Kigurumi Café

So I'm still moving into the new apartment, and while unpacking I came across my webcam... which is kinda essential to my doing Kigurumi on cam for others. I hooked it up and tried to install it and got a warning about compatibility issues. I looked it up, did my research... and turns out my webcam model number is JUST outside the Windows 7 compatibility. If it were 2 digits higher it would have worked @_@ Sooo... yeah, this webcam won't work. Which means I'll have to get a new one if anyone ever wants to see Miharu, Astaroth, or Alejandra again ^^;; I'd like to get one of those nicer 720p webcams that are out now... but yeah those are expensive.

I'll do more research, look into some Win7 compatible webcams and see what I can do. But with moving costs it might be a bit before I'll have a working webcam for shows. ^^;

Long story behind why I made these... I had to get a new desk because the old one was wobbly and 10+ years old I'd say. So the new one is glass topped and I didn't think that most mice won't work on glass. So I dug out old mouse pads that are odd shaped (Old company I used to work for's logo) and I keep having issues in gaming that I fall off the mouse pad, etc. So after looking all around for a mouse pad I liked... I couldn't find one. So I decided to try and create one! Well I made three so far, one of each Alejandra, Miharu, and Astaroth.

You can get these at: http://www.zazzle.com/marller

Nami (my room mate) and I were out a few moments ago getting food and things to replace parts of shelving units we either lost or couldn't find (oops!) and I was hungry. So instead of eating fast food, I wanted to get groceries so I could cook something nice. I needed spices so we ended up in that isle, when Nami pointed this out and I just had to buy it! Not only for the name and picture, but it's spicy and I looove spicy! I'm debating on whether I should try and eat it, or leave it as it is for a decorative item. I could always go buy another one too! Eat one, save the other! =3

Hello everyone and Happy Halloween! This year Alejandra wore my costume for Halloween, I put together a gangster outfit for myself for whatever I end up doing to celebrate the holiday. I might go visit some friends, Frostelf and Jadaira, and have fun with them or throw a party here, not sure yet! But anyway, the photos are online and I tried to take some video later that night but I haven't looked at it to see if anything is upload worthy. Keep watching the site to see if the video was good enough to post!

L4D2 is cheaper when you buy it with three other friends. By itself the pre-order is $44.99 but with the 4 pack the price total is $134.99 and divide that by four means each person pays $33.75. So if anyone else wants to get together and buy the game lemme know! If there are more than three other people I'll keep a list and hook those other people up in sets of four so we get the cheapest possible prices! So just drop me a line and I'll do the buying, and you can PayPal me your portion of the 4 pack! =3

More information about L4D2

Nami and I have been working for the past few days to create a replacement for Kigurumi Catchup and we came up with this!

Nami did all the coding, anything that's not coding I did (images, layout, getting/adding links, etc). It's not 100% done but it's mostly done and functional, the only thing remaining is the little extras we're adding in. So enjoy the new KigUP! service!

This photoshoot was from when Reika visited me in July for two weeks. We went to a local outdoor theater and took a few pictures before it got dark. We would have had more but the light was fading too fast to get anything more so we had to call it a day before we wanted. We both went with a semi-gothic theme for our clothes. Milk's top was new, Astaroth's whole outfit down to the boots were brand new. I've been wanting to wear the gothic outfit since winter but never found the time to take photos until now!

Also, I've been working more on www.TigerWorks.org and all the information needed to place a mask order is now up on the website so be sure to visit it again if you have in the past to see the updated order placing information!

www.TigerWorks.org

Hello again everyone! Sorry this took a while to post. The first two videos are from me, filmed by Nami, and the other two were found on YouTube!

Hello again everyone, sorry this is a bit late but I've been busy with a lot of guests visiting me the whole month of July. So sorry it's a bit late, but here are my Anthrocon 2009 photos, some are by others but are of me so I put them up as well.

I do have video as well, but I need to work with it to get it small enough to upload to Daily Motion so expect another update soon for Anthrocon!

Hello everyone!

I'm officially announcing my new Kigurumi creation studio, www.TigerWorks.org and here is my very first mask, and suit, made completely by me! Her name is Alejandra Coldthorn and is from a webcomic called "Las Lindas" and she was made with full permission of the creator Chalo. I also have permission to make more of the characters later!

There are a few videos of her on my video page already, and this is her premiere photoshoot to properly show off the craftsmanship involved. Some of these pictures will naturally navigate over to www.TigerWorks.org to show the quality I can make for all potential buyers. For now please enjoy the videos, and the new gallery!

I wanted to get this done before Easter, and thankfully I had today off and Nami was kind enough to help take photos again! We went to a local park and had some odd looks obviously, a couple just had to come up and ask about me too hehe... but it was fun! I was also tempted to go running over to a lady having a picnic by herself but I thought she might go running off if I did. =P I also pulled up my Easter photo shoot from last year, and it had exactly 41 photos too! Weeeeird! =3

Update to the update! =3

I just noticed... when I posted in Rabbit's forum to give my Easter pictures, the number 41 (The number of photos in each of my Easter photo shoots for this and last year) is ALSO my total number of posts when I gave the Easter pictures!! Look! Now it's even creepier! =P

I have had these a while, last time I tried to take photos they came out blurry, and these did too. I think it's because of the shiny coating they're in that's messing with the focus. But they are a lot crisper in person than these photos make them out to be.

This is my first photoshoot of the year and I tried something new. I played with both fire and water at once with this one, and just about burnt my tail tip! Thankfully nothing bad happened, but I did get wet obviously! I may do another Valentine's Day photoshoot for Astaroth if I have the time, and I probably will, but I still need to fix the leg zipper (again) since the old one keeps breaking. So that has to happen first. But anyway...

This photoshoot was pretty fun. I got the idea from seeing a Japanese kigurumi just sitting in a tub of water, doing nothing. I thought it should be more exciting so I had this in the back of my mind for a while and decided it would make a nice Valentine's shoot, Miharu enjoying a nice romantic bath. Unfortunately she drew the bath herself, but that's alright! It was definitely different being in suit, and soaking wet. I immediately washed Miharu's suit right after I got out to make sure the bubble bath would not damage her at all.

But I have to say after the bath I was really relaxed even if it was shorter than a normal bath. The water was nice and hot, and the weather was nice all day. So I guess it was a combo of it all, but I felt really great after the bath and slept really well! So maybe I'll do it again in the future! =3 Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photoshoot!

Happy holidays everyone!

I finally finished the holiday shoot... I may do more if I get any other ideas since everything is still set up but who knows if I will. Anyway here are few of the many photos taken (67 total so far).

Hello everyone! The version of the gallery I had been using was bugging both me and a few others, so I decided to change it. Before it would load all the images before it would display anything, causing a huge download all at once. So for those on slow connections it was a problem. This new way to display images should not cause the same problems, but if you experience any issues please let me know.

The rest is just code updates to keep my site current, but if something breaks let me know!