ladyofthethread | "Maybe, I trust you. But can you trust me?"

It was good seeing people at NYAF. I'm mostly recovered from the con now. Last week involved a lot of late nights but I managed to get Ekaterina done and the masquerade walk-on went okay despite a few moments of panic beforehand. The worst was losing my veil less than half an hour before lineup. x_x; Fortunately, a little kid had found it and was playing with it nearby. I was so relieved to get it back that I gave him $5 as a reward.

I won Marty Gear’s judge’s award, which I’m pleased with considering how impressive some of the other costumes were. And I was happy to have a chance to finally present it onstage because of all the work that went into it. I originally started it in January for Costume Con and I’ve probably put 120-140 hours into it with building the period undergarments plus the mockups and remakes.

ACP has my walk-on posted although I haven't been able to watch it myself yet since my computer hasn't been displaying videos properly the last few weeks. Have to figure out how to fix that. :-/ I used “The Riddle” from “The Scarlet Pimpernel” as my background music since it’s one of my favorite musicals (it’s set in 18th Century Europe, too) and I felt it fit well with all the political intrigue in Le Chevalier D’eon. It was about 20 seconds longer than I would have preferred for a walk-on but it would have been awkward to cut the song more with the lack of pauses. ^_^;;;

http://www.acparadise.com/acp/vid/5561/h

Longer post about the con later in the week.

Birthday plans will be for dim sum on Saturday. I’ll be getting in touch with those who were interested in coming sometime in the next couple of days with details.