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crazychicknlady) wrote2017-07-04 02:16 pm
crazychicknlady) wrote2017-07-04 02:16 pm
Entry tags:
- conventions,
- filk,
- holiday,
- kids,
- photos
A Little Bit about WesterCon.
Today is technically the last day of WesterCon, but our entire family is just too damn tired to bother going back for it's anemic final day programming. They didn't seem to take full advantage of this being the Fourth of July; they ended the Con normal time and I think they're hoping the dead dog will take them through to the fireworks. Even the Art Show organizers seemed to think this would be a throwaway day and let us pick up and pay for our art yesterday.
I got this, an original acrylic, for 60 dollars. Since I'm nowhere near as broke as I was when I first started going to conventions, I've been trying to slowly collect more than just prints (though the vast majority of what comes into our house are still prints, since the price point on originals is often clutch my hand to my chest, have trouble breathing high). We have a lot of this particular artist's work, mostly hanging as small prints in the girls' rooms.
We did have three long days at the Con that we did participate in (holiday weekends often warrent 4 day Cons), involving a lot of the gaming room for C (including a LARP), two hall costume awards for S (Zelda and Little Red), an instafilk by H, S, and me, Regency Dancing, some entertaining room parties, a stressful mistaken identity complaint about my most polite kid (he didn't do it, turned out to be someone else after I already had a Con muckety-muck on my ass about it), a long string of concerts (including mine where, even though I felt like a spazz, was running on three hours sleep, was still calming down from the false complaint incident, and fought with the mike, I got lots of compliments), and late night filking. Thank God M was driving.
Tonight we will go to our normal park for fireworks, and turn C into a glowstick fairy again.
ETA: Fireworks were seen, magikarps were caught, traffic was directed, giant geometric climber was perched in, and glowsticks were distributed. H found a way to be a glowstick fairy again; by being seated she successfully combated her tallness and people seeking glowsticks came to her.
I got this, an original acrylic, for 60 dollars. Since I'm nowhere near as broke as I was when I first started going to conventions, I've been trying to slowly collect more than just prints (though the vast majority of what comes into our house are still prints, since the price point on originals is often clutch my hand to my chest, have trouble breathing high). We have a lot of this particular artist's work, mostly hanging as small prints in the girls' rooms.
We did have three long days at the Con that we did participate in (holiday weekends often warrent 4 day Cons), involving a lot of the gaming room for C (including a LARP), two hall costume awards for S (Zelda and Little Red), an instafilk by H, S, and me, Regency Dancing, some entertaining room parties, a stressful mistaken identity complaint about my most polite kid (he didn't do it, turned out to be someone else after I already had a Con muckety-muck on my ass about it), a long string of concerts (including mine where, even though I felt like a spazz, was running on three hours sleep, was still calming down from the false complaint incident, and fought with the mike, I got lots of compliments), and late night filking. Thank God M was driving.
Tonight we will go to our normal park for fireworks, and turn C into a glowstick fairy again.
ETA: Fireworks were seen, magikarps were caught, traffic was directed, giant geometric climber was perched in, and glowsticks were distributed. H found a way to be a glowstick fairy again; by being seated she successfully combated her tallness and people seeking glowsticks came to her.