welcome to camp telophase

So I've had in my possession for some time an old dressmaker's pattern book that, I think, used to belong to someone in my grandmother's family. It's lost its cover and binding some time ago, so I don't know what year it is nor what the title/publisher is, but it is definitely old enough to be out of copyright.

About a decade back, I Xeroxed it and had it bound into a book for myself, but it does occur to me that there may be some people out there who might be interested in owning their own copy. It'd be a few weeks or months from now that I'd be able to start scanning (after the move, in other words!), but I'm toying with the idea of putting it up on Lulu.com so people could buy an ebook or print version of it. Of interest to historical costumers and possibly steampunks.

A couple of quick iPhone snaps of two pages (the first page and page 6) to give a brief idea of what's in it:

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So...a poll! There's no "no" option because if you're not interested in buying it, there's no point in you telling me that. :)

You can vote with LJ as your OpenID over on Dreamwidth.

There's now 43 characters in the cosplay database. (Usual disclaimers apply: the photos are all hotlinked at the moment, so may not show up properly, and I'm working on making the results pretty later.)

Thanks to all who are entering them in!

Dumped into my Flickr account, because if I upload them individually and post them here I'll never get them all posted. Have at it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/telophase/sets/72157619166685004/

And one pic of kittyspam.

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...back right after A-Kon when I posted the lost prop poster for the Sanzo who left the prop at my table? And I said "Please distribute"? I was actually sort of hoping that some of you would distribute it. Extensive as my f-list is, I know there's not much of a chance that you guys know everyone in con-attending fandom, but there's a bit larger chance that you know people who know people. If you get my meaning. :) I'd really like to get this prop back to the person who owns it, and there's not a whole lot more that I can, or have the time and energy to, do.

Thanks!