This costume has been sitting in my
closet for a year now, completely finished, just never taken back outside for pictures.
It's something I have been meaning to do, and finally got around to it this weekend. We
were planning on going over to one of the parks in Alexandria, it would have been the
perfect setting, but I didn't really want to jump out of the car and into public view with
this costume on. I'm sorry, I was just feeling WAY too self-conscious. *L* So, we were all
heading out to our place in Rappahannock this past weekend anyway, so I decided to grab my
costume off the shelf and take a few pics in our own woods. No one around,
whoohoo! Just before Brynn began taking these, we started hearing footsteps just over the
hill we were on. (We were at the bottom of a rather large gully with no view over the tops
of either sides.) So, we started "questioning" the intruding sounds with shouts
of "Mom?" - no answer. Again. No answer. This went on maybe ten times without
answer before we tried "Dad?" - no answer. By this time we had already become
convinced that it was a black bear as I had come across them in the woods there before,
and it sounded too big for a bobcat. (By the way, anyone ever hear one of those
creatures scream in the woods??) Brynn, my sister, reached for the nearest stick the size
of a tree branch and I, fully dressed in medieval garb, also pulled one off of the ground.
My second thought consisted of "How the hell am I going to run if I have to in this
freaking dress?!" Finally, a shape came over the crest of the hill, and we could make
it out. It was our mom after all, clueless to the fact that we were even down there and
deaf to the many calls we had shouted. (She never heard us as she crunched through the
leaves.) So there stood Brynn and I, relieved that it wasn't a bear, though pissed because
Mom didn't answer, and there was Mom standing there looking down the hill at us confused
as to why we were running around in freaky Medieval garb holding large tree branches. I
might be wondering the same thing if I were her.
Needless to say, we had plenty to laugh about on the drive home to Arlington!
For more photos of this costume,
check out the
~Maryland Renaissance
Festival 2003~ page.
Costume Start Date:
August 30, 2003
Costume Completion (Gown): September 5, 2003
Last Page Update:
February 14, 2005
~The Gown~
The Materials
& Making It
The Crown & Veil
Back To Main
Maryland Ren Fest '03....Backyard.....& Halloween 2003
*New Photos Taken February 13, 2005*
Two Funky Last Shots....