What's new in 2025?

It's a new year with new ambitions!

Well, not really. I'm taking a hard lesson from the last couple years about how much I can reasonably take on, and I'm trying to set realistic goals to match. Moving into 2025 I only have two costumes with "deadlines" which I hope will help keep me from getting overwhelmed and burnt-out. 

Cosplay
Akuoart's Mario Witches group is still on - this one should be a priority since the group was planned several years ago and I really want it to happen, but at the same time, if I'm being honest I'll probably end up procrastinating in favour of costumes I have a better idea on how to construct.
Izutsumi was added to my cosplay wish-list last spring after watching Dungeon Meshi with my partner and really enjoying it. For a hot minute I thought I could throw something casual together, but then I didn't have the supplies I thought I did and I got this idea in my head that I want her to be FUZZY, so now I have a pile of supplies and need to make time to become a cat-person. Or a person-cat.
Sailor Venus is here representing this year's YetiCon group project - I'll be doing an original interpretation of her with a bunch of other scouts and the design process has me excited in this moment, so wish me luck.
Midna is ONCE AGAIN on the list - I really want to finish at least one of my forever-WIPs and she seems like the logical choice. At least until I try on the bodysuit and have to face the possibility that it no longer fits and I may have to start  over from scratch.
Finally we are wrapping up with that Tufted Puffin, which is the inspiration for Coco: my D&D Kenku Monk. Our campaign is actually wrapping up in just a few weeks so I fully admit that I might lose interest once I'm not playing her weekly anymore, but the challenge of making (or at least modifying) a bird mask is intriguing. 

Conventions
I'm planning to travel to Europe this year (not for cons), so that does reduce the convention travel budget a bit. I'll definitely be doing Con-G Geeks @ Home again, but other conventions are a little more tenuous due to travel dates not yet confirmed. I hope to do SPCS, Anime North, and Yeti again, with the potential to add in Youma or maybe some other surprise cons in the Southern Ontario area.