We went down south this last weekend to visit tokraed's brother and his family. It was a fun time of chasing kids, fending off hyperactive dogs and generally doing a lot of nothing. We did however go shopping for fabric for our costumes for Necronomicon. It's official, we are trying for Jim West and Artemis Gordon from The Wild Wild WestWe found some ( Read more... )

I was searching around on the internet tonight for good pictures of outfits from The Wild Wild West and I stumbled onto a pic that lead me to the CIA's web page. They apparently have a museum and and exhibition called Spy-Fi. All sorts of cool stuff on display, but for our interest of the moment they have Jim West's outfit and his derringer ( Read more... )

Well today I finally got off my butt and made reservations for the hotel for Necronomicon. Woo hoo! We are officially going! Its smaller than Dragon*Con, but we are looking for a change of pace. That and tokraed used to attend this con when she lived in the Tampa (Brandon) area.

You can check out the Necronomicon '08 site here!This year's theme is ( Read more... )

I had to dig around a bit but I found a couple of photos from our last set of costumes at dragon con. Some of you may remember these. Unfortunately my costume was destroyed by working the parade. I had to wrangle people for several hours in 90 degree heat. That damn coat is made of wool! I ditched the wig too! It was way too hot!

( Click here to see two people with absolutely no shame )

This looks like it might have been fun:


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