| Saturday, November 13th, 2010 |
6:53 pm
[jaelie]
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Picnic Pics?
Someone post some! I'm dying to see them, even if it's just teasers! ^_~ Current Mood:  cheerful |
| Thursday, December 10th, 2009 |
11:07 am
[jaelie]
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Adventures in Millinery
(cross posted to my personal LJ) SO, for the 18th century picnic, I decided to make a hat. I've never made a hat before, although I made parts of one at an early DFWCG event three-ish (has it really been that long?!) years ago. Although I never finished that hat, it gave me some ideas about how to go about constructing one. ( Here goes! )Anyway, here is a picture of the finished bonnet:  Current Mood: accomplished |
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
12:06 pm
[guen_the_cat]
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18th Century picnic
Here is the link to the blog I just posted about our picnic from this weekend. I am still in the process of uploading all the pics to Flickr, so keep watching our group's photo stream for more pics. |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
10:09 pm
[jaelie]
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Vee's dress for the 18th Century picnic
(This is cross-posted) Ok, so I started out eyeing this image as inspiration for Vee's dress for the 18th century picnic: ( Read more... )I think I'll put a sash on it like the second and third pictures, but I haven't decided yet. I'll have photos of Vee in the dress when picnic time comes around in two weeks! :D Of course, I'm going to use this as a Sunday dress for her, too. Why not?! Next up, I have got to work on MY dress! I don't want to be stuck with the pink regency, but it will do as a back-up. Current Mood: accomplished |
| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 |
11:56 am
[guen_the_cat]
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All-Con preparations are underway
Hi there folks! If you're on our yahoo group, then you know that I've started getting organized for our involvement in the 2010 All-Con. I've put out a call for committee members and now I'm putting out a call for Panel suggestions. The folks at All-Con want us to get our submissions in as early as possible since they filled up their schedule so fast last year. I've posted a blog about it over on Blogger.If you are unable to be on the committee and have ideas, please send them our way. |
| Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 |
2:09 pm
[guen_the_cat]
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| Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 |
9:58 am
[guen_the_cat]
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For those interested in the Tea
I just thought I'd mention that the date for the Guild Tea needs to be changed. Sally has posted a poll on our Yahoo Group list. If you're thinking of joining us, please vote for the best day for you! |
| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 |
2:03 pm
[guen_the_cat]
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Holy Crap! Ft Worth Amon Carter Museum on Sat!!
Deborah Davis, the author of Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X will be at the Amon Carter Museum Saturday at 11:00am to speak about the book and the woman behind the painting. I have yet to read the book, but it's been on my wish list at Amazon for quite some time. I wish I had known about this much sooner. As it is, I'll have to really do some switching around of plans to make it, but I am going to Try My Damnedest to be there to catch this lecture! If anybody else wants to join me holler. I think I'll probably try to take the train into Ft. Worth as it looks like I may be able to take public transit the whole way. If I can figure it out. The TRE doesn't have the nifty "plan your route" option that DART does. ETA: The deadline to reserve for seating is TODAY! And they told me to be there no later than 10:45am since the reservations were almost filled. They will begin seating people from the Standby List at 10:45, so if you reserved and are later than that, you will lose your seat. |
| Monday, March 16th, 2009 |
2:16 pm
[guen_the_cat]
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NPR interview for the steampunk adventurer folk
Today on THINK, Kris Boyd interviewed David Grann, a writer for the New Yorker. He has a book out called The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. It is about his journey following the explorer Percy Fawcett into the Amazon looking for Fawcett's Lost City of Z. The book is supposed to have all sorts of information on how Fawcett was trained with the Royal Geological Society. He didn't begin his adventure until the 1920s, but he was working with the RGS in 1906 as a cartographer, so there may very well be plenty of information in the book on tools of the adventurer/mapping trade. Also could be some interesting inspiration for your explorer characters. David Grann will be in Dallas at the DMA speaking along with another author about their books May 12. Here's the website about the book, however, I will warn you that there is a slideshow on the opening page that shows Native men in their Native Clothing which equals nothing at all. So, depending on your office climate, you may wanna wait to look there until you get home. |
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[guen_the_cat]
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| Thursday, March 12th, 2009 |
4:02 pm
[guen_the_cat]
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All-Con blogging
I'm going to try to blog about All-Con all weekend over on the Blogger account. I can upload pics directly from my macbook as opposed to having to upload to a hosting service and then link or use html. Anyways, here is the link to the blog, comments should be open to anyone and if you have a gmail account, then you already have a login. If you have any trouble, please e-mail or message me or comment here and I'll see what I can do. http://dfwcg.blogspot.com/The frequency and timing of the blogs will depend entirely on what kind of internet connection is available to me at the con. |
| Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 |
3:06 pm
[guen_the_cat]
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Search UK museum collections
One of the blogs I follow, The Victorian Era, posted news that there is a beta program up designed to search several UK museum collections all in one place. I'm going to link to the blog post instead of the actual place so you can see what they said about the project. Creative SpacesHappy Hunting! |
| Saturday, February 7th, 2009 |
9:04 am
[jenthompson]
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new photo gallery for DFWCG
I wanted to let you all know that the DFWCG now has its own flickr group! Yay!!! http://www.flickr.com/groups/dfwcg/Sharing your costuming pictures with other guild members just got a whole lot easier! A lot of you already use flickr, and those of you who don't, flickr is a feature of yahoo, so you just use your same login info from the DFWCG yahoo mailing list to get started. If you have any costume photos already on flickr, we would love for you to add them to our group. After you join the DFWCG group, you can just select a photo (either individually, or in batch organize), and click the "add to group" tab. Guild members and all other DFW costumers are welcome to participate in this group. Share your pics from any guild or non-guild event. The more pictures the better! Let me know if you need more thorough instructions for joining or posting pics. |
| Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 |
5:37 pm
[guen_the_cat]
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Blogger anyone?
Hi everybody. At the last business meeting, I proposed that we look into moving our little Guild Blog over to Blogger as blogger is more public and is a lot more easily advertised. Plus we can plaster links and galleries all over Blogger For Free! Anywhoo, I'm just in the beginning stages of getting things organized before I present a final "can we do this? Or do you not like it?" to the Guild in June at our Summer Business Meeting. But I would be interested to know a few things before I move on: * How many of you here have blogger (blogspot) accounts. * How many of you use Google Reader? * How many of you use an RSS reader at all? * And last but not least, how many of you would we lose if we left LJ? We will still be able to mirror blog content over on our website if we move to Blogger, so those of you who read us from there will not miss a thing. Thanks y'all!! |
| Sunday, January 4th, 2009 |
3:58 pm
[guen_the_cat]
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| Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 |
12:14 pm
[jenthompson]
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VE (AE?) show
The Victorian Elegance Show has finally updated their website with info about the February show. There is going to be a fashion show with clothing from 1770-1960! Woo-hoo! So here's the perfect excuse to break out your costume ideas that you never seem to have an event for - 18th c., regency, romantic, or 20th c. vintage. It'll all fit in at this show. You have 3 months to come up with something fabulous so GET TO IT!!!! :) |
| Sunday, November 16th, 2008 |
9:51 am
[jenthompson]
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costume exhibit
Looking for something to do? Emma reminded me that the UNT fashion collection has an exhibit up of gowns from Caralee's Closet. You can find info about it here, and you can click on the ad for more info. The exhibit is in Dallas, which I didn't realize. I think I'll have to run down there on my Thanksgiving vacation! |
| Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 |
1:03 pm
[jenthompson]
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adventures with mohair fur
Okay, I don't know if any of you would be as crazy as I was and use mohair fur for a costuming project, but I can highly recommend Intercal if you do. They sell a wide variety of small cuts and have tons of colors, lengths, and finishes for the fur, plus their customer service was outstanding. And although it is pretty pricey stuff, I LOVED working with this fur! It is extremely soft and silky, has a soft cotton backing, was easily dyed with RIT, and is a million times cooler than synthetic fur. Plus it looks extremely "real" (heck, it IS real hair!) without having to hurt an animal in the process. It was definitely worth the money IMHO. |
| Sunday, October 5th, 2008 |
7:25 pm
[jenthompson]
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nice prosthetics
I just got a pair of prosthetic elf ears from Hightower Crafts and woo-boy am I pleased with them! They are about a million times nicer than the ones you get from halloween shops! And best of all, Hightower now takes paypal in case you are like me and are nervous about overseas credit card orders. |
| Friday, October 3rd, 2008 |
9:55 am
[ashnimehal]
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October Meeting: Steampunk 101
I apologize for not getting the website updated yet, but I wanted to remind everyone that October's meeting will be on the basics of Steampunk costuming. We'll be meeting at Timberglen Library on Sunday (the 12th) at 2 PM, but the lecture probably won't start until 2:15. I think we are asking for the usual $1 from members and $3 from non-members to help pay for the room. If you are attending, would you please reply here or over at the Yahoo Group so we can get an approximate head count? Also, I'm looking at about an hour-ish for the lecture, so there will be time for some Q&A after, but if there's something specific you'd like information on let me know and I'll see if I can work it in, or at least make sure I have the answer ready. |
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