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

[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. :)