A couple of new pieces for the wardrobe...

Hehe!  So I'm on holidays and I have new things finished!  These were things that were cut out some time ago, and I thought them good projects to kickstart the November sewing rush before Supanova... So there's a circle skirt made out of a Japanese print Drill, and a dress from Simplicity with a border print.

I do love a border print!

  

My next task is to change out the black backdrop for something less black.  Thankfully I have something in the stash for that!

Condottieri, the travelling reenactment group

So, also back in September, Condottieri went to Sydney for the St Ives Medieval Tournament.  It wasn't our full camp, neither was it our full group, but it was mostly an awesome event.



I did end up sleeping all weekend in Courtney's tent instead of my own, on the friday night I curled up in my tent and ended up not being able to breathe.  The tarp that I use for the floor of my tent is one that needs 24 hours to air before you sleep on it.  So, it would have been fine the 2nd night, but I didn't want to risk it after the night I had on the Friday night!

Other than that, and one of our group having a run in with a self-entitled Council worker (don't ask!), we had a great time.   I had made a new fancy parade Cioppa...



And I got to see sewaddicted as well..



But best of all, the ladies got to relax a bit, while the guys worked hard.  We didn't cook lunch either day, choosing instead to buy from the many vendors there, so we did some impromptu fingerlooping displays, went to the tavern and generally had a lovely time (and we got the guys to do the washing up as well!)

Brisbane's first look at Oz Comic Con...

So I had originally planned a whole weekend at Comic Con back in September.  Then I ended up seriously sick.  So there were no new costumes, even though I wanted to do Cinderella for it, and possibly a dieselpunk outfit.  Neither happened.  In fact, I couldn't face the whole weekend either.  So, I did the disneybounding thing.  I wore my blue Cinderella wrap around skirt, the matching fluffy top, and I did my hair and accessories like Cindy.  I met up with my Costuming Hubby, Michael, who looked AMAZING in his diselpunk.  Nyssa showed up, then we managed to catch Mel and Abi as well.

I couldn't do the whole day, but took a bunch of photos in front of a makeshift black backdrop.

   

 

I had a great time, even though I didn't end up lasting all day.  I was kinda stoked with how my hair turned out, and it's inspired me to finish Cinderella in time for Supanova at the end of November.  I think I'm being a little crazy.  I'm doing 3 new costumes I think, a costume for a group thing that will be revealed, Cinderella and Missy from Doctor Who.  I have a week off in just over a week, so we'll see how it goes!

As for the Con, I am looking forward to the next installment of Oz Comic Con!  Should be great!

Trip to Adelaide - ACG Ball

So, back at the end of August (eesh FAR behind again!), I went to the ACG Ball in Adelaide.  It's a great chance to go off to catch up with ALL the Aussie Costumers... It's such a great night out, and I love that I get to catch up with W as well.  This year, we did our own thing really, deciding that we wanted to actually see some more of Adelaide.

We did do our usual fabric shopping with all the peeps, but decided that at lunch we would head to the beach.  Man oh man am I glad we did. D, W and I went to Henley Beach, where we had a really delicious lunch, followed by walking on the beach (and some paddling).  We had such a lovely day!

    

Then we had dinner in our room as we got dressed.... There may have also been a couple of drinks as well before we went to the ball.  Last year we did a group entry into the competition, and after that I vowed and declared I wouldn't do that again so that we could do things like stroll along the beach and paddle in the water.

We had a great time at the ball, even though we have decided that we'll have to take our own food from now on since there really isn't anything appetising for us to eat.  Even though I didn't enter the competition, my Idris managed to take out a best in hall award.  Many people have told me I should enter again, so given the format of the competition has changed for next year, I've emailed the National President to find out what is involved.  As long as I can still do my shopping/tourist trip on the Saturday, I may just do it.  Anyway, a couple of the photos....

 

On Sunday, D had to leave early, so we missed seeing her mores the pity.  W and I had decided though that we would head to Maggie Beer's farm.  Maggie Beer used to host possibly my favourite cooking show that is no longer on the air, and her farm is where it was filmed.  We had lunch, and a really good walk around.  It was really lovely.  We think we'll go back next year, and possibly head to a couple of wineries.  It's a beautifully stunning place though, and they put on dairy/gluten free food for us which was delicious!