What convention you going to? I was planning on carpooling with some of my friends for Oni-Con, but we weren't able to pull enough people together to pay for a hotel room and stuff. I wish more of my friends from my class were still around... </angst>

Nah well, anyway...

I'm a loser and don't watch Xiaolin Showdown, so I'm not completely familiar with the character design. Doing a Google search doesn't really help me to see what his backpack thingy looks like, but I think I may have an idea.

Looks like you may have to get a little creative for this one. As I said, I don't know the details of the design, but I think that for the straps that you could go to a variety fabrics store and seek out some strong striated material or pleather or whatever. For the skull, maybe you could find one about the right size from a Halloween store and hot glue it onto something and sew it on. I can't really see what the backpack itself looks like from these pics, but it looks like it may be dome-shaped. You may be able to paper mache it, buffer it with a sort of subcutaneous protective layer of foam, and then cover it with material.

Okay, maybe it's not very practical, but I hope it helps you some! XD

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DUCK TAPE...and lots of it. other wise....we'll be using the P word...

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Yeah, I think that I'm going to end up using the P word anyway.

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It's halloween and a-kon (which I know isn't until the end of May but it is a hell of a lot easier find cosplay crap around halloween).

You should watch Xiaolin Showdown. It's the best show ever.

I went shopping with some of my friends yesterday and we thought of something. I was trying to avoid paper mache but that's not going to happen. I'm going to get a round garbage can lid and cover it in masking tape so the flap will stay shut. Then I'm going to paper mache the living crap out of it. Then paint it and spray it with something that will make it look no paper mached (if that even made any sense). We found some really cool brown belts at the dollar store yesterday so I think I'm going to use those for straps. And then I'm just going to skip the skull thingy.

Thanks for the help, though.

You should really watch this show. It's funny.

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T_T
T_TT_T Poor you
T_T want some help?
T_T

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when I get all the stuff, sure. We went shopping again today and all I need for the backpack is the garbage can lid and some tape.

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You guys are so lucky to have gotten today off! XD My brother got to stay home while I went to school, ha ha. XP

But that sounds cool, I'm glad that you found a solution. I bet you'll do an awesome job with it, 'specially since you seem to be quite the artisan.

I ordered a Misa (chickie from Death Note) cosplay outfit and wig, because I suck lots at trying to make my own stuff. I have to hand out candy on Halloween... Getting older sucks. But I hope you have fun! I'm planning on going to A-kon next year, too... And Itzacon, if they ever have it again (it's at the same place as A-kon, but there are a lot less people and it's cheaper. Only thing is it's for anime AND sci-fi, and you already know I'm not a sci-fi fan. XD) Neeways, I hope I can see ya there! :0

BTW, my brother kicked out one of the front windows at the high school a few days ago. I'm not sure if they fixed it yet or not. I couldn't be more proud of him, though. <3

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xDD duck tape. xD

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Yeah, making that backpack is almost more trouble then it's worth. We went to SprawlMart (aka walmart) to get a trash can lid to make the backpack. There was only one and there was no freaking trash can to go with it. They can't sell the lid without a can. Okay, I'm going to GIVE you MY money for something that probably won't get sold anyway. I don't understand why they couldn't just give us the freaking lid. We ended up at Target and bought a bowl. I'm just going to have to paper mache the hell out of it. I hate paper mache.

When is Itzacon and how much is it? Hopefully we can run into each other at A-Kon. I'm definately going on Saturday and Sunday. I might be able to go on Friday after school. It really sucks that it happens during school because they had to go and change the schedule.

How/why did your brother kick out a window at the school?

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