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I've been getting ready for a bunch of events I'm selling at, and one I wanted to sell at, but couldn't get a table for.
Two weekends ago I was at Costume-Con (#26)
[link] [link] which is at various locations around the US. I was mostly in the dealer room, but got to the Fantasy Masquerade, the fashion shows, the Museum of Mad Science, the swap meet, and a few other events, and missed the Historical Masquerade and the panels and workshops. The beauty, complexity, humor, and workmanship in the various costumes was mindboggling. And, as a fan of the web comic Girl Genius
[link] , I was delighted to see Master Payne and several other characters wondering the convention hotel.
And last weekend I was at (but not selling at) Maker Faire
[link] (last years was nice, too:
[link]) I got to shake hands with *
missmonster in her amazing werewolf outfit
[link] and wonder among the SWARM orb-bots
[link] and, in the steampunk courtyard, talk to the members of steampunk band Abney Park
[link] [link] and tour the Neverwas Haul
[link] and see ~
porkshanks' matched rayguns
[link] and Sinister Device
[link] in person, and much else besides. And there were lots of amazing robots, and robot kits, and crafts, and alternative technology, and so on. One of my favorite events.
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