Missy - Suplemental The Party

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We went to my clubs Midsummer Nights Dream Halloween party. We dressed as Elizabethan fairies.

We were either Moth and Mote or Moth and consort of Moth in the traditional mortal consort style.

Here is the program:

# 🌙 **Historic Haven: Midsummer Night’s Dream Halloween Masquerade**

### 🎭 *Saturday, October 31st – An Enchanted Evening of Mischief and Magic*

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**🕗 8:00 PM – Opening Toast & Feast**  

Welcome all! Raise your glasses to good fortune and protection from mischievous spirits.  

Dinner is served, and enchanted potions (a.k.a. booze) are offered as defense against evil spirits.

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**🌸 8:05 PM – The Flowers of True Sight**  

Gene begins the *Flowers of True Sight* game — seek truth among illusion and find who wears glamour still.  

Meanwhile, Steven wanders the hall with snapdragons, bestowing sparks of mischief and delight.

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**💃 8:30 PM – Dancing Under the Moonlight**  

The music begins — join hands, elves and mortals alike, for lively historic dances.

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**🎭 9:15 PM – The Mechanicals’ Play**  

A brief and comical performance by the “finest” troupe of actors in all of Fairyland.  

Prepare for laughter, chaos, and questionable stagecraft!

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**🔥 9:30 PM – The Pumpkin Fire Leap**  

Brave souls may test their luck and spirit by leaping over the flaming pumpkins —  

a time-honored charm for courage and good fortune.

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**🏆 9:45 PM – Costume Awards**  

Prizes bestowed for:  

• Best Costume  

• Sexiest Costume  

• Best Elf  

• Best Ass’s Head  

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**🎶 10PM – The Bard’s Ballad**  

Steven performs a *serious historical ballad* 

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✨ *Join us for a night of revelry, magic, and merriment in our enchanted indoor forest!*

This is the event we have been learning all those dances for. It was also the thing I have been crafting up a storm over. 

The projects that I am the most proud of are David’s moth pattern cloak and my matching French Hood pattern. 

It’s not exactly a French Hood but it was as close as a Walmart costume hat and hot glue could go. 

Both of these are much more Tudor than Elizabethan but I was working with older costumes that I was trying to bring forward by several decades. 

On the other hand fairy’s are probably very loose in their timeline fashion choices so maybe it’s more authentic than not, that the costumes were a little old fashioned. 

I tried to bring us up to date with neck ruffs and changing the profiles of the garb. 

Then of course wings and ears from cheap Chinese site dot com. 

I 3d printed and painted and assembled moth masks and antlers and a headband. A nice thing about printing is the ability to resize headbands to a customizable fit.

My husband is a dashing and long suffering kindly date. 

He also applied some mustache wax to go for an Elizabethan men’s grooming style. 

My friend Lucero also loaned us some earrings and rings and necklaces in moth themes. 

We had parent duty for the evening so my main goal was to make sure we made it for the dancing. 

We drove out to Frederick dressed fancy (driving in a hoop skirt is a whole thing) and found parking. 

We scuttled (cold October breeze in an hoop skirt is also a thing!) over to the club and joined the throng. 

It was a throng too. 

We saw many amazing costumes and dodged in and out of hanging greenery and sparkling beverages. 

We took part in 3 chaotic dances that taught me that I should have sewed in the Velcro patches on the cloak and that mask plus glasses plus ears was a dangerous amount of precarious balance. 

Poor David was very much not digging the crowd so we had a drink and left quickly. 

I loved the dancing and the crafting and the Shakespeare of it all.