My actual Sunday experience was short and rather uneventful. Not much to say about my final day at the con other than I made it into the dealer's room that morning and stopped by the Chakat's Den to buy the final issue of South Fur Lands fanzine, and the book Jazmyn, which Goldfur autographed for me. Then back to the hotel to check out, and on to ( Read more... )

Rewind back to Thursday night for a moment, oh, about 10pm... as I was walking down Penn Street toward the Westin, as I approached the corner I saw this really cute, beautiful white wolf with white hair crossing the street heading for the DLCC. At least I thought she was a wolf. Anyway, I wanted to meet her and get a pic, but by the time I got to ( Read more... )

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Through the last several weeks, I had been working hard on creating a fursuit partial to accompany the lion head I had gotten last year from ByCats4Cats, and ran out of time before I could design the feet paws. But, I had completed the tail, long arm sleeves, and the handpaws in time for the con, and that would have to make due. So, after ( Read more... )

Arrived in Pittsburgh about 5:30pm on Thursday. Before going to the con, first took a temporary diversion and went to visit the Duquesne Incline. Had a hard time finding it (which wasted about 30-45min), but I finally got there and rode the incline to the top. Interesting, unique piece of history, over 100-years-old, and gave a spectacular view ( Read more... )

Just over a month ago I preregistered for Anthrocon 2012, which will be my next convention. This is the first year I will be getting my own room. And today was the day the Pittsburgh hotels opened up for reservations. At 9am this morning, I made an earnest effort to get in at the Marriott Courtyard, but after repeated messages saying "Not ( Read more... )

[Note: Unfortunately, I don't have time to write, process and upload photos like I used to. Sorry to say, life has been increasingly stressful this past year, especially this last week of December. I had visited Lake Tobias back in October and have some nice lion pictures from that visit, but will now probably skip that report altogether, as I ( Read more... )

I've been scarce this month as for me the Christmas holiday pretty much takes the entire month of December, spanning from the day after Thanksgiving on through New year's day.  Lights & music, it's beautiful, I love it!  And, I can't do everything anymore and need to let go of some things to slow things down a little so I can enjoy this wonderful ( Read more... )

I had an interesting dream last night.  I was in some large building, in an open hallway; don't know if it was at a con or pet show or other large gathering, but people had pets there, and this one guy (dark hair, dressed in dark clothes) had a pet cat on a leash and it was HUGE.  By huge, I mean large-dog-sized, like a Lab, Golden Retriever, or ( Read more... )