Robin McKinley

Yes, I'd even wear the wig! And the crown.

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At a 70s themed New Years Eve party a few years ago. I'm the Blonde One from a moderately successful Swedish pop group that were around at the time.

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Aw how I love pieces of old Halloween costumes...

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Hehe so I'm not sure if this one qualifies or not... since, while undeniably silly, it is not actually clothing, nor does it have anything to do with the books or even fantasy in general. I couldn't help but put the old thing on again, though, going for the "Making-Robin-laugh-until-she-cries prize". And I DID just post a picture of myself as a cow on the internet. Just saying.
(P.S. If it makes any difference... I really WOULD show up to the book signing in this if it meant a free book)

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AND for my third and final entry... a lime green outfit, complete with sequins and boa, that I sewed myself for a parade last year. (Proof that not ALL greens look good on redheads )

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Right. Three photos max, eh? OK, here we go with one from *ahem* thirty years ago. I present: The Monster!




(I liked it so much that my flatmate Kathy, who'd designed it for me, went round muttering "I've created a monster!" and the name stuck.)

[Updated on: Sun, 03 July 2011 05:49]

Here is the dress I think I would wear 8-> I am the one in purple.

I hope photos with other people in them are OK. I could put that dress on, but there is no one here to take the picture.

Laura

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Yes--to link to individual photos in Flickr, you'll need to get the hard link for the picture itself. Knitronomicon, click the photo you want to use within the photostream, so that that photo is the only photo visible. Then copy and paste that link, which should look something like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68068329@N00/5895245789/in/phot ostream/

To answer your other question--Flickr no longer allows you to directly embed images hosted on Flickr in another website, I think. But posting links is fine, just make sure they link directly to the photo in question or your entries won't count! And that would be tragic.

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First of which is an old Halloween costume. Cyprine from Sailor Moon. Accompanying me were two friends as Ptilol and Mimete.

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Second is from Dragon*Con last year as Amy Pond. There were surprisingly few Doctor Who costumes there but I guess that will be different this year with the increase in popularity.

Still working on the third entry...

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This is a costume I wore last year for Halloween. I'm an aviator for Top Gun; my call sign is 'Snowflake'.

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First of two costumes: This is my SFWA Musketeer costume (a shot taken at a convention a few years ago)



For the signing, I'd wear the bucket boots instead of the black ones.

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And the second try: Today's "Yarn Fairy (Godmother)" with a small sample of her stash:




Gown: purple shiny fake fabric (son's HS graduation gown)

Bandoliers: Part of Saturday's indulgence, one skein each

Belt: (hardly shows): Another part of Saturday's indulgence

"Hat": A balled skein of Saturday's indulgence (held on with some old Red Heart yarn: was not going to use glue on good yarn!)

Stash: paper bag (Saturday's indulgence), striped bag (one small part of my mother's stash), yellow bag (my two current projects, one of which is lying on it.)

For a stroll through London to Robin's signing, would have a work bag hung from the belt, and be knitting on the way (badly, but knitting--if one is going to be the Yarn Fairy (Godmother), then knitting in progress means DURING a progress, yes? Also would include yarn necklace, with scissors and spare needle points and things as "charms", and yarn ear decor. It was too HOT for that.

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My sister and I dressed up as Things 1 and 2 for Halloween a few years ago- and I still have that blue wig somewhere... (I'm Thing 1)

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Here's another silly costume from years ago!

The things I do for my library... We have an annual children's fair called the Frog Frolic, and for several years, I was the only one who fit in the frog costume. So here I am as Huckleberry the Frog. (Again, with my sister. She's dressed as Mark Twain)

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Dress up for the library ... yeah. I passed out in a Peter Rabbit costume ... had to be taken to the ER in the ambulance. No pictures.

But skating clubs also require dressing up, so here's the costume from the show
"Cafe Zamboni". My role was that of "wrangler" for the Cream Puffs ... their costumes were great and their entrance was from an oven.

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So I'm hoping I'm doing this right. Here's a picture from a Disney costume party at my dance studio a few years ago. I'm dressed as Stitch.

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Last one... again, sort-of library related. Less obviously silly, this time, but definitely different. October 2008 was my library's centennial celebration. So, I went out and found a dress to wear to the party. And the dress that I found was from 1908. It was absolutely perfect!

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Thank you so much for that photo editor link, btw; that made this photo possible.

This was also from a costume party at my dance studio (we have a lot of them); we were having a Harry Potter theme this particular night, and I was Hedwig. I regretfully cut my dance teacher out (he made a lovely Ron Weasley, and it makes much more sense if you can see that I'm dancing with someone rather than merely stretching out my arm and grinning) because I wasn't sure how he'd feel about being posted here.

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Okay, for my final entry I am sharing a picture of me in my dirndl. I used to be in a folkdancing group and this was my German costume, lovingly made and altered for me by two of my good friends. There were many pictures of me in my dirndl in college, and out of all of my three entries this is the one I'd be most likely to actually wear to the signing, since I've been known to go all around the country doing performances in this costume (and even wore it to the wedding of the friend who sewed it for me). Unfortunately most of the good pictures were taken back when digital cameras weren't really around much yet, so you're stuck with the poor lighting in this one. It is at yes, another costume party at my dance studio.

(You can't see it very well, but this curtsy is how we ended all of our dances.)

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