New Castle's Spirit of Christmas
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mandie_rwSince 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.
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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.
GERROUT OF MY PHOTO, TEXTING PERSON! (Yes, I'll crop it for the blog writeup...it's just funny.)
Somewhat wonkus hair. Ooops.
And, mind you, if I hadn't wanted pictures of this dress I wouldn't have chosen a wool flannel number on my own! It was a high of around 70F yesterday, and the three of us felt hugely insulted, personally, by this non-Christmas-appropriate temperature.
Skwerl eating what I thought were creepy califlower brain-fruits, but which it seemed to think were tasty noms.
There was a gentleman decorating his front railings with pineapples, clementines, and greenery, which we thought was SUPER awesome and charming, and could we pleeeeeeease get pictures with it?? I think he was amused by us.
"Oh pineapple, how I adore you."
We weren't very structured that afternoon; after lunch (which was, um, an adventure) we mainly just wandered around and toured the historic houses we could get into for free. We like free. We also liked the site that charged $2 but let us in for free since we looked so awesome. Thanks, Reed House!
"It is like nine hundred degrees in here and they only have two things left from the menu and they lost your diet Pepsi and toasted my sammich. Next time we're going to the more expensive place." HOW DID YOU RUN OUT OF CHICKEN SALAD AT 1PM.
"Where are we..."
Small door, big skirt!
Trying to take a nice picture of Adrienne, and I'm creepin'.
And I will say this for New Castle: yes, when you go to public events like this you get attention and picture-taking (obviously. wearing funny clothes like this, we don't expect anything less), but the vast majority of people there seemed to be very happy to see us, asked to get pictures (instead of the stealth phone shot!), and thought we were interesting in a good way, not an awkward weirdos kind of way. So, thanks, New Castle! You're cute, and we'll be back. (Ball next year? Yes I do think so!)
We left just as the sun was setting, and as we walked out I realized I hadn't climbed the hill in Battery Park...and since I must always run up and down all available hills in costume, this one was no exception.
This sequence amuses me.
I don't have a good camera, so these shots in the park are a little grainy, but it was a pretty sunset, and Robin got some really neat shots!
Photobucket album here
And now I'm tired, so I'll do the Allaire/1830s writeup tomorrow!
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.GERROUT OF MY PHOTO, TEXTING PERSON! (Yes, I'll crop it for the blog writeup...it's just funny.)
Somewhat wonkus hair. Ooops.
And, mind you, if I hadn't wanted pictures of this dress I wouldn't have chosen a wool flannel number on my own! It was a high of around 70F yesterday, and the three of us felt hugely insulted, personally, by this non-Christmas-appropriate temperature.
Skwerl eating what I thought were creepy califlower brain-fruits, but which it seemed to think were tasty noms.
There was a gentleman decorating his front railings with pineapples, clementines, and greenery, which we thought was SUPER awesome and charming, and could we pleeeeeeease get pictures with it?? I think he was amused by us.
"Oh pineapple, how I adore you."
We weren't very structured that afternoon; after lunch (which was, um, an adventure) we mainly just wandered around and toured the historic houses we could get into for free. We like free. We also liked the site that charged $2 but let us in for free since we looked so awesome. Thanks, Reed House!
"It is like nine hundred degrees in here and they only have two things left from the menu and they lost your diet Pepsi and toasted my sammich. Next time we're going to the more expensive place." HOW DID YOU RUN OUT OF CHICKEN SALAD AT 1PM.
"Where are we..."
Small door, big skirt!
Trying to take a nice picture of Adrienne, and I'm creepin'.
And I will say this for New Castle: yes, when you go to public events like this you get attention and picture-taking (obviously. wearing funny clothes like this, we don't expect anything less), but the vast majority of people there seemed to be very happy to see us, asked to get pictures (instead of the stealth phone shot!), and thought we were interesting in a good way, not an awkward weirdos kind of way. So, thanks, New Castle! You're cute, and we'll be back. (Ball next year? Yes I do think so!)
We left just as the sun was setting, and as we walked out I realized I hadn't climbed the hill in Battery Park...and since I must always run up and down all available hills in costume, this one was no exception.
This sequence amuses me.
I don't have a good camera, so these shots in the park are a little grainy, but it was a pretty sunset, and Robin got some really neat shots!
Photobucket album here
And now I'm tired, so I'll do the Allaire/1830s writeup tomorrow!
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