Welcome to my Cosplay home on the net. My name is Rebecca (aka Stray Wind online). I've been Cosplaying since late 2001. I love the fellowship, challenges and creativity involved in making costumes. My forte is Cosplaying from more obscure Anime/Manga and Cosplaying lesser known characters. I also have a great love for horror video games and I've started Cosplaying from them in mid 2006. :3 I especially enjoy Cosplaying from the Resident Evil and Silent Hill games.
This isn't my first Cosplay website. I ran Cosplay Patchwork until my host disappered from the net. Now I've bought my own domain and I'm happy to finally have a little place to call my own again. I'll be posting photos and info about a lot of my old costumes along with future cosplay and convention plans. You can expect a lot of neat content in the future. :3
February 1st, 2012
2012 is already well underway and I’m thinking this is going to be a great Cosplay year. I made a lot of progress and finished my Halloween print summer dress. I finished it on January 15th and I only worked on it a couple of hours a day on a few evenings so I'm pretty happy with how quickly I made it and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I'm looking forward to wearing it at Con-G later this month.
In other costume news, I just received my new Shinku wig in the mail last week. The eBay seller actually sent me the wrong wig (as their eBay store had two different Shinku wigs for sale). The wig isn't quite as nice as I had hoped as I was hoping to get a wig with very curly pigtails, but the fact that the wig has wig clips instead of being pigtails with extensions means that it'll be a lot easier to manage. Not that long wig clips don't tangle like crazy too, but at least I don't have to worry about destroying the style of the wig. I recently joined a group order and bought some contacts for Shinku and another pair for my future Halloween Rei costume. I've never tried cosmetic lenses and I'm not sure if my eyes will like them, but I'm looking forward to trying them on. I also purchased a wig for my Rei costume. I'm really preparing for that costume despite the fact that I'm not going to be working on it until the summer. XD
December 31st, 2011
Happy New Year! My friend Stillvisions completed his photo backlog from 2010 and posted photos of my Eternal Sailor Saturn and Sam costumes from Youmacon. You can see the first version of my Sam costume in all its odd head shaped glory. XD At least you can see how I've improved the costume and I had a lot of fun at Youma that year with Ammie as Alice from American McGee's Alice. I was part of an Outer Scout group for the Sailor Moon shoot that I did with Stillvisions so I have a few shots of us from the lit hallway that turned out really nicely as well.
Just today I started sewing my Halloween summer dress so I'm hoping to finish that really soon. :3 It’s a nice way to start off the new year.
December 28th, 2011
Happy Holidays everyone! I don't have any new costumes or photos to post, but I just wanted to wish everyone a belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! One of the gifts that I got for Christmas was a new makeup kit, which should help with costume ideas for 2012. Just today I started working on a Halloween print summer dress just for fun. If I finish it and it turns out nicely I'll probably bring it to Con-G in February. I recently pre-registered for the con and I'm looking forward to attending it for a second year. It should be a fun event to attend to break up the long winter ahead.
November 26th, 2011
Rock nam Lee has posted his awesome videos from Youmacon of the various con shenanigans. He took some video footage of Ammie and me in our Rozen Maiden costumes for a funvid and he also did a second video of some awesome Resident Evil Umbrella mercenaries and incorporated Ammie, The Letter Jay and me as Jill, Chris and Rebecca. It turned into quite a brawl and was a lot of fun to shoot. :3 Links to both videos can be found in the "Around the Web" page in the Sitey section. Thanks to Rock nam Lee for the lovely videos! They're such a fun way to remember the con.
November 20th, 2011
SolarTempest posted his awesome Youmacon costume galleries and I now have some lovely shots of Ammie and me as Suigintou and Shinku from Rozen Maiden. I added the costume shots to my Shinku costume page. SolarTempest also took some really nice photos of me as Nurse Rebecca on Friday night of Youmacon that I just love. The photos are up in that costume’s gallery. I just love my new Rebecca costume. It's so much fun Cosplaying Rebecca. I look forward to wearing that costume again. :3
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