So anyway, to continue where I left off the previous post... The rabbit hole is never ending. I went BACK through all my old backup files last night, looking for more old stuff. I managed to scrape up the majority of my old pre-blogger "Free talks" from 1998, though I can't find much from 1999 -- there's a big chunk of summer 99 missing and I don't know if that's because I didn't ...
I know I've done similar before... and this won't be just a rehashing of my original "con report." A couple of weeks ago when I was looking at old Hermione photos for instagram, I was flipping through them and thinking, "oh yeah, that was the night before I left for the midnight show, I refused to wear makeup or a skirt, so I wore jeans and did nothing with my ...
So I'm still doing my little project of going back through old pictures and uploading new versions. I thought I'd share some of the more interesting ones, including some I've never had uploaded in the first place. Here's my fourth lake dress that I made in 2008 - I've only ever had 3 pictures of this costume uploaded, though we took about 25 pictures all together. Unfortunately the bulk of them were blurry ...
Here's a preview of some more photos from Saturday: (edit: photo link was broken and I can't find this anywhere anymore, so I removed it!) I didn't get any besides that uploaded - I was home sick from work yesterday so I pretty much slept all day. Anyway, as I've been going through my old hard-drives I occasionally come across stuff I never uploaded, or I haven't had uploaded in ...
So I'm still working on old pictures, and I'm finally in to 2007. That means I'm halfway done! The whole point of this project has been to upload bigger, clearer versions of my old pictures. A lot of them were only 500px tall, which is tiny by today's standards, and were often fuzzy. Since I still have the full size versions of probably 95% of my photos, I figured why not go ...
I spent the weekend at my grandma's, avoiding coping, doing some retail therapy and working on some old photos. I've mentioned it before, but I've been working on this project for almost a year now - replacing all my old costume pictures with larger, better versions. It's a long project when you have as my costumes and costume photos as I do. I finally got to one costume I'd been ...
I love Halloween. It's my favourite holiday. I love dressing up (obviously), spooky stories, fun decorations, parties, trick-or-treating, all of it. I do wish Halloween was still the same way it was when I was a kid - it's become really watered down over the past couple of decades. Sad. Also, there is absolutely jack for grown-ups to do unless you go to a bar or somebody's party. We've tried ...
Piggy-backing on yesterday's post about changes at DragonCon, today I'd like to look back at some DragonCon things that I miss. 1. The Photo Gauntlet Last time I did the masquerade (2006) it was just contestants standing on a stage with photographers taking photos. I'm guessing that's still the way they do it? It's not nearly as exciting and memorable as the old photo gauntlet. I wrote about it here. Man that ...
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 didn't include that as a story because I've already told it numerous ...
So, Ash and I did the masquerade again that year, and it was again over at the Congress Center or whatever it was called. So we got dressed, loaded up and went on over. We ended up sitting around in a hall backstage for quite a long time. There we are in the background entertaining ourselves: We got there so early that hardly anyone else was there yet. We were ...