Belated New Year's Steampunk

For New Year's - the husband and I went to spend the holidays with his family in North Carolina.  A great time was had by all but we were kindof at loose ends for New Year's Eve Plans.  Enter our old friends from college, all of whom were attending the Clockwork Ball at http://www.davenportandwinkleperry.com/ - an art gallery, coffee shop and bar that hosts gatherings of the steampunk community. 
Unfortunately, all our awesome steampunk costumes:

Were back home in Kentucky.  So what's a part-time costumer to do?

Well, she looks up all the local thrift stores and starts collecting pieces to put some costumes together.  Oh and she sends her husband off to make goggles :-)

So after three days of thrift shopping and re-working, we came up with the following costumes:

 

 

Made from three skirts, a jacket, some buttons and a bedsheet!

 Thrifted vest and pants, a hat that belonged to his dad and our new goggles!

His were strapped and ready to go, mine didn't get a strap in time for me to wear them to the ball :-(

We had a blast with our friends!







Now I'm looking at the Steampunk Empire Symposium that is happening in April.
And with warning  - I am planning to thrift us a pair of fun new outfits for this spectacular event (it's three days, we can wear our old stuff AND the new stuff!)

So starting Monday, here we go!