To enter, post on this picture with the comment ‘GAO!’ I’m looking to hear your best Saber Lion impressions!

Contest ends February 10th. Winner will be selected at random. International entries are welcome but please only enter if you have an address within the continental US that I can ship to. Lion not included ^_^ He’s just cheerleading~

I haven’t been great at posting work in progress here so I’m going to make an effort to be better about sharing my process for those interested. For staters, here’s some old progress shots on several costumes I have in the works- Saber Alter, Red Riding Hood Miku, and Saber’s Ataraxia brown dress.

I started Saber Alter well over a year ago… might even be approaching 2 years ^_^;; I can’t even remember when I started it now. Sometimes I’m very slow to finish things. This project is nearly done now, though. I want to wear it sometime soon~

I started Miku in January or some time around there, as well as Saber’s brown dress. To be honest, I have a number of unfinished costumes in my sewing area just waiting to be completed. I even have a few done that I’ve just never worn. I like to work on a number of things at once. There is some method to my madness since I will periodically get sick of working on one thing and move to one of my other projects so I never get too frustrated with just one costume. It helps, since sometimes you’ll come up on a problem and not know how you want to resolve it. Putting it away for a while gives me time to come up with ideas.

Please make it http://www.maridah.com/  This change is permanent ~

I’ve moved my directory, so links to /blog/ won’t find my homepage anymore. Thanks for understanding!

This site is undergoing some major changes in a week, so there are some bugs right now. Sorry for any inconvenience! Next week my galleries will get a whole new makeover, though!

Figured more Saber Lion photos were in order, so here’s a few more from Fanime 2011 :) It’s also my silliest costume, so I’m aways glad to share more of it.

First two photos are from AsianSchoolBoy and last one is from LJinto featuring the lovely (and hilarious here) ToasterSix as Deedlet. We switched props :)

Check out the issue HERE

Magazine’s website is here as well, so check out their other issues too.

We cover a number of topics from my first days of cosplay to Otacool- as well as cosplay hot topics like popularity and WCS. Check it out and see what I have to say on it all :)

1. Like Maridah’s Cosplay Page
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3. Comment on my facebook post HERE with the name of your favorite theatrical/Halloween lenses from their huge selection of contacts!

This contest is held on my facebook page, so please follow the link above to enter! A winner will be selected at random on 10/3 and the winner will receive $60 towards their choice of contact lenses! Contest open to entrants worldwide with the exception of Singapore.

Thrown in is a shot by the very awesome Anna Fischer of my Saber (Fate/Stay Night) from the same convention.

Also, a friend of mine sent me a link to this piece of art by someone of my cosplay. It’s simply amazing work so I wanted to share it. Credit goes to the artist Boreas (http://www.zcool.com.cn/u/286773/) Thanks to @LadyRiven for providing me with the artist’s link!

English side: http://en.cosblog.net/interview/040/
日本語のインタビュー: http://www.cosblog.net/interview/040/

Anime Expo’s location felt just right for photos of this since the city look is pretty relevant to Fate’s settings. I’m sharing a bunch of photos now all at once since I can’t contain my excitement ^_^

Photos curtesy of Max Archer, Anna Fischer, and Mike Rollerson. Thanks very much to all for the great photos! There are more coming, but I’ve spammed enough with these for the moment ^_^;;

Here are some photos from DannyChoo.com of my antics in Mirai (His article here: http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26183/AX+2011+Day+1.html)

As more photos come out, I’ll append this post with them ^_^

My Saturday and Monday were Saber cosplay days, so pictures of my new armor will be up in my next blog post :) Please subscribe using the form on the right side of maridah.com’s front page if you’d like to receive updates on when I post.