Anglicon 2017 I'm going, dash it all!

I have missed this Northwest event every year since I heard about it, because it was in the summer and summer is just full of stuff.
When they announced that it would be in the winter, I reserved right away.

I have to face the fact that all my Dr Who costumes are Dalek. For those who don't care, The Daleks are probably the most recognized villains from the show. They are "mutants in mechanical shells" that shoot death rays and speak in a mechanized voice and got a significant upgrade in the rebooted series.
They used to roll. Now they fly.

They are the only Whovian villain NOT entirely owned by the BBC. Contractually speaking, they belong to the estate of Terry Nation, and get their own credit as such. It is rumored that they do not appear in the first episodes of the reboot because their contract was still being negotiated.

Now THAT is a villain!

I'm kinda invested in them. I almost started a Dalek formal ballgown the other day, and then the sheer amount of time and money that whim would involve caught up with me.

Me and the Dalek at EMP  MoPop! 

Fifth Avenue Dalek

The fascinator doesn't read very well, it needs a bigger base, but I'm going without it. And man, I look so pissed off here. I'm not a good unfriendly Dalek. I can't go mean.

I also fail at the Dalek weaponry.

The paint roller weapon cannot readily be made from a paint roller. The paint roller handle is very very thick (so it won't bend while you roll) and there's no point in wasting time on cutting or bending it. The roller caps, however,are a good model for how to build one from plastic bottle caps and coat hangers (my chosen media)

I like to think of this as Dalek Accountant. A little Seventh Doctor in the hat, a little 12th in the Paul Smith flipback hem (and yes, that's an Issey Miyake jacket V1664),  and a whole lot of "I should be carrying a briefcase"

Will take the onesie. Jammie time.

The sundress works well under thermal underwear in winter. This was 2016 Halloween.

The shirt was my beta test item for Spoonflower's 2015 Sew Shirt, their 'cut and sew' which turned into Sprout Patterns.

And the self-drafted culottes. I will put the pattern up online someday, but if you stare at this, you get it. It's one piece, it's pretty simple. 

I am not the Perfect Whovian. I have....never seen a Pertwee episode. All we got here on West Coast television in my tender youth was Tom Baker and David Tennant's father in law. The latter will be at this said event. Also Sylvester McCoy, who I adore from many other things. Big doin's! I am looking forward to fist fights about #13 being a lady and all. I've got my plunger ready and I'm spoilin' for a fight.

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I went, I had a lovely time.
Sylvester McCoy made a comment about the Whovian fans, that they were the most inclusive lot he'd ever seen in the pop culture convention world. And it's true; there are more differently abled folks in the ranks, more entire families (three or four generations) in attendance, and there was no guff, no rolled eyeballs, no fights.

There was patience for the newer fans, and abundant love for the younger ones and those with a different language or perception of it.

And I'm sorry that I don't have a picture of the Tardis lady chasing her toddler time lord, but I don't take photos without asking, and they were in a hurry.

And this would have been very appropriate.

I stole this from Roisin at Dolly Clackett. Love you.

Holidays Edition: November 2017 The One With All The Food

It's the beginning of the parade of social events.
We cleaned up for the guests: for the board members, for the board of review, and the family.
It has to happen at least once a year.

Sliced up old boys underwear for rags (quite a pile of them)

I save some of the elastic for the ErnieKap bands.

This isn't going to get old for me for a long time. 

How in-store marketing works

My family and The Office. I never cared for it, but here it is, in my living room, on the ginormous television. As I write this, my spouse is watching The Americans. I don't get that one either.
Clearly, there are no superpowered people in either show. 

This is the view from my sewing table now.

The television got moved upstairs out of the room I sew in. We haven't had a television in the living room in the 21 years we've lived in this house, and we did that on purpose.

this means I get the rest of that basement room, but I'm still not sold on the tv as fireplace.

Other holiday related events.

Never? Never ever ever.

The Bodyguard touring show was a matinee 'meh' for me. I never saw the movie, unlike everyone in the audience.  The star Deborah Cox was very good, but she had almost all the singing and not much acting. Not much acting from anyone actually.

 Also no plot twist at the end.

I mean, everyone could have been the Stalker: the sister, the publicist, the old security guy. I wanted it to be the Kid; they all had a grudge. They could have taken turns (Orient Express much? Oh, you didn't know that? What planet are you from?

Am I the only one who reads murder mysteries?)

It was a much more fun show in my brain.

Yes, National Lampoon brand Christmas lights. No, I didn't buy them. 

At Ernie K Labs, we never take ours down.

Went to see Ragnarok again with the Teen. He's the Adult Thor now.

I'm Senior Thor!

I love Mjolnir.

And Agents of Phil Coulson  Clark Gregg SHIELD is coming back this Friday.

While I wasn't cleaning or cooking or cleaning

I spent a great amount of time making a couple of shirts. One more than once. We will visit them next week, after I air the stink of shame out of my sewing cave.

Ow.