D23 Costume

This year I'm starting my Halloween/Comic Con costume early so I can take it to D23, the Disney convention.

This year I'm going to be cosplaying as Mary Poppins:

So my friend Cee Cee is making a lot of the costume for me. Cee Cee is a professional costumer and is making the carpet bag and skirt; and is altering the coat, shirt and gloves for me. Plus she's doing something to make that hat look better. 

So that leaves the scarf, umbrella, shoes, and wig.

Well to do this I had to learn to crochet: 

My first row.

So I lost a stitch in the middle of the dark pink row. 

Laying flat. Can't notice the missing stitch anymore.

Selfie.

With a more Poppins nod.

This came in yesterday.

Scarf and umbrella.

The shoes also came in, but I had to return them, they were too small. :(

D23: Pre Event Excitment

From disneyparks.disney.go.com

Less than a month away from the this years D23, I’ve finally looked over the current schedule (as of July 11) and have compiled my tops (and bottoms) for this convention.

Top Seven events I am excited for during this year’s D23 Expo

1. Richard M. Sherman and Alan Menken: The Disney Songbook (8/10 – 6:30pm, D23 Arena)
2. Broadway and Beyond (8/9 – 6:30pm, Stage 23)
3. Disney Imagineering Legend Marty Sklar Presents … Dream It! Do It! (8/9 – 3pm, Stage 28)
4.  Undiscovered Disneyland (8/9 – 12:30pm, Stage 23)
5. A la Mode Costume Contest (8/9 – 2:30pm, Stage 23)
6. Voices of Disney Parks (8/10 – 2pm, Stage 28)
7. We still don’t know what “Walt Disney Imagineering’s 60^th Anniversary” events will be, but considering that is what Sunday is about, I’m sure I’ll have something from all those panels here.

Non-Panel excitement:

·      Mary Poppins archives exhibit

Bottom Seven events I am LEAST excited for

1. ALL Disney Channel meetings
2. Exclusive Screening of Disney’s Planes (8/9 – 3pm, D23 Arena)
3. Broadcast from Buena Vista Street (8/10 – 10:30am, Stage 28)
4. ESPN Films Screening of The ‘99er (8/11 – 2:30pm, Stage 28)
5. R5 Performance (8/10 – 4:30pm, Disney Channel Pavilion)
6. Disney Ambassadors (8/11 – 4pm, Stage 28)
7. Rave Bossert Remembers Roy E. Disney, with special guest Roy P. Disney (8/9 – 1:30pm, Stage 28)

Top Seven Second Choice events

1. Disney Legends Ceremony (8/10 – 2pm, D23 Arena)
2. Crash Course in the Force: Star Wars Saga 101 (8/10 – 5pm, Stage 23)
3. Ridley Pearson and the Kingdom Keepers Quest (8/9 – 12 noon, Stage 28)
4. Charles Phoenix Presents (8/10 – 12noon, Stage 28)
5. Mayhem, Mischief, and Monkeys: The Magic of Mystic Manor (8/9 - 11:30am, Stage 28)
6. The Art and Artistry of Aulani (8/9 – 4:30pm, Stage 28)
7. We still don’t know what “Walt Disney Imagineering’s 60^th Anniversary” events will be, but considering that is what Sunday is about, I’m sure I’ll have something from all those panels here.