Video Game Birthday Party

Last year, we had an awesome Minecraft birthday party. This year, we had a video game themed party.

Here is the invitation that my mom made in Photoshop: 

We had the party at Re-Play Games. The party room had systems for Wii Us, PS4s, XBox Ones, and XBox 360s.  

Our cupcakes were simple: bright icing and video game characters and icons taped to pop cake sticks. 

We enjoyed putting together the goodie bags. Everyone got a Death of Wolverine comic, and then we found some Marvel pencils and erasers. We added some candy - Mario candy, gold coins, and hearts (for Legend of Zelda).  

My mom also designed a bookmark in Photoshop after seeing something similar on Pinterest.

I also drew an ATC of a comic book or video game character for each of my friends.

Link Costume for Fan Expo

Last year, I enjoyed going to ComicCon in my city, but it was a small event. I was thrilled when I heard that our city was going to have a much larger Fan Expo. 

I decided that I was going to dress up as Link from The Legend of Zelda.

The first thing I did was make my Deku shield. Luckily, we had just been to Ikea, so we had lots of cardboard. I traced the outlines for the different layers of the shield, and then my dad cut them out. 

I painted each of the layers. Unfortunately, we didn't take many pictures of that part of the process. 

We used a hot glue gun to adhere the pieces of the shield together, and we also hot-glued some cord on to the back so I could hold it. 

I didn't have an ocarina, but I did have a pan flute, so I hot-glued more cord on the back so it could hang around my neck. 

We bought some felt to make Link's hat. I don't have a sewing machine, so my dad hand-stitched it. 

We also bought a cheap, green t-shirt and cut the neck out of it. I used a black belt and a sword that I had from another costume. 

When we were at Fan Expo, it was fun seeing all of the costumes. I posed for pictures with a few people who also had Link costumes.