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37 Days to Dragon*Con: Space Bonnet of Awesomeness (A Very Durham Night)

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Dragon*Con might only be once a year, but I try to get my weird kicks in whenever I can.  Halloween‘s an obvious choice, but Durham–being its fun, funky self–provides plenty of opportunities to nerd out a bit.  This past weekend my college friend Nora was visiting, and I did my best to show her all the quirks that Durham had to offer.  Luckily the Scrap Exchange, our local non-profit creative re-use center that provides aisle after aisle of stuff that you can turn into crafty fun, was having its annual Scrap a Go-Go benefit at Motorco, and the theme was 60s science fiction and space.  The night promised food trucks, bands, a make and take station, and a silent auction.  Also, costumes were encouraged.  I’m a huge fan of Scrap Exchange (sort of a crafter’s dream, really), and also space, and also food trucks, so to Scrap a Go-Go we went!

None of us really had any costumes, so I just threw on some green eyemakeup and green lipstick and a Star Trek pin and loaned some Star Trek earrings to Nora.  We figured we’d make some space accessories once we got to Motorco.

The Scrap Exchange had set up a number of tables and barrels with tin foil, plastic lab equipments, cut up pool noodles, scissors, tape and many other weird, “spacey” things with which one could make a space accessory.  Nora made a space bonnet of awesomeness, Jon made these rocket shoulder things that at one point ended up on his head.  I just made a head band because I am bad at crafting things like this and also I had green lip stick, so I felt like I was representing.  We spent an inordinate amount of time crafting, because making things is awesome.

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48 Days to Dragon*Con: Dragons III, Dany’s Dragons

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I was going to write a long post about this season of Game of Thrones and also how I was disappointed by the lack of dragons in A Dance with Dragons and also I was going to talk a bit about Daenerys Targaeryan’s dragons and their names and stuff, but then I decided not to, because if I heard Dany shrill “MY DRAGONS!!!!” one more time this season of Game of Thrones I was going to kill a bitch.  So I give you this instead:

Call Jorah.  Send a raven.

50 Days to Dragon*Con: 2012 Edition (Tell me what to write!)

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Hey y’all!  I skipped it last year, but this year I’m planning to do my 50 Days to Dragon*Con countdown!  Aren’t you excited?

I wanted to give y’all the opportunity to have a voice in this.  What would you like me to write about?  The last go-around, in 2010, focused primarily on fun, nerdy things that I enjoyed.  Nowadays, however, I consider myself pretty informed about Dragon*Con, so I’d happily expand my postings to my tips on how to survive and enjoy the convention.  Do you have nerdy topics about which you’d like me to write?  I can do that!  I plan on revisiting some anticipatory posts I wrote in 2010, to walk about how the reality was (ie: Game of Thrones, etc.)  But mostly I’ll be winging it–although hopefully, with your help, I won’t be totally winging it.

Anyways, chime in and let me know what you want to know!  I’m here to countdown with y’all, because I can Dragon*Con and so can you!  I’ll be starting this journey on July 11th, so let me know before then!

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