Renaissance faire

Yesterday I went to the Bristol, wi renaissance faire with my friend Melissa and her friend Jamie. Melissa dressed up in a cool corset and skirt. Jamie and I just wore 'normal' clothes. Although, I did wear my astrolabe which I got at ren faire in 2010.

I had a good time hanging out with the girls. We saw the barley balanced show and the last joust of the day. I bought a cool cigerret holder that is made out of meerschaum. And I got a cool bullet holder that will wrap around my leg. I got that for my Steampunk costume (I can't wait to wear it with the costume!). I did stuff my face while I was there with a turkey leg that was the size of my fist. Hehe.

While we were at ren faire I introduced the ladies to Letterboxing. We found three stamps. One really Melissa found it not the rest of us. Hehe.

Melissa seemed to really like Letterboxing and wants to go find more stamps! So I told her I'd be happy to go out with her to find new ones! You know me, I love finding letterboxes. :)

Here are some photos from the day. me stuffing my face. melissa with jamie. melissa and i. a little act that was performed right in front of us. some of the letterboxes we found.

Dragoncon 2012 scrapbook

So I finally finished the scrapbook I was making for dragoncon 2012. I'm very pleased with the finished product. I like that its not perfect. I'm happy with how it turned out. For the cover and pages I used an old book. I just cut the covering off of the book and ripped the pages out of the book. I then punched holes into everything and bound it all together with two binder rings. Here are some pictures of the final product.

c2e2

this past weekend was the chicago comic entertainment expo (C2E2). i went friday and saturday. friday i went by myself. that's right i took off work to go to this. hehe. saturday i went with my cousin. for my cousin it was her first convention so it was cool to show her what they are all about. i hope she enjoyed it and will want to go to more. i know i love going to them! hehe. over all i had a great time. makes me super excited for dragon con this year! hehe. for pictures of my weekend, go to my flickr and instagram.

here's a random breakdown of the weekend. in no particular order:
-this year i dressed up in costume for the first time. friday i dressed up as captain america. it was cool for it was the first time people stopped me and asked for my picture. which is always a compliment. means the hard work that went into the costume paid off. saturday i wore my steampunk costume. my sister made the harness i wear for that, so i was excited to display it for the first time. my sister can sew that is for sure! hehe. no one asked for my photo in my steampunk costume, but i did get some compliments about it.
-got to see my friend jimmy. he was my boss when i worked at a comic shop, so it was cool to see him.
-got to meet some of the people that work for challenger comics. i have been chatting with them on twitter, so it was nice to put a face to the group. all of them were very nice.
-the swag i got this year was: captain america piggy bank - which really it's just a nice cheap bust of captain america. captain america/red skull salt and pepper shakers. a signed poster from cbldf of lil depressed boy. a captain america travel mug. i'm very excited to take that to work. no one will confuse my drink for theirs. hehe. a really sweet necklace. a comic that jae lee did the cover for. i love his art work, he is amazing! a replica river song journal. i'm going to use it as my own journal.
-i got robert atkins signature. he's known for his g.i. joe stuff. but he also has done some marvel work. he drew a really cool cover for spiderman.
-saw some really cool costumes. harley quinn, the joker, batman, iron man, steampunk, dr who, captain america and so many more.
-i saw one of the dr's i work for there. it was cool to see him outside of work. you never think of the dr's as 'normal people' but really they are. hehe.
-the 501st legion: vader's fist were there. they are always at dragon con so it was cool to see them at c2e2. they are people who dress up in exact replica's of star wars empire troopers. their costumes are always pretty sweet.

so over all i had a great time. i was on my feet all weekend and now i'm ready to just lay down for many many hours. hehe.

Steampunk harness

Happy holidays to everyone! So I'm in Arizona visiting my brother and family, so this post is from my phone. So i'll clean it up when I get home. Also if you want to see pictures from the trip, I'll post them on flickr.

My sister finished the steampunk harness. It looks so cool. I just had to share it with everyone! So big props to my sister! I'm very happy with the finished product. I can't wait to wear it. If you would like to see more stuff my sister has done, go to her website marianneegan(dot)com.

Steampunk costume

So my sister is an awesome seamstress. She is a teacher at Oregon state university for it. So because of my sisters mad sewing skills I've never really had to buy a dress (thank you sis!). So for dragoncon I've never really dressed in any sort of costume. Well my sister is making me a part of my Steampunk costume. I thought I would share the pictures of it so far. I'm so excited to wear it!

c2e2

on friday (yesterday) i went to c2e2 (chicago comic entertainment expo). it was fun. after being to dragoncon, i can tell how small c2e2 is. but that's ok. nothing wrong with a smaller comic convention.

-i got to see sean autsin (rudy or samwise gamgi). it was cool to see him. also saw tom morello (guitarist for rage against the machine).
-there was some cool stuff there and some cool costumes. there was one full out steampunk costume, but more marvel and dc costumes. there was a harley quinn that had a HUGE mallet.
-there was a little boy dressed as the joker (dark night joker) and there was a guy dressed up as batman walking by him. the boy said hi batman and the guy turned around and said i'm watching you joker. the little boy just smiled. it was cute.
-i saw jimmy, my old boss from when i worked at the comic shop. it was cool seeing him.
-at the convention i bought a captain america cookie jar. that's right a cookie jar. i know your jealous.
-also there was some props from the captain america movie. it was pretty cool to see that stuff.

over all a cool convention and a good start to convention season. the next one i go to is dragoncon in september which i'm totally excited about. c2e2 was a cool first convention of the summer. go to my flickr for some photos.

here's me with my captain america cookie jar.