Horrifying realization #314:

[featherynscale]

Last night, triadruid and I put together the fabric-y bits for my Promethea costume. I still need to dye them, but the cutting and sewing bits are pretty much done. I hung them over the railing to keep the cat off them overnight.

This morning, when I stumbled up the stairs to take a shower, I saw the costume hanging there, and thought, "Where's the other piece?". I picked up the costume, and horror! It *was* both pieces hanging together. There's not a lot of costume in that costume. Yarr.

It'll be great, though. I still need to finish the caduceus wand. So far, making that portion has involved taking apart my ritual wand to use the center pipe as a sanding block, abusing the Dremel's cutoff wheel (we have the base of a Dremel, we just lack any relevant bits or heads of any kind, really), and boiling rubber snakes. More-or-less actual conversation:
kittenpants: What are you doing?
Me: Boiling some snakes. Later, I'm going to nail them to a pole.
Kittenpants: Great. So far today, we've coded a website, made jambalaya from scratch, and now you're going to boil snakes and nail them to a pole. Just another Saturday night at EHQ.
Me: Yeah, well. It keeps us off the streets.
Kittenpants: It's just a lot different from the wild orgies that people apparently think we have.
Me: Hell, we don't have time for orgies! We gotta boil snakes, and nail them to poles! That stuff doesn't happen by itself, you know!
...

Our house is ... special.

Still to do for Dragon*Con:
Promethea:
- Dye fabric
- Attach closure to skirt
- Finish paint job on sun disc
- Glue pin back to sun disc
- Nail snakes to pole
- Paint caduceus
- Pick up leathers from niveus_tigris
Wheel of Time:
- Gild nosering, make coin chain to attach to it
- Make scent-box necklace
Pirate:
- Acquire bodice lacing
General
- Acquire moleskin for emergency kit
- Put together garlands for kittenpants' art show boards
- Pack
- Print directions to everything

Comments

[starrthinks.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, it sounds great!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Geektopia, here we come.

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

"acquire moleskin for emergency kit"

Ok, moleskin means nothing to me ... did any parts of the entry on wikipedia provide an appropriate explanation?

Yes, I know it's odd that "nailing snakes to a pole" hit me with less impact than "WTF would somebody need the skin of a burrowing mammal in their EMERGENCY kit? Is there an epidemic of embarrassed naked moles running around?"

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Moleskin is this sort of soft cloth and foam stuff with adhesive on one side that you use to cushion blisters (or, if you're really proactive, you can stick it to your heel and use it to brace against your shoe so that you don't get blisters in the first place).

I'm pretty sure that two of the three pairs of shoes I'll be wearing for Con will be No Trouble At All, but then there are these shiny gold sandals that I've never really worn before...

So, nothing at all to do with burrowing mammals.

[bubbledragon.livejournal.com]

I've heard you can use superglue/nuskin for blisters, too. Moleskin is the generally accepted hiker's fall-back, though.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I have used superglue in a pinch. It's ... interesting, trying to clean off after, though. :)

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

I think the sorts of conversations that go on in your house are very similar to the sorts of conversations that go on in mine.

Good luck getting everything done. Please do give my love to arkhamrefugee if you manage to bump into him at any point amongst the other 34,996 people attending the con (he works on staff for the Daily Dragon).


D.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I bet that's true. Ours almost never have bloomers in them, though. (Which is sort of a shame. We should make bloomers, now that we have the shiny new sewing machine... anyway)

I'll be sure to say hi to your boy if I see him... I think I could pick him out of a crowd. We'll see. :)

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

Well, he's got longer fairly insanely curly hair at this point.

A good recent picture of him can be found here.


D.

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

Of course, you COULD come by room 219 in the Hyatt (a.k.a. Con Operations) since that is usually where I spend my time. Just sayin'.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

There is that, I suppose. :)

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

And FYI, that picture D linked to is a somewhat accurate picture of me but certainly not a GOOD one.

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

There's not a lot of costume in that costume.

To borrow your line, I don't think I know you well enough to give you my uncensored response to that statement. Will you settle for "rowr"? =)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I always appreciate a 'rowr'. :)
I'm sure it will be less alarming when it has the armor with it. Maybe. :)

[brandy22kc.livejournal.com]

just becasue i choose to assume nothing and am wondering did you really boil snakes and nail them to the pole?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I really did boil them, and nailing them to a pole is on my agenda for this evening, followed closely by painting them gold. They are rubber snakes, if it makes you feel any better. :)

[brandy22kc.livejournal.com]

why would you boil a rubber snake? and koodos for the paining them gold and nailing them to the poil

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

When you boil rubber, it makes it softer and more pliable. I'm making a caduceus, which has two snakes that wrap around it, and the only snakes I could find were much too tightly coiled to fit on the way I wanted them to. So I boiled them and stretched them, and now I think they will work.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Moleskin and at-least-try-it-lacing acquired. If the lacing isn't long enough, there are some other options. And I've already got the directions taken care of.

Now, take 3 on the car.. see you at 5:30.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the errand-running!
Good luck with the car -- Did you find a socket small enough for your tiny little nuts? :-P

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

::splorfle::

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Comedy gold, yesterday afternoon was.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

Of course, this means that her socket is too big for his tiny little nuts.

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Are you *sure* I'm not involved in the car process?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You don't happen to have his tire iron, do you?

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm aware of and I just got back from looking in the trunk of the car for something...although, given the guestimated size needed, it may be hiding under the 2 cases of powerade. I do have a decent set of sockets in the car, both metric & SAE.

But given his luck with the car, it reminds of the time I was involved.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Different car at the time. If she DOES have this tire iron, I'll be very impressed with the Tennessee Car-F.U.

(yes, it's got tires now, and I have a tire iron, thanks for asking)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh good. :) Will you be picking me up in your car or mine, then?

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

Kittenpants: It's just a lot different from the wild orgies that people apparently think we have.
Me: Hell, we don't have time for orgies! We gotta boil snakes, and nail them to poles! That stuff doesn't happen by itself, you know!

Yes! That exactly!

Well, maybe not exactly but yeah.