The Red Dress

 Once again, it appears I've been neglecting the blog. It surely must mean I've been busy? Yes, sure. Anyways, here are a few photos from the red dress that I started (see previous posts) being used. You can see it in various incarnations over the course of the last couple of years. This year however, I've had to do some major refitting (it's not quite there yet!) since I lost some weight (12 kg, yay! now just another 12 to go *sigh*)

Starting with the undergarments, here's me running around in my underwear in 35' C weather at Avatar this year. Carsten was definitely a help in keeping me cooled off. As many know, sometimes it's best to acclimatize a bit before putting on the whole dress. The stays that I am wearing couldn't close last year; this year complete closure, and I may have to even take them in a little bit. Oh let's face it, I'll have to make new ones of course! This time I've used only hip pads instead of panniers. It was a lot easier to squeeze around in the tents with that, however it also meant my skirt was dragging a bit in the mud.  Most of these undergarments I still consider mock-ups before I make really nice pretty ones. But they are at least functional.

(and as per usual, I can never seem to get pictures to lie nicely on the page...)

 And now fully dressed, together with Emmanuelle. I think you can almost already see the size difference from this year's and last year's pictures. Can't wait for the next size drop! It's amazing what a little change in medication will do, one with side effects of making you gain weight, the other helping you lose.

 And below are some photos from last year at the Halloween festival at Castle Keukenhof. It was their first year doing this event, so I hope this year will be even better.

 Hair changes last year. The first is summer with a bad attempt to grey out and powder the hair and the shower scrunchie hair pad, then autumn with old pillow stuffing and pantyhose to hold my hair up, and of course this summer's hair you can see above with the hat on, plus the old pillow.

 

And a few extra photos, 1) Avatar 2011, sitting with the "empress". 2) Halloween with the hubby, and 3) plotting with the Insulaire faction leader at Avatar 2012.