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Midsummer Fantasy Ball
Jul. 16th, 2006 09:56 amAm v. tired and haven't even had breakfast yet, so this will not be my most coherent post...
Last night was the third Team Wench Midsummer Fantasy Ball, and a good time was had by all. I hung out most of the evening next to the costumer's guild table, having short but non-frantic conversations with people I'd been too much of a whirlwind to have three coherent words to say to last weekend aside from "do this."
That was nice. I also got to see Don, which hasn't happened in far too long.
The entertainment was great; I finally got to hear 40 Thieves (I've heard *about* them for ages, but never actually *heard* them.) Wonderful group; I must go find some CDs. Darcy also sang and played dulcimer, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tchwrtr's bellydance troup performed. ("The one in deep blue," I told the costumers. "It's all her fault, all of this." We'd met at college, y'see, and she told me about this group she was part of...)
I forgot to bring the perfume bottles that I was donating for raffle prizes, although they would have been lost in the general welter of loot. (I'd also donated 5 book collections and a Shakespeare basket that proved quite popular, so there were plenty of things from me.) Although I dropped one ticket in a couple of bags just in case, there were only two things that I really, REALLY wanted - the custom mug carving from Art of the Wood and the House of Dra royal blue chemise.
One of my single tickets came up a winner, and I got a Bed, Bath and Beyond gift card... only to come home and realize that the orange-ginger shampoo that I liked at Shore Leave was actually from Bath and Body Works. Ooops! Well, one more item for the gift drawer; it'll suit someone for a birthday or Christmas present. I also got the blue chemise, which is having its initial wash-and-shrink as I type.
I'd meant to leave early, actually, or even go sleep in the car because I'm still recovering from last week. But 40 Thieves was playing and things kept happening and before I knew it, the night was over and the interesting things had just begun. You see, you have to be present to win the raffle prizes, and a surprising number of them were still unclaimed at the end of the night. Some of them really good ones. A couple of them shockingly popular ones.
The fate of these is to be raffled off to the highest bidder in an auction comprised of Team members and the evening's volunteers. M and I qualifying for both, we stuck around. We didn't get a clasp that we wanted to give to someone as a present (it went for rather more than I think it sells for originally), but I did get to see one of my generally under-loved book baskets go for around $40. (Another went for $5. Note to self; knock off the romance baskets. They're simply not popular. Maybe as an ebay thing?)
One of the things that went unclaimed and came up for auction was the Art of the Wood certificate. So even though I spent more than I intended to, I came home with everything I wanted from last night. (We were reminded that this wasn't a certificate for a mug, but rather a promise to carve a mug we already owned. Which was nice to hear because I already have too many mugs, frankly. So the big question is now - do I want the smaller of mine carved, the one that fits nicely on my belt and in my hand? Or do I want the larger one, which doesn't suit me as well but is much better at faire because the drinks don't slop over the edge when I try to walk?)
The biggest thing of the evening was the smallest. (How zen! I'd really better get some food in me soon.) Pieland Jewelry always makes us a custom piece, and it's always one of the most hotly contested raffle items. (I won last year's, yay!) Staggeringly, this year's work of art was among the unclaimed. M wanted to take a shot at bidding for it, but it rapidly outstripped even our pooled cash. For a while there it looked like it would hover in the slightly-over-$200 range... and then it got a $300 bid! Huzzah!
With stuff like that going on, the actual take of the evening -all to go to MS research - is unknown. I'll be posting as soon as the official amount is announced.
Last night was the third Team Wench Midsummer Fantasy Ball, and a good time was had by all. I hung out most of the evening next to the costumer's guild table, having short but non-frantic conversations with people I'd been too much of a whirlwind to have three coherent words to say to last weekend aside from "do this."
That was nice. I also got to see Don, which hasn't happened in far too long.
The entertainment was great; I finally got to hear 40 Thieves (I've heard *about* them for ages, but never actually *heard* them.) Wonderful group; I must go find some CDs. Darcy also sang and played dulcimer, and
tchwrtr's bellydance troup performed. ("The one in deep blue," I told the costumers. "It's all her fault, all of this." We'd met at college, y'see, and she told me about this group she was part of...)I forgot to bring the perfume bottles that I was donating for raffle prizes, although they would have been lost in the general welter of loot. (I'd also donated 5 book collections and a Shakespeare basket that proved quite popular, so there were plenty of things from me.) Although I dropped one ticket in a couple of bags just in case, there were only two things that I really, REALLY wanted - the custom mug carving from Art of the Wood and the House of Dra royal blue chemise.
One of my single tickets came up a winner, and I got a Bed, Bath and Beyond gift card... only to come home and realize that the orange-ginger shampoo that I liked at Shore Leave was actually from Bath and Body Works. Ooops! Well, one more item for the gift drawer; it'll suit someone for a birthday or Christmas present. I also got the blue chemise, which is having its initial wash-and-shrink as I type.
I'd meant to leave early, actually, or even go sleep in the car because I'm still recovering from last week. But 40 Thieves was playing and things kept happening and before I knew it, the night was over and the interesting things had just begun. You see, you have to be present to win the raffle prizes, and a surprising number of them were still unclaimed at the end of the night. Some of them really good ones. A couple of them shockingly popular ones.
The fate of these is to be raffled off to the highest bidder in an auction comprised of Team members and the evening's volunteers. M and I qualifying for both, we stuck around. We didn't get a clasp that we wanted to give to someone as a present (it went for rather more than I think it sells for originally), but I did get to see one of my generally under-loved book baskets go for around $40. (Another went for $5. Note to self; knock off the romance baskets. They're simply not popular. Maybe as an ebay thing?)
One of the things that went unclaimed and came up for auction was the Art of the Wood certificate. So even though I spent more than I intended to, I came home with everything I wanted from last night. (We were reminded that this wasn't a certificate for a mug, but rather a promise to carve a mug we already owned. Which was nice to hear because I already have too many mugs, frankly. So the big question is now - do I want the smaller of mine carved, the one that fits nicely on my belt and in my hand? Or do I want the larger one, which doesn't suit me as well but is much better at faire because the drinks don't slop over the edge when I try to walk?)
The biggest thing of the evening was the smallest. (How zen! I'd really better get some food in me soon.) Pieland Jewelry always makes us a custom piece, and it's always one of the most hotly contested raffle items. (I won last year's, yay!) Staggeringly, this year's work of art was among the unclaimed. M wanted to take a shot at bidding for it, but it rapidly outstripped even our pooled cash. For a while there it looked like it would hover in the slightly-over-$200 range... and then it got a $300 bid! Huzzah!
With stuff like that going on, the actual take of the evening -all to go to MS research - is unknown. I'll be posting as soon as the official amount is announced.
