Poe Forevermore

[mandie_rw]

I took pictures! More than usual, actually. Be proud of me. Had a lovely time with isabelladangelo, quincy134, frau_elsebeth, and her long-suffering relations, who apparently didn't mind too much being out with a group of unusually-dressed ladies! Even if I was completely improperly dressed for the 1840s. :P

I managed to not be the last one to meet at the James Joyce Pub yesterday evening - I'll thank Google Maps for that! Not because I used it, but because isabelladangelo did, so it made her later than me. *grin* On the bright side, I didn't have to tell the hostess what group I was with!

After dinner, we headed over to Westminster Hall, and I managed to park in a garage I wasn't supposed to for free - probably because the security guy thought I was a nutter and he felt sorry for me!

Anyway, the program was very good, even if we were in the last row of the balcony, not the front row where we usually get to sit! The "Bronte sisters" got to sit up front this time, apparently (because they were so well dressed, perhaps! ahem). But that was okay, because we needed all that room for our skirts. And my bad behavior. What, you mean nearly flipping up one's hoop while sitting down and causing one's friends to have a gigglefit when the rest of the audience has quieted down waiting for the program to start, isn't ladylike? *tries to look innocent*




I was amused by these pictures...one's a picture taken by isabelladangelo of quincy134 taking a picture of me...and then the vice versa one!


It seems I cannot find my pocket...

(from isabelladangelo)

Getting laced up properly! Also very ladylike, right?


Shoe shot! Of course.

John Astin was of course the best part of the program, and in a seat that wasn't a mightily uncomfortable folding chair I'd have happily listened to him for even longer!

(And I admit, I wasn't expecting the men's chorus to break out into "Once Upon A December"...hahahaha!)

After the program was over, we took pictures at Poe's grave and then, instigated by yours truly, prowled round the cemetery for a bit - I like cemeteries! Especially at night, and we in our 19th century dresses...deliciously atmospheric!

I appear to have dented my bonnet from dropping it on the ground, and hadn't noticed before all these pics, whoopsie. (Looking all sad here, because, like I cheerfully said, "Poe's dead! Let's BE SAD!"


Upon the discovery that the lights set in the path lit my skirt up like I was a jack-o-lantern, I was incredibly gleeful. "Look, I'm a pumpkin! I MEAN A JACK-O-LANTERN!"


Yay graveyards!


I love this one that Isabella took when we were in a little allyway behind some crypts...the moon over the Hall looked so cool, but no one could really get a great shot - this is the best. Very Poe-ish, no?




And this one's from Gloria. I'm so ghostly. Hee!


Oh, and one cannot forget the Free Poster we all received, which I stuck on my wall today - of Vincent Price at Poe's grave. (They should have given them out last year!)


Photobucket album here

Comments

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

Yay pictures! Thank you for organizing this, I had a great time. The churchyard cemetary was soooo cool, very atmospheric indeed!

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

No problem - I'm glad a few people could make it out on fairly short notice! Hopefully it won't be the last time we get to do it...

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Yay! Although it ended on a sad note, this was fun to go to. :-)

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Indeed - and I'm glad you could come, with your pretty plaid 3-hour dress! ;)

[madamekat.livejournal.com]

Awesome photos! Love the one of you lit up as a jack-o-lantern!

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Teehee - my 1860s petticoat is yellow, so it turned me the perfect color for a jack-o-lantern! Too funny.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

So glad you guys had fun! Sorry I missed it! Loved the pics though!

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Wish you could have come - but at least you were having a fun time too, even if it wasn't with us. ;)

[the-aristocat.livejournal.com]

That looks like so much fun. I'm a big fan of cemeteries too. I still adore your outfit. Especially with all the accessories. The jack-o-lantern picture is the best!

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Cemeteries are the best, aren't they? And thank you - I love how well the bonnet and shawl go together, and I didn't even do that on purpose!

[girliegirl32786.livejournal.com]

I love that jack-o-lantern picture! So fun!

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I knew there was a reason I wore my 1860s and not my 40s! (Not, um, because my 40s is currently in pieces. Nope, not that at all!)

[clarey-h.livejournal.com]

I always love these write ups of your costume days out. All the ladies look amazing!

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I like reading them, myself, after a few months; that's why I go to some effort to do a decent write-up of events! :D

[blackcat452.livejournal.com]

Jack O Lantern! You all look so great, I wish I could have been there

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm sorry you couldn't make it...hoping there will still be more Poe events in the future for us to go to!