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Wednesday with Family

Aug 13, 2025swankivy2025, Vacationsdad, family, food, ivy, ledo beach, wine

Ledo Beach vacation continues, and Jeaux came to hang out with us!

Patricia’s addition to wine message

Yummy sangria

Dad laughs at Cards Against Humanity

Tuesday with Family

Aug 12, 2025swankivy2025, Cooking & Baking, Vacationsash, breakfast, connie, dad, family, food, ivy, ledo beach, patricia, yusuke

More Ledo Beach hangouts with the family. We had breakfast for dinner and saw the sunset!

This tub is giant

Perfect pancake

Breakfast for dinner

We like scrambled eggs

Sunset selfie

Lido Key sunset

Dad pointing at sunset

Sunday with Family

Aug 10, 2025swankivy2025, Vacationsash, connie, dad, family, food, ivy, ledo beach, patricia, pizza, yusuke

Off to the vacation house to spend time with family! Yay pizza.

Pizza with family

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.