CONvergence and a partial sucess

Well, not only are we back from Convergence 2007, we're even rested up.

You won't see any pictures of me in a fancy new dress. Truth is, I got my ass handed to me by pattern and fabric both. Every mistake you can make, every freak accident, every act of god that could happen on this project did.

Thankfully, it happened after I finished StemmedRose's dress. I'm pretty proud of how this turned out, and she loved it.



As always, click to enlarge the pic for nummy details

Here's some of my favorite photos from con this year:


This year's sign. Well, same sign, different room. We were on the first floor this time, so more people were able to take advantage of our lollipop tree during the day.


Some of our volunteers goofing off before opening. Which gives you a good idea of a) what you can see from our door, b) the volunteer shirts for this year, and c) how much fun we had. After last year, we decided we desperately needed help! Several volunteers came through for us, all of whom received a t-shirt.


We had a new drink this year that our patrons named "Hazmat." I won't give away our secret, but it was yellow. And frothy. The most popular guessed of flavors were coconut, buttered popcorn, and butterscotch. None of them were correct. We also had a nifty thing on the armoire, which looked great.


Some idea of what our room looked like when we were kind of busy. No one got pics while we were really busy...


Golden Ticket #3. This guy was particularly memorable because he kept asking us what the catch was. He seemed very unwilling to believe we were just going to give him a stuffed Cthoompa Loompa. He left after much convincing, though he probably still thinks we were trying to pull something. Only 3 Golden Tickets were redeemed this year.


You can blame Shoryl for catching me working. Just because we had volunteers doesn't mean that we didn't want to have some of the fun too!

Ah, weekends...

Ah, weekends. I'm so very glad there's a weekend between Pride and Convergence. I suspect I always will be. Nothing forces productivity like a nicely controlled state of panic.

• Formal gown for StemmedRose
  
• Add loop to Shoryl's suit
  
• Green shirt, tie, and handkerchief for Shoryl
  
• Green swing dress for me
  
• 5 Cthoompa Loompa plushies (no, really!)
  
• Red Fraggle costume for me
  
• Bows added to 6 t-shirts

My part of the work on the Cthoompa Loompas is done, and they are ready to be handed off to Dan for the final details (like painting). These are the free "golden ticket" prizes for this year:



Also finished where the bows for the shirts (but I don't want to ruin the suprise):



Shoryl's shirt went better than I had any right to expect:



Including nifty, under-the-collar buttons:



I stopped sewing earlier than I wanted to last night on the assumption that, after sewing two pieces of fabric together for a tie, and getting a V shape instead, I was too tired to operate the machine. So it's another long, long day ahead of me today.

Before I stopped, though, I did notice something strange about my sewing bin:





Ah ha!