Georgian Picnic

Gloria and I tried to host a Georgian picnic at the start of June - “tried to” because the weather did not cooperate with us. We had planned to have it on the grounds of Montpelier Mansion in Laurel - and ended up having to move it indoors because of the forecast. This led to a mini-panic since we’d anticipated a small number of people and had thought to have it at one of our houses, but we had a ton of RSVPs on Facebook. Our place wasn’t really suited to guests what with the baby situation and with the number of people, honestly a house wasn’t going to work. So we thought maybe we’d have to try the following weekend - but Janine stepped up to the rescue. She has a terrific party room in her apartment building in Alexandria. Having it a little further south caused some of our more northern guests not to be able to come - but rescheduling it would have also caused some attrition, so we just went with it.

Despite all that, it worked out really well, and we had a lovely array of snack foods and we were able to get a group pic outside before the weather moved in. Many of us wore chemise dresses and Gloria & Mike took some lovely photos of people at the party. Since we had a ton of room, we also had non-costumed spouses and babies and at least one costumed baby! A good time was had by all!

Group photo by In the Long Run Designs:

Victoria Day Party

Caroline held a Victoria Day party in May at her lovely Capitol Hill house. I was a bit late to it and as always I haven’t had sewing time and my Victorian wardrobe is not as deep as my 18th century one is. But I threw on my plaid 1840s and a tiara. I didn’t have time for fancy hair and make-up so I don’t have a ton of pics of me, but everyone else looked awesome. :-) Also, we had sparklers! And two cute kids, a boy and a girl, were riding bikes in laps around the block over and over again. And IIRC, the girl had a supergirl shirt? Anyway, every time they went through our sparklers, we cheered for supergirl. It was a really fun night (Caroline throws a great party!) and I’m glad I was able to go, even if my Victorian costume game is somewhat weak. :-)

Here’s Chelsea in her “Hufflebustle.”



With Jess:



And possibly my fav pic from the night. Taylor’s expression in the back is the best.



Food!

Fort Fred 2018

I'm super behind on posts, so here come a bunch of them.

We actually made it to Fort Fred this year and it was neither too hot (last year) nor too cold. Nor was I pregnant! So I wore a costume - an older one, that I hadn’t worn in ages - and I don’t think my stays were quite tight enough so I had gapping issues, but, well, I got dressed in a parking lot, so…. As always it was awesome seeing friends. And we got to bring Elena!



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My pics:





I got this one of Ashley taking a “ride.”



Shoe shot! Rough terrain, and also not super warm, so I wore sneakers - and jeans. I mean, I did change in a parking lot.



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Rebecca also brought her baby - who is 2 months younger than mine. We were two of the four pregnant ladies at last year’s pumpkin tea.





Also for the first time we bought pastries from the bakery there - the things are cooked in a big open oven. We got ham and cheese croissants that were so good, I have no pictures, we gobbled them down.

Rey and Luke's costumes - Air & Space

I thought I had posted these here, but apparently not! So here we go!

I heard one of Rey’s costumes was on display at Air & Space over the holidays (2017/18), so we took a trip over there while we were checking out the Christmas Market. Here are all my pics!

First let’s get the selfies out of the way.



They also had one of Luke’s costumes.



Here are as many detail pics as I could get.

Star Wars Costumes at AwesomeCon

They had a nice display of Star Wars costumes from The Last Jedi at AwesomeCon. Here you go! I took a ton of Rey, trying to catch seams and such.