tanmei

It's been a while since I've uploaded anything, including all of my 2013 cosplays, among anything else! Let's see, since I got back from holiday in January, I worked 4 days a week, rehearsed 3 times a week for a local theatre's musical (Phantom of the Opera!), did a costume commission during March/April, made and altered costumes for Phantom of the Opera, left my day job, then performed 12 times in Phantom of the Opera for the first half of June...and then burnt out, got really sick and was bedridden for the 2nd half of June. Then I spent the next week and a half finishing my Espella Cantabella cosplay that I had planned in January and start

I've been planning to change my username for a while now (I still love that song by Within Temptation, but have decided I shouldn't have such an angsty username from when I was 16 anymore). In the end, I decided to go with my Chinese name, tan mei, it has part of my name in it at least, it's short, and it's also free as a username on a number of sites. I've just arrived back from a 7-week holiday, and one of the things I picked up was a Chinese chop seal with my Chinese name carved into it, which I wanted to use on my artwork (and also as a watermark). I've also been meaning to get a costume page up-and-running on Facebook until I can be bot

Not that I really give much thought to kiribans on deviantArt, but the other day when I wrote my journal I noticed I was approaching 20,000 pageviews, and somewhere in the last five minutes I jumped from 19,999 to 20,001 - completely missing this magical number of 20,000 :ohnoes: If you've stopped by here over the last five-and-a-bit years I've been here, thanks for looking at my work! :D I suppose I should do something special to commemorate the occasion...perhaps a piece of art would be appropriate? Or probably some artisan crafts in my case. Maybe it's a sign I should start drawing again...