Wicked Faire Planning or Here There Be Dragons

I had my follow up meeting with my costume-obsessed friend over the weekend to plan costumes for Wicked Faire.  I was in my happy place.  We talked about, researched, and designed costumes for about 5 hours before heading to the fabric store.

"Five hours?" you say, "Well, you must have gotten a lot accomplished".  Yes, you'd think so wouldn't you?  And I suppose we did...but for Steampunk World's Fair, not Wicked Faire (less than a month away!!).  So in the end, no, not really all that much was accomplished.

• We determined that I look awful in pink and peach, which is very true.
• We determined that we're both way more into Steampunk costumes right now than anything else.
• We unintentionally managed to do a pirate/ninja costume pairing.  I'm pretty excited about this.
• We scrapped the fairy tale/doll outfits, which means one less outfit for me to make.
• I ordered shoes for my fairy costume.  And found a pair of serviceable ears that I'll order this weekend.

I do have a bit of a game-plan in place for WF 2015:

I'm definitely making a dress for the Masquerade dance, which is going to be a fantasy-style dress rather than anything even remotely historical, and the fairy costume, which is really just a chiton and some wings.  And I'll be re-purposing my Turkish pirate outfit, but making a new bodice for it.  Sounds doable for one month prep time.

We high-tailed it to the fabric store and hunted around for suitable fabric, in keeping with the day's theme, not much was actually purchased for WF.

She found a fabulous home decor print to make a portion of one of her Steampunk outfits.

I found a bit of printed linen in the red-tag section that might be useful for the fairy fabric if I can get the linen bits to dye and the print to stay undyed.  I bought a sample for testing.

I bought an absolutely gorgeous teal crocodile print vinyl to make a belt for my masquerade dress.  I'm calling it my dragon scale belt and it will be fabulous!  I'm the most excited about this little bit of fabric.

Steampunk World’s Fair 2015 Planning

Or 

Wicked Faire 2015 Planning

I had a meeting last night with a friend to discuss SPWF15.  I say meeting because I’m a planner and she’s a planner and we’re trying to get our schedules squared away for this event. Also there were print-outs and manila folders.  Totally a meeting. I am a grown up.

So we had dinner and talked SPWF.  We got ourselves a rough idea of what we want to attend based on the limited schedule that’s available (...everything) and talked costume ideas and personas...and then we got off topic.

Or more specifically, we got on to the topic of Wicked Faire and then things got interesting.

Wicked Faire is an indoor Renaissance Faire that takes place in the winter.  I’ve been wanting to go for a few years but, like SPWF, I've never had anyone to go with and haven’t been able to justify it.  But now I have a friend who shares my “any excuse for a costume” philosophy.  

So I brought up Wicked Faire, knowing full well that she’d be totally into it and now we’re going.  Hotel room is booked.  It’s official.

Of course, this means that I now have a whole new set of costumes to design, shop for, and execute.  

Oh, and did I mention it’s in a month?  Because it’s totally in a month.

And I’m me, so naturally any excuse to wear a costume means any excuse to make a costume, specifically at least one for each day I’ll be there, maybe more than one each day.  Because I’m crazy like that.

Wicked Faire isn’t bound by time or place, so I’ve got a lot of freedom with costuming, which is awesome because I can make whatever I want, but it’s also bad because I need something cohesive.  And it’s in a month.  Oh.  My.  God.

Now, a smart person would probably just reuse a costume...or several...but I’m not clearly not smart.  I really want to wear my Turkish pirate outfit, so I will probably wear that for part of a day, but I also definitely want to do a fairy outfit, and I need a ball gown for the masquerade ball (how do I not have a ball gown??)

So that’s the new plan.  Design and create THREE new costumes by February 20th for Wicked Faire, revisit Steampunk World’s Fair when I’ve finished those.