Community and weather

I'm learning the the Star Wars fandom community is one that can be very caring and supportive. It will be nice to meet some of these peeps in person at the Matters of the Force events this weekend.

I'm on the Yahoo group for planning, mainly to keep up on what's going on with panels and celebrities. In addition to this type of discussion there's been much talk of the charity auction, David Prose's surgery and recovery (the guy in the Vader suit . . . he was going to DC but had to have emergency surgery and can't - the group is going to have a card for people to sign). There's also a lot of talk of people dealing with their own sick or recently passed relatives, or their concern about the recent bout of hurricanes and where it will leave guests, family and others in both the Atlanta area and "back home", wherever that is for these people.

Can I just say that I love living in New England? This humidity and hurricane threat stuff is for the birds. I mean sure, we get "hurricanes", but they pare in comparison to the others that rip people from their homes (except of course for those that live on the coast - but duh - you live next to the ocean, its an added risk).

The more hot it gets, the more I crave the cool fall sweater-wearing nights. Its going to be weird not having a fireplace this year (here's hoping the electric woodstove that we've yet to acquire will suffice to set the mood and feel).

Pics

Brian's done an amazing job on my Arwen crown. I finished beading the strands that hang from the crown last night and today during my lunch hour I should finish the beaded wire that gets glued to the actual crown itself.

You can see from my shiny face just how hot and humid its been, yuck. For reference too, we were listening to Motley Crue's Dr. Feelgood and I was singing (Brian deleted the pics with the devil horns apparently).

There's also pics of the leather bits of Brian's Aragorn costume. I'm hoping tonight we can finish up and take pics of the whole costumes :)

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Progress

Pet instructions written and e-mailed/printed
Itinerary e-mailed/printed
Hitting Target, pet store and CVS after work for odds and ends.
Work (at work) is getting done *knocks on wood*

Tonight I'll shorten Brian's cape and if time allows, finish that damned trim on the Padme coat that just won't die (the trim is on the coat outside, and the pants outside . . . but I need to put that line that is in the inside of the coat along the bottom perimeter. If we get work done tonight we can worry about packing tomorrow - and who knows - maybe hit a movie or Man Ray or something.

Here's hoping we can put all of the LOTR pieces together tonight and do a dry run of the costumes (with pictures, of course).

I really hope that the dances at DC (or the concerts) are amusing . . . because after this preparation for costumes I really want to shake my groove thing! :)