I went to a place called JoAnn Fabrics for most of it. I always wanted to be a MK ninja in college, but never knew how to go about it. I don't know what I'll be this year. It's never too early to actually think about that type of stuff, y'know?

The balakava is actually a ski mask. Kody and I found them at Target for like, $2 each. Cheap things (in both cost and make) but man, we were sweating with it on, even in the pouring down rain!

The mask was a glow-in-the-dark Halloween hockymask that I cut down. Kody had one too but he painted his with blood. I mean, red paint to look like blood. NOT that he cut himself to give it the blood effect. lol.

The shirt is actually a thermal shirt. The gloves are bike gloves. The arm and shin guards are, uh, soccer shin guards spraypainted black several times. The shoes are from my old TaeKwonDo days. And I'm actually just wearing a pair of black sweats.

As for the, uh, purple. The yellow fabric they had was more like ochre, the blue was baby blue (oh hell no...), so I chose a purple velvet-y fabric and then bought some a foam sheet. Emi, in fact, sewed it all up. It's 3 separate pieces. The shoulder pieces are separate and then the 'belt' is just tied on in the back. IT's a pretty simple costume, it only took months for me to figure out how to do the shoulder pads. I didn't want a loose fabric like I had seen others do. I wanted it to be slightly stiff so it'd have that cool samurai shoulder pad look. It's hanging in the closet now, tho the shoes are too small.



And if you want to here something really cool. that military outfit. I got the pants at a usual army surplus but the jacket I found at a 2nd hand store. Duder was desperate for business so he sold it to me for $20 WITH a liner! Lot of people ask where I get the jacket cuz it's perfect in cold weather. NOT that someone like TG or Outrider have 0 degree weather ever. :P