Scheming and beading and dancing, oh my!

[icepixie]

I meant to do work tonight, but, well... I got caught up in scheming, you see. We (and you should know who "we" are by now) have decided that for next year's Phling, no matter the theme, we shall be going as Victorians. Somehow, we will find hoop skirts (or at least long and fussy ones) and corsets, put our hair in ringlets--or at least I will--and generally be as Victorian as possible. Not quite sure how we're going to find costumes (or how we'll fit through doors once we get them, come to think of it), but we will. Yes. This is our dastardly plot.

In other news, I had fun with money today. Specifically, I bought the most adorable mug with a cat going fishing in a fish tank on it. My other mug was chipped a bit, and hey, any excuse to buy a beautiful-yet-useful William Morris mug from Woolworth's. Also, we ventured into the bead shop and I had to buy some. Specifically, some pretty blue and purple glass beads and an adorable plastic seahorse pendant, and some wire and a clasp to tie it up with. It's a lovely necklace, and for a total of £1.50! I'm impressed. And I got some multicolored Christmas lights for my room, which I have to put up tomorrow. Yay, ways of making this place look less like a prison cell!

And I Jack Vettriano-ized my icons. Am in a very ballroomy mood of late, and, well, yeah. Plus a Rebecca Fogg icon, because of the aforementioned Victorian plotting.

Comments

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

For some people, "scheming" results in blowing stuff up or taking over the world or something. For you, it means finding hoop skirts. That's why you're fun. :)

Of course it would be more fun if the hoop skirt could blow stuff up...

[icepixie]

For some people, "scheming" results in blowing stuff up or taking over the world or something. For you, it means finding hoop skirts. That's why you're fun. :)

I'm speshul. ;)

Of course it would be more fun if the hoop skirt could blow stuff up...

Well, they're pretty volumnious. They could hide a bunch of dynamite. Of course, that would blow me up as well...

[nickless.livejournal.com]

Somehow, we will find hoop skirts (or at least long and fussy ones)

If all else fails, find a skirt that's really really full at the bottom, get a hula hoop (or something similar), fold the hem up around it (on the inside, obviously) and tack/baste it in.

or how we'll fit through doors once we get them

My mother's wedding dress had a hoop skirt. She got married in a very small country church. My grandfather had to walk slightly in front of her, and she still bounced it off of every pew on the way down the aisle. Or so the story goes. (But knowing that church? No way she fit.)

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Okay, very random comment. Do you (or any of your friends) like Dr. Pepper? If so, do NOT drink the British version. The cans say "prune-flavored drink" and they're not kidding. I don't know what they change, but it is *disgusting*. Warn them away from it, unless there's someone you need to be evil to. *g*

[icepixie]

If all else fails, find a skirt that's really really full at the bottom, get a hula hoop (or something similar), fold the hem up around it (on the inside, obviously) and tack/baste it in.

That was my thought as well. Yay for improvisation!

My mother's wedding dress had a hoop skirt. She got married in a very small country church. My grandfather had to walk slightly in front of her, and she still bounced it off of every pew on the way down the aisle. Or so the story goes. (But knowing that church? No way she fit.)

Bwah! Thankfully, Peirce has pretty wide doorways and is massive inside, so we should be okay.

Okay, very random comment. Do you (or any of your friends) like Dr. Pepper? If so, do NOT drink the British version. The cans say "prune-flavored drink" and they're not kidding. I don't know what they change, but it is *disgusting*. Warn them away from it, unless there's someone you need to be evil to. *g*

Oh, my. I'm not a big Dr. Pepper fan, and I don't know anyoen who is. Though I do know some people I could be evil to... ;)