I seem to have less stories in later years, because a lot of the later years run together more. I don’t know why that is. We’re already onto Dragoncon 2006 stories now. This was my first year I wasn’t rooming with the girls – I was staying with my BOYFRIEND who I’d met at Dragoncon the year before 😉 I…

Dragoncon 2004 parade – we decided to walk with the LOTR group! This worked out since I had Arwen I wanted to wear, the mums had their hobbit costumes, and Ash got talked into wearing a cape and accompanying me to handle my train. My Arwen costume was very long and very white, so to keep it from getting destroyed…

OH. MY. GOD. Dragoncon 2003, still. The three of us were trying to figure out WHERE we could get Anne McCaffrey’s autograph, since Ash and I wanted it for our moms, who were big fans. We couldn’t figure out where or when she was signing, so after a bit of wandering around and digging through the guidebooks, we decided to…

So far all of my Dragoncon 2003 stories sound a whole lot like whining. I promise you that isn’t true. All of these stories make me laugh, then and now. But just to balance out some of the whining-type stories, here’s a less complain-y one. Dragoncon 2002, Ash and I had missed out on Evening at Bree. We had wanted…

I actually talked about this pretty recently in my blog, but here’s the whole story in its entirety. So, I’d been wearing Belldandy to every single convention that year, including shipping those wings to Dallas, Anaheim, and now Atlanta. After the Star Wars costume contest that saturday at Dragoncon, I rushed back to our hotel room – mostly to get…

This is the last story I can think of from our first Dragoncon; my body paint issue. I’ve talked about it before, but here it goes again. So I’d been wanting to do my Ocha costume for a while by that point. I finally decided to dig in and do it for Dragoncon, since it seemed a better fit for…

Today I’m going to tell yall about the photo gauntlet. Dragoncon 2002’s masquerade was not my first costume contest, but as it was my first Dragoncon, it was my first time participating in their masquerade. Ash and I signed up just for fun, because – back then, we ALWAYS did some kind of costume contest (we’d done Urd and Skuld…