We had a wonderful business meeting yesterday, and thank-you SO MUCH to everybody who came out for it and helped us set our schedule for next year. I wanted to give you a run down of the events that we discussed so that you can start putting things on your calendar and start daydreaming about costumes.
February 18th: Antique Elegance show at the Civic Center in Richardson. The early birds can meet at 9:00 for the fashion show, and then we will have another meet-up at noon in the area near the little break room and where all the manikins are set up for the Cat's Meow booth. Costumes are optional, and you can dress in any historical era from Regency through 20th c. vintage. The fashion show is for Big Band Era fashions, so I'm sure 30's and 40's stuff will be big this year.
March 18th-19th: All-Con at the Crown-Plaza Hotel in Addison. We will have a club table and will be hosting multiple panels, including a knitting circle, a fabric swap, a millinery class, a class on working with rhinestones, and... what am I leaving out, Maggie? I thought there were 5 classes, but I'm drawing a blank on the last one. There will be tons of other costume-related classes and panels hosted by others, plus costume contests, a dealers room, celebrities, and all the usual con stuff.
March 31tst: Steampunk Tea Party at the Plano Heritage Farmstead. We will have food and tea plus steampunk games on the lawn of this charming historical site. We will have a gear toss, a steampunk marksmanship contest where you can bring your own modded water or nerf guns and show off your skills, and hopefully croquet for the more traditional Victorian crowd (unless any of you can think of a way to add a steampunk spin to croquet!) Costumes for this event includes anything Steampunk, Dieselpunk, or traditional Victorian or Edwardian. Tickets will be $12 for members and $15 for non-members, and we will start selling them in the next week or so.
April 14th: Edwardian day in the Park, location TBA. This one will be very similar to our Georgian Picnic - we can bring snacks and games and enjoy a lovely costumed outing in the park. Costumes can be anything from 1900-1920, and we are drawing inspiration from the Titanic anniversary, Downton Abbey, and all things Edwardian.
May 12th: Tarantula Train and Frontier Forts Days at the Ft. Worth Stockyards. We were thinking about trying this one again, but this time riding the full train ride that leaves from the Grapevine station at 1:00, then we'll have a layover at the Stockyards, then return to Grapevine on the train at 6:00. If you didn't want to do the full trip, you could just meet us at the stockyards.
June 9th(possibly): Summer Business meeting.
July 28th-29th(?): Costumers Retreat. We will share more info on that one soon!
August 11th(?): 20th c. Vintage Ice Cream Social. We had a wonderful time at Beth Marie's in Denton last year, so we were considering doing this one again. The dress would be anything 20th c. vintage, and we could do a bit of antique and book shopping on the square after enjoying some ice cream.
September 15th: Antique Elegance Show in Richardson. Similar situation to the one held in February.
October 13th: Sewing day, location TBA.
November 10th: WWII event in Waxahachie. We are looking at having our own table in the black market section of this event. We could possibly sell small items as a fundraiser for the guild, but even more than that, it would give us a place to hang out and something to do during the event.
Novmber 17th: 4th annual Georgian Picnic at the Botanic Gardens in Ft. Worth. Come enjoy food, socializing, and period games. Costumes include anything from the 18th c. or Regency periods.
December, date TBA: Lanternlight at the Plano Heritage Farmstead. Victorian holiday event that includes a tour of the main house with historical interpreters, games, food, music, wagon rides, Father Christmas, etc. It is a wonderful family-friendly event. Costume include anything Victorian or Edwardian.
January, date TBA: Titanic exhibit at the Museum of Science and History in Ft. Worth. We will dress in 1912 appropriate attire and visit the traveling exhibit from the Titanic Museum.
If you have any questions, thoughts, or suggestions to help us with this schedule of events, please let us know! It is possible that we might add small additional events (like movie outings) or modify some of these if we find that changes are needed, but we will try to at least keep the themes the same so that you can start making costumes and feel confident that you will have a place to wear them.
We hope you all will join us for some of these wonderful DFWCG events this year!
-jen
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Mad Hatter's Tea Party
The DFWCG folk are rather fond of their tea parties. Since 2009 the guild has hosted at least one tea per year whether in someone's home or in one of the various tea houses in the DFW area. Guild participants have become so fond of their tea parties, in fact, that this year we decided to schedule two of them.
This first tea of 2012 was themed Mad Hatter's Tea Party and was held at Mitra's Tea Room in Hurst. Costumes and grand hats were encouraged, but the only real rule for attendance was that each attendee be wearing some sort of hat. Small, Large, gregarious, or modest, all kinds of hats were represented at our tea party.
Here is a partial group shot that shows the range of historical hats in attendance. And there were also a couple Sci-Fi hats in attendance. Lisa brought two hats as well as her sonic screwdriver!
We had an honored out of town guest for this tea. Maggie of Padawansguide and CostumersGuide was visiting and decided to join us. It was wonderful to host her as reading about many of the 18th century and Regency events she has attended in her home state are the inspiration for our own. Plus, her costume guides have been a big help to several of us looking for research. It was so nice to meet her in person.
The afternoon tea menu was lovely. Mitra's serves a proper cup of tea steeped in individual small tea pots as opposed to bringing out hot water tea pots and tea bags to steep in the cup.
We were so delighted with each course that we forgot to take pictures of most of it until after we dug in. Oops! These scones and muffins were great as was the cream that came with them. There was also a strawberry butter and a lemon cream that's not pictured. Both were lovely compliments.
Their chicken salad sandwiches, shown here in the round whole wheat bread, were absolutely wonderful as were their cucumber sandwiches, which got gobbled up before a picture was taken. I didn't have an egg salad sandwich, but they were all gone too, so I believe they were good also.
Our fearless leader, Jen, surprised us with some games to play as we waited between each course. First we played a guess the hat game. You can see that one in the picture of the sandwiches above. Then we played a game where we named as many hat names or types as we could think of.
Here we are all thinking very very hard to list as many hat types as we could in 5 minutes.
And here the winner of the game, Ginger, compares notes with Maggie who just barely missed the win by one hat. There was actually a tie, then a sudden death round where Ginger came up with one more hat and Maggie accepted defeat.
After the tea we all decided to head down to a local park for some nice photographs in our costumes and hats. But Beth couldn't go, so we made sure to capture her lovely bustle ensemble at the tea room.
And of course there is the obligatory group shoe shot.
It's so much fun when we can get together in a park setting and finally photograph the clothing we've worked so hard on. Jen took photographs of each of us in turn so we have new pictures to add to our scrapbooks and portfolios. Everyone looked so lovely!
Jen sporting her lovely Regency wear. I wish some of the details in the Spencer showed up better, like her lovely silk lining.
This is an outfit that several of us read about on Maggie's blog. It was just as beautiful up close as it is in pictures.
Arranging the train and shaking out the train were common occurrences with Christy's lovely dress. It takes a village for a perfect shot.
But look how beautiful it is!
We all oohed and ahhed over Ginger's lovely fur muff accessory.
Cynthia has been working on her 18th century garb for quite some time now. She hand sewed a great majority of it. Her results photographed beautifully!
Maggie's Tudor fitted gown and kirtle are part of several projects she's been working on for a couple of years via The Tudor Tailor.
Christopher and Lisa were sporting their Sci-Fi gear. Who doesn't love crazy fun hats like that?
Lisa's 2nd hat, the tardis beanie!
Our 3 Regency ladies.
The adorable couple.
And finally here we are together as a group.
We laughed a lot told funny stories and played games. It truly was a wonderful day. And just think, our next tea is just right around the corner. If you'd like to join in on our tea party fun, plan to come to our Steampunk Tea Party in March at the Heritage Farmstead Museum in Plano. Remember, you are not required to be in costume for our events, you can just come to chat and play games with us as well. We hope to see you then!
This first tea of 2012 was themed Mad Hatter's Tea Party and was held at Mitra's Tea Room in Hurst. Costumes and grand hats were encouraged, but the only real rule for attendance was that each attendee be wearing some sort of hat. Small, Large, gregarious, or modest, all kinds of hats were represented at our tea party.
Here is a partial group shot that shows the range of historical hats in attendance. And there were also a couple Sci-Fi hats in attendance. Lisa brought two hats as well as her sonic screwdriver!
We had an honored out of town guest for this tea. Maggie of Padawansguide and CostumersGuide was visiting and decided to join us. It was wonderful to host her as reading about many of the 18th century and Regency events she has attended in her home state are the inspiration for our own. Plus, her costume guides have been a big help to several of us looking for research. It was so nice to meet her in person.
The afternoon tea menu was lovely. Mitra's serves a proper cup of tea steeped in individual small tea pots as opposed to bringing out hot water tea pots and tea bags to steep in the cup.
We were so delighted with each course that we forgot to take pictures of most of it until after we dug in. Oops! These scones and muffins were great as was the cream that came with them. There was also a strawberry butter and a lemon cream that's not pictured. Both were lovely compliments.
Our fearless leader, Jen, surprised us with some games to play as we waited between each course. First we played a guess the hat game. You can see that one in the picture of the sandwiches above. Then we played a game where we named as many hat names or types as we could think of.
Here we are all thinking very very hard to list as many hat types as we could in 5 minutes.
After the tea we all decided to head down to a local park for some nice photographs in our costumes and hats. But Beth couldn't go, so we made sure to capture her lovely bustle ensemble at the tea room.
And of course there is the obligatory group shoe shot.
It's so much fun when we can get together in a park setting and finally photograph the clothing we've worked so hard on. Jen took photographs of each of us in turn so we have new pictures to add to our scrapbooks and portfolios. Everyone looked so lovely!
Jen sporting her lovely Regency wear. I wish some of the details in the Spencer showed up better, like her lovely silk lining.
This is an outfit that several of us read about on Maggie's blog. It was just as beautiful up close as it is in pictures.
Arranging the train and shaking out the train were common occurrences with Christy's lovely dress. It takes a village for a perfect shot.
But look how beautiful it is!
We all oohed and ahhed over Ginger's lovely fur muff accessory.
Cynthia has been working on her 18th century garb for quite some time now. She hand sewed a great majority of it. Her results photographed beautifully!
Maggie's Tudor fitted gown and kirtle are part of several projects she's been working on for a couple of years via The Tudor Tailor.
Christopher and Lisa were sporting their Sci-Fi gear. Who doesn't love crazy fun hats like that?
Lisa's 2nd hat, the tardis beanie!
Our 3 Regency ladies.
The adorable couple.
And finally here we are together as a group.
We laughed a lot told funny stories and played games. It truly was a wonderful day. And just think, our next tea is just right around the corner. If you'd like to join in on our tea party fun, plan to come to our Steampunk Tea Party in March at the Heritage Farmstead Museum in Plano. Remember, you are not required to be in costume for our events, you can just come to chat and play games with us as well. We hope to see you then!
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