9th May 2011: Bunch of roses... For this bit, I needed my friend's advice on how I should arrange the roses trailing down on the side to not make it look weird... after we both arranged the roses and felt leaves, we stuck them down and I tested how it would look when worn(apologies for blurry photo >.<)
On one hand makes the cosplay look pretty but on the other, may need to add a few more roses or leaves in some places to cover up 'empty spaces'

6th May 2011: Gloves completed It's a bit messy but I think they look ok - the roses may look a little small but when I compared the scale of the roses on the gloves to the ones on the entire outfit, I think it's kinda accurate :3

6th May 2011: Gloves Today my tiny roses came through the post :D Now the black gloves that I purchased can be edited!! to start, I cut out small leaves out of felt and glued and hand sewed the roses on the edges

4th May 2011: Roses veil - before and after Title self explains itself - After I went on bit of a glitter painting rampage, I repainted the roses I used for my veil as I felt they looked a bit 'dead' and I think they look so much more better now (even if it's a shade darker XD)

Left image - Original roses
Right image - New and Painted roses

4th May 2011: Side roses Stuck roses and felt down to side although I kinda miscalculated ... the roses can be seen best when I'm viewed from the side but not from the front... I think it should be ok for now - I'll adjust it later if it does bother me more nearer to the time XD

4th May 2011: Leaves Stayed up painting some more roses to stick on the side of the dress - as an extra decided to cut some string of felt leaves to add to this

3rd May 2011: Roses THEY FINALLY CAME!!! This now means I have a chance to finish the cosplay for May *finger crossed* However, the colour was slightly lighter than I wanted them to be but with a bit of a glitter paint job, I darkened them - now they're all dark and sparkly :D

3rd May 2011: Arm bands complete After painting a few roses, I cut some felt leaves out and hot glued them at the top of the band - the glitter rubs off them but they look so much more prettier now ^^ I didn't cover the entire ring with roses cos I need room to put my arms down to the side XD - please let me be able to finish this, please!!

24th April 2011: Under dress Finished making the dress from taffeta and I added a couple layers of navy blue chiffon over to get that transparency affect - it looks a tad black but it is BLUE!!! I kinda over estimated the shade a bit with the chiffon ^^;;;

Image on the left is without a petticoat
Image on right is with the petticoat (not much difference but eh I think it's got enough of the right boost)

Ignore the blue hoody as I'm too lazy to put on the entire outfit (looking back at my design for it, I haven't quite stuck to the drawing but I still think it looks fine)

23rd April 2011: Petticoat Just a quickly made petticoat to give the outfit a bit more volume - made from one layer of organdy and two layers of tulle netting - since it's obviously see through I wore shorts underneath - I won't be wearing this with the cosplay on the day

23rd April 2011: Arm bands - better photo Just to show the arm bands a bit better - made two of them now and all I gotta do is stick the roses and felt leaves on the top

16th April 2011: Arm band - half done Been feeling a tad ill all this week, I unfortunately haven't done much progress :( - so I hurried on with the 'arm bands' today - I Notice from the art work that they're puffy so what I simply did was cut two rectangular pieces out, sew them together with one end open, sew the elastic in both ends and then before closing the opening, stuff it - still looks kinda weird atm and hoping that it can be rescued with the rose and leaves at the top (GOD I SO HOPE TO GOD THE ROSES ARRIVE >.<) I also added one row of ruffled taffeta and two rows of ruffled Organza at the top

8th April 2011: Wrap test Before going to sleep last night, I was roughly thinking about the pattern and construction of this - when I tested it, it was just as I suspected ^^ all I had to do was hem all edges of a rectangle and sew two rows with a wide straight stitch on one end and about 2 3rds down the fabric do another two rows of stitching and afterwards begin to gather the fabric ^^ I tucked this into my leggings to test how it will be hung on the garment

8th April 2011: Trail test Testing the trail today by pinning onto the bodice to see how it drapes and I like it ^^ - just gotta test the black wrap thing and sew them together - yay progress!!

7th April 2011: Black drape URGH!! Why do I torture myself with adding ruffles to the bottom of the black cape thing >.< This line of ruffles is over 7ms long and took blimey ages to hem and create! nevertheless glad I finished with the ruffles and sewed together the drape thing using a dress pattern .. but still need to alter the shape a bit as it looks quite frumpy at the bottom when I wear it..

6th April 2011: Bodice Used a chinese shirt top pattern and finished the bodice - bit plain though - was thinking of adding a corset or underbust one for more detail but that decision is gonna be left til the end - still got a long way to go -_-

16th March 2011: Veil - rose close up Only took a few hours to make - anyways this is a close up of the roses I'm using - I'm thinking of buying a few more packs to do all the roses on the dress as I'm too lazy to make them XD (maybe a few but not all, as there are tons of roses on the cosplay) As a nice touch, I cut out small leaves out of felt - best part is it saves on hemming and it's cheap 8D

16th March 2011: Veil hemming As the veil is one of the easiest part of the outfit, I have made a start on it - made with organdy, I hemmed one end first with bias tape and gathered the other end - then I hemmed that - as stated before I can't stand seeing raw ugly eges

16th March 2011: Roses As I really do wanna make a start on this dress as it's so gorgeous, about a month ago, I ordered some blue roses as testers for this cosplay - as it was a very pale blue, I glittered it up with some dark blue glitter glue (you have no idea how hard I had to look to find this colour ¬¬)I'm a little unsure bout it but I think it's just because I haven't made the entire outfit yet

16th March 2011: Sketch (please ignore the construction stuff round it) ^^;; As the art work is a little bit odd upon the bottom of the dress, I decided to redraw it to a version which I'll be happy to make - from the sketch it looks like it going to be a long ball gown for me as I think it works better than to have a short skirt with something see through draped over.

15th March 2011: Odds and ends art work reference Again, I have to try and make up the back for this and can't see the front detail but can use this to my advantage later on =b