*collapses under tackle hugs* Hi, everybody! Sorry for fading out the last few months, but I overscheduled December and January by just enough too much and didn't catch up until the end of February.
My first item off my bucket list. Um, enjoying a con is also the only item on my bucket list. Maybe I should add the butterfly house at Callaway Gardens so I have something there to indicate I'm not ready to kick the bucket.
GreenDragon, that's what brought me outta the shadows! I want to make certain I know where your booth will be, as 20 years leaves the memory a might fuzzy. So, um, which hotel has the trader's booths again??? And do you know your booth number? There's still gonna be a map and a schedule readily available, right?
I'm delirious with excitement over meeting everyone in the flesh and costuming overkill. So much overkill. If I use all the bronze I purchased, my costume will weigh fifty pounds. Mr. Man has quoted Andy Griffith at me: "Little ol' ladies ought never to clank."
I'm expanding the skirt by replacing the snaps with bees chained to flowers, since it's two sizes too small. The kilt pins came in, along with most of the danglies to dangle from them. The skeletal oak leaf wings are maybe a tenth finished. My hands are protesting the number of hairpieces I've planned, so I'll have to change my plans if I want to edit anytime soon. I need to take up the bolero's shoulders, as it's two sizes too large, so I'm thinking epaulets should do the trick. I've replaced the bolero's collar with a 1-1/2" bronze choker that I'm planning to line with green velvet. I still have no idea of how I plan to close it. I'm also replacing the bolero's buckle closures with... something. Probably more bees. The balls for my acorns have arrived, but the caps haven't.
Maybe I should turn the acorns green instead of their current brown since nothing else is brown. Despite starting from "Steampunk is what happens when Goths discover brown," the black still comes easier.
My corset hasn't arrived yet. It was supposed to be here yesterday. At least I have time to replace it if anything has caused it to go poof. However, I NEED the corset so Mr. Man can give my costume his nod of husbandly approval. He's worried it's going to be immodest since I chose an underbust for comfort. I'm thinking the space between the bottom of the bolero and the top of the corset won't be too obscene with the peasant blouse, which I turned metallic green-blue to sorta match the 2" thick satin corset laces, and the hosiery, and the glass baubles, and the wings, and the hairpieces, and...
Are we certain about not stopping me...? It seems I have issues. It seems they might be fairly extreme. It seems a bit of overkill. It seems to like matchy-matchy.
Okay, you're right: there's no such thing as too much on a con costume. *nods at your sage advice* I remember now. *wanders off to continue costuming*