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Purchased a new chamber

Check out the new camera we bought. We are excited to be able to deliver better quality photos of our crafts, costumes, and props in the near future.

We bought the camera because we were tired of taking pictures from our phones and crappy digital cameras. We needed MORE!

We also bought it so we would be able to travel and take photos of costumes (Mainly Link photos) in faraway places on our schedule rather than a photographers and have to pay insane travel fees. 

Also, no one knows what you want out of a picture better than you do.

"The Boots" official Tiki Crafts Mascot #1

"The Trouser" official Tiki Crafts Mascot #2

If you would like to know more, simply go here Sony Nex 3 review to check out all the cool features.

Th review I linked s for the nex 5 but its pretty much the same except for a slight difference in video quality

Its as gold as....Bowser

I think Bowser is the new black.

Check out the finished product.

Bracing up

A while back we found this tutorial on how to make craft foam armor: Penwiper's Craft Foam Tutorial but had not had a direct need to use it. A friend of ours asked us to help him with a last minute costume for renaissance festival. I would have loved to make him an entire outfit, but we didn't have the time. So he bought a fluffy shirt, grabbed some dickies, put on a belt he already owned, and we provided the finishing touch- the bracers.

We made them out of craft foam because its fast, cheap, easy, and would probably only be one time use.

We took our link gauntlets as a model and cut out similarly shaped pieces. It doesn't look that great when they are flattened out like in the image.

But once we shape them over the stove, they start looking much better. We glue them on with regular school glue. I know there is a process to seal them, make them hard, and paint them, but we didn't find that necessary for what we were using them for.




We had no need to paint them because we simply chose the foam in the colors we wanted the gauntlets in.
Once we were happy with the shape, we added grommets and some shoe lace we found off some old dress shoes. and voila!

Our buddy Alex, sporting his new gear.

I would love to hear what you guys think. More posts coming this week hopefully to catch up.

Updates

• Its been a little hard to post because of Nursing school, and making renovations to the house because Marcus moved in with me. XD
• Also, since we had success with craft foam armor in this instance, we decided we could use it to make Ganondorf. Preliminary update on that soon to come.
• Malon is nearly done. I just need to paint the apron. Photo shoot should be coming soon.
• Renaissance festival headband soon to come
• I just made a costume for next renfestival, photo shoot coming soon also.

 I hope you enjoyed this.

Malon Teaser

This isn't the whole costume on. It is done at this moment but not in this picture.

This is just a teaser till I get some professional pictures done. Hope you like it.