nerds – Holly, Every Day

Last weekend (Labor Day weekend) was, as it is every year, my favourite weekend of the year. The best 4-day costumed nerd party there has ever been – Dragon*Con! For those who don’t know, Dragon*Con is multigenre – sci fi, pop culture, science, literature, music, costuming, etc. – convention that takes place in Downtown Atlanta every Labor Day Weekend. I can’t find an exact number for 2011, but there were ~40,000 attendees in 2010, and I know the number increased this year. Basically, giant nerd party.

The two weeks before Dragon*Con were pretty much completely devoted to sewing my costumes, thus my absence from the blog world. This year, I only made two new costumes – Lorena & Bon Qui Qui (you can see reference pictures and videos in this blog post). Last year, I was a bit more ambitious and made 4. I re-used two of those this year, but perhaps I’ll post a Dragon*Con 2010 flashback later on.