More Arisia Pics

Setting up the fabric on the walls. I heard this was very static-y and folks arms were going numb from unrolling the fabric. I was in the other room, setting up the bridge.

The bar. It was lit up from within by a black light, upholstered in black PVC, and had a clear panel in the top so the drinks would glow. We put B vitamins in the lemonade so it glowed in black light. There was a blinking blue rope light clipped to the edges - Andy & Carla did an amazing job on the bar. The rocket ship tip jar was mine. :)

The bridge starts getting set up.

Jim tests out the captain chair. That chair was already in the room :)

Happy Workers.

The bridge all set up. The Luke Skywalker guy seemed really nice, we invited him friday while he was dressed up as Luke and he said 'Oh I'll put this back on & come to the party, absolutely.'

"Send a warning shot across their bow, ensign."

Hot Morgan, looking hot.

Hot Morgan, cracking a smile. The geeks were *so* geeky this year, someone managed to notice that her badge rank (Lt Commander Skank) did not quite match her outfit. =)

Door guards, in the hallway. Note that their expressions have not changed.

Commander Skank. Soooo cute! We totally forgot about the cape I made though :(

Room before the lights go out

See the bar there, glowing, to the right?

Romni had glowing wires.

Dancing fools

Some guy we let in right away.

Morgan's outfit friday night, just had to post it. :)

OK just one for tonight. :)

The bouncers prepare to stand guard.

Arisia Pics Begin! :)

OK here is a hand-drawn attempt at what the suite layout was, followed by a "before" pictorial. OK here is a hand-drawn attempt at what the suite layout was, followed by a "before" pictorial.

The big suite room. This is the pointy corner to the right, and right after I snapped this photo Natalie got a brilliant idea. Note that All these photos were taken in about a minute, and Natalie had to *race* to get in front of me. :)

Same corner, panning right.

Panning more right. The little bar and you can see the outside door to the hallway to Natalie's right.

The hallway to the bedrooms, this is to the left of where Natalie was in the last photo.

The king room. This is where we put all the beds from the double room plus all our stuff.

The king bathroom. Very nice, but a tiny mirror in an alcove so there was fighting over it at makeup time.

Double bedroom, where the bridge ended up.

Little hallway to small bathroom.

A better pic of the little hallway.

Small bathroom.

Photos of party to follow. This post took an hour. :(

Dragon Puzzle

Arisia pics are not ready for posting yet. We had a great time though - and the best party at the place. Yay!

Here's Natalie's Christmas dragon puzzle the whole family worked on Christmas evening, 'cept you missing members. :) It took several days after to complete - and poor Mama insisting on doing the edges first found that the edge pieces mostly did not interlock and needed the inside pieces to be connected. It was hard to get a picture of *just* the puzzle, and it was slightly messed up each morning by that little devil in the photographs. He also completely ravaged the flower garden puzzle Natalie got from Papa.

Arisia here we come!

This is Arisia weekend, wish us luck.
The invites for our party, front and back.
I hear the cutting out (which I delegated) was terrible. :)

Pictures will follow.
Kisses to you all! :)

Caitlin's Creche for Mama

Oof, finally I managed to post all these pictures - somehow it just won't let me do more than 5, I've been trying for days - by making two drafts and pasting the first draft into the second. HA!

Look at the itty bitty creche figures! These took a LOOOONG time to make Mama! :)
These were made with lots of love and a little frustration.

More Christmas!

The weather Christmas day

Mama opens Caitlin's first creche item: the lamb.
Full photo shoot of the entire creche to follow. :)

The lamb. She was the first one I made.

Caitlin says: "finally you naughty Vitamix you are mine!"

Sweetie gets a present! :)