Xena November 18-20 Convention & Auction

This year the Xena 25th Anniversary Convention happened on November 18-20 in the Hyatt Regency  Los Angeles Airport. I couldn't go but I lived that weekend with great enthusiasm and joy. As we all know, it's a time to meet up other xenites, enjoy, share feelings, meet the main actors from the show, get some autographs and definitely, had a great time all together.

During the whole weekend there were plenty of Xena fans wearing their Xena cosplays, even a few screenused wardrobes, it is the case of Boris, he worn the screenused Ares costume worn by Kevin Smith himself.

In this photo we can see Joe, in the left side, UK friend wearing Ares cosplay costume with an Ares scabbard he ordered to me a few years ago. In the middle, Emily, UK friend too, she trusted me to make her a Xena leather dress and all the leather pieces from the armour. She wore it like a real warrior princess! And in the right side is the man who worn the screenused Ares complete wardrobe, including sword, scabbard and jewelry. Many people was really surprised and they photographed him.

Many Xena fans were on the stage during the Xena costume contest happened during the weekend. There were really such a good costumes there: Tamy, worn her handcrafted Xena evil costume, really screen accurate, I really love the result and she is a really kind and enjoyable woman. In her left side is Deborah, wearing Xena shamaness costume from season 5 handling the Xena Argo saddle bags. The wardrobe is stunning, without a doubt. The centaur and the male Xena and Gabrielle versions are quite funny, isn't it?

Lucy Lawless was really kind as always and Renée is a loving person, both are awesome women. What else I can say about them...

Well, in my opinion, the interesting thing happened on Sunday. An auction that wasn't properly advertised happened during the Ted Raimi photo op session. Mostly all Xena fans were in the getting photo ops done or awaiting in the Renée and Ted lines. Sadly, it was bad timing on the schedule.

There was auctioned some really interesting things:

• Lucy’s season 5/6 hero leathers and a pair of her screen-worn greaves sold for $4700. 
• Gabrielle complete season 6 velvet costume was sold for $900.
• Xena Creation Entertainment metal sword replica was sold for over $6000. 
• Gabrielle sais were sold for an unknown price.
• Xena balanced chakram was sold for an unknown price.

 

Photos taken from Zak twitter (https://twitter.com/Zuhkaree)

So, really jealous! But, I wasn't there, I had no options to bid although there were online bidders as I knew a few days after. I will have killed for the Xena leathers and probably I would had loved to see Gabrielle costume and sais although I already got those screenused pieces.

Gabrielle S5 costume replica

 Hi guys! Today I bring you a special entry about my last project. I have been working on it about two weeks and I think the result finally worth it. Here is the Gabrielle season 5 leather costume replica seen in season 5 from the series. The very first appearance was in the episode "Chakram" from season 5 after Gabrielle and Xena survived the roman crucifixion. The last episode that was seen this wardrobe was in the episode "The haunting of Amphipolis" from season 6 when Gabrielle falls in acid and the costume is destroyed.

Well, I believe everybody see that this costume had a lot and different braiding styles. Sometimes, it was a real nightmare to continue although other moments I had a funny time working on it. Also another hard job was to find the correct shape and colour leather for the braid, the top and belt. Making a good pattern was one of the most important issues,  I must say I have help on that... Another point was to find the right size and shape metal beads hanging from the top and belt.

 

Gabrielle season 6 costume and season 5 one shared the metal cuffs, was the only thing in common in both wardrobes. The necklace is an official replica distributed by Creation Entertainment w/COA.

Awesome Callisto Skirt Replica

Hi guys! Today I bring you this authentic treasure from the propmaker Todds Coyle, in this case, is a Callisto leather skirt. First, I was a little skeptical when I bought it to a seller from UK because it's known that the quality of the lastest work from Todds Costumes isn't as good as it was years ago, but I had a good feeling about it. So, two weeks ago it arrived and I was really surprised about the good quality and detailing of the skirt and the dagger shealth. It is very well made to the detail, absolutly awesome. *I've put  the roman dagger on the dagger sheath from the skirt to see how it fits on it.

The snakes reliefs are my favourite part of the skirt, its of a kind of flexible polyurethane, I love it!