The Ball 2013

We had (as usual) an awesome time. The ball was as always, an experience.

My Toad, as the Cheshire cat.

Dragons

The entire dancing cast

Mommy and Toad. Toad as the Cheshire cat, Mommy as "Wick" from the devil's carnival.

Grant from the Myth busters... yep.

Mommy and other costumed people

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My costume without the make up....

 

Repo the genetic Opera/The Devils Carnival!

I have been swamped busy lately... in any case.... Toad and I are going to the Repo/Devils carnival event next week. We are of course super stoked as we love love love love both movies. The nerdiness is overwhelming, I know.

http://losangelestdc-repodoublefeatute-eorg.eventbrite.com/#

And since we take any opportunity at all to wear weird stuff in public, we are going in costume. This is mine:

 

It's kind of a Maiden of Woe/Hell's Harlequin sort of thing, the skirt is from a steam punk outfit of mine and obviously the top is one of my any corsets. I need to pick jewelry still and my make up will have a white based face. I just didn't bother putting on full stage make up for the trial run. It's a pain to wash off. The costume isn't exactly like one of the maindens of woe, mostly because I don't generally own clothes with those kinds of prints on them. We are working on a bit of a time crunch to put something together. But I feel like it will go with the feel of the event and work fine.

 

In other news, the count down to this years masquerade ball has begun. We've already got our tickets for Saturday night and I think we will end up going Friday too. We'll see. Friday is steampunk night, so we want to do both. I've picked my costume for this year, but haven't started making it yet as the supplies are still en route to me.

 

I'm going as Wick from the Devil's carnival. This is her:

 

 

The waist cincher, corset boning to make the cage skirt and the gloves are on their way. I'm on a mission to find the bolero jacket now. Wish me luck on that, I'd rather not have to sew one. Gauzy fabrics are a huge pain.

Only 364 more days until next years ball.....

Only way to describe it.... AMAZING. As usual. We had too much fun, we danced until almost 1 am.

We bummed around Hollywood and then headed up to Universal.... Ahhhh, good times.

Costumes are finished! Steampunk Alice and Hatter

Steam Punk Alice (From the video game)

Steampunk Hatter, Toad style.

Up close of the crazy eye make up and lashes

Close up of the devishly handsome Toad.

In 48 hours, we will be at the ball, dancing, partying anf generally being awesome. Cannot wait!!!!

http://www.labyrinthmasquerade.com/

Labyrinth Ball

http://www.labyrinthmasquerade.com/

It is count down to the ball this year. McHottness will be traveling so the Toad and I are going solo. We decided to go for a punk Alice in Wonderland theme with him as the hatter and myself as Alice. I've gotten his jacket and half of my costume picked out already. So excited!!!


The inspiration for my costume this year:

The ball 2011

My Toad, Handsome little man

My awesome dress, THANK YOU LISA!!!

It was amazing as usual. Can't wait for next year. The toad is already looking at costume ideas. The suite was fabulous and we spent the afternoon on Saturday wandering Hollywood. The Toad loved it. He is officially a big city kid courtesy of mommy. :)

The Ball!

The ball

We had an amazing time!!! I cannot wait to start on next years costume. We decided that next year, we are going Steam Punk. I will of course blog the progress I make on our costumes. :)