Oct 20th & 21st - Wild Card #2 and Outfit #21 - A Wild Evening and A Difficult Day

Well, kittens, it's been quite a ride! We went to an event called the Monster Bash last night, and oh my goodness, much cavorting was had! 

It was costume, so naturally, I went to town.

I'm a steampunk vampire slayer! This is a fun wig that's reserved for costumes. I liked how it made me look so badass. I'm linking up this outfit to Visible Monday at Patti's "Not Dead Yet Style" - go check it out!

The clothing items: my leather shirt (from the February capsule wardrobe), worn over my full vintage slip, a sort of patchwork skirt (last worn here with this month's black boots, and not yet in a capsule), and my Fluevog minis from this month (worn here, last outfit last weekend to go shopping).

My accessories are what takes this outfit to 11.

Vizzini was totally freaked out by me in the wig.

The harness is by Audra Jean; I purchased it from Megan Mae (seen on her here). I was really excited to wear it - and I loved having it on all night.

I'm also wearing my handmade leather and metal gauntlet that I bought at the Steampunk Con in April (pics here, the gauntlet is the last picture), which I also wore for L's birthday party in June, here.

The back action:

I have a couple of leather cuffs on over my right sleeve, and I'm wearing a little clip-on fascinator hat.

I'm wearing a gothic cross necklace and a leather choker.

What else? Ah, my earrings are dangling crosses (to keep vamps off my neck, of course), I'm wearing black fishnets, and I have on leather fingerless driving gloves. The cross-body bag says it's by Jil Sander, but it's a fake.

L was a vampire!

Kitty looks nervous.

He's modeled after the Gary Oldman depiction of Dracula. Doesn't he look awesome?

We made a great pair all night!

In fact, we won the costume contest! L vamped out on the stage, and I pretended to stab him (and then I did some kicks and looked tough). We won $200 towards dance classes!

Shirt (Danier Leather, thrifted), slip (Suzette Lingerie, consignment), skirt (Dolcezza), harness (Audra Jean, via Megan Mae), boots (Qtee Mini, Fluevogs), gloves (Danier Leather), bag (consignment), gauntlet (SkinZnHydez).

My awesome friends also really dressed up. Check out Cat's fabulous flapper outfit!

She even has her stockings (correctly) rolled down to just below her knees. That dress used to be mine!

A new friend, Berenice, joined us. She was a cat.

Love the leopard tights!

Check out this amazing re-purpose of my girlfriend Caro's wedding dress:

She dyed it herself and then sewed the front up into all crazy layers! What a beautiful dress - so cool that she'll be able to wear it again!

We all met up for dinner and drinks, then walked over to the event. We stopped in the square for some shennanigans:

L's always up for bloodsucking, and Caro looks like a willing victim!

The burlesque was totally fun, and there was musical acts as well, but my pictures didn't turn out (the lighting was too erratic). I did get a great shot of this guy's handmade chainmail shirt:

He made that himself! Well done, Joe*! He won a prize in the costume category as well.
*I link 'cause I love - his work is art!

Today, I spent with my soon-to-be 13 year old niece Zoe. Happy Birthday, sweetie! But oh, man...

Please make the light go away

What a hangover I had...

At least I looked decent. I last wore my red cardi here on Day 1 with my barn skirt, and that's my snowflake skirt (last worn here, 2nd outfit). The top underneath is just a layering piece (not in the capsule). I should have worn my black sweater but I wasn't thinking too clearly at 10 am. Not after going to bed after 3 am...

The leather obi is so cool. I am just loving obis right now.

Please just chop my head off now

I wore my granny shoes (last worn on Saturday, 2nd outfit) for walking...and we did a lot of walking! I set Zoe up with a full set of make-up (including brushes), all very low-key and neutrals, and then showed her how to apply it. Mascara application is a difficult art!

We also got her a beautiful Shi Studio leather wrist-wrap and a gorgeous pair of leather booties by Fidji. She's old enough to start getting better quality stuff, and I was proud of her for wanting to skip most of the mall stores and look at local boutiques. She's nearly ready to learn how to thrift with me!

Sweater (no label, consignment), top (Mossimo, consignment), skirt (J.J.F., consignment), shoes (Marc Softwalk, thrifted), belt (consignment), choker (locally made).

We made a stop at Footloose*, the sister store of Heart and Sole, where I got the Fluevog sandals on Friday. I spotted these gorgeous Agnes Adrian boots (where Agnes is the name and Adrian is the family) on final markdown. They were the last pair so I got another 10% off.
*I link 'cause I love - this is a great local shoe store!

They ended up being 60% off the regular price! Awesome! $160.00 is a great price for these. They are just amazing on.

The harness is removeable.

And there's the John Fluevog signature stamp.

I like the soles:

These were small-fitting size 10s. Fluevog's sizing is so erratic.

I am thankful that my head has finally stopped pounding!