Celebrating my 10-year career! Back to August 2014 when I attended Gen Con with Ninja Division and where I did a cosplay… of myself twice! :D
Over the years, Soda Pop Miniatures – Ninja Division included me as a character in all their games, including Relic Knights (see my previous post) and the popular Super Dungeon (notice the egg in my character’s miniature’s iron pan.) It’s surprising to see what is popular sometimes. I worked a lot on my leather Cerci suit from Relic Knights, it was a very complicated costume compared to the little skirt, blouse and corset of my character’s costume in Super Dungeon. And still, people reacted more to this cute costume with big, unusual props.
The giant roller pin and fake iron pan stole the show! lol Gen Con attendees were so impressed to see me holding that iron pan so easily! ;) I molded a real iron pan and casted a fiberglass one, reproducing the texture with bodyfiller and a sponge. Yes, my fake iron pan was lighter! And for the roller pin, the handles were made on my wood lathe and the middle was just a big plastic pipe. Cool, simple props. Gen Con 2014 moral: you can never predict which costume will be popular.
Celebrating my 10-year career! Back to August 2014 when I attended Gen Con with Ninja Division and where I did a cosplay… of myself twice! :D
Over the years, Soda Pop Miniatures – Ninja Division included me as a character in all their games, including Relic Knights and the popular Super Dungeon. I made the leather costume of my character from Relic Knight’s Cerci team in 2013, but worn the complete version with the belt and holster only in 2014, the year where I exchanged my bra for double sided tape and it looked so much better!
lol It’s also the year where I built a set in my workshop to do a photoshoot of my superb leather suit with integrated boots. Yes, look carefully, it was a fake wall that I kept in my workshop for more than one year. I was so sad when I had to demolish it… But I needed room in my workshop for other projects.
Photographer: Grumpy Bear Productions
Cerci Marie-Claude prints available on my store: www.store.mcbourbonnais.com
Celebrating my 10-year career! 2013 was definitely a cool year for me! Memory from July 2013: when I appeared in Tech N9ne’s So Dope music video feat. Wrekonize, Twisted Insane, & Snow Tha Product. :D
Playing the sexy girl in a music video: check!
Celebrating my 10-year career! Back to June 2013 when I was a cosplay guest for Tour Concomics in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and where I experienced the warmest weather I’ve ever felt in my life so far!
I visited Mexico many time, but it was always during fall or winter, somewhere between September to February. But for the 1st time, I would visit Mexico in summer… Maybe it’s because I’m used to have cold weather 8 months a year in Quebec, but I wasn’t expecting Mexico to be THAT warm in summer! lol And guess which cosplay I had brought? My latex Sue Storm costume! I never sweat that much in my whole life! There was a lake of sweat in my boots when I took them off! lol
By chance there was a pool at the hotel to cool down a little!
Sue Storm print available on my store: www.store.mcbourbonnais.com
Photographer: Grumpy Bear Productions
Celebrating my 10-year career! Back to 2013 when I was published in the American Curves Magazine Spring 2013 Issue! ‘A feast for the libido’ it says while you get the chance to enjoy some of the most outrageously sexy pics I made! It’s a shame that this magazine doesn’t exist anymore. Its editor seemed to really like me. I was published many times in this magazine! I still have some copies of this issue available on my store. Get your autographed copy today! ;)
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Photographer: Andy McFarland
Celebrating my 10-year career! Back to 2013, when I became a redhead for 1 month!
On April 2013, le Musée de la Civilisation, a museum in Quebec City, lauched an exhibition about video games called ‘Une histoire de jeux vidéo.’ They organized many events to promote the exhibition including a launching cosplay evening. As a glamour model who did nudes, I was surprised and flattered when someone from the museum contacted me to be guest of honor for the cosplay event! The lady was calling me ‘Madame Bourbonnais’. People say they are open-minded, but it’s really uncommon for a big company in the province of Quebec to associate themselves with a girl who has done nudes.
I was really into Bleach at that time and I sewed for the event another costume that I wore only once: a version of Kurosaki Ichigo. And instead of buying a wig, I decided, out of nowhere, to dye my hair orange! Here I am posing with the newspaper of that day where an interview with me was just published.
I took advantage of my month as a redhead to make one more cosplay, April O’Neil. :D One of the simplest and most comfortable costumes I’ve ever made! April O’Neil print available on my store: www.store.mcbourbonnais.com
There are not a lot of pics of me as a redhead, so you’d better enjoy these ones! It’s been almost 20 years now since I started bleaching my hair to be a platinum blonde and I feel like it could be time for a change… Which hair color should I try?
Celebrating my 10-year career! Back to 2012 when I started collaborating with a young, extremely talented artist called Jaguar.
Jaguar had a unique way to bring to life caricatural characters and made a few amazing artworks of me that you can see in my website’s galleries. ‘Art of Jaguar’ was specialized in adult comics. His website was part of a network supervised by his personal manager, a brilliant guy who had the idea to get a booth in an adult convention to promote the various artists’ work. Jaguar’s manager hired me to dress up as some of the artists’ characters and stay at the booth to take pics with people. And guess what convention it was? Yes! The AVN! :D On January 2013, I spent one weekend in Las Vegas surrounded by sexy pornstars (here I am in an outfit I sewed with Canadian actress Taylor Stevens), went with the guys in all the strip clubs and ended one of the nights the head in the ice bucket at the Sapphire. Yes, I was sick, but it remains one of the best weekends of my life!
Unfortunately, Jaguar’s manager died in an accident in the following months and I lost contact with Jaguar, who wasn’t really speaking English. :( It could have been the beginning of an exceptional collaboration between a talented artist and I, but life chose otherway.
The purple dress I wore to party in Las Vegas is part of my 10-year Career Special Sale. You’ll find the dress in the One of a Kind section of my store. www.store.mcbourbonnais.com
Celebrating my 10-year career! Great memories from 2012: when I was received as a cosplay guest in Córdoba, Argentina and in Montevideo, Uruguay! :D
Appearing on TV in Uruguay, drinking Fernet in Argentina, eating meat at the meat market (hummmm, meat…) and eating alfajores! Sweet memories! But my most cherished memory is a young girl in Uruguay. I think she was dressed up as Rarity from My Little Pony, she came to me and told me: ‘Thanks for coming to Uruguay. Nobody ever comes to see us in our small country.’ And I almost cried. ¡Muchas gracias a todos mis amigos de América Latina! Pienso con frecuencia en usted !
Celebrating my 10-year career! Back to 2012, when Tour Concomics invited me again as a cosplay guest for 2 conventions, one in Acapulco and one in the lovely town of Morelia where I wore my Ryofu costume for the 1st time! To my friend Lalo who was my translator: I will never thank you again to have made me discover Patzcuaro. It’s one of the most beautiful places I visited in my life.
The yellow dress I wore in the plane to Mexico and the purple dress I wore to go out one night in Acapulco are both part of my 10-year Career Special Sale. Both dresses are available in the One of a Kind section of my website store and come with an autographed print of the picture
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Celebrating my 10-year career! Through these 10 years, I had the opportunity to collaborate with many photographers from all around the world. 2012 is a year where I did many photoshoots particulary with Canadian photographers. Let’s share local Canadian talent, especially since 2012 is when I posed for the 2013 Sunshine Girl Calendar in Toronto! :)
Jack Boland is a photographer for the Canadian newspaper Toronto Sun. I first met him in 2011 during Toronto Fan Expo. Check out my previous posts to find out about my first Sunshine Girl photoshoot and the incredible exposure it gave me through the country. In 2012, Jack was kind enough to think of me for the 2013 Sunshine Girl Calendar and we did another amazing photoshoot in this luxurious hotel of Toronto. Sweet (and gorgeous) memories!
