London’s fabric district

London’s fabric district

So for my birthday this year, I planned a trip to see the Harry Potter studios finally – you can read all about that on my Harry Potter-focused blog. But of course, I didn’t go to London for just one day – We had 4 nights there. Sadly, our plane was...
Danish Fabric shops

Danish Fabric shops

Se dette indlæg på dansk her. In Danish, the word for fabric is the same as the word for drugs. So I often make a joke about that, seeing as I have a probably unhealthy amount of fabrics that I’m not sure I’ll be able to use in my lifetime. In my defence,...
Review: Spoonflower

Review: Spoonflower

I have been wanting to cosplay Rapunzel for many years, but the fact that I couldn’t find the exact right fabric for it was holding me back. I really wanted something in a flowery pattern similar to it, but I just couldn’t find anything. I considered...
Review: Saal Digital photo book

Review: Saal Digital photo book

A while back, I was offered to be a tester of Saal Digital’s photo book. I’ve been wanting to make a new photo album or similar to bring to conventions where I have a booth, so I could showcase my cosplays, so this was a great opportunity! The book arrived...
Shop review: Stoff4you.de

Shop review: Stoff4you.de

I do reviews very rarely. But stoff4you is just one of those shops… I have a love/hate relationship with it. I have purchased from it 4 times now. The first time (3 years ago) was a mixed experience. A friend and I bought two colours of pleather and some...

A post on casting resin

Often when picking materials for my costumes, I go for the cheapest possible solutions. I did that as well when I made my druid costume, and bought the cheapest resin I could find at that time, which was this one: Sadly, it was a case of cheap not being as good as the...

Review of Stoff4you.de

For my Ysera costume, I needed a very weird, green-coloured faux leather fabric. It was really hard to find a shop that had it, and most of the ones that did charged about twice as much as the other colours of faux leather. Finally, I found one store that carried both...

Review of dx.com

DX.com. Where to start? This store carries so many different items, it’s crazy! There”s anything from clothes to toys to electrical components to paintings to wigs. Almost all of it is dirt cheap because – of course – this is a Chinese store....