I had an excessively Halloween-y weekend the weekend AFTER Halloween. On Friday night, we had the Lumieres occult dinner, which was spooky & lovely — mediums and aristocrats mingled over yummy French food, champagne, and candelight. I went as a medium — Mlle Marie Anne Lenormand, who was more Napoleonic than Rococo era but who’s double checking! I wore my gaulle, which I accessorized with lots of black — black sash, jewelry, and hair ribbons.
On Saturday night was the PEERS Ball des Vampires, which is about 10 min. walk from my house – yay! I went with Bridget & Katherine — we had great Italian food beforehand (and scared the locals), then walked over to the ball. There were lots of fabulous costumes (lots of Victorian & 18th century, one sparkly Edward who I had fun teasing, etc.). I spent most of my time downstairs in the goth-y DJ room (they played Hong Kong Garden, so I got to have my Marie Antoinette masquerade moment!) — only did one-half of one waltz! I don’t know, I just wasn’t in the mood to jockey for partners. It does make me want to make the effort to hit the ball scene a bit more frequently (altho that means talking some of my friends into going too) — it’s a great chance to dress up and socialize, even if you’re not in the mood to dance. I was feeling very “this old thing” about my black francaise (the other option was Nell Gwyn, but it didn’t feel terribly Halloween-y) so I resisted the urge to attempt to make anything new, and focused my time and styling a new wig and making wig accessories. I ended up making a “cake,” and my rockin’ husband made me a guillotine out of balsa wood (the man is a talent!), plus giving me a scary guillotine-d neck scar. Jenn absolutely took the cake (ha ha) in her gorgeous black & orange francaise, with black wig that had a jack-o-lantern that LIT UP. It ROCKED.
A preview of photos is below — you can find the rest of my Flickr account (which I’m going to be using from now on for event photos) — here’s the Lumieres occult dinner and the Vampire ball.
WOW, super awesome! I wish we had more events like this down in the LA area. (not that I’ve had any time lately anyway… ) but really enjoyed your photos!
you could probably hear me squee from across the pacific. You all look fabulous and to be having a good time. The guillotine is such a good idea. The illuminating pumpkin a stroke of genius 😀
I love it all! The Occult Dinner pics of the Lumieres are fantastic and Jennifer’s jack-o-lantern poof is to die for.
*squeeeee* I can’t TELL you how much I love the little guillotine and glowey pumpkin hair ornaments! 🙂