Regency Pumpkin Tea

Here are some pictures from November's superfun Pumpkin Tea!





The chocolate Pentagon was a nice touch!





I made a new dress!



I made a quick new one for Mom too:





There was an ordered fabric free-for-all!

Citrine earrings

These were a lucky find from <a href="http://www.cjantiquesltd.com/">http://www.cjantiquesltd.com/</a> (formerly nalfie.com)

"An antique English, pinchbeck-type gilt yellow metal pair of drop earrings; set with faceted golden natural citrine drops." They are dated "Early /mid 19th Century"

 

Here are their photos:

 

Happy Star Wars Day!

I know some of you have seen The Force Awakens already, and some have yet to see it. I know I have given in and am super excited and hopeful.  We watched the Original Trilogy this week, so we are primed!

Here's my beloved, hand-embroidered Leia Bespin costume, for Throwback Thursday and Star Wars Premiere Day!

Halloween 2016

I wore my new A League of Their Own baseball uniform to my friend's Halloween party this year. I made it in the spring but missed my opportunity to wear it with my friend Gloria because of some health issues during AwesomeCon. But I was able to wear it here. It was really fun to wear, actually. Comfortable and all that. And I won the costume contest!









For Doug's costume, we totally stole an idea off Facebook - of a girl dressed like the Washington Metro red line. Well, we'd recently had a lot of issues with the orange line, so we decided to go with that.



Rolling up to my friend's party:



Joe had recently seen The Thing:

























They have this huge cat named Paco - we took advantage of Steve's costume to get some pictures of the aftermath of a Paco-attack. :-)

Baltimore Regency Dinner

Last month, we joined a bunch of other friends for an evening in Baltimore. A subset of our group toured Fort McHenry and went on one of the tall ships. But we just had so much going on in October and I was exhausted. So we decided just to go into the city for dinner. Our friend Conley was in town too, so we dressed her up and carpooled up with Gloria to meet the others in Baltimore. They had hotel rooms overlooking Camden Yards, which was fun.





Heading out to dinner:





The Washington Monument:



We went to the Owl Bar, which is in the Belvedere - it has some interesting history: http://www.theowlbar.com/history/

A group pic, though we're missing Jess in it:



One from the other end with Jess:



Apple Pie Sangria - interesting!



I loved the wallpaper!





We had a special little alcove, here's the rest of the bar:





The food was ok. The appetizers (fried pickles! calamari!) were excellent though!

After dinner we took some photos in the lobby:





Group photo!



Silly picture!