I wanted to give a little taste of TwiCon in pictures to all of you not able to go. I must add that some of these pictures were taken by the queen
TwilightMOMs News blogger herself,
Amy and some (most of which have her mark on them) were taken by photographer extraordinaire Heather of
Heather Gardner Photography and
Fire and Ice who also happened to be one of my roommates and my booth partner at the con.
Dallas!
↑ This picture got onto Reelz Channel, as they were doing coverage of the entire convention.
That is our faithful servant Lauralee. She sold the snot out of our merch and was quite the
salesperson! She will be getting a surprise from me soon. ;-)
Dolls all posed and looking cute
All the Little Unreliable Vampires sold out quickly!
(but there are now more in my etsy shop - hurray!)
Wall o' banners
Our booth team: Heather, Me, Brock and Curt from Positive Music and Downloads
Our booth volunteers: Lauralee and Amy D.
Below is the official picture of "TwiGirl 2009" painted entirely in Twilight themed body art. I love this look. This picture of the actual banner doesn't do it justice.
On the second day of the con, the had painted her half wolf/half vampire. AMAZING!
This husband's shirt was brilliant.
"I lost my wife to Twilight"
The Central Cali Coven had a special
sparkly TM shirt made just for
THE Lisa
Everyone wants to nibble THE Lisa
Got to meet a few VolturiMOMs in person finally and now some of them are my assistants in the
spotlight section. YAY for Amanda, Amy D and Christine!
AmyO, Amanda, Amy D, Christine, Lisa
Some awesome artwork. Robward made out of the words from the books.
Kimbra Hickey - the hands of Twilight. She is the hand model that graces the cover of Twilight. She told me that when she did the shoot, the photographer knew it was for a vampire book and specifically told her to make her hand and arms shape a "V" for "vampire". So cool!
I told her how it took me almost 45 minutes to get my hands positioned as close to hers as possible for this picture my dad took for our Official TM Charity,
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
Luckily, my friend
Lina had a copy of our logo there for all the charity auctions she was holding at her booth (Go Lina!!) and she let me have it so that Kimbra could sign it.
Thank you Lina and Kimbra!!
Rae was making this face almost the entire convention. She was just about the hardest working volunteer there and got maybe 2-3 hours of sleep each night. I felt so bad for her. She deserves a month on an island made of books.
Evil Iguana sandwich for Lisa. Yum.
Our Miss Lisa on the Webmaster's Panel
Friday night Lisa and I found out we were going to introduce the triple band concert about 15 minutes before they started. We were so super nervous. I think we rehearsed our intro about 15 times before we went on. LOL!
The bands that played that night: The Mitch Hansen Band (our booth sponsor), National Rifle and 100 Monkeys!
Taken during our intro - not sure what I was doing here but it looks as though I'm sorta giving devil horns?? Rock on.
photo by Heather Gardner
Later that night, we spotted Jackson playing pool with some fellow TMs in pure TwilightMOM-hottie-on-a-stick style.
We also spotted
Larry Carroll with MTV at the concert. Here he is catching up on his Twilight reading...
A group of us stayed after and had a nice chat with him. He is SUCH a cool guy.
Volturi Ball!!!
I was inspired by So You Think You Can Dance's famous
Ramalama Bang Bang dance (it is my favorite EVER!) for my hair and make-up and wore my Steampunk Gothic black dress from the last vampire ball I went to - gotta get good use out of it, right?
Lisa primping
Doing Heather's hair and make-up. She ended up looking like a little fairy sprite. She's petite enough to be one. I actually think she may very well be!
Elevator fun. This is one of my favorite pictures of the night. We had to get a Georgia lips pic in there somewhere.
Funky, sexy socks and shoes!
Lisa and I were supposed to be the Volturi Wives, Sulpicia and Athenodora. Not a direct interpretation from the books but our own version.
There was a little girl there with her mom that was dressed like Claudia from Interview with a Vampire. I wanted to wrap her up and put her in my pocket, not just because she was unbelievably adorable, but because she played the part the entire time, fluttering her feather fan and tipping her tiny hat to us. It just KILLED me!!
We decided she should be our little Volturi child.
The beautiful
Erin enjoying a glass of vampire wine in her retro chic cocktail dress.
Volturi Wives want a taste of the Larry.
What would a masquarde ball be without exotic masks? The next two are from are a particular Etsy seller, but I don't remember who at the moment. When I get the link I will be sure to post it. This lovely damsel wore a replica of
Stephenie Meyer's dress from the Eclipse Prom and her her mask perfectly compliments it.
One of my other roommates, Brenda wore this mask from the same maker. The name of it is "Wind" and I LOVE the blue tone of it and her dress. Breezy. Flowing. Simply lovely.
There was a group of girls there who made each of their dresses to represent the Twilight book covers. Brilliant!
Dancing the night away...
I love my new friend,
Erin. She's as cute as a button (and I LOVE buttons, as you will see on my
new shop blog in the coming year or so as I make a million things with them). We share the same taste in style and would be perfectly content to spend the rest of our days shopping in vintage/retro/antique stores, watching Tim Burton movies, and crafting.
Lisa and Kimbra
This picture I simply adore. It is of Kelly (another one of my roommates), Heather, and Gabby(another new assistant to my spotlight section!!) I just love the giggly, girly look Kelly is giving here. A true TwilightMOM up to something.... hmmm....
Daniel, the Edward look-a-like of
Fire and Ice, playing the
Yiruma lullaby for all of us. Swoon!
A "ball" of a time had by all! It's the friends that always make it sooo fun. Thank you to all who helped out at our booth and volunteered countless hours so that we could enjoy the convention. TwilightMOMs rock!!!
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