One day to go
The Regency Gothic banquet is tomorrow.
The menus are printed and the costumes are ready. Three different costumes, in fact, are spread around my lounge room, waiting for occupants to inhabit them. There is my dusky pink and embroidered black net. There is my houseguest’s silk and lace and there is a spare dress for an unknown woman.
Food, dress, what else can there be? There’s jewellery. I have one quite authentic-looking necklace that my houseguest is borrowing, because it matches her dress just perfectly. Blue lakh - lovely.
I’ll be wearing quite modern makeup, but in case you want to make your own rouge for an equivalent occasion, try safflower and talc.
I can’t think of anything else you need, unless it’s a ton of links to somehow see you safely through to tomorrow, when I give you the complete Regency Gothic banquet menu. Once the banquet is over and the recipes blogged, I’ll return to normal programming, promise. In fact, on Monday I’ll give you an introduction to a book that has not much to do with anything Regency. In the meantime, though, I’m excited.
I’m not the only one bubbling over. More and more people are reporting in and telling me about their costumes. About half the testing team have bought tickets (even several of the testing team from places well interstate) and will be seeing the product of all their labour. 4000 pages of recipes and tomorrow we find out what it tastes like when a professional chef takes over. Yes, I’m nervous.
What I really, really hope is that several of the people present have cameras and will let me blog pictures of the event and all its costumed glory.
While you wait, here are a few links to remind you of how this has all unfolded.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:14 am
[...] Tomorrow, some recipes. In the meantime (since some of you have come to the blog specifically to read the Regency Banquet posts) you might want to start your reading here. [...]