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

[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.