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The SSCC [message #43068]

Sat, 02 July 2011 20:55

jmeadows
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Registered: September 2008
Location: Virginia, USA

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The SSCC

If you'd like to enter the contest, please do so over here, or on Twitter or Facebook as outlined in the blog post. Have fun!

[Updated on: Sat, 02 July 2011 21:07] by Moderator

Smooshes!

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Re: The SSCC [message #43077 is a reply to message #43068 ]

Sun, 03 July 2011 02:24

Diane in MN
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Twin Cities, MN, USA

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Ajlr has reneged on the catsuit.

Not even a photo??

::ducks fast::

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Re: The SSCC [message #43090 is a reply to message #43077 ]

Sun, 03 July 2011 06:24

AJLR
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Registered: September 2008
Location: England, UK

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Believe me, Diane, I feel a deep sense of shame at being exposed as such a wimp. However, I decided in the end that even my equally deep devotion to our Hellgoddess fell a tiny smidgeon short of making such a total prat of myself in public. Razz

I have bought something pick and sparkly for the occasion, in the hope that one day she will forgive me. Smile

[Updated on: Sun, 03 July 2011 13:00]

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Re: The SSCC [message #43095 is a reply to message #43090 ]

Sun, 03 July 2011 09:02

Robin
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Registered: September 2008
Location: England

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*Pick* and sparkly will get you NOWHERE. Smile

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Re: The SSCC [message #43103 is a reply to message #43095 ]

Sun, 03 July 2011 12:58

AJLR
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Oh good grief. OK, PINK and sparkly. And believe me, these days I rarely do either. Smile

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Re: The SSCC [message #43114 is a reply to message #43068 ]

Sun, 03 July 2011 17:52

harpergray
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Registered: March 2011
Location: Sweden

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Ah drat! The Wednesday deadline might hamper my grad-gown entry plan. Although, I do have friends graduating earlier this week... *begins to plot and practice kitten eyes* Wink

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Re: The SSCC [message #43115 is a reply to message #43068 ]

Sun, 03 July 2011 17:52

Corellia
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Registered: June 2010
Location: Norway

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There may be a photo.. If I can get my photographer in potentia to agree.. However, I don't know how to make my photos smaller, as far as I can see, they are about 1.6 MB, how do I make them be only 100 kb?

(I'm probably outing myself as someone who knows less about computers than she ought to here... Sad

)

Edited to add: nevermind, I think I've got it.

[Updated on: Sun, 03 July 2011 18:26]

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Re: The SSCC [message #43119 is a reply to message #43115 ]

Sun, 03 July 2011 20:10

Maren
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Louisiana

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Corellia wrote on Sun, 03 July 2011 17:52

Would you be able to upload it to a site like this one and resize it there? If not, please start a new topic in 'Forum Help' and we will figure out how to do it with whichever photo editor you may have on your computer.

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Re: The SSCC [message #43128 is a reply to message #43068 ]

Mon, 04 July 2011 02:10

equus_peduus
Messages: 437
Registered: September 2009
Location: France

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I am sad that I will not be able to enter this contest. In the first place, I haven't got any clothing even half as fabulous as what I'm seeing in the contest thread. In the second place, I'm moving, which means most of the clothing I do have is in bags and/or boxes.

However, everyone's clothes are fantastic, and I'm enjoying looking all the pictures, and am also impressed that nobody seems to have taken the easy way out and just photographed clothing without being inside them. Though two entries toward a signed Pegasus counts for a lot Smile

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Re: The SSCC [message #43134 is a reply to message #43128 ]

Mon, 04 July 2011 09:37

EMoon
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Registered: March 2009

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equus_peduus: You have bags and boxes....you could be the Moving Fairy...tricked out in a box with bits of things hanging over the side...(Yes, I know, odious to come up with ideas for other peoples' costumes when not having finished my own. Or maybe anyway. Easier than doing...)

And someone mentioning graduation gowns reminds me that somewehre in this house is my son's HS graduation gown, in the most glaring purple you can imagine. I may not have to pin on a no-longer-fitting-skirt after all. The yarn bandoliers ought to be quite...mmm...striking against that purple.

(Heads for closet...)

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Re: The SSCC [message #43135 is a reply to message #43134 ]

Mon, 04 July 2011 11:44

EMoon
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Registered: March 2009

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I got the costume together, but several things...well, it's very hot. The costume is also hot (the graduation gown was made of a non-breathing synthetic, apparently, so although thin it's hot on its own.) Hence it was FAR too hot to have my hair down, which meant the Sekrit Hat Holder is all too visible (would've been easy to cover with hair except...HOT. I am not a believer in "beauty must suffer." The photographer, who would rather have been doing something else, did not "get" the concept I was trying for and also had some technical problems ("I haven't taken a picture in years," was the photographer's comment.)

Sigh. And it's now HOTTER and I'm not trying again outside (which has the best light for showing the remarkable eye-stunning PURPLE of the gown. I think I'll just use one of these.

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Re: The SSCC [message #43144 is a reply to message #43135 ]

Mon, 04 July 2011 16:08

CathyR
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Registered: July 2009
Location: NW England

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There are some FAB outfits on display in this competition!

The Yarn Fairy (Godmother) is superb (hilarious), and would be even more so with the accessories mentioned!

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

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Re: The SSCC [message #43162 is a reply to message #43144 ]

Tue, 05 July 2011 00:20

EMoon
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Registered: March 2009

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So many good costumes...though for sheer strangeness, I think I'm in love with the knitted Dwarf War Bonnet. Just hand me an axe...

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Re: The SSCC [message #43166 is a reply to message #43162 ]

Tue, 05 July 2011 06:02

Knitronomicon
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Registered: January 2011
Location: London, UK

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No, you don't need an axe. You just bake some Dwarf Bread...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/4990663841_58e4ba3245_m.jpg

From the top, now by Aunty Marion, on Flickr

Marion
Keeper of the Knitronomicon

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Re: The SSCC [message #43183 is a reply to message #43068 ]

Tue, 05 July 2011 10:11

HorsehairBraider
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Registered: August 2009
Location: New Mexico

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The signing would be truly memorable if everyone showed up dressed in their costumes. The lady with the feather thing on her head... awesome, just awesome. And the Fairy Queen! Too bad the people in the pictures live too far away to attend. Or at least, I do.

_{They say princes learn no art truly, save that of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. Ben Jonson}

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