Halloween is almost upon us and it finally feels like fall in South FL. That's right, Miami is experiencing a most lovely little cold snap. I'm trying to soak it all in while I can because I know it'll be gone by tomorrow and I'll be able to cook eggs on my car hood at 8AM. I really wish FL would stay cool all year round and that I had been able to experience fall while in St. Auggie last weekend. Ah well, beggers can't always be choosers.
But besides the weather, there are two other reasons I'm excited for the Halloween season! Obviously, Halloween in itself (because my birthday is the day after and) because it's one of the few times of the year we get to dress up. I enjoy it because I use it as a "test-run" for next season's FLaRF outfit. That way I can work out whatever kinks I have with it and know what else is needed or not to "complete the look." My costume preparation is almost an all-year affair. As soon as the season ends in March, I'm already working on my costume for next season. It isn't usually much other than slight modifications and evolutions to the previous costume.
In 2007 and 2008 I was a Celtic Fox Demon (well you can't really see my tail; but I am wearing a little "kilt" complete with my own handmade sporran)
2009 I still stuck with the Celtic Fox attire but I lost the "kilt", the white top under my vest and sporran. I originally wanted a more "noble" look but ended up looking more like a thief, so that's what I became and created a new Hyghtcloud persona, Laurel Hyghtcloud (the Hyghtcloud persona comes from the fox demon stories I've been writing since high school - hence why my faire garbs are fox demons). Here is a decent side shot of my tail and my tassel. That was such a find.
And one more shot for a tail reference in all its gloriousness since I may not be adorned with it this season.
And for the 2010 season (which I won't have pic of my semi-complete costume until Halloween), I'm dropping the Celt roots and taking up piracy (which I've stated numerous times in the posts preceeding) My character is Toua Sondokan, from my story as inspiration. S/He has Indian influences with the facial markings. I'll have the bindi and the subsequent "dots" along my brows - though they won't be jeweled. They'll probably be done with makeup pencils, the middle being a crimson red and the others maybe a orange/yellow or even black.
While I was in St. Augustine over last weekend, I snagged myself a metal mug from the Spanish Quarter Museum gift shop across from Market to Market. I was online last night looking for frogs or sword holders for the belt for both the sword/dagger I want to get and for my mug. Idealy I would like a kukri (or khukri/khukuri). 
I have been trying to find a frog style that would allow me to attach the dagger perpendicular to my back. I know I seen it on the anime characters Sakura and Kakashi from Naruto, and Soi Fong from Bleach. And of course now that I'm looking for an example of it I can't find one.Hopefully Heather will be joining me for a weekend of pillaging, she's a Pirate Princess and my partner in Faire crime. Neither of seem to be able to wait for the faire and we're contemplating on making our own in its absence and we're going to kidnap the cutie, Cameron, from the act Barely Balanced.
"Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg said (of the Bristol Renaissance Faire), 'If theme parks, with their pasteboard mainstreets, reek of bland, safe homogenized, white bread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic. Here they let you throw axes. Here there are more beer and bosoms than you'll find in all of Disney World." [originally from "Out of time, Nearly: Feast of Fools" in the Chicago Sun Times p23 on August 15, 2007]
HUZZAH! I say, HUZZAH!
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