speaking of parties...

[doddiemoemoe]

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> Awesome ideas DD!  
DD here:

thanx(but I was not the one in costume....._and I have several hats 
worth well over $300 which I'm always afraid of wearing to public 
events in case someone ripped it off my head LOL! (not fashion 
hats...but wild and crazy hats I've had made for myself...)...

Hilaire stated:

 I made a Minerva costume for myself, but chose  a subdued plaid for 
my cloak and most people thought I was a regular witch, not  a 
deputy head mistress.  LOL  
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> Y Hilaire

Doddiemoemoe again:
When doning a costume it's not about what other's think but what you 
feel...at these shindigs you have to project said attitude....

A game I play, with myself while waiting in line is to project 
certain characters from hogwarts...DD, MM, Hagrid, Snape, Ron etc 
etc...now, I receive no  awards but I love amusing the folks in line 
around me.  I also read out loud in line(in the early years I would 
read books from the bookshelves around me while I was in line.  
However, now, I  tend to read Jean Shepherd or something from 
the "Little House on the Prarie" series...sad...yet folks should map 
out the line in different directions every year a book is 
realeased..I always went to the same couple of book stores in my 
innocent days.

DD
(who had a hat made for all of her favorite comic books written 
before 1970, and whose biggest hat is larger than the flag than flys 
off her patio... 
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