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Tweak says, "It's got to be a fake!"

zephre (zephre) wrote,
@ 2008-07-08 14:29:00

Entry tags:

cons, downtime, fandom, life as we know it, travel, wrock

costumery & Portus
I actually went out and bought this green nightmare fantasia pseudo-medievalish pre-packaged costume for the Masquerade at Portus. It may need some emergency re-tooling, but at least it was relatively cheap and I didn't have to sew that stretch velveteen. Eek. We hates the stretch fabrics, we does. (Although the Magical Mystery Sewing Machine may make that hate disappear, we'll have to try it sometime and see. It sewed a button on my dad's shirt like magic, yo! A button. Fwee!)

Anyhow.
You know what else is annoying? Going to a masquerade wearing glasses. Most masks are right out.

Otherwise, I think I'll be wearing street clothes under my (home-made!) cloak for most of it, and carrying a tote bag of art supplies.

And wearing a bright green snake plushie. Maybe if I drape myself in black some Death Eater cosplayers will mistake me for the Dark Lord and do my bidding. Muahahahaha. Mostly, I expect I will be finding art-related activities or squeeing in mad fangirl glee over Wizard Rockers. (Ministry of Magic is playing! Eeeeee!)

I'll be at the hotel Thursday morning. See some of you lot there.

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	aunty_marion 2008-07-08 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	'S obvious. You'll be the Art Lord. Don't forget to take a good ~~wand~~ paintbrush. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zephre 2008-07-09 07:38 am UTC (link)
	funny you should say that, at my Costumers club meeting last night they presented me with a set of hand-lathed wooden wands in appreciation for my help with their new webpage. :D oooooh. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thesnapelyone 2008-07-09 01:30 am UTC (link)
	Ohmigosh. Another one I am missing (I miss all of them)! I always feel such envy though. You will be having fun!! It would be worth it just to see Ministry of Magic. I feel geeky saying that but I love them! runs to Wizard Rock playlist in iTunes (This icon is me while everyone else is at Portus having fun.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zephre 2008-07-09 07:39 am UTC (link)
	I will try to take lots of photos. I'm not a very good con-goer, actually, so we'll see how this works out. the Wrock is what makes the difference. Heh. Want a postcard? lob your address to zephrene AT gmail DOT com for cheesy Dallas shots. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thesnapelyone 2008-07-09 08:33 am UTC (link)
	Eh, I hear you. I always want to go but I have a feeling most of my trip would be wasted on avoiding people and skulking somewhere in the back when I did go to a panel or something. Unless I was drunk and/or really sugared up. In which case I'd probably have an interesting story about getting kicked out of the con. Snort. I will take you up on that postcard though. (Reply to this) (Parent)