Andeshan

I can't believe it has been over a year since I have wrote on this page. Many things have changed in that year. But I won't discuss the bad as it is far behind me now. I will say I have gained many new friends this year alone. Although I no longer render I have moved on to a different area of talent. I am now an Official member of the Rebel Legion with 2 different Jedi costumes. My wookiee costume of my SWG wookiee Kallabeccani is 85% complete and will soon be the first female wookiee to be made for the Rebel Legion. And speaking of wookiees the biggest surprise of my life came to me back in July as Peter Mayhew added me to Facebook and has been in contact with me about my costume. He has been following my progress and is very impressed. And before any of you say that it might not be him.... it is him as I have also spoke with him and his wife Angie. I have also became fiends with Jake Lloyd (the young Anakin). He is from Indiana and often comes back for visits.

I have been to many different Conventions including my first ever Dragon Con this year. That was totally amazing! I have gotten to see many costumes, Met Yaya Han, Timothy Zahn and a lot of crazy-awesome friends in costume! I even walked in the parade with 3 layers of linen in 90 degree Atlanta heat! Even before Dragon Con I started dating a gentleman who also costumes and is doing a custom concept bounty hunter from the Thrawn Series. Not sure where it will go but we are enjoying our time together.

And all the friends I have gained! WOW! It early feels like my favorite time of the year each weekend..... HALLOWEEN! Now that I am in the Rebel Legion I am official to troop with them and the 501st at charity events not just Cons. Soon I will be submitting the two costumes I have in to the Dark Empire to see about dual membership. I also have many other costumes on my mind including Bellatrix LeStrange, Kitty Pryde and many other 501st or Rebel Legion costumes and even a possible Mando! Yep I have been a busy girl.

Oh Nearly forgot lol I got a new puppy! A red and white AKC Siberian Husky. My 4-Hers have adopted her as the mascot of the dog club and have watched her grow since she was 5 weeks old. She is now a healthy 40 pound 7 month old pup lol. I have always had Shelties all my life and Pomeranians for the last 10 years so having a husky is a totally different ordeal.

If any of you would like to see the wookiee or any of the other costumes I am working on you are welcome to visit my Facebook page.... www.facebook.com/angela.basing… 

Just noticed last night that the guild I was in in SWtor I guess disbanded a few months back. It is a shame as it was a good guild and I wished I could have done more with them. I honestly thought that Jen'Jidai would have been the guild to last with the game. They was extremely outgoing on the Empire side of things and one of the forgoers of the server if not the game. But it was one year ago this weekend that I took on a different aspect of my life and had to make a lot of changes. I started to costume more and working a ton of overtime to pay off some bills made me lacking in my game play. By December I took a hard look at myself and was noticing I was not having fun anymore with gaming online. I was forcing myself to log on once a week and dreading it more and more. I left gaming all together in December 2012.

I still severely miss playing my wookiee from Star Wars Galaxies but the good news is the costume I am making of her is coming along great. The base aspect for the mask is really shaping up and I am finding out that I really love sewing and working with monster clay. My boyfriend also enjoys helping me and together we showcased our nearly finished Jedi suits at Gen Con this year. His was done in chocolate brown and black and my own was done in Black silver and white. Both suits can be classified as Jedi and Dark Jedi but we still need to finish them up a bit. Mainly just need lightsabers and belts to finish them out. Hopefully any more updates from me will come more often lol. But till next time.... May the great ones look down upon you and bring you happiness.

So it looks as though in 2 years I might be going to California. Yea that's where the next Celebration will be at and I rather enjoy that convention. I should have some costumes done by then as well including my wookiee costume.

Things have gone crazy for me. Back in March I had a huge surprise enter my life. My brothers best friend growing up stopped by the house with his parents to drop off a present to my mother for her birthday. His parents and my own are best friends by the way. His mom started asking me about my costume and how it was going so I brought it down to show her and I saw a spark of interest from Bobby (my brothers best friend). We talked for a few minutes before he had to leave but I got ahold of him on facebook and we talked quite a bit. He is a huge Star wars fan and even played SWG at one point along with many other games lol. A week went by and I came home from a meeting and was not ready to go home just yet and was hungry but I didn't want to go out to eat alone. I called up Bobby and asked him if he wanted to join me. He had his adopted son and I invited both of them. We ended on going out to eat and afterwards to a movie. He shocked me and gave me a kiss when I got back home. You see I had a major crush on this guy starting about the age of... 11. Two days after that on his own mothers birthday we officially started dating! Me and Bobby have been together 3 months now and each day is joy as we talk or text to each other or just spend time with one another. Like me he is also getting into the costuming and could pass for Qui-gon Jinn. He encourages me with my own wookiee costume and even redoing my jedi suit. For his birthday I made him the first piece to his jedi suit the outer robe. Although things right now have slowed down on the costuming for the both of us due to work and my 4-H season. I have twice as many kids this year that I am working with and since like me he was in the dog club when he was younger he also helps me train. We have so much in common and I do truly love him. We are currently saving up to go to the next Celebration in Florida and work on our costumes.

On a side note I have put aside my rendering. There was some people on here that made a few comments about my renders of them from a game to me that just really broke all my inspiration. I am a very giving person and would do anything for most people even when I am hurt. But this time.... I don't know. They hurt me with words that hit deep into my heart. The comments were supposedly joking but honestly that's not how they had sounded. Will I get back into rendering? No clue... maybe someday. But I guess when you try to do something nice and all's you do is get hurt then its time to hang it up.

So here is a bit of updating in my life. I have left Jen'Jedai and for the most part Swtor. I am currently working 12 hour days 5 days through the week and 8 hours on most saturdays. I really did like the guild but I just did not have the time to play the game and it was getting harder and harder to stay awake and soon became a chore in trying to sit down and play. When it becomes that its time to just back off and seperate. I do miss my old story that I was writing on the forums it was a pretty decent story since I had hardly ever did forum RP. I did ask for it to be moved twice and there was no use of asking a third time thats just not my style I really dont beg.

In other news I gave my older computer over to my mother to use because her laptop was being screwy. This was the computer that I did most of my rendering from so now I need to download things over here on this computer. I might do that when and if things calm down in the future. But that doesn't look like it is going to be very soon as I have a ton of work on my plate at the moment. My Group Leader comes back from medical leave this next week but my work load will not change till she is back to normal (she had hip replacement surgery) and able to lift and move stuff. In March my 4-H group starts back up as well, I cant wait to see the kids! I also have troop events on some of the weekends with the 501st and rebel legions.

In the mean time I am busy working my rear end off to get the stuff for my new costume I am working on. For those that do not follow me on facebook I am creating one of the very first female wookiees in the rebel legion. In fact I am creating my OWN female wookiee from Star Wars Galaxies! Yes Kallabeccani is coming to life! As soon as she is complete she will be adopted into the Wookiee workshop clan of wooks in Tampa Bay Florida as their little sister. We are trying to complete the costume by May of this year so she maybe previewed at Star Wars Weekends. I will also have her at GenCon (Indy) in August and also at GMX (Nashville Tenn) later in the year. But she is not the only female wook I will be working on.... In the future I will be doing a second female wookiee... Mallatobukk! Chewbacca's mate!

I also am now an offical Rebel Legion Cheerleader! I order my cheerleader suit in the spring (first comes my stuff for my wook). I am also going to redo my jedi suit to offical standards and I have a Star Trek dress to make at some point in time. They say there is no rest for the wicked!

I also have a goal this year to do something new... I am thinking about going and taking beginner ballroom dancing lessons. This is still on the plate right now as I have so much other stuff going on like I said before. Anyways that is the updates for now.