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I made things!

I took a millinery class at the community college this semester, and I finally took some pictures of my finished product! It's a blocked buckram crown and drafted brim, covered with gray wool and trimmed with black grosgrain:



( More pictures under the cut! )

I also made little ornaments for all the members of last year's Bring It On: Rock the Mouse Masquerade group. (This is somewhat of a tradition for our group-- we have some adorable ornaments from entries past from Corli.) They're shaped like the Mickey Mouse logo, with pom-poms as the ears. One side has our group logo, the other side has a picture of the castmember it belonged to. This is about half of them-- the rest had already been given to their recipients. (Hey, Victoria! Send me your address and I can send you yours!)

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I'm posting a con report less than a week after the con ended? WHAT IS THIS CRAZINESS!?

So yeah! We went to WonderCon for the first time ever, yay! We've wanted to go for years but the timing just hasn't worked out. This year the timing was still not spectacular, what with it being Easter weekend and Baby Donut's birthday, but we'd committed to go and so we did, and I'm really glad we did because it was ~AWESOME.~

I wore four costumes this time: Yvaine, Penny from The Big Bang Theory, my Rebel cheerleader, and the Bowler from Mystery Men. (Our Masquerade skit this year was MM-themed and there were actually 8 of us dressed as identical Bowlers!) After Dragon*Con, having only one suitcase apiece seemed so...strange. We did, however, forget our camera, so most of the pics I'm linking to are Corli's; a few are Glenn's, and a few are Jess's husband Scott's. All the tiny pictures can be clicked to be embiggened.

( Exhaustive details, many many pictures, and Masquerade video under the cut! )

And to close this post-- HUGE CRAZY MASSIVE THANKS to Corli for opening her home to us, driving us to and from the con every day, choreographing a fantastic and fun skit, and putting in so much work on the Bowler costumes. Now I have one, and I didn't have to do anything to get it! (You bet your ass we're bringing these to D*C this year!) Much love to all my fellow Mystery Men-- thanks for making our first WonderCon so great for us.

More con report amnesty! In celebration (and a wee bit of jealousy) of my friends who are partying it up at Costume-Con this weekend, here's my total stream-of-consciousness report of the weekend of awesome that was last year's CC26 in San Jose. (PS, if you were there, and you remember something that I didn't write down, please leave a comment! My brain, she don't always work so good.)

( In which we totally pretended we were the Spice Girls )

At last we've reached the end! Of course, I haven't written up GenCon or Dragon*Con yet...

( Saturday: BSG and Masquerade!!! )

( Sunday: The Aftermath, and free stuff )

Great Comic-Con, y'all. Let's do it again sometime.

Wahoo! With major thanks to Cordelia (whose camera it was), my dad qui_gon_d (who did the taping), and kelbebop (who put it on Youtube), here is our skit, entitled simply "Hairspray":



And here's a close-up version from another random person. Thanks, random person!



Muuuch better than the official video, which is as always full of inappropriate close-ups, with bonus shots up people's noses and random shots of all our knees. (Seriously, what the hell?)

JUDGES' CHOICE HELL YEAH!!!!



Mad props to Cordelia for creating such a wicked awesome skit. Video in the next few days, hopefully.

ETA: There's a picture of us on the results page! Can you guess the theme?