Dragoncon 2012 Costume Line-up

Tentative ideas!! I figure it's June now, I can start thinking about schedules. Here's what I'm most likely taking... So stuff I'm working on/thinking about... 1. Batgirl - I have the cowl, picked out fabric and started planning pieces. 2. Belle's Ballgown (remake!) - I have my basic fabric, my eye on a wig and going shopping for more fabric tomorrow. 3. Surprise #1! - I'm almost done with this one! I just ...

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Dragoncon Costume ideas…

Starting to think of what I want to take to Dragoncon this year. For new stuff I have: Romana II Donna's Silence in the Library outfit Batgirl Belle's ballgown Group costume #1 Group costume #2 Surprise (if I have time - may save it for next year) I'll probaby bring 4 or 5 more. Here's the "old" costumes I'm considering: DCnu Wonder Woman Donna Noble Journey's End Emma Frost Ms Marvel Hippolyta (this one ...

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Dragoncon 2011 Parade Tilt-Shift

Chase took a tilt-shift time-lapse video of the parade again this year - it's really fun to watch, and pick out the different characters. I'm at 4:48 (wearing Donna) in the Doctor Who group, walking next to Ashley in her TARDIS costume. I waved to him but it must have been while I was out of focus! (he also did one of last year's parade, too.)

Dragoncon 2011 Recap

I should have written this last week, at this point it's already hard to remember everything! I'm not going to post a lot of my costume stuff in this particular entry; I'll do that in the next one. So we left bright and early monday morning - on time, even! We went down through Alabama this year instead of through Nashville, which Chase said was faster but I said was ...

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Panorama of Dragoncon

Sorry I haven't posted anything! Been trying to get all of my pics uploaded before writing any kind of blog post about dcon. I've got the pics from my camera uploaded; waiting to get the rest of the pics from chase's camera, so I should have them all up by this weekend. Here's one I wanted to go ahead and share, because I think its cool: Used the panorama setting ...

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Final Dcon 2011 Costume List

Yay!! Finally. Lady Blackhawk: Will be wearing this Friday evening for the Gotham shoot for sure! Also probably again Saturday sometime. Donna Noble: Saturday morning for the parade/ Doctor Who photoshoot, maybe again Monday, not sure. Ms Marvel/Moonstone: Friday afternoon Marie Antoinette: Friday morning & Saturday evening, both time for photoshoots. Valkyrie: Saturday afternoon, possibly again Sunday or Friday afternoon (if I can squeeze it in! I'm excited to ...

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a retrospective of the marriott marquis

I like to take pics of our hotel room whenever we're out of town, so i realised I've got a decent collection of pics of our Marriott room from almost every dragoncon. I noticed, when digging through my '02 pics, how different the rooms looked back then. seriously... marriott room '02? You look like a cheap motel room a hooker is about to get killed in. (The grainy, scanned in ...

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dragoncon 2011 costume list

I'm posting this so I don't forget. Ms Marvel - black suit Ms Marvel/Moonstone - red suit Lady Blackhawk Donna Noble Marie Antoinette Surprise #1 Surprise #2 Surprise #3 Surprise #4 (maybe) Enchantress Queen Hippolyta Shadowcat (my old one from dragoncon 2002. I thought it would be fun to wear it 10 years apart.)

my plan for 2011

I intend to be a Dr Who fan by dragoncon next year.