fun meet ups from what I've heard =P

Okay, first and most importantly:
CHANGES TO SILVER & RAY'S PARTY ON SUNDAY!!

Instead of dinner, we will be having lunch instead. It will be at the same restaurant (Red Chilli SiChuan), but lunch will be cheaper. Afterwards, we can go get some yummy dessert and just hang for a bit :)

So updated details of the meeting:

When: Sunday 19th July, 10:30am - about 4pm.
Where: Darling Harbour, Chinese Gardens, just outside the entrance. Then lunch at around 1:30pm at Red Chilli SiChuan in Chinatown followed by dessert.
Dress: Chinese Theme.
Bring: Your wonderful selves ^_^
People Attending: HERE!

Apologies for making changes to the party so late. We hope we haven't caused any inconvenience >_< We're really excited to see you all there :D

Onto other probably less interesting news, I just started working on my blazer for Gakuen Heaven today. Hurray \o/!! Will be going to Harmony's place on Friday so I can get help on the tie and other stuff =)

On the other hand, I still need to start on SMASH! stuff. So screwed for it ;_; My table will be empty at the rate I'm going... Does anyone know where I can get those round ball keychain thingies that you can adjust the length of?

And since it's past midnight already ... today will be a good day, and not just because HP is out ;D

<3 Silver

HEY ESPADA GROUP. WE NEED TO HAVE A MEETING, SIT DOWN AND TALK ABOUT RANDOM CRAP.


... Well, not really random crap. What we specifically need to talk is about our costumes/progress, our skit and our photoshoot. We only have a month left and it'd be great to set aside one day next week (or the week after) to brainstorm ideas. After that we'll need skit rehearsal days.

CAN EVERYONE IN THE ESPADA GROUP PLEASE COMMENT IN THIS ENTRY AND TELL ME 1) YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IF I DON'T HAVE IT AND 2) WHAT DAYS YOU'RE FREE NEXT WEEK AND THE WEEK AFTER. Yes Aizen-sama tux_masaki, that includes you. :P aegwynn_aran, I know you're really very busy but if it's alright could you tell me what days you're free as well?

kaiya02, can you confirm with me that you're only doing the photoshoot and not coming to Manifest? (If you're definitely not going to Manifest you don't have to come to the meeting). hehalana, can you please confirm with me if you're dropping out for certain - I need to know since there's only a month to go. And athira, could you please link your sister to this entry? It would be much appreciated :D

Gods, so much to dooooo in con season ...

~ Harmony

Gods, it's almost 5:30am and I can't get back to sleep OTL. Thought I may as well work on my Rikkai while I'm awake, even though I feel a little bit groggy =_= (It's almost a whole month away but I'm so stupidly excited about our Rikkai group that it's ridiculous xDD)

Apart from that ...

GAKUEN HEAVEN GROUP - I'm sure that almost all of you know this already from Twitter, but we'll have the shoot at Bubble's school (Tara), which is a short bus ride away from Epping station. Bubble was nice enough to take photos of her school for us, which you can find here (she told us the password on Twitter, if you want to see the photos just ask and I can give it to you). I'll post about the meetup time etc. later.

( Recent epic meetups under the cut :D )


Random Updates

- Silver's coming home from Japan today! ^_^ When we're at her party this weekend I'll force her to tell us all sorts of stories about what she did.

- I'm not sure I'll do Lenalee for Silver/Ray's party anymore :( Unfortunately I don't think I can do it in time, because I'm anal and that makes my sewing 20x slower than everyone else. Sorry t_twisted! I think I might recycle my Syaoran Li Card Captor Sakura costume, since he's Chinese and I never got proper shots of that costume. LOL I'm cosplaying a ten-year-old boy wtf.

- I finished my Gakuen Heaven! It took me longer to sew than it should've, but it's done. I tried on my entire Gakuen ensemble when I got home from Kaiya's today and it was fabulously ghey. Sooo not used to being blond though, lawl.

- Kaiya & I discovered that we're kind of intrigued with shipping the Ishtars. Which is hilarious because we were the Ishtars (Marik yelling "SISTEEEEEEEEER!! D8" at Ishizu in the anime was the best. It was so retarded xDD). We both kind of ship Niwa/Kazuki too, which is just as funny because we're cosplaying them, as well ...

... Can't wait until we take some more lovely brother/sister shots! Waiting to hear from shaz_ashuri about her photoshoot meetup details so we can do that. We already took some at the bus stop during Supanova where Marik had his arm around Ishizu just as a casual brotherly thing and it was sooooooooooooooo sweet D: <33 I have to get those photos off Jyo lol.

- mis_v IS MY NICK/RICHELLE SHIPPING SOULMATE OMG. I LOVE HER.

~ Harmony

Inviting you to:

SILVER & rayfy's JOINT B'DAY PARTY

Please click here for details

I'm posting this entry on Silver's behalf because she's currently on vacation in Japan. Silver & Ray's birthdays are about one week apart in mid-July and they decided to hold a joint party which has now been confirmed to be SUNDAY, JULY 19. Please keep this date free 'coz they'd like you to come! After all, they have to celebrate getting old :P

We're aware that some people are on our flist, but not on Ray's, which is why I'm linking you there now. ANYONE FROM OUR FLIST OR HIS FLIST IS INVITED. Please go to his entry (linked above) and RSVP with him, and tell him what you're cosplaying / wearing (if you've decided what you're doing :D). If possible please friend him for future updates on the party ^_^

They're hoping you will come and celebrate with them, so hope to see you there!

~ Harmony

This is our 150th journal entry! Yay. (That's technically not a lot though, considering we made this account four years ago XD).

Silver's now left for Japan. I burn with jealousy D: I haven't been there for 7 years. She'll be back in about two weeks' time, so once again, you're left with me, flist. Scary thought.

Just wanna pimp our finally-up-and-running-why-the-hell-did-it-take-so-long-I-swear-to-God-this-time-it's-alive JOINT dA, which finally has content uploaded onto it after like 2 years of being empty:

http://silverharmony.deviantart.com/

^ That account belongs to BOTH of us. ^ Those of you who are after only Silver's personal dA & graphic art should go here. Hopefully this will clear up all confusion; hopefully there's no more of my RL friends adding Silver thinking that she's me, or people commenting on her dA to tell her stuff they were meant to tell me, etc etc. SHE DOES NOT SHARE HER "ELTANIA" ACCOUNT WITH ME PEOPLE! XD However, she obviously does share this one.

The account now functions exactly the way we intended when we first created it: it now features 'samples' of photographs of our cosplay (of course the general picspams will still be here, but we'll pick the best 2 or 3 shots of our cosplays that we have and post them over there).

If you're on our flist, then we wanna watch you, so please link us to you. :)


Also wanting to get your contacts on:
x. My CURE - http://en.curecos.com/profile/?ch=124671 (I don't have some of you. If you have CURE link me to you so I can join your fan club)
x. My Twitter - http://twitter.com/silverharmony (I'm very active there!)
x. My Facebook - Please ask (I do want to add you if I don't already have you, I'm just not too hot on strangers knowing my real name XD)


EDIT: Thanks to everyone who added us! <333 If we still haven't tracked you down, please let us know or add us so we can add you back!

~ Harmony

Yeah I know I'm posting this rather late at night, sorry XD

Well, Supanova was kind of fail. It wasn't so much the con itself ... more like the cosplay competition's epic disorganization (on both days) as well as the rudeness of the staff ... yeah.

I haven't been to a convention in a few months and this was, well, disappointing :/ The best part of it was basically seeing everyone. EVERYONE WAS SO HOT. OMG. And seeing Tom's epic SMACK (which was so well-timed) along with Rinne's awesome backwards-flying. Most hilarious part of Sunday ever.

Anyway, on the Saturday I cosplayed as Isis / Ishizu Ishtar from Yu-Gi-Oh (thanks to our Kaiba for organizing the group!):


Credits to Bubby for this photo. Our Bandit Keith, Yami Bakura and Mokuba were missing from this shot ;__;

And on the Sunday, Silver cosplayed as Kagamine Rin and I cosplayed as Meiko from Vocaloid (thanks to our Miku for organizing the group!):


Credits to Bubby for this photo again. HAHAHA the twins are doing the ultra-ghey Gakuen Heaven pose XD

I had fun sewing both these costumes, though Ishizu killed me a bit with my fail sleeves and fail golden hair tubes >_<

We don't have proper photoshoot photos of ourselves as we were busy with various things during the con, but we're having both a YGO photoshoot day and a Vocaloid photoshoot day sometime soon - so these costumes won't go to waste :)

( Supanova fails + our skit is so damn seedy XD )

SMASH is the next con? SO EXCITED FOR RIKKAI COSPLAY OMG. I haven't decided whether I'll cut my hair again for Sanada yet. I can't wait to hold a half-dead Jyo in my arms and yell YUKIMURAAAAAAAA (and to see Madara throwing herself while shimmying).

~ Harmony

Gakuen girls/boys (whichever you prefer XD) ~ please mark SUNDAY, JULY 26 down in your diaries for the GH shoot. Silver mentioned that Sunday might be better for her than the Saturday, and I think Sunday might be better for others too?

( Location stuff )

( Photography stuff )

( Costuming stuff )

We'll post more specific details about the shoot closer to the date.

~ Harmony

Yeah I know this picspam is totally late *__* here are the White Knights photos from glorfindel's party. Thank you so much to Silver, rayfy and itakoaya who took these beautiful photos.

Thought it would be appropriate to post these now considering the ES21 manga series just ended. Sob.


Here, have a Coach Gunpei proving that he's hotter than Shin. XD
( Trident Tackle. )

(Other pictures from Aymie's birthday party can be found here, for those of you cosplayers who attended who are looking for pics! Please credit the talented Silver for them ^_^)

The next time I cosplay ES21 may be when I do Suzuna again (another version of course). Can't wait for that!

~ Harmony

Wow, two posts in a day how rare it is for us XD But it's Silver this time =]

Thanks again to mis_v for organising the party today and another warm and fuzzy happy birthday to you~ Sorry I wasn't able to stay for the entire day, but the few hours spent in your company was full of fun ^_^


I think this little fella got almost as much attention as the birthday girl :3

( Photos Photos Photos!!! )

~ Silver

I HAD LIKE THE MOST EPIC DAY YESTERDAY ZOMG.

First of all, thanks so much to rayfy, itakoaya (bahaha until 2am, ILU SO HARD ITA xDDD), ravient and kaiya02 (even though you left early! Wish you could've stayed!) for the AWESOME super-long epic chat/gossip session that lasted for hours with dinner. I totally had a blast, we were lol'ing all the way through, and we all ... well, managed to successfully open a few doors that had been previously closed. That was like, the most epic bonding session evaaar. xDDD I would do it again in a heartbeat. ♥

Secondly, thank you and much love to everyone for coming to the fabric-shopping yesterday! I think we managed to get everyone's stuff for Gakuen Heaven (and ES21 too, actually)? I'm not sure if we're missing a few buttons and we're still waiting on the gold bias which will be distributed to everyone at glorfindel's party, but we have most of what we need. So until July, happy sewing my BL family!

Speaking of which, in case you guys aren't aware, the date of the GH photoshoot'll be set according to Silver's uni work and overseas trip, so she's the one who's deciding on the date ... yesterday she mentioned that the weekend of July 25/26 would be best - so we may have the shoot on either one of those two days. What do you guys think?

And if you could, please everyone keep the weekend of July 18/19 free too ;) those dates are around the times of Silver and rayfy's birthdays, and I believe they're planning something! <3

~ Harmony

PS: BAHAHA ILU MADARA XDDD I'm so glad you talked to me last night on MSN. I so wish you and Nadleeh would've come, we missed you both!
PPS: Pimping the new Bakuman layout that Silver made for our journal, coz she hasn't done it yet. XP