Cosplay is something I stumbled into, but has become one of my favorite pastimes. It all stared when one winter in Canada I decided to make myself some chain mail as an offshoot of my smithing.
A couple of years later I decided that rather than just having it stood on a display in my office i would get an outfit together and visit a local Comic-con one summer. Little did I know where it would lead. I have now found a fantastic bunch of like-minded people and a different avenue for my creativity when I hit a block designing my wooden projects.