My dress came like, second week of March, so I wore it to the movie with Carly and David over spring break. They had to be seen in public with me at Olive Garden, Accessory City, and Best Buy too because we went to those places first. :) Yeah, I got some weird looks. It was great. Splattering the blood was a lot of fun. Put several drops of red food dye into a small bowl then poured in a little bit of chocolate syrup, mixed it up a bit with a butter knife, then just sort of flicked the blade at the apron and rubbed it on it to smear it a little. Came out nice! Carly drew on the symbols with sharpie. I didn't trust myself, haha. Didn't take the cat with me, but he had to be in the shots. And believe it or not, I have ANOTHER Cheshire Cat statue now. #62 out of 1000. Spent a shit ton of money on another copy of the game, the soundtrack, the cat, and all the action figures for a complete set. Total: around $850. Yeah. Bad. I shouldn't have, but I couldn't resist! A full complete set! Haven't decided if I'll take them out of the boxes yet; the cat's still sitting in his. He'll be opened once I get moved, probably. :)
Here's the dress before all the artist touches:
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With these, I just darkened the right one in PS. Thought it looked good both ways.
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And just because I love this pic - it's me and my sister before the movie started:
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More on life recently another time.