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[featherynscale]

Very busy weekend at EHQ... well, sort of. We started off Friday at a viewing of the space elsewhere christened "The Loft" that Gaia Community is considering moving into. It's a dump. However, it's a dump that has all the space we need and wouldn't require us to pare our worship style down to suit the landlord, so I'm willing to consider it. It's a rental, but I heard a rumor that the landlord was willing to let us rent-to-own, so again, I'm interested where I perhaps wouldn't be otherwise.

The rest of the weekend was devoted to working on the Fence of Doom and planning for the trip to DragonCon. A new breakthrough in fence technology has occurred, as Co-Worker D. was kind enough to talk her husband into loaning us his compressor and pneumatic nailer. Good times. Of course, when he showed up to bring us the equipment, we were all recently risen and not yet dressed. Oh well. The neighbors see us in our bathrobes all the time anyway. The delivery inspired us to spend some more time deconstructing the existing fence, so that part is nearly done. Now, to finish pulling boards, and start digging holes for new posts, and then,the world, actually putting up the new part of the fence.

Also, we spent some time working on Wheel of Time costumes for DragonCon. triadruid and I spent another afternoon combing the thrift stores. This yielded a black dress with a mandarin collar that will convert very nicely to an Asha'man coat for triadruid. Must say, the boy looks good in women's clothes. kittenpants ended up with the sea-green silk(ish) dress we bought last weekend, so we're getting close to done. Still to go:

• Black pants for triadruid. (super easy)
  
• Some sort of top for me, preferably sleeveless or short-sleeved, green, black, or white, and either somewhat oriental looking, or somewhat militaristic. Or something. (unknown difficulty. Tried a couple of options from our existing costumery, and liked a combination of green faire bodice and velvet top shaped to go under a sari, but it's not quite right -- too much tit showing for an Aes Sedai, and certainly too much tit for a Borderlander. This is the problem. I think that I inherently have too much tit for an Aes Sedai. Really, this should be something like a fitted and flared jacket, but I'm damned if I can find anything like that, and am looking for other options.)
  
• Shawls for kittenpants, matchgirl42, and me. (Not too hard.)
  
• Great Serpent rings for same. Spent some time last night making Sculpey mockups of the rings, on the theory that they only have to last for 12 hours. I made one that looked really nice and broke in the oven, and two that look okay but not great that survived. I gilded one of them, but I'm not entirely happy with it, as the liquid leaf I used was a more brown gold than bright gold. Maybe they'd be better with a different paint job. Or something. We'd just buy them, except that a) this will likely be the only time we ever wear them, and b) the versions of the thing that are commercially available look nothing like what I think they should look like. So the only method of getting rings that look like what I think they should look like is to make them. But I'm not sure that Sculpey is the ideal material. Suggestions welcome.
  

Also, we learned that there will be a showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show at DragonCon, which may require yet more costuming. Whee! Less than a month to go.

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[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

he has some of those but they are much more expensive.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's the thing... if they were just snakes, they'd be easy to find. :)
Thanks for the note, though.