HRM Steampunk Symposium 2013

I have returned from another Steampunk outting! My friend Colleen and I vended at HRM Steampunk Symposium  about a week ago and had a excellent time!  This was our second year vending and this time around we came prepared with costumes, and time to attend a few of the events!

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, Annabell Leigh Langly made an appearance on the ship. I so love this costume! Okay, granted, I tend to look like a busty wench in it, but it still is one of my favorites. I even managed to make improvements by buying new leather pouches to replace my old flimsy canvas ones.

 

The main event for us though, was the masquerade ball. It was a great evening where Colleen and I managed to escape our booth of DOOOOM (tm), and attend this year.

 



Colleen looking ravishing in her amazing Mina Harker gown.

Annabelle and Mina pose for a quick photo.

 

At the end of the night, the two of us managed to slip away from the ball to snap some photos of us in the awesome scenery of the Queen Mary. We were about two shots of whiskey in and having a grand ol' time!

 

 

 

By one in the morning we were feeling like this...

We still managed to get up the next in once piece. One groggy piece. And we donned our final Airship captain and first mate costumes for the day to finish off vending.

 

 

I desided to wear my solid color chamise under my gwahzee this round. I really like how the orange and black go together.

 

As usual, we had a blast of a time! Our next stop is going to me Gaslight Gathering. 

 

More costume craziness ensues!

Fairy Tale Picnic 2012 - Anne Bonny

My friend and fellow costume plotter, Ace threw a fun Fairy Tale picnic at Balboa Park. It was a small but awesome gathering full of Fairy Tale costumes and amazing food. I was hoping to put together a  Lady Captain Hook costume but alas, I never managed to get the hook done. So instead I ditched the hook and went as a fantasy version of Anne Bonny.

The costume is pretty much just pieced together from things I have in the closet. I have come to the conclusion that I have a very unusual closet. The pirate's coat is my husbands so its a titch big. The skirt is from the belly dancing section of the closet, and the corset is one I got from Corset Story on one heck of a sale.

The tricorn hat is from an old pirate costume I wore years ago. It originally was just a felt cavalier style hat. I pinned up the sides and added feathers. 

Balboa Park was a great backdrop for photos. Granted, there wasn't any water for a pirate but eh, I still liked posing around the trees.

Ace donned her troll costume from LoJ to wear. She made a few improvements to the outfit. She also takes great delight in painting herself blue.

My friend Jen, satisfied her current Supernatural obsession and dressed herself up as Castiel.

 

Castiel went on the hunt for squirrels for some reason. I really love this photo that Ace took.

Ellyn was my favorite of the day. She went as our Fairy Godmother. And she looked perfect for the part!

The rest of the afternoon was filled with fairies, dwarves, witches, fantasy creatures, and royalty. It truly looked magical having all of us prancing around in that lovely setting.

We're hoping to do another fantasy costume gathering soon. Ace's next idea is circling around Gods having Brunch. We'll be looking to scheduling another gathering come spring! If you're in the San Diego Area and want to come play the next round. Please feel free to drop me a line and I'll keep you up to date on the next event!

Mickey's Halloween Party!

Photo dump!

Max and I hit Mickey's Halloween Party a few weeks back. I have to admit, it was a great event! We didn't have time to put together amazing costumes so instead we opted for our Steampunk wear. (Though I did make Max a new Aba. He needed one.)

This was the first time I ever went to the park in full costume and it was a fantastic and almost magical experience! Here are a few pics of the two of us all decked out.

 

Morocco Mole and his lady hit the seas!

We mainly took photos in Adventure land because we matched the decor best there.

 

HAD to take a photo with The Genie while dressed like this.

 

 



Our friends Steve and Sammy wanted in on the photo fun too. Thank you Sammy for taking almost all these photos!

 



This one is my favorite. In front of Aladdin's Palace

 



With the flash on. THAT'S what we looked like.

 

We'll End this post with Morocco in his sweet ride.

 

Drive Morocco! Drive like the WIND!!

Halloween Approaches!!

You think I'd be more vocal with Halloween coming up, huh? Well, the truth is I've been so dang swamped with everything that I've haven't had two seconds to stop and take photos of things. Regardless, October is always my busiest sewing month (next to May). I do have lots to show, including a new middle eastern coat I finished. Pics of that to come. Until then, CLOWNS!

 

I love making costumes for my two nephews! And this year my sister wanted them both to dress as little clowns. They're still at the age where they don't care what they wear and mommy can chose for them. So I was tasked with making two little clown costumes.

This one is for the youngest, Tommie.



 

My friend and savior Ellyn was nice enough to gift me with a new sewing machine. Well, new to me at least. She had it for a while and has never used it. Apparently she thought it would be in good hands in my studio. Thank you Ellyn! Its a fantastic machine! It also comes with various embroidery stitches I can play with. I did some here on the collar for Tommie's costume.

 

 

And here's the costume for my oldest nephew, Danny. I love the yellow polkadot fabric!

 



 

Once again, I had fun with my new stitches. I'm a bit addicted to using those settings. I may end up putting decorative top stitching on everything at the rate I'm going.

I'm so excited to see  my nephews in their costumes!

 

Most of my Halloween efforts were put towards my little guys. So instead of putting together something new for myself, I figured I'd recycle an old costume. Namely this one:

 

 

But I'm I'm going to make it Persephone instead of Aphrodite. And hopefully have enough time to fill in little details I want to do. Perhaps like changing out the sash for something else. Eh, I haven't decided yet on that.
Anyways, I started working on the new head piece. Here it is so far.



 

Its coming along. I've put all the happy blooms on the top then as the headdress goes down, the flowers start to die and decay. Right now its a bit too subtle so I'm going to pump it all up a bit more. I just don't think its reading that well yet.

More shots:

 

 

That's all I have done for now. I'm also hoping to put together a very simple, wrap/robe to wear over the chiton, in a black to represent the whole underworld aspect.



So currently I have Mickey's Halloween party, my own Halloween party, and Caid coronation coming up. SO MUCH SEWING!
Stay tuned!