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Coco 2013
Ok, here goes: the wrap-up post from my first Costume College.
On Thursday, I got in super early. I have family members in town who were good enough to pick me up from the airport and shuttle me around. I got to the hotel around 11, Merja (a.k.a.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_aristocat) was the first person I ran into and I gave her the lamest confused sleepy hello (sorry, dear!) before excusing myself to check into my room and then crash in it. It was nice to get in early enough to hang up dresses and get settled and rest.
Thursday afternoon I just hung out and did some knitting. At the pool party in the evening I got to meet lots of LJ folks for the first time. It was so nice to see so many familiar faces! I metbauhausfrau, love3angle, demode and koshka_the_cat for the first time, and met nuranar and jenthompson again. And so many other folks!
I didn’t have a costume to wear so I just wore one of my favorite regular dresses. I had a couple drinks and some good conversations and looked at all the pretty dresses – I especially liked the mermaids!
I am really quite shy and I had to work pretty hard at being confident enough to even talk to anyone and not just run off to my room to hide. If I didn’t seem shy to you, I’m amazed. Even when I am getting the better of it, I am still choking down knots in my stomach. But I was proud of myself for actually overcoming it and talking, though when I’m nervous I either don’t talk at all OR I talk way too much and laugh too loud. So I hope it didn’t veer into the latter.
Friday I was still in mundanes, though I joked that this was my Authentic Minnesota Hipster costume.
I had some really interesting classes – adapting fashion plates and bodice draping, among others – and kept my knitting with me to help work off the antsy-ness. For the evening ice cream social I wore vintage (dull!). It was tough feeling like every time I started a conversation I had to scoot away from someone because we were interrupted with a photo request.
( More! More! The rest of the weekend. . . )
Can't wait to see more of everyone else's photos!
On Thursday, I got in super early. I have family members in town who were good enough to pick me up from the airport and shuttle me around. I got to the hotel around 11, Merja (a.k.a.
the_aristocat) was the first person I ran into and I gave her the lamest confused sleepy hello (sorry, dear!) before excusing myself to check into my room and then crash in it. It was nice to get in early enough to hang up dresses and get settled and rest. Thursday afternoon I just hung out and did some knitting. At the pool party in the evening I got to meet lots of LJ folks for the first time. It was so nice to see so many familiar faces! I met
bauhausfrau, love3angle, demode and koshka_the_cat for the first time, and met nuranar and jenthompson again. And so many other folks!I didn’t have a costume to wear so I just wore one of my favorite regular dresses. I had a couple drinks and some good conversations and looked at all the pretty dresses – I especially liked the mermaids!
I am really quite shy and I had to work pretty hard at being confident enough to even talk to anyone and not just run off to my room to hide. If I didn’t seem shy to you, I’m amazed. Even when I am getting the better of it, I am still choking down knots in my stomach. But I was proud of myself for actually overcoming it and talking, though when I’m nervous I either don’t talk at all OR I talk way too much and laugh too loud. So I hope it didn’t veer into the latter.
Friday I was still in mundanes, though I joked that this was my Authentic Minnesota Hipster costume.
I had some really interesting classes – adapting fashion plates and bodice draping, among others – and kept my knitting with me to help work off the antsy-ness. For the evening ice cream social I wore vintage (dull!). It was tough feeling like every time I started a conversation I had to scoot away from someone because we were interrupted with a photo request.
( More! More! The rest of the weekend. . . )
Can't wait to see more of everyone else's photos!