February 25, 2012

RomCon Wants You

Would you like FREE ADMISSION to RomCon? Would you like some BEHIND THE SCENES contact with some of your favorite authors? Then apply to be a RomCon Team Volunteer! 

Below are a few positions RomCon has open. Some might take a couple hours a month, some a few hours a week.

• Book Club Helpers (Inspirational and General Romance)

• Reviewers (experienced, all genres - new reviews or shared from your blog)

• People with sales and/or marketing backgrounds

• Computer Programmers: Lotus/Domino, PHP, Joomla, HTML

• People with Publicity & Media Contact experience

• Social Media addicts (Twitter and Facebook fans)

• Reader Judges (all fiction genres including Thriller, Horror, Fantasy, etc...)

• Blog Hoppers

• Photographer

• Video Production

• E-Zine design/layout/editing/content control

• RomCon Ambassadors - first line of contact

• General Legal assistance

• Convention Help (event moderators, event point-of-contact, room decorators, etc...)

If you're interested in any of them, email admin@romconinc.com with your thoughts, comments, suggestions, or skill set and they will give you a better idea of what would be involved in each area.  

RomCon 2012 General Fun Pass

Get yours today!  

 General Admission and Author Registration open!

 Alexandra Ivy, Deeanne Gist, Elizabeth Hoyt, Holly Jacobs, Jill Shalvis, Julia Quinn, Kat Martin, Patricia Rosemoor, Rebecca Forster, Teresa Medeiros, and many, many more!

posted by Deeanne on 02/25/2012 - 2 comments - Post a Comment    RSS FEED

February 19, 2012

Back in the Day

 I've always loved to play dress up. Even when I was teaching, I'd have "Hawaiian Day" when we studied Hawaii. "Favorite Author" day when we studied the classics. And "Civil War Day" when we studied the Civil War. Not only would the students come dressed up, I would too. And we'd wear our costumes the entire school day.

Of course, I don't teach anymore. But, I still manage to do my share of dressing up at my Getaway With Dee events each summer. As part of my fascination with dress up clothes, I comb through all kinds of vintage clothing sites. Pinterest has offered a plethora of new places to explore.

Here are some of my favorites from my recent finds:

On the left is a two-piece tan silk shantung dress. The two pieces are a skirt and cuaisse bodice with brown faille trim. It is from the trousseau of Della Miles Bertch, 1887.  On the right is the matching coat with hood and matching parasol. I found this on Rhonda Gibson's Pinterest page.

I found this cotton Civil War dress (circa 1865) on Kelly Cochran Davis' Pinterest page. This, too, would be two pieces--a skirt and a bodice (with a bazillion kinds of undergarments underneath). I particularly love the circles and dots along the skirt. The sleeves are super fun also.

Last is this bathing suit ensemble (also from Rhonda Gibson's page). The embroidered red-orange wool serge suit by LY and J Nathan has wool braid trim. It was worn by Emily Tinne in 1910 during her honeymoon in Ireland. Her orange cotton sateen bathing cap has waterproof rubber backing.

My favorite part of the outfit, however, are her linen espadrilles (aka shoes). An orange anchor is embroidered on the linen. They have cotton jute soles and cotton laces.

Do you still play dress up?

posted by Deeanne on 02/19/2012 - 8 comments - Post a Comment    RSS FEED

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