Dawn's Nerdy Round-up

[dawn_felagund]

Last weekend, Mom and I went about making my Elfy costume for the Maryland Renaissance Festival. I've been wanting an Elf costume for about three years now, but Ren Fest season always comes with a myriad of excuses to postpone it for yet another year. Last year was scuba training, for example. But this year, Mom and I were determined that I would

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[sinneahtes]

Wow, nice dress! :D

Urgh, spiders frustrate me because they're even worse than fungi with helping me identify them correctly for photo tagging. What's with this "some species look very much the same as others" or "there are so many friggin' species of arthropods that it takes forever to find the one you're looking for" BS?! :P

Though I can't say I'm too upset that that's discouraged me from staring at zillions of photos of arachnids to try and get a correct match. Harvestmen are cute, but spiders, I prefer to appreciate from a distance. :P

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you!

I agree with you on spiders, and harvestmen too, incidentally. I used to freak out other kids my letting a harvestman crawl up my arm and perch atop my head. Yet I still have a little squick to spiders, largely on account of a traumatic experience at Girl Scout camp, I suspect, involving a tent wall and a wolf spider.

[ladyelleth]

Such a pretty dress! :D And the ears look okay, if you ask me... I've seen a lot worse (mine included if I could be bothered to actually attach them) - and I'm a teensy bit envious about the hair - at any rate, the costume looks fabulous, and you make a very decent elf. :D

Thanks for the comic link... I haven't done any D&D yet, but enough systemless roleplaying (and I have enough roleplaying geeks for friends) that it was funny anyway. ^^

And now I'll look forward to the GGK story. But first, bed. (Which might be the reason this reply comes across as slightly demented, I haven't slept all night.)

[dawn_felagund]

I'd tell you to go to bed, but since I'm almost two weeks in replying, I think I'm safe in saying that you have by now ... :^P

I've gotten better with the ears. The secret (I find) is depending more on the adhesive than the flesh latex. So I spend more time on sticking them on properly with minimally visible seams than I spend trying to hide the seams. Flesh latex will work, but it's not a miracle by any stretch, I have found. Also, I paint shadows on my ears to match the ear tips. For that, I'm glad I've wasted spent so many years on miniatures painting! I can blend a flesh tone like no one's business! :^P

Thanks for the compliment on the dress ... and the hair! If it's any consolation, I've been growing my hair for about ten years to get it to that length and fought with split ends for most of that time that made it look a mess. But I've always wanted "Elf hair," even when I didn't like Elves yet!

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you, thank you! :^D

And here might be a certain sillyfic written for you once upon a time ... ;)

[miss_nightowl]

Very very pretty. :o)
You that is - the spider, not so much.... You know that dress you could probably use for more... un-elvish occasions too, eh? It´s a lovely evening gown, that is! Love the colour.

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you! :) Everyone keeps telling me what a lovely dress as just a dress my costume is. I would wear it for other occasions. Of course, I'm the same girl who last year went into a pizzeria where a family still costumed from the Renaissance Festival was enjoying their supper.

Ren Family: Hello! I see you've come from the same place!

Dawn: *glances down at lace-up shirt and red cloak* Erm ... actually, these are my everyday clothes ...

:^D

[ssotknapsack]

Awww, Dawn! What a pretty dress... and it does go well with the cloak too.

Seeing pictures of my sister on the Internet dressed up as an elf gives me a strange mixture of befuddlement and pride... but mostly pride because I know how happy that day must have been thanks, in part, to your outfit. :) Very cool.

[dawn_felagund]

I think this may be the Coolest LJ Comment Evah! :^D Befuddlement and pride indeed! But it is a great source of pride that I can now put on prosthetic ears tips so well that, from a distance, they look like my real ears. :^D

Thank you, though. It was cool indeed!