New Castle's Spirit of Christmas

Since Robin and Alice are both being very posty tonight, I thought I'd be slightly annoying and join them! I have blog posts to write on the dresses, too, but I'd rather write here about the events first. More likely to forget those! So, Saturday first. Since I was bound and determined to do something 1860s and Christmassy, dammit. *bangs table*

There were a few futile efforts to find tickets to a couple of Christmas teas (we got on this one a little late...but now we know for next year!), but I found New Castle, Delaware had a Christmas Thing on the desired date, and since it's fairly close and billed as a Very Historic Little Town, I thoughtit might be fun to check out.

And yes, Old New Castle is quite charming; the main streets for a few blocks square are all 18th/first half of 19thc buildings (or look like it), which is a perfect place for playing dress-up! We rather felt we should be in 18thc dress - except that they billed it as a Dickens thing, and that making such a thing of Christmas is more 19thc anyway.

miss_philomena drove down to me, and I drove us down to New Castle, where we met sewloud (in a parking lot! hurray for parking lot dressing!). And I made it a point to get pictures of the marquee dress as soon as we were all put together! Which was really the whole point of me wanting to do 1860s in the first place. I made the aforementioned bonnets, and Adrienne finished a new dress for the occasion: a wonderfully horrible lemon-yellow faille. It is SO obnoxious and I love it.
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Photobucket album here

And now I'm tired, so I'll do the Allaire/1830s writeup tomorrow!