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 17th, 2010
I added two new link buttons and 4 new link banners to the Link Me section. They are of costumes that I've made/worn in 2009. It was about that I updated the available buttons and banners. :3
February 16th, 2010
Straywind.com is now being hosted by my good friend Pan. I can't thank her enough! <3 Amanda posted her pictures from the Rule of Rose shoot at Ohayocon so I added 18 new pictures to my Eleanor costume gallery. It was awesome to get to be part of a big RoR group! I've updated the Future Possibilities list with some new planned costumes. I recently started planning out my Shinku costume, which I'm hoping to make for AN this year. It's a costume that I've been meaning to make for a few years now. Hopefully I'll get a chance to go fabric shopping soon to get material. I'm looking forward to working on it bit by bit over the next few months. My plan is to get it done well in advance of the con. I hope that I can stick to that plan. XD
February 6th, 2010
Amanda posted her pictures from the Silent Hill shoot at Ohayocon so I added a few new pictures to my Heather costume gallery. It's nice to have some new pictures of an old favourite costume. :3 It was a lot of fun to be part of such an awesome Silent Hill group. Updates to the future costume list will be coming shortly. I'll be starting on a new costume for Anime North soon.
February 3rd, 2010
I'm back from Ohayocon. It was a wonderful con this year, in fact, it was one of the best cons that I've ever been to. I had a great time hanging out with a lot of my friends that I rarely get to see (given the fact that I'm from Canada). I will be going again next year unless something major comes up. I did a couple of photoshoots with Elemental that I can't wait to see of my Eleanor costume as a part of a Rule of Rose group and of my Heather costume that were taken during a Silent Hill photoshoot meet-up on Saturday night. The Silent Hill photoshoot was one of the highlights of the con for me. I meet so many great Cosplayers there and everyone was so nice. It was really touching. :3 I really can't wait till Ohayocon 2011! As I wait for the photoshoot photos, I did find a picture of my Heather costume from Eurobeat Kasumi and a few of my Rebecca costume from Eurobeat King that I've posted in my Rebecca and Heather costume pages. I really loved wearing all my costumes at the con. Rebecca, especially, was really well received but my Heather costume will always have a special place in my heart even though that costume is a bit old and not that well made. XD Of course, the RoR group was amazing! We're so close to having a full main cast.
January 26th, 2010
Happy New Year! My greetings are a bit late. XD Lately I haven't really had much to post on my Cosplay site. I'm still waiting for some shoot photos of my Ashley, Maria and Lisa costumes from Stillvisions. They'll be coming probably in the next few months. I will be attending Ohayocon next weekend. It may be the only American con that I attend this year so I'm a bit sad about that, but Ohayocon 2008 was one of my favourite cons that I've ever attended so I'm looking forward to attending the con again this year. I'm still finalizing my costume plans but I will be wearing my Eleanor costume for a big Rule of Rose group on Friday night. I’ll also be wearing Rebecca for most of the day on Saturday. I'll be changing into my old Heather costume for a Silent Hill 3 group as part of the big Silent Hill shoot around midnight on Saturday night. It should be a blast! If I can make it work, I'm also considering bringing Lisa to wear during the day on Friday, but that's only a small possibility right now. I'm looking forward to all the survival horror Cosplay goodness at the con! Elemental will be taking photos of the RoR group and possibly the Silent Hill group so I should have some great pictures after the con. :3 After Ohayo I will hopefully be starting my big AN costume by early March. I'm going to be making a Shinku costume. Shinku from Rozen Maiden has been on my future Cosplay list for years. I'm really glad that I finally should be making the costume soon. I have one other costume in mind to make this year for sure that's not already on my Cosplay list. I'll be adding it soon with the hope of working on it over the summer for Fan Expo. It's going to be a slow year for me Cosplay wise but hopefully a fun one. I look forward to seeing some of you guys at Ohayocon. (^^)
November 25th, 2009
SolarTempest posted his shoot photos from Youmacon so I added the pictures from the shoot I did with him of my Rebecca costume to that costume page. I really love the shoot photos because we managed to find an interesting back alley area of the Hyatt hotel, which had an awesome Resident Evil feel to it. I’m really looking forward to wearing my Rebecca costume again in the future. :3
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