New House!!

I figured I should post pics of our new place before I leave it for 2 months...



The living room from the front door.


The living room and dining room.

The living room through the dining room (we have more than just a living room and a bedroom now!)


The left side of the bedroom.

The right side of the bedroom.





The kitchen-Andy is incredibly happy with this HUGE kitchen!


Another view of the kitchen.

The bathroom-much bigger than the last one!

So that's our new place! We moved in over the rainiest weekend in Chicago's recorded history. It is very much worth it though-it's much nicer to be able to spread out and have a place to put everything!

My next post will be from Massachusetts-I leave on Saturday for a 2 month job. I'm really looking forward to it-I'll be designing for the first time in a couple of years.

Love to all!

Dragon*Con

My weekend in Atlanta:

Andy and I left Chicago at about 8:30 on Thursday night. We arrived to meet our group in Normal and left at 1am. We then drove straight through to Atlanta. We got there, and fun commenced!

One of the best nights was Saturday night. We went to the "Colonial Fleet Party" for Battlestar Galactica fans. About 5 minutes after we showed up, who else showed up but Edward James Olmos, James Callis, Michael Hogan, Tahmoh Penikett, and Aaron Douglas (who, incidentally, was staying 2 doors away from us and saw us in the hall many times :) Edward James Olmos made a speech about how BSG brought sci-fi to a whole new level, and at the end, led us in a chant of "So say we all". Pretty amazing... someone posted it (part one and two) on YouTube. Be warned-if you are a BSG fan, there are some pretty big spoilers in his speech.










The next day I went to the walk of fame. Some people I wanted to meet weren't there, but I did get to meet Michael Dorn, Michael Rosenbaum and Tim Russ. Tim Russ was so nice! He asked my name and we got to chat geek chat about Star Trek.

I also went to some different panels in the few days we were there. One on corset-making, which offered some pretty good tips on supplies and construction. Another on Neil Gaimon and his works, which was fun :) And many others.

On Sunday I also got to have breakfast with Chris!!! It was a lot of fun catching up... I miss people. I have to get better about staying in touch.

Our group photos:
Me as Winry from Fullmetal Alchemist. I found a kid who dressed as Edward and had to take a pic!



Erika and Katie as Slytherins.


Me as Death of the Endless from Neil Gaimon's Sandman.


Our group photo- we had everyone except Inara and Book from Firefly. (And one of the workers got in our photo as the "2 by 2 hands of blue" guy.)



I found 2 other ladies in River costumes :)

Cutest. Kids. Ever!



Spartans!

An amazing makeup job on Two-Face.


It's a perfectly good couch... Why would anyone throw this out?


And... I found Carmen Sandiego!

I have a few albums of this stuff on Facebook-check them out if you want to see more!

Tech week...

Yeah... you really have to be crazy to have this life. A few weeks of nicely paced work, and then suddenly it's way too many hours to be working in one week.

Tech is going well, though. The show is going to be amazing! We have final dress with photo call tomorrow night, and then previews start Thursday. We officially open on September 20th.

Dragon*Con was AWESOME. No other words. To sum up: I got to be a geeky fangirl for a whole weekend and dress up in lots of fun costumes :) I had a great (tho short) visit with Chris :) I also met some celebrities and saw some outstanding costumes. I have pictures up on Facebook, and I will post some here, as well as go into greater detail about the whole weekend, when it's not 1:30 AM.

Love to all!