Costumy Thread Returns! Loafers Toga Party.
POSTED BY: seryn
UPDATED: Saturday, January 20, 2007 07:17
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I figure someone is bound to say it eventually and I'm feeling a little 'frisky' tonight... anyone going as a nymph?
And if someday on some little piss-ant moon/My hand is a little too slow, or my aim a little bit off/At least I’ll go down fighting, not lying abed surrounded by quacks - "Sir Warrick" by Geezer
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you could Tpage!
Ah, crossdressing, i'm kinda surprised no-one else has decided to do it already. I just know that if this were a large group of solely british people, Aphrodite would be a bloke in drag.
but never mind.
Okies, LMD - I just had an image of you relclining and holding a drink. Pretty much what you did whenever in-room last year! you'd just need to add a wine stained tunic and some preistesses to waft you with fans and feed you grapes.
and a hat, made of fruit, seeing as i'm apparently going for the disney version,
Ok about the ritter, but you still need to give me you're address. and as for frito's i don't know how they're sold, so enough for six portions? a big bag maybe?
and definitely bring your pomegranate drink to D*C - you'll be Hera's favorite!
Jade - why red? sounds interesting!
would you be able to make two? We need an ambrosia! something golden coloured and sweetish, or we could just get in a load of mead, but that stuff makes me ill.
wikipedia said sokmething about it being honey...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia
could you do that?
Magda? Have you definitly settled on Persephone, or are you still deciding, no rush just lest me know.
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Oh yes please Seryn... I have now decided on Persephone - it was so lovely of my Hell's Kitten to offer to forgo the pleasure of being Aphrodite... but Persephone I shall be....
Besides I hear Hades is a bad boy!! 
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Seryn: I've always made ambrosia as this fruit cocktail with whipped cream concoction that is quite lovely. Maybe I'll bring that for us to feast on.
Where could I get a silver bow and arrows?
I guess I could buy cheap toys and spray paint them. As long as they don't actual look like they could do damage. the D*C police won't like that.
Mm..pomegranate
LMD: I can see yo as Charon, also. Make sure to bring a money bag to try to collect coins from everyone!!
Serenity,
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Ok, so the Ambrosia... it's a food and a drink. Typically a fruit cocktail as a food, but I could conjur a drink form also. Typically Sweet Honey flavoured and colored. I can go for the color, not sure how to get that flavour with the liqours on hand, I'll have more research. I might just go for a really fruity flavoured mix. Various Parrot Bay rums, etc.
And I made a mistake, or not. It seems the river Styx isn't the one that makes you forget, That would be Lethe. But it also seems that all the rivers are tributaries of Styx. So it may be Lethe water when I'm finished. Also, not sure why I envisioned it as red. But that's what Styx brought to mind, Lethe may change the red part, but I still like the idea of it being murky, Tattoo will be base.
LMD if you go with Charon, we'll need to conjur some obolus to collect. These are the silver coins charged for the ride. We can pass them out to the peeps we want to have come by. They would not have to be silver coins. I have a 
ton of those glass beads/tokens used in various games, and a small bag which we could use for distribution and collecting of these "tokens".
Magda: Where are you hearing these things about me being bad? .... not that they aren't true, I'm just curious. Yup, I'm a bad bad man.
"Reality is something that you rise above
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run
The fearful fall foul of fate as often as the reckless."
Rich(.Com)-Marillion
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argh, my big long reply got swallowed by the internet monster (charybdis, maybe?), and i've not the will to reform it.
i'll get ahold of you, seryn, via PM to give you my address, and to get yours
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...and then i double-posted =/
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ok, so i finally got the chance to go up and look at the statues in the Walker (EDIT: the Walker art gallery, up the road from the museum i work in) and it looks really good - loads of statues of the gods, including Artemis and her little moon shaped crown, a huge head of Athena, lots of luvverly detail of her snake necklace and helmet, psyche (sp?) with her butterfly wings and puck with bat wings and a shell on his head.
yup, thats right, bat wings and a hat made out of a mollusc.
the victorians were wierd, but the greeks and romans were wierder.
so i'm going to go back with the camera, and hopefully as well, i'll get to the lever (another gallery and take photos. And then i'll creat a flickr file to put them all in, and we can just post the links.
in addition - i was messing around with fabrics the other day, and by far the best drape (the one that looks most like the stylised folds on the statues anyway) is wool - actually a pashmina type wool - a very very fine high thread weave, so if you're looking for fabrics, ask your local shop for crinkle linen and fine woven wool, they look great, and both of them are historically accurate.
now i just have to find out how much they are, and work out how to make a crown that doesn't look like a five year old threw it together on a chocolate bender.
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Fugazi:
"A creature of habit, begs the boatman's coin."
"All these years
Truth In front of my eyes
While I denied
What my heart knows was right."
Neverland(Marbles)-Marillion
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OOH! Moon shaped crown! I do want to see that!
That pashmina wool is terribly expensive. I'm afraid I'll probably end up going with something cheap and fake. Especially since I'll be putting loads of money into my piratey coat.
Serenity,
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Bride8
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