(So this was supposed to have gone up Jan 1st, but I took too long editing all the photos that it’s a bit late, just roll with it 🙂 )
Happy New Year!!! This one of the best new year celebrations I’ve ever had.
It sort of started earlier on in the week, when Morgan asked if I was going to be joining her and some friends to Sea of Dreams, which is this huge costume party that happens in downtown San Francisco on new years eve. Lots of music, shows, dancing, performers, etc. I wanted to go, but having no experience in building a costume, and it only being 3 days until the event, I felt like a deer caught in headlights. Luckily, Morgan (being the amazing person that she is) offered to help out. We talked about some possible ideas, and then as we were shopping for pieces of her costume on the Haight in SF, she came across this really great fabric that gave her an idea of a quick Greenman(asque) costume. We grabbed the fabric, some pants at a indian/hindu store, and then a blank mask and some decorations at a hobby store. That night Morgan painted and built a mask with vines and leaves flowing along it, accented with tree bits we picked up while walking Cooper (I did mention how amazing she is right?). The mask looked great and the only thing left was the floor length vest that needed to be built out of the fabric. For that she contacted her friend Josh (who was flying in from Canada on Saturday) to help out.
On Saturday, I got to meet Josh, Ariel and Ryan. Josh proceeded to take my measurements and then whipped up a long vest/coat out of the material we purchased before heading onto his own costume (this man has skills). Then on Sunday, I headed on over to Morgan’s house, since my costume was pretty much done, I watched everyone as they all threw together their outfits. Josh was working his magic on both Morgan and himself, while I mostly played the photographer for the night. After some final touchup makeup for Ryan, we were all ready to head out the door. We stopped off at Morgan’s parents to show off the costumes and pose for a photo-op before rushing off again into the city.
Getting into Sea of Dreams was an experience, the main entrance was flooded by hundreds of people packed shoulder to shoulder (entering and exiting), the only way we stuck together was by grabbing on to each other and training our way through until we got inside. Luckily, the human mass eased to a comfortable level within the building. We had gotten there around 11:30’ish, so there wasn’t much time to drop off our coats and grab some drinks before finding one of the main arenas to celebrate the New Year celebrations at. Somehow they were running a bit behind, so we ended up ringing in the New Year about 10 minutes late 🙂 but it was all good. The rest of the night was spent, dancing, drinking, meeting new people, exploring the different stages and shows, checking out the artwork (people included), and just having fun.
Things started winding down around 3:30am so we headed out, and made our way back to Alameda (thanks for driving Josh), searched for any open places for food but eventually gave up and headed home. There, we made mac-n-cheese (of which Josh, Morgan, and Ryan attacked with much ferocity) before we ended up crashing.
The next morning (or I should say “early afternoon”), we crawled out of bed, cleaned up the place, drank tons of water, and showered. Later on John and Carolyn came by to visit and we all (sans Ryan and Ariel) headed out to Jim’s diner for a (much needed) late breakfast.
I had a blast and really look forward to going again next year.
That sounds like a fun time! Awesome costumes!
It was one of the best parties I’ve been to yet, I’m hoping next year I’ll have a much better idea of what type of costume to build.
We had a quite one. It was hot, hot and well, just hot. So we slunk around indoors.
hug
-Renee http://wellofdreams.net/cblog/