New costume contemplations, to push away the Dragon*Con Fail depression.

[mellymell]

I'll try to make this short because I'm supposed to be planning and preparing to go to the beach in two days (we've moved our trip up a day to try to skirt bad weather coming into Port St. Joe, FL on Sunday).

1. Alice's Blue dress (the down the rabbit hole one) from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Since the buttons have been found and I'm doing a Mad Tea Party for my 30th birthday (April 30th, 2011 - day of the party, not day of my birth), I'm doing this one and might try to have her done in time for the movie opening in March. Yeah, didn't take much to convince me did it, just some buttons. ;)

2. Those of you who follow me on Twitter have already heard this one: Elseworld's Finest version of Batgirl. The Superhero 5k is coming up (November 7th, the weekend after Halloween) and everyone needs a superhero/villain costume, right? A ghetto fab version of Batgirl (or as she's been known to me in the past, BatMel) was my idea for last year, but I want to do it better since I have time to plan. So, I started researching various Batgirl costumes and the version I like best is Elseworld. I get to try my hand at Fun Foam armor for the first time. When I bought the 1 gallon jug of Elmer's glue this morning at Staples, the lady at the register said, "wow, that's a lot of glue." I didn't feel like explaining so I just laughed and said, "yes, yes it is." ;) Unfortunately, since our trip is in two days, I've got to set her aside. Should have started yesterday. As it turns out, there's an Elseworld's Finest comic with Supergirl and Batgirl together and there are already plans in the works for some play time with J-9 at next year's Dragon*Con (since she's got an Elseworld Supergirl costume). As she said so eloquently on Twitter this morning, "it's going to be legend-wait for it-ary!"

Now, I must go make various lists for camping/beach gear and make sure I have all my pirate stuff in order for costume pics on the beach. :)

YES!

P.S. - I have to say, I'm enjoying the updates from the con more than I thought I would. It really does seem like it has for all the other years I wasn't able to go. Don't know what I'm missing yet I guess. But will be there next year. The minute memberships for 2010 go online and rooms go up, I'm so there!

Comments

[yocepha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, amazing how seeing everyone's D*C photos can get the creative juices flowing again!

I want to see your pirate photos, savvy? ;-)

I will buy a D*C membership as soon as I can, too. Who knows? I might actually make it in 2010! Yes.

[mellymell.livejournal.com]

It really is! This is always the time of year when I build crazy, unattainable lists and then have to cull them down to what I think is doable (and then about 30% of that list actually gets done, heh).

But, here's to 2010!
Yes. :)