OT: What I did last weekend or My mountain to conquer

Last weekend was the sci-fi convention and I entered a costume and worked registration all weekend. Last year I didn't have the energy to bother with costumes or volunteering.

And here is my daughter and her costume.


She is Sally Jupiter from WatchMan (mother of character Silk Specter)
We won best re-creation category.
That is 2 corsets (over and under) that I created using the duct tape pattern method and worked on every evening for the last 2 weeks.
And then the photographer decided to have some fun with one of the other people in costume!

What a great costume. And your daughter looks spectacular in it! Seems like there are a lot of people on this forum who are into sci-fi.

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And she presented it so well too!
We forgot the music to the presentation so she chose to sing "Fever" without music at the last minute, modifying her whole routine. And when they forgot to hand her the mike as arranged she just sang without it until they remembered. She has a gorgeous sexy mezzo and loves to sing blues at karaoke bars.
We are waiting for the video.

You look much too healthy to be one of us.
Why, you don't even look like a "Zombie" like me.
Bright eyed and bushy tailed.
Looks like you were having a good day.
Take the whip away from your daughter before she beats some poor guy half to death.

Good work.

Now I have to watch the movie...

I'm alittle slow on the uptake sometimes.

BlackSpinner wrote: Last year I didn't have the energy to bother with costumes or volunteering.

Congratulations! The air is so sweet at the top.

raggedykat wrote:What a great costume. And your daughter looks spectacular in it! Seems like there are a lot of people on this forum who are into sci-fi.

There are a few of us, here and there....

BlackSpinner wrote:Last weekend was the sci-fi convention and I entered a costume and worked registration all weekend. Last year I didn't have the energy to bother with costumes or volunteering.

Which convention?

(Great costume)

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Which convention?

(Great costume)[/quote]

It was a small local convention called Con*Cept in Montreal. In August WorldCon was here but I had to chose between that and a doll conference in Ottawa due to the expense.
I actually prefer small to the big ones. I have a hard time with big crowds.

The biggest and yet the most subtle effect of CPAP is the mental one where the enthusiasms come back. I had almost lost interest in costuming for fun and in the competitions and just doing things like helping organize and run things.
Yes it was exhausting physically but mentally it was so invigorating to do these things again and enjoy them instead of seeing it one more chore of life to be done.

Now I have inspiration for costumes for ME for next year. A costume that doesn't need a skinny young thing to carry it off. Plus I have been asked to put on some workshops on usinf duct tape for pattern design for 2 conventions next year, this one and a furry one.

Awesome! You have inspired me that things will indeed be better. Great photos, too! Thanks for sharing.

Congratulations Black Spinner,

Great mother & daughter costumes, loved the pictures. I find a costume events are a great, momentary break from the ordinary. In the past I have dressed as some variation of a Witch at Halloween. This year my daughter got me a jazzed up, velvet, Queen Malificent headgear. I have to find the rest of the costume, I wish I had your talent for costume design.

Jan

BlackSpinner wrote:It was a small local convention called Con*Cept in Montreal. In August WorldCon was here but I had to chose between that and a doll conference in Ottawa due to the expense.
I actually prefer small to the big ones. I have a hard time with big crowds.

I'd've liked to make WorldCon, but the convention hotels don't make provision for fur-children, and since Hurricane Katrina, we don't travel during hurricane season without the Dachshund Duo. We had a roundaboutation in 2008 when Hurricane Gustav came to town -- we'd planned to leave the Duo with a sitter, but looked at the storm and they went with us. The hotel where we had a reservation refused to accept them, even with an evacuation. You know true friends when you can call them at 1 AM and say, "Con hotel wouldn't take the dogs..." and the response is, "Come ahead. The cats'll have a fit, but they'll get over it."

We like to go to a small convention in Atlanta, a filk con, rather than something huge like Dragon*Con.

The biggest and yet the most subtle effect of CPAP is the mental one where the enthusiasms come back. I had almost lost interest in costuming for fun and in the competitions and just doing things like helping organize and run things. Yes it was exhausting physically but mentally it was so invigorating to do these things again and enjoy them instead of seeing it one more chore of life to be done.

Amen. The cancer surgery took so much out of me last year, but I think the healing of getting the apnea treated is making a huge difference. I'm beginning to get my writing enthusiasm back, and that's incredibly important.

Now I have inspiration for costumes for ME for next year. A costume that doesn't need a skinny young thing to carry it off. Plus I have been asked to put on some workshops on usinf duct tape for pattern design for 2 conventions next year, this one and a furry one.

How neat! I'd love to get back into costuming.... I have 8 shelves, 15 feet long, full of fabric. I need to think of something to do with it....

How neat! I'd love to get back into costuming.... I have 8 shelves, 15 feet long, full of fabric. I need to think of something to do with it....

Check out Steam Punk - It is absolutely great for "mature" figures. A mixture of Victorian and scifi fantasy. Takes lots and lots of fabric. And the accessories are fabulous.

I don't blame you for not wanting to leave the furry family members behind! When going to an out of town Con check out the local eLists because often we offer crash space to people who need it.

BlackSpinner wrote: Check out Steam Punk - It is absolutely great for "mature" figures. A mixture of Victorian and scifi fantasy. Takes lots and lots of fabric. And the accessories are fabulous.

Mmm. I've never gotten into steam punk... especially since I'd have to figure out how to do the jackets and so forth for the gents as well -- my husband and I usually do coordinated costumes. We've primarily done either Anne McCaffrey's Pern, or something from my own universe.

BlackSpinner wrote: I don't blame you for not wanting to leave the furry family members behind! When going to an out of town Con check out the local eLists because often we offer crash space to people who need it.

Indeed -- we've done that in the past, but haven't been able to since Hurricane Katrina. For one thing, the local convention's chair lost his home, and for some odd reason hasn't been in to doing a convention.

I'll sleep in our van propped up with no CPAP before I'll leave our fur children behind to drown.