It must be time for Dragon*CoN!
Jan. 11th, 2007 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleI had a dream last night about trying to check into a hotel while approximately eleventy billion things were going on to distract me from said purpose. People were streaming in and out, we were in the wrong hotel, we couldn't find an ATM that worked to get the money, we were mistaken for other people, interesting discussions were going on in other rooms, goth girls were trying to talk us up to their hotel rooms, and somehow I had this skein of yarn that I felt that I had to learn how to crochet into a hat before anything else could happen.
This can only mean it's time to start this year's Dragon*Con cycle. Of course, we're still paying off last year's trip, but that's okay. We should be able to sort that out pretty quickly. And if we're clever, we'll get badges this month, while they're still $50 apiece. Our crew for the trip so far consists of myself,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kittenpants, triadruid, Kittenpants' brother Gangly and cousin Goofy, but a few others have made rumbling noises about it and might be dragged along in our wake.
Also, I have grand costume ambitions for this year's outing. I think we'll be with the pirates in the parade again, since we already have all of that get-up. We're doing new Wheel of Time drag, though, withtriadruid aiming towards Sammael, and me looking into a Sea Folk Wavemistress' outfit. This may require piercing my nose, which I'm okay with. Also, I'd like to do a Promethea costume as well (Barbara Shelley as Promethea, though, not Sophie -- I like Sophie's outfit better, but it's more complicated, and I'm down with Barbara as the world's only fat dumpy superhero. I think I can manage that). I looked at it last year, and the base costume is pretty easy, but the headpiece stymies me. (There's a pretty good scan here. Barbara's outfit is a short Greek-style dress (fastened over one arm instead of both, more like man's dress or maenad's), a golden 'girdle', sandals, some fancy tattooing, gold vambraces and this winged headdress sort of thing. In earlier issues, she carries a caduceus staff. I'm pretty sure I can pull all of that off except the headdress, and even that I may have an inspiration on.)
It's probably too early to start getting excited about this, and yet, here I am. Anybody want to come with?
This can only mean it's time to start this year's Dragon*Con cycle. Of course, we're still paying off last year's trip, but that's okay. We should be able to sort that out pretty quickly. And if we're clever, we'll get badges this month, while they're still $50 apiece. Our crew for the trip so far consists of myself,
kittenpants, triadruid, Kittenpants' brother Gangly and cousin Goofy, but a few others have made rumbling noises about it and might be dragged along in our wake.Also, I have grand costume ambitions for this year's outing. I think we'll be with the pirates in the parade again, since we already have all of that get-up. We're doing new Wheel of Time drag, though, with
triadruid aiming towards Sammael, and me looking into a Sea Folk Wavemistress' outfit. This may require piercing my nose, which I'm okay with. Also, I'd like to do a Promethea costume as well (Barbara Shelley as Promethea, though, not Sophie -- I like Sophie's outfit better, but it's more complicated, and I'm down with Barbara as the world's only fat dumpy superhero. I think I can manage that). I looked at it last year, and the base costume is pretty easy, but the headpiece stymies me. (There's a pretty good scan here. Barbara's outfit is a short Greek-style dress (fastened over one arm instead of both, more like man's dress or maenad's), a golden 'girdle', sandals, some fancy tattooing, gold vambraces and this winged headdress sort of thing. In earlier issues, she carries a caduceus staff. I'm pretty sure I can pull all of that off except the headdress, and even that I may have an inspiration on.) It's probably too early to start getting excited about this, and yet, here I am. Anybody want to come with?
