Hi all! I'm down in San Francisco land with a whole wad of my favorite people, not least among them The Laced Angel, and Serendipitous Stitchery, the latter of which came all the way out from Tennessee and made a ridiculously stunning 1840s costume to boot. We're taking the Great Dickens Christmas Fair by storm, causing mischief, breaking hearts, being generally goofy. Ah, good times. Here are a scant few photos from the day...


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me and my bestie Maggie, all a-bonnet
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Had to take a photo of this - the inspiration for the name of the new button boots come soon :-)
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Maggie coercing poor Jessie into tying her cute little booties
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Curtis posing in his Dark Garden Corsetry window. I love that Dark Garden not only uses live models in their display windows, but that they include men in that lot as well - historical!
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Myself and the charming and talented Mr. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who left a wake of broken-hearted females wherever he went, and also taught a nice figure drawing class in the Adventurer's Club Pre-Raphaelite Salon.
I wore a...thing...I'll tell you about it later. :-)


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