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Seams Like Magik Events (Subject to change)
JUNE 2007
6/12-17 Uprising War, Society for Creative Anachronism, Barony of One Thousand Eyes, Firth, Idaho http://uprisingwar.org/
6/29-7/1 Ye Merry Greenwood Faire, Richland, Washington.
http://home.comcast.net/~greenwood_players/index.htm
JULY 2007
7/14 Ritzville Blues Fest, Ritzville, WA http://www.ritzvilleblues.com/
AUGUST 2007
8/4-5 Washington Renaissance Fantasy Festival, Gig Harbor, Washington
http://www.washingtonrenfaire.com/
8/11-12 Washington Renaissance Fantasy Festival, Gig Harbor, Washington
8/18-19 Washington Renaissance Fantasy Festival, Gig Harbor, Washington
SEPTEMBER 2007
8/31-9/3 Kumoricon, Portland. Oregon http://www.kumoricon.org/
9/14-16 Nan Desu Kan, Anime Convention, Denver, Colorado.
http://www.ndkdenver.org/2007/
9/21-23 MountainCon, Salt Lake City, Utah http://mountaincon.org
TBA Great Plains Renaissance Festival, Wichita, Kansas http://www.greatplainsrenfest.com/
Memorial Day weekend, Seams Like Magik was at Conduit in Salt Lake City, one of the friendliest conventions around. However, I really need some help on the quantum mechanics thing so I can get more stuff into small spaces. If you can name all of the quarks, I have a place for you on my staff. For the trip to Utah, I cheated the gasoline prices and left the trailer at home. Everything fit into the van - honest!
Several of my clients came by to show me their costumes, including this one - cloak, corset, skirt! Fabulous dahling! Sadly I somehow got home without photos of another of our corsets, but she has promised to rope her hubby into getting me some pics to post.
On Saturday, I presented Corsetry 101. It was scheduled opposite the Chocolate hour, which naturally led to a discussion of the compatibility of corsets and chocolate. I maintain that one cannot live without the other, but if I have to make a choice I am not giving it up! We ran out of time, so if you have a corset question I didn't answer, be sure to email Jane at info@seamslikemagik.com. Or if you have comments on this blog - let me know!!
No presentation is complete without visual aids and I am usually willing to demonstrate the proper removal of a corset. And of course, tightening or donning a corset also. Of course. You have to put things on before you can take them off.
I stayed with friends from Montana and our uni days. Thanks a bunch for food and bed and tech talk! My friends also treated me to some fabulous food. My fave was Rodizios's Brazilian grill with its many new treats for my taste buds. They offer a buffet full of unusual side dishes along with roving BBQ spits. Each table has a little signal cylinder and when you have it positioned correctly (I never did quite get the hang of it but was allowed to eat anyway) the guys come by with food on BBQ spits and offer slices of delicious grilled things like sirloin and pineapple. Yummy!!! For entertainment, we read the autographed plates on the wall and found we were in such august company as Rulon Gardner, Linkin Park and best of all - Darth Maul. Sometimes the sheer synchronicity of life astounds me.
BTW - the Jazz played a block from the Conduit hotel and won on Saturday night. By then we had moved on to sushi and were safely away from the crowds. Yes call me a coward, I can live with that title as long as I don't have to fight my way through basketball fans during playoffs. Drink beer with them, maybe.
Across the street from the sushi was a condemned building that was the site of a massive community art project. All visible surfaces, inside and out, were decorated and soon to be destroyed, in the finest traditions of transient talents through the ages. People were hanging around and drinking wine and continuing to paint. Much fun.
The week after Conduit was full of socializing. Does that make me a socialist? John Galt where are you now? Relatives stopped on the way back from Montana, friends from the Tri-cities, also someone with a nifty new project who bought me dinner not once but twice (thanks - but next time…). Kind of a unique concept, a project that doesn’t involve a costume. The week ended with a full day of recreational sewing, which translates as something new for me to wear. Woohoo!
By a series of fortunate events, two of my sisters will be in South America this summer – Chile and Peru – with a niece planning Brazil for the fall. In order to chat with my very long distance sis, I have been assimilated and am becoming IM proficient. I have always favored telephone calls and actual voices but it is true, resistance is futile. As I might have guessed, simultaneous conversation results in some “odd” communications. As a side benefit, I have other new IM friends to play with! Although phone calls are still excellent and will definitely remain in my repertoire. Guilty pleasure for today - I must admit I like to dress my avatar - go figure.
Last week was cloaks cloaks cloaks! What would you call a group of cloaks? A clutch of cloaks? Nah, doesn’t quite flow. A cloister of cloaks? Hmmm, too sedate. A caravan of cloaks? Reminds me of camels but not quite right. How about a carousal of cloaks? I have a carousal of cloaks to keep you and your special someone warm and dry during those brisk mountain nights.
I also have new silly hats, a goodly stock of leather boots, some new leather sporrans to go with the Kommando Kilts, and new skirts and bodices. Stop by and try something on!
Hope to see you soon.
Jane
posted by SeamsLikeMagik @ 5:15 PM
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