Gatherings – Swankivy's Photos

Christmas Cookie Party

Dec 27, 2025swankivy2025, Gatherings, Holidaysadam, arthur, christmas, cookies, dare, food, friends, jeaux, meghan, yasmin

Had friends over to eat up the cookies after the family thing! Yum. Always nice to see people.

Adam with cookies

Friends watching silly video

Yasmin’s famous plating

Friends partying

Yasmin and Arthur

Family Christmas Lunch

Dec 27, 2025swankivy2025, Cooking & Baking, Gatherings, Holidayschristmas, connie, cookies, dad, family, food, friends, ivy, jeaux

Dad and Connie came for Christmas lunch (a couple days after Christmas) and Jeaux and I cooked for them! There were also cookies.

Cookie Spread 2025

Cookie plate 1

Cookie Plate 2

Cookie Plate 3

My appeteizers

Our holiday lunch

Dad & Connie enjoy cookies

Jeaux enjoys a cookie

Attempted dessert selfie

Dad sings

Dec 6, 2025swankivy2025, Gatherings, Holidaysdad, family, ivy

Dad arranged karaoke at the holiday party this year and he sang a song for Connie. 🙂

Dad sings at the party

Thanksgiving 2025

Nov 27, 2025swankivy2025, Gatherings, Holidayscake, connie, dad, family, food, friends, ivy, jeaux, pie, thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2025 with family! Everything was delicious.

Thanksgiving Meal 2025!

My Thanksgiving plate

Jeaux sprinkles sugar

Thanksgiving Dessert

Halloween Party 2025

Oct 25, 2025swankivy2025, Cosplay, Gatherings, Holidaysadam, arthur, dare, dorian, food, friends, halloween, ivy, jeaux, kari, meghan, michael, steven universe, yasmin, zak

It’s the yearly Halloween party where I made too much food! I was dressed as Rose Quartz and some friends also came in costume. I had a cozy little party of 10 friends hanging out and enjoying snacks and desserts. Always so nice to see everyone.

Rose Quartz costume

Jeaux as Dib

Dare as Luigi

Meghan as a witch

Meggie & Adam

Kari, Meggie, Adam

Yasmin’s famous plating

Yasmin is Business Phantom

Arthur puts ranch on pumpkin roll

Zak, Dare, Dorian

Kari, Meg, Adam, Michael

Arthur, Yasmin, Jeaux

Arthur in pillow heaven

Weird Al Concert 2025

Sep 25, 2025swankivy2025, Gatheringsadam, concerts, food, friends, ivy, jeaux, meghan, weird al

Jeaux and I got tickets to see Weird Al on his last stop on the tour! And Meggie and Adam got tickets and showed up as a surprise (well, to Jeaux). Haha!

Friends eating before Weird Al concert

Ivy & Jeaux at Weird Al concert

Weird Al concert

Meggie & Ivy at Weird Al concert

Adam, Meggie, Ivy, Jeaux at Weird Al concert

Weird Al concert

Weird Al concert

Weird Al concert

Weird Al concert

Weird Al concert

Weird Al concert

Weird Al concert

Metrocon 2025 – Saturday

Jul 26, 2025swankivy2025, Cosplay, Gatheringsfriends, ivy, jeaux, metrocon, steven universe

I went to Metrocon on Saturday and saw lots of great Steven Universe cosplayers, as well as many others from shows I like!

The Metrocon Album has them all, but here are a few faves:

Glimmer (She-Ra)

Me as Garnet

Scorpia, She-Ra, Catra

Me as Garnet with Princess Bubblegum and Marceline

Jeaux as Dib

Blue Diamond & White Diamond (Steven Universe)

Me as Garnet with Blue Diamond & White Diamond

Rose Quartz & Pearl (Steven Universe)

Marcille and Laios (Delicious in Dungeon)

Senshi (Delicious in Dungeon)

Mabel, Soos, Dipper, & Wendy (Gravity Falls)

Me as Garnet with Stevonnie & Pearl

Me as Garnet with Rose and Greg

Me as Garnet

Lars & Ronaldo (Steven Universe)

Me as Garnet with Lars & Ronaldo

Jeaux & Ronaldo

Fun Highlights!

I got to try out for an open audition at a voice acting opportunity! I super didn’t care for any of the character types in the audition, though, so I auditioned as a robot and wasn’t surprised at all that I didn’t get a callback 😀
Jeaux, dressed as a conspiracy theorist (Dib from Invader Zim), kept pointing at me and yelling SHE’S AN ALIEN! AN ALIEN!!!
Ronaldo from Steven Universe is also a conspiracy theorist and we saw someone cosplaying him. Had to take a photo with Jeaux.
We had a great lunch at Jackson’s. I had avocado sushi.
I got to play some music for people and that was super fun.
Someone handing out Halloween Horror Nights fliers in a line was startled by my costume’s third eye!
Lots of people recognized both our costumes!

Metrocon 2025 – Friday

Jul 25, 2025swankivy2025, Cosplay, Gatheringsivy, metrocon, steven universe

Friday at Metrocon! I decided to go on a whim (though I had PLANNED to go on Saturday and already had a ticket). I went because there was a panel I wanted to see about voice acting, which I have gotten into in the past six months. I just wore a cute Steven Universe–inspired outfit and brought my uke.

My Friday convention outfit

My Friday convention outfit

Steven Universe

Invader Zim

She-Ra & Catra (She-Ra)

Audition Tips Panel

Eda (Owl House)

Gaz (Invader Zim)

Dib (Invader Zim)

Nickelodeon meetup

Fun moments to note:

I hung out with Steven Universe nerds a couple times to play music and enjoy what they were blasting on the boom box.
I went to Bang Zoom’s “how to audition” panel for voice acting and took a bunch of notes. Very informative!
A nice lady that I bought food from at the convention asked me where I got my “little guitar” and liked my dress. She asked to take my photo.
Someone saw my ukulele, told me they remembered me being dressed as Steven Universe last year, and said they had wanted to come to this con this year dressed as Steven because of me but couldn’t find the shirt. They had brought their ukulele too.
One person complimented my Steveny outfit and said she would be dressed as Pearl and coming with a Rose Quartz tomorrow. I will definitely look for them.
My Lyft driver on the way home requested a song on the ukulele and she and I ended up singing car karaoke the whole way home. She told me I had a chill vibe and that the singing had been therapeutic.