Don't worry, I won't be wearing ears...

Have been muchos busy lately with OT, Halloween and Spoot's birthday... but all that is over now. With all this spare time (ha ha) I have taken on a new project: fashioning myself a costume for the Renaissance Festival this May. Spoot and I always go, rain or shine, and usually more than once. But never have we sported costumes like true junkies. This year we're going to change all that. At least I am. If he doesn't make up his mind about what he wants, I'm not going to make him anything, and I'll just keep all the awesomeness to myself.

To the right you can see my raw materials. What you can't see is the amazingness going on in my head, or my boots for that matter. I need a pair of knee-high brown leather boots for this (and for general use as well,) and in spite of the fact that all my searching has turned up is a few pairs of Dolche & Gabbana over

-the-knee way-too-expensive fur-lined absurdities, I am undeterred. My latest plan is to try to make my boots myself. When we were kids, Black Stallion and I had pairs of these that we completely wore out. They used to be in every fabric store, but I can't remember having seen them in the last ten years... But fear not! I will find them and use them as a template for my hand-crafted lace-up boots of awesome! Or I won't find them and I will wing it. Either way, custom boots are in the works for me!

More on this as it develops. However, don't hold your breath. I'm starting early because I anticipate this taking a while.