April aka Moonwildflower has been cosplaying since 2007. Her passion for cosplay all started when her best friend took her to A-kon and she became hooked. Her first cosplays were L from Death Note and Kidd from Chrono Cross. She was amazed to be able to connect with complete strangers over a character. Additionally, she saw Halo armor and knew that she had to have her own set. Her inspirations include Volpin and Blind Squirrel, both amazing prop makers. Her desire is to be able to craft armor and weapons like them. With her brother Carl and a group of friends, they formed Shinka Studios. She specializes in armor and prosthetics; having done Halo, Mass Effect, Chrono Cross, Resident Evil and Silent Hill.

To learn more about Shinka Studios, you can find them here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShinkaStudios
Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ShinkaStudiosCosplay



Carla has been costuming and preforming since before she could walk. Over the years she has expanded her interest into cosplay. With over decade of theater experience and costuming experience, she enjoys seeing what other people can accomplish in these fields. Carla started cosplaying at a young age with her first costume as a vampire. Since then she has moved on to cosplaying characters such as Dota from Sorcerer Hunters, Count D from Petshop of Horrors, and Cosmo from Fairly Odd Parents being some of the more well known. Currently she is working on her second college degree while working full time. Her favorite cosplays are ones that people believe are not possible to pull off in the real world.






Caroline has been cosplaying since 2004 and over the years has created more than 50 costumes for herself and her friends. Though initially self-taught, she now holds a BA in Costume Design from the University of North Texas, where she took on the roles of assistant and lead costume designer for several university productions. Her costuming work takes inspiration from many different sources, including anime and manga, video games, sci-fi, webcomics, history, and literature. Caroline enjoys working with many different types of materials for props and accessories, as of late she has been experimenting with makeup and paint techniques. She enjoys sharing the knowledge that she has gained through participating in this amazing hobby, and is always up for sharing techniques and advice with other cosplayers. Caroline can be seen at many conventions and events involving cosplay throughout the DFW area, either in costume or acting as the President of the Alpha Chapter of the Mu Epsilon Kappa Society.


Dom was born and raised in France by a Sci-Fi geek Dad and an Opera singing Grandmother. At the tender age of five, she kidnapped her Grandmother’s scissors, found some big paper bags from the Galleries LaFayette with the same print as Maxwell Smart’s jacket from Get Smart, and promptly made her first costume while her grandmother slept and hasn’t stopped working on costumes since. She has always been involved in Drama Clubs in schools and was the de facto costumer and prop builder. Last century she moved to Texas looking for more adventures, where she also met her husband.
Since then, she has worked as a draft person, data entry specialist, seamstress/tailor for a Drag Queen costume store, photographer, translator, and freelance costumer/tailor. Even weddings are not safe as she has sewn her share of wedding and maid of honor dresses. For hobbies, she has been a member of the SCA for the past 30 years and has enjoyed several cons since coming to the USA! She is still looking for a good FTL drive, she’ll build the spaceship to install it in one day.

Since then, she has worked as a draft person, data entry specialist, seamstress/tailor for a Drag Queen costume store, photographer, translator, and freelance costumer/tailor. Even weddings are not safe as she has sewn her share of wedding and maid of honor dresses and also catered a few. For hobbies, she has been a member of the SCA for the past 30 years and has enjoyed several cons since coming to the USA! She is still looking for a good FTL drive, she’ll build the spaceship to install it in one day.


Maggie is a local Dallas, TX costumer who specializes in costuming that runs the gamut between historically accurate period pieces to Steampunk and movie reproductions. Maggie first began her interest in sewing after attending Texas Renaissance Festival in 1996. She learned how to sew on simple Rennie garb and then in 2002 she discovered Victorian fashions. And along with that, she discovered a whole new world of costuming friends online. From those friends, who turned out to be local, the DFW Costumers Guild was born. Today she is the Con Coordinator for the DFWCG and is active in both sewing costumes, planning Costumers Lost Weekend, and working to spread the DFWCG word.

If you would like to find out more about the Dallas/Ft. Worth Costumers Guild, you can find them here:

DFWCG: http://www.dfwcg.org
DFWCG Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/DFW-Costumers-Guild/49156352803
DFWCG Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DFWCG/


Melfina has been making her own costumes and bringing her favorite anime, manga and Video Game characters to life since 2004. Art and cosplay go hand-in-hand for this cosplayer, who has been drawing, painting, and sculpting since her childhood and has always enjoyed working with new and different materials to create a work of art. She got her start in cosplay after learning the basics of sewing from her mother and taking an introductory home economics class in high school - soon enough, she graduated from making pillow cases to constructing wearable clothing and costumes. However, the interest in cosplay had been present since first watching Anime in the late 90s, thanks to Toonami’s Anime lineup. Outside of cosplay, Melfina has a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, and works as a graphic designer by day. She lives with her husband in the DFW area.

If you would like to learn more or follow her work, you can find her here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MelfinaCosplays
DeviantArt: http://livingdoll2.deviantart.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyokoNut


Illa Scriptor, cosplay handle of Rachel Synan, started cosplaying in 2008 thanks to a trigonometry assignment that encouraged a 'creative presentation.' Her classmates never looked at her quite the same again, but she had fallen in love and founded Saucy Noodle Cosplay as a group to perform with for the crazy fun of it all. They've done everything from wacky song rewrites to soulful dance duets and won a few awards along the way, including three Best in Shows.

As a recent theatre grad, Illa brings her knowledge of both costuming and performance to all her cosplay endeavors. She's learned a lot about important theatre skills like pattern drafting, makeup, wigs, and the rehearsal process through her time in the hobby. While the convention stage is vastly distinct from the theatre stage, she loves being on both.