I feel the need... the need... for tweed
Every frigging thrift store between here and Jay's hometown, and most of the department stores. 2 of 4 remaining costume pieces acquired. Total outlay for this excursion: $11. Yyyyeah, 5% of what I spent on my costume. Wah.
Remaining: pants and shoes. I really like the shoes, and will be sad if we don't find them. But they're Jay's feet, so I don't get final say. Ha. We've found the pants, but not below $45. We'll find them on sale at some point. Makes me glad that I don't try to stay fashionable in everyday life.
(hm, IIRC, in-universe Eleven swiped his entire outfit from a hospital locker. Which means that there was an accredited medical doctor, and not a dotty 900 year old alien, who wore skinny jeans and tweed at the same time...)
Incidentally, I wore my costume shoes to work and back one day last week to break them in a bit (not at work, just walking there and back). I made an important discovery. Add a light drizzle, and those shoes lose every tiny bit of traction. I stepped onto a painted curb to get around someone on the sidewalk, slipped, and scraped the hell out of my knee. Sooooo, unless I want to wind up on my ass with plastic Easter egg shards where they don't belong, I'd better beware of freshly mopped floors at the convention.
Worked out my makeup, too. I got all of it in tiny amounts at Sally's Beauty Supply when I stopped in to get a wig cap. Gray, light gray, and metallic silver eyeshadow, silver and black nail polish, and this alarming black liquid eyeliner that makes my inner goth quite happy. Tested it all out, and I think it will work.
While we were out shopping, we stumbled across a passable Nine jacket in Jay's size, which led to amusing side-lines about what I'd make to match it. (We don't have to match; it's just fun to speculate.) Couldn't come up with anything more loopy than lolita TARDIS, which isn't very loopy, and has been done even more often than lolita Dalek. Still, fun to come up with ideas.
When on earth did I become one of those off-model, "making it up", concepty cosplayers? First the Mario concept (which WILL get done eventually) and now multiple Doctor Who spinoffs. I guess it started after I actually finished one. Heh. Well, there aren't many characters that I want to cosplay - this has been true from day one - so I keep going with "character class" uniforms and costume-y mashup type nonsense. I guess it's my thing now.
Thinking about writing a convention bucket list, and not sure whether it would be fun or just depressing. I keep doing the same things at every convention (Alley, Dealers, the AMV contest) and not trying anything new. Maybe I can just focus on doing one new-to-me thing at every one I go to. That's a workable goal.
Remaining: pants and shoes. I really like the shoes, and will be sad if we don't find them. But they're Jay's feet, so I don't get final say. Ha. We've found the pants, but not below $45. We'll find them on sale at some point. Makes me glad that I don't try to stay fashionable in everyday life.
(hm, IIRC, in-universe Eleven swiped his entire outfit from a hospital locker. Which means that there was an accredited medical doctor, and not a dotty 900 year old alien, who wore skinny jeans and tweed at the same time...)
Incidentally, I wore my costume shoes to work and back one day last week to break them in a bit (not at work, just walking there and back). I made an important discovery. Add a light drizzle, and those shoes lose every tiny bit of traction. I stepped onto a painted curb to get around someone on the sidewalk, slipped, and scraped the hell out of my knee. Sooooo, unless I want to wind up on my ass with plastic Easter egg shards where they don't belong, I'd better beware of freshly mopped floors at the convention.
Worked out my makeup, too. I got all of it in tiny amounts at Sally's Beauty Supply when I stopped in to get a wig cap. Gray, light gray, and metallic silver eyeshadow, silver and black nail polish, and this alarming black liquid eyeliner that makes my inner goth quite happy. Tested it all out, and I think it will work.
While we were out shopping, we stumbled across a passable Nine jacket in Jay's size, which led to amusing side-lines about what I'd make to match it. (We don't have to match; it's just fun to speculate.) Couldn't come up with anything more loopy than lolita TARDIS, which isn't very loopy, and has been done even more often than lolita Dalek. Still, fun to come up with ideas.
When on earth did I become one of those off-model, "making it up", concepty cosplayers? First the Mario concept (which WILL get done eventually) and now multiple Doctor Who spinoffs. I guess it started after I actually finished one. Heh. Well, there aren't many characters that I want to cosplay - this has been true from day one - so I keep going with "character class" uniforms and costume-y mashup type nonsense. I guess it's my thing now.
Thinking about writing a convention bucket list, and not sure whether it would be fun or just depressing. I keep doing the same things at every convention (Alley, Dealers, the AMV contest) and not trying anything new. Maybe I can just focus on doing one new-to-me thing at every one I go to. That's a workable goal.