[Artemisia] GARB Informal Shopping Trip to Costume-Con 23

[Dawn Tavares]

Cross-posted to Gryphon's Lair & Loch Salaan lists. Feel free to forward to 
any other local lists for Artemisia.

About a month ago I posted on this list to see if anyone would be interested 
in visiting the merchants' hall of the national costuming convention that 
will take place in Ogden the weekend of April 30. Many Artemisian 
garb-lovers will be in town that Saturday for Convocation, so I was thinking 
this will be an excellent opportunity to meet costumers from other kingdoms, 
shop for rare items, and discuss projects over coffee and pie.

Costume-Con23 is expected to bring in all the big names in hard-to-find 
costuming supplies: Lacis, Hedgehog Handworks, Past Patterns, etc. CC23 
co-organizer Dave Doering told me that the merchant booths will be located 
for easy access by foot traffic in the Ogden Marriott Hotel, in the 
Cottonwood Room. (The vendors specifically requested that they be made 
available to shoppers NOT attending the convention as well as 
convention-goers.) Doering has also promised to e-mail me the list of 
confirmed merchants. I'll post that information as soon as I get it.

I've already had one reply from an East Kingdom SCAdian who will be teaching 
a class at CC23; our own Lady Ashe'el is rounding up stitching buddies in 
Loch Salaan and other parts; I also recall at least two other Artemisians in 
far-flung reaches who expressed an interest several weeks ago. I'd like to 
start planning the logistics for a post-shopping snack session at a local 
diner sometime in the late afternoon, when Convocation is most likely 
wrapped up. This could turn into quite a nice session of chatting, bargain 
bragging, and solving whatever knotty issues of research and construction 
you may care to bring.

If you're interested in attending this *informal,* **unofficial** gathering, 
please drop me a line off-list. The more accurate the head count, the better 
I can line up a comfortable, inexpensive place to natter and nosh that's 
between the Convocation site and the costumers' hotel.

Feel free to pass this missive around in its entirety.

Aurora de Portugal
dtavares1 at hotmail.com

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