Friday, April 18, 2014

Dallas Fort Worth - Thistle Hill

I was lucky enough to get the chance to visit my DFW friends for a costume weekend!

Lesa picked me up, we headed to Ginger's house to change, and then met up with everyone at Thistle Hill, a 1904 Georgian Revival house in Fort Worth, TX.

We did a variety of costumes - some of us did vintage (Ginger and Jen were 1930s), I only had 60s vintage - I wore the dress Magpie Jen found that is really similar to one Peggy wore on Mad Men - and kind of had a Scooby Doo thing going. Others were superheros.

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We did a "flashlight tour" which means we spent more time behind the scenes than seeing the nice parts of the mansion. It was pretty cool going "behind the scenes".

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Upstairs in the carriage house. Gorgeous wood:
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The view from upstairs:
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Jen channeling 1930s Nancy Drew:
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Upstairs in Thistle Hill where they used to throw parties:
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An old sink in the servant's quarters:
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Going through the nice part of the house:
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In the basement:
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The house is not haunted and the family lived very happily there. Apparently to raise money in the 70s, though, they used to have a Haunted House for Halloween. They had some guy with a ax or something hiding in this bathroom. You can see all the damage done to the door frame:
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Lesa and B:
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Merja:
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Jen's photo of me:
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Afterwards, we went back to Ginger's place and ordered pizza and sat around and chatted about all sorts of things. It was SO fun.

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