Current location:	Pittsburgh, PA
Current mood:	stressed
Current music:	Silence (it's really creepy)
Entry tags:	handout, karada, rope dress, shibaricon

Back from ShibariCon
We're back from ShibariCon (it was the fifth ShibariCon, but only our fourth, as we missed last year to go to BoundCon).

It was great seeing a lot of our friends both new and old. But I gotta put out a request: please help me link up your scene name with your LJ name...for example, I was really looking forward to talking with ralinad, whose photography I really admire. I was actually speaking with him on Sunday, but his badge name wasn't Ralinad, so I never put two and two together.

For the first time, Dee and I taught a class (we even made our handout available online: Mick and Dee's guide to Karadas and Rope Dresses). I am really anal about preparing for classes, so it's a good thing we only had one. I spent most of Saturday morning tying rope dresses and karadas on our volunteer models. One dress had been tied years before and had already been worn by Dee at the first ShibariCon. This time, we were very lucky to get roxifox to model it:


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We enjoyed the class so much we offered to teach it again next year.

Didn't take too many pictures, but I'm hoping that David Lawrence sends me some of his shots of Dee in rope soon, so I can share them.

Dee and I are spending the week loading a fourth POD for our move to Texas. Next Thursday we load the dog and the cats and the one remaining teenager into our two cars and drive off to Texas for good. Well, almost for good; we'll still be back and forth until the Pittsburgh ranch sells, and we probably still have another POD worth of stuff to load after the sale. But we are really looking forward to being in Texas permanently this summer.

Sometime in the next month I'll write a longer ShibariCon trip report with our take on the classes we took, the few photos we can scrape together. For now I wanted people to know that the Rope Dress Handout was online.

--Mick