3 Days To Go: Something you recommend everyone pack 1. Medicine Not just Dragoncon but every single trip I go on, I take a medicine bag of anything we may possibly need. Besides personal prescriptions, I always take pain relief (multiple kinds - aspirin and ibuprofen), Benadryl (also personally helps me sleep), Sudafed, Sudafed Sinus Headache, stomach meds, plus things like band-aids and moleskin. While most of that over the counter stuff ...
-Make collar and bracelet pieces for Johanna -Make earring for Johanna -Make bracelet for Johanna -Trim Johanna wig lace -Try on/clean up and finishing touches on Johanna -get eyelets set into Peggy belt -get buckle covered and attached for Peggy belt -paint my props for Peggy -recurl Peggy wig -assemble briefcase for Peggy -finishing resewing trim on Donna -paint crown piece for Anne -finish Marie Antoinette underskirt -steam hat ...
4 Days To Go: Something you are really excited about this year This year? I'm excited about several of the guests, especially Terry Gilliam! Don't know if I'll go meet him or not but I live vicariously through Cath's guest trans experience so I'll get to hear some stories I'm sure. I'm excited that Joel, Trace and Frank will be there - I'm going to get them to sign Tom Servo, ...
-Make collar and bracelet pieces for Johanna -Make earring for Johanna -Make bracelet for Johanna -Trim Johanna wig lace -Try on/clean up and finishing touches on Johanna -get eyelets set into Peggy belt -get buckle covered and attached for Peggy belt -paint my props for Peggy -recurl Peggy wig -assemble briefcase for Peggy -finishing resewing trim on Donna -paint crown piece for Anne -finish Marie Antoinette underskirt -steam hat ...
5 Days To Go: One of your best memories from DragonCon I have a lot. Meeting Chase. Partying with the girls. Our skit in 2005. Costuming with my mom. But I've talked about all those things recently, so in the effort to not repeat myself too much, here's a more recent fun story. In 2010, I think it was? Stan Lee was a guest. I almost walked directly into him after the parade. ...
Today's question is... What patterns would you recommend to make XYZ? I never mind glancing through patterns to see what might work for a costume for folks. It's part of my fav part of researching a costume. I don't always have time to do it, but when I do, I love it. (And it's part of the reason I put my pattern collection on pinterest - link at the bottom ...
6 Days To Go: The guest you were most excited about from a previous year As I mentioned before I don't get all that excited over guests --- well, let me rephrase. I get really excited over guests, then do absolutely nothing about it at the con. Some guests I've been excited about in the past and actually made an effort to meet them are Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy from ...
Before every Dragoncon, before every Disney trip, I always feel like Joey in, "The One Where Ross Got High." Yet I've never been able to find a gif of that so I could share my feelings with the internets. So today I made my own.
Woke up sick to my stomach this morning. Took some medicine and came into work but don't know that it's doing much good. Uuuugh I gotta go get my haircut today, don't have time for this. I packed a bit yesterday. Worked on getting the loose thread picked off Donna (where I had to pull up the trim and sew it back down). And got glue all over my hands ...
7 Days To Go: The coolest thing you ever bought at DragonCon Hmm. Over the years we've gotten to where we really don't buy much anymore. We did get this Kingdom Come Wonder Woman statue I've always wanted a couple of years ago, now displayed next to my helmet: And, I don't have a photo of them, but you know that one dealer who sells the vintage movie posters and art? ...