GeekGirlCon '14 Post-Con Blog Post

I had an unbelievably great time this weekend. I met amazing people who I'd only talked to in occasional FB comment threads (or not at all!) and I got to meet some people I've emailed regularly for a few months but never gotten to meet in person. It was two days of whirlwind craziness but I'd have to say it was the most satisfying craziness I've ever experienced. Despite the insanity I was able to set up the booth in time and get everything ready to put my heart and soul on display, and let me just tell you....worth it!

Saturday I dressed as a genderswapped Captain Reynolds from Firefly and another captain found my booth! Raph of Digital Nails requested a picture of us together and we were happy to oblige.

I saw a ton of other amazing cosplayers as well and even did manicures on some of them. My friend Winnie (who was selling her awesome jewelry, Happy Nerdcore) took some pictures of the great costumes she saw. I'll be doing my best to label the costumes I can recognize, if you see any that I get wrong or don't know please leave a comment!

Other exciting points in the weekend included going to a panel with Christal of Espionage Cosmetics and getting to chat with her about small business stuff, seeing Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency (I tried to get her to check out my booth but she was more interested in the tea booth next to me, sadface), and eating some fantastic pizza at Serious Pie.

At the end of the con Sunday night all my friends and I got together for dinner and staying up far too late for almost everyone having to wake up for an early flight and then go straight to work, but it was an amazing time regardless (but then, I was one of the ones who got to sleep in the next day!) and I'm already looking for more conventions I can go to. I'm crossing my fingers that it's not too late to apply for a table at Portland Comic Con in January :)

Check out all these cool people!

And finally: the swag! I got some awesome goodies at GGC, here's just the stuff I could fit on my side table.

Rainbow Love pin from ACLU WA; sushi animal, Portal, and :P pins from Nauti Art; Digital Soaps pins; Gay/Straight/Wibbly-Wobbly, Sexy-Wexy pin from Northwest Press (my friend Briannon also got me a shirt that says this; it's officially my new fav tee!); Key earrings from GeekStar Costuming; Girl Power charm, earrings, and glow necklace, paw print glow necklace, and pink/blue/white Swarovski earrings by Happy Nerdcore; I ♥ Games and I ♥ Gaming stickers from pixelkin.org; Tea, Earl Grey, Hot card by Dancing Heron; What Does the Fox Say postcard by fablefire; kitty tote (that was previously stuffed with a bunch of tees) from shirt.Woot; and tentacle teddy bear stickers from someone whose name I can't remember :( All in all a very good haul!

I also wanted to remind you all of my social media sites, since I have a few new accounts now!

https://www.facebook.com/Lucky13Lacquer (My most used platform)
http://instagram.com/lucky13lacquer (new and I love it so far!)
https://www.youtube.com/user/Lucky13Lacquer (YouTube? Whaaaat? Yes, Lucky 13 videos are coming in the future! Leave a comment with ideas for stuff you'd like to see me do or discuss)
https://twitter.com/Lucky13Lacquer
http://lucky13lacquer.tumblr.com/

And I can't figure out how to end this post, so...