My favorite time of the year is right around the corner.  When you're panicking about unfinished cosplay projects and having to stand in line for pre-reg in nintey degree weather.. *sigh*  Good times ^___^  I'm especially excited since Yoko Kanno has been announced for this year's Otakon!!  I can't wait to update my favorite Macross cosplay for the special occassion, and it helps me feel better about possibly not being able to finish my newest costume in time ^^;  But it's all good, I have a lot planned for this year and I haven't felt this optimistic in a long while!  Hopefully even Sheep Man will be getting some love again hehe. 

With summer comes more cons, and with more cons comes more pony gatherings!!  This has me in the mood for moar ponies, but sadly the newest season won't be out for a long while.  In the meantime I finally managed to finish my Princess Celestia drawing instead.  It came out pretty epic imo.. Huge and majestic!  It was worth the effort, coloring dat hair almost made me throw in the towel.  But I like how it came out altogether.  I hope you all do too :3

I've also re-discovered my obsession with Animal Crossing again, thanks to New Leaf FINALLY being released for the 3DS shortly!  Once it's released I will share my friend code, I will absolutely need neighbors lol.  I will more than likely be making some AC related fanart too! 

Until next update folks and best of luck on your adventures~

Another year, another Katsu!  I'm starting to lose count personally hahaha.  But as always, Katsucon remains one of the absolute best cons for cosplaying on the east coast.  Everywhere you looked you saw an amazingly detailed and gorgeous costume.  Everyone is so talented!  And I felt really honored to be in the pressence of so many talented cosplayers ^///^

What stuck out for me the most this year however, was the My Little Pony photo shoot that took place early Saturday afternoon.  I haven't had so much fun in cosplay in years, and I really mean it.  Seriously, the cosplay group of the MLP:FiM fandom really makes it for me.  Everypony was just so much fun to pose/play with, and even her majesty, Queen Celestia, was kinda enough to carry me over the group at point lmao.

The best part though was hanging out in our hotel room and still being a part of the fun.  As you can see from my picture, we had a wonderful up-close view of the cherry blossom terrace.  And after the shoot we were waved to and asked to come join the dance party happening below us .  It was magic!  I had a blast dancing with the rest of the amazing pony cosplayers, and they were even kind enough to sing me happy birthday!  (Katsu always falls around my Bday so I try to throw a party every year lol.)  That photo shoot/dance party will always be one of my all time favorite con memories.  I've been going to cons nows for well over ten years, almost fifteen now, and never have I been moved to tears so much before.  I was so incredibly happy to have made so many new friends, and I loved every second of it!  So if you're reading this pony royalty, and all other pony folk I met at Katsu, thanks again from the bottom of my heart for making my birthday wishes come true, and for re-kindling my passion!  <3!  I love you all so much! ^3^

With that said, here's a gallery to ALL the photos I took over the weekend.  Starsugar Sweet's Cosplay Gallery  (I have yet to add captions, I promise I'll finish that up soon lol.)  I've also updated both my Fluttershy and Fionna galleries for now, but hopefully I'll find some pics of my Ranka cosplay too hahaha.  But if you find yourself in my gallery please feel free to email me at Starsugarsweets@gmail.com, and I will send you the original photo asap!

Hope you had a wonderful time at Katsu this year as well, and please enjoy my new pics!  Ja ne minna!  Until next time!

Hello everypony!

I'm hoping a lot of new friends are visiting here, since I handed out a lot of valentines over the weekend at Katsucon, and I wanted to make sure to update this as soon as I was able to.  Rest assured, the site is very much still going to be active ^^; 

Yes, it's been a long time since I last updated the blog, and I apologize for disappearing for as long as I have.  Life has a way of shaking your foundations to the core sometimes, and I admit I became lost for a while.  I seriously questioned myself and what my future would be like, and I feel into a dark place.  I lost a lot of my creative drive and I lost my love of cosplay.  And fairly recently I gave serious consideration into retiring not just from cosplay, but from all art entirely.

But over this past weekend I celebrated my birthday at Katsu, and I gave cosplaying one more chance.  I didn't work on anything new, but I brought the same costumes I wore to last year's Otakon, hoping to re-kindle my love and do a little soul searching.

What I found Saturday morning and during the My Little Pony photo shoot was more than just inspiration, but what I found a was true lesson in friendship I will never forget <3  

So now I'm more pumped than ever to continue my cosplay journey and to try new and exciting things, not for my own path, but in order to share love and magic throughout the cosplay community.  Making new friends and remembering why we do what we do in the first place, was exactly what I needed to help my eyes open up again.

I may still take a break for a little bit, strictly from a financial point of view, but my creative drive is back and bigger than ever.  I have so many new ideas, and it's mostly thanks to everyone who reached out to me and helped me remember that friendship is real magic.  And if cosplay is what helps share that joy with so many awesome fans around us, then I want to keep sharing and never stop!  

Thanks again to each and every one of you who made my weekend so special to me!  I'm looking forward to hearing from you again!

Next update will have an entire gallery of my pictures from Katsu.  I've run out of bandwidth to post a new gallery, so I'll try to just update my cosplay a little at a time and all the pictures I took of all the amazing cosplayers I met, will be shared through my photobucket account.  I'll share the galler and offer my email address so you can contact me for the original photos later, but for now I have lots of work to do!  

~Starstorm