And Now for Something Completely Different

The Arts faculty at Auckland University has long been deprived of a ball because we have simply too many people for it to work, but this year somebody came up with the idea of having one just for English students, which a lot of us really really liked the sound of. Even though we knew the theme would probably be Pride and Prejudice or something ridiculous.

As it happens that didn't really work out either, but what we have now is actually (in my opinion) much better: we're going to have a mass party at Shadows. This is better mainly because the tickets are between ten and fifteen dollars (depending on how many people you can get together into a group) instead of, like, a hundred. Also because it's at Shadows and not somewhere fancy and silly and it just seems like it's going to be a lot less pressure. The theme is A Midsummer Night's Dream (dumb), but you can come as any literary character.

SO. I wanted to come as someone recognizable, but unlikely to be repeated, and also somebody fancy, because I want to dress up :P I decided on Miss Holliday Golightly, of Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Here she is.

So my big creative project for this week is to collect all (or most) of the pieces for my costume. I currently have none of it. Here are the big things:

-Dress (black, fancy, optimally long and sleeveless with a high neckline)

-Gloves (black, long)

-Necklace (thick and chunky and ludicrously extravagant. May make this myself, depending on how ambitious I feel and what I find at save mart.)

-Shoes (black, heeled)

-Some kind of hairpiece (this is optional, I guess.)

I'm aiming to do this on a pretty tight budget, so I'll be hitting up a bunch of op shops over the next few days. I'd also like to get another piece of the drawing collab up, but I do have two essays due as well, so we'll see how we go. This is going to be super fun.