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
September 3rd, 2010
Fan Expo is over for another year. I've been going to conventions for 10 years now and I've
been to over 30 cons (two conventions of which I've been to 9 and 10 times) and Fan Expo 2010 was the most
poorly organized and planned convention that I can remember ever being to. When the con broke
fire code for most of the day on Saturday it was downright dangerous to be anywhere near the
Metro Toronto Convention Centre with the massive crowds of aggravated fans that had gathered
outside the con hoping to get in. I managed to avoid the crowds because I was doing costume
photoshoots for most of the day, but I didn't manage to set foot into the Convention Centre
until after 6PM even though I arrived at the con before 10:30AM. It was pretty crazy. It's sad
to see Fan Expo turn out that way since it was the con that introduced me to cons and got me
interested in Cosplay back in 2001. Hopefully the staff will clean up their act for 2011.
The
costumes that I wore to Fan Expo were all well received. I only debuted one new costume and it
was the adorable Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon costume that I borrowed from Ammie to be part of a
Eternal Inner Senshi group with her and her friends. It was pleasure being a part of the
group! We did a few shoots during Saturday and I look forward to posting shoot photos in the
coming weeks and months. (^^) I did a shoot with Rock nam Lee on Sunday of my Snow White
costume and I posted my favourite photos in the costume gallery. I treasure every photo of
that costume. There were a few children at the convention that loved seeing me and the other
awesome Disney Cosplayers at the con. I think a moment I really loved was when the doorman at
the Intercontinental hotel greeted me as I left the hotel and said, "it's nice to see you
again Ms. White!" It made my giggle. :3 Rock nam Lee also took some short video clips of my
costume and compiled them into a clip video which he set to sweet background music and posted
on his YouTube channel. It was very nice shooting with him and the video is very touching. I
linked it in the Snow White costume page. (^_^)
August 26th, 2010
Tomorrow is Fan Expo and I can't wait for the con. I can't believe this will be my tenth time attending the convention. My Cosplay plans are to wear my Batgirl costume tomorrow to match my awesome friend Pan who will be Supergirl. On Saturday I'm going to be part of an Eternal Sailor Moon group with Amber and several of her friends. I will be Cosplaying as Eternal Sailor Chibi Moon, which again I will be borrowing from Amber. Pink is my favourite colour so I can't be happier to Cosplay as Chibi Moon. :3 I can't thank Amber enough for this opportunity. In the afternoon I plan to change into a new Sailor Lolita outfit and on Sunday I plan to re-wear my Snow White costume. I look forward to seeing a lot of guests and panels at the con and hopefully I'll see a lot of you there too!
August 21st, 2010
Over the last few weeks Stillvisions has posted his preview shots for a couple of shoots that I've done with him since June so I've added a photo to my Zoey costume page and another photo to my Lisa costume page. The full shoots will be posted later in the year so more great photos are yet to come. (^^) Regarding Fan Expo costume plans, I've been slacking off a bit because of the hot summer and I haven't really felt too motivated to make a really warm mascot style costume for Fan Expo. Therefore, I'm going to hold off finishing my Sam costume from Trick 'r Treat until the fall when it will be a little cooler. Plus, making the mask is proving to be a bigger challenge than I expected. Hopefully with an extra two months to work on it, I'll sort out my concerns with the mask. The plan is to finish it before Youmacon so I can do a great pumpkin patch photoshoot. At least that's my hope! XD Instead of wearing Sam to Fan Expo, my current plan is to re-wear my Batgirl costume that Pan made for me to match her since she's planning to re-wear her Supergirl costume on Friday of the con. It's definitely more appropriate for summer. (^^);; I just bought a new orange wig for the costume since my old wig is a little worse for wear so I'm looking forward to re-wearing the costume.
August 5th, 2010
Elemental posted the shots that she took of me as Asuka from AN so I now have a few really pretty photos of my costume. I finally made up the costume page for the costume, which can be found in the Anime and Manga Costumes section. I'm looking forward to fixing up my Asuka costume and finding a chance to re-wear it since it's super comfy and a great outfit for summer cons and events. :3 I also added a few new photos to my Snow White costume page courtesy of Lightbringer.
July 20th, 2010
Stillvisions posted photos from the shoot that we did of my Maria costume from Youmacon last year so I finally have a great number of awesome shots of the costume. I had some issues with the fit of the costume at Youma so I'm really glad that most of the shots turned out wonderfully. Maria isn't really a character that I can pull off convincingly but there are a few shots from the set that really impress me. I also added a few photos care of chef_belegfea on Cosplay.com to my Snow White costume page from the Cosplay Picnic.
July 14th, 2010
The Toronto Cosplay Picnic went splendidly this year. I broke out of my shell a little bit and
I wore a surprise costume. Back in March I purchased Limebarb's Snow White costume and I knew a picnic
on Centre Island would be a perfect place to debut it. It was a little hot to wear it
in the middle of summer, but the costume got a fantastic reaction from the public. I felt like
a costumer at Disney World! My wonderful friend Amber surprised me by making herself a
gorgeous Ariel costume so we had a lot of fun wandering around the island doing photoshoots
and taking pictures with children and adults alike. I already have several photoshoot pictures
from the day so I’ve created a costume page, which you can find in the "Bought/Borrowed Costumes"
section. Thanks to Pan, Juan and Lateonomen for photos! The photos from Juan are especially
wonderful. Since I was a kid I dreamed of Cosplaying a Disney character so actually Cosplaying
as Snow White and making so many kids, along with myself, happy was a dream come true! I'll
probably add more photos to the costume page in the coming months. In other news, Polaris is
coming up this weekend. I will be going just for Saturday. I really can't decide at the
moment which costume to wear. I'm debating mostly between fixing up Asuka and wearing that
(since I have almost no photos of the costume and I have yet to make a costume page for it) or
I could re-wear Snow White or Batgirl. Decisions, decisions! I only have a couple of days to
decide what to wear. I'm looking forward to the convention! It was a lot of fun to attend last year. Polaris has a great atmosphere.
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