Blood will Flow

JIB must be preying on my mind.

Last night I had a weird dream about being in Rome at the con (though the hotel we were in wasn't anything like the Hilton) and we were all having a great time on the first day. It was the evening and we were all in a room that was like a posh gym changing rooms, and for some reason Richard Speight walked in and took all his clothes off!! After this strip-tease he left, and we were all in fits of giggles.

That was when I suddenly realised I hadn't registered for the con, and somehow nobody had checked my pass all day to find out that I didn't have one. Which would have been fine, except I also realised not registering meant I hadn't picked up any of my extras, and had missed my Jensen and Jared single ops and the trio!! To say I was gutted is an understatement, so of course that's when I woke up.

Musing about this ridiculous dream later, I realised that apart from anything else, if it had been the first day of JIB, the Js wouldn't have been there anyway...not that the rest of the dream made sense either, LOL

I finally uploaded to Youtube, and wanted to post here, as I see people are already making gifs from mine and other folks' vids (uncredited of course - geesh). Anyhow. I apologise for the unsteadi-cam. No tripods or camera supports were allowed this year because people are idiots, so hand holding for 30-45 minutes at a time messes up my shoulders and neck and means everything wobbles. (Ha ha what's new when you're 3 stone overweight?!)

Guess what. Saturday's J2 panel was crashed by Misha and where was the drama then?

One day I'll work out how to use iMovie to stitch these together but until then, here's part 2


JenMisha Panel with giant Jared bonus.

Part 2 including closing ceremony


You can find the rest on my playlists on Youtube, I just wanted to put some of the vids here.

Every time someone comments on this video, I get a message in my inbox. And every time that happens I go to reply to the comment and watch a bit (or all) of this performance - it NEVER fails to make me smile, chortle, and, on occasion, laugh until my sides ache.

So I'm putting it here again just because I can, and it pleases me.

Photo Op tales from JIBcon 2017

NB there are a couple here I already posted but I wanted these all together so just scroll on by any repeats...

I had too many photo ops this year. I’d gone a bit nuts buying them, because I knew it was my only chance to see our boys this year, and I was desperate to make the most of it. So I’d managed to snaffle one single with Brianna, two singles with Jensen, two with Jared, two J2s, the trio (J2 & Misha), a Jared and Misha double and apparently, two Jensen and Misha doubles. I was mystified by that last one for a while, until I remembered that for JIB7 I missed out on the Jensen Misha. So all I can think is that when I got my prophet pass and they offered me the chance to buy sold out photo ops, I had it in my head that I’d failed to get the Jensen Misha, so bought another. Yeah, yeah, I know – clearly I have more money than sense.

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Too good not to share - sorry the vids are over exposed - I have no idea what I did with my camera settings so couldn't fix it yet. I need to see if Youtube can edit it, but as it took nearly 24 hours to upload I'll wait till I get home! LOL

Just to say - I'm on my way to Bella Italia, the internet future is uncertain so apologies in advance if I miss posts and fail at commenting for a couple of weeks. I hope I'll be able to catch some things, and to post photos and convention reports when I can, but the Hilton wifi in particular sucks big hairy balls.

So ciao for now, my lovelies.

Since I need to produce something for Tom Ellis to sign before I leave for Italy, I thought I might take a couple of reference photos with me to work from in tonight's sketchbooking class. I kind of like the watercolour techniques we were trying but sadly, the end results don't resemble Tom very much at all. In fact the second one looks more like that Tyler thingy from Teenwolf. Which is weird since I've never watched the show and have only see pics of him at conventions and on Tumblr.

Never mind, it's all good practice!
First one (done on sketchbook paper which is really rubbish at taking watercolour, soaks it up like blotting paper).

Second one (done on this weird plastic-like paper I bought to try out, and it's quite fun to use).

I'm wondering whether I can now go over this subtle watercolour with something else and make it more like Tom.

I have a feeling I was talking to someone a little while ago who was interested in taking my Angel Pass for JIBLand and JIB8 next May. I've checked back through my PMs can can't find the conversation so... if you are on my Flist, or anyone else on here is interested this pass and joining us for a week of fun and frolics in Rome, let me know.

What you get with this pass:
Admission to JIBLand 17th and 18th of May 2017 and JIB8 19th, 20th and 21st of May 2017. Guest list for both HERE.
Seat AP54 which is second row (we think because the seating arrangements are a little different this year with the Prophets being in a front row by themselves). Whatever, it's going to be one of the best views in the place.
Priority queuing for autos (which are included except for * guests) and photos if you buy any. (My pass doesn't come with any photo ops, sorry).
The cocktail party for JIB8 (and there will probably be something party-like for JIBLand, I suspect). The JIB cocktail party is a meet & greet type thing with the guests (it doesn't usually include the Js).

Now the sting in the tail - the price is €695.

There is a handover process we have to go through, but I can explain all that if anyone is interested. I'm happy to answer questions!

Yep, there's more...
Firstly, here's a vid of the opening ceremony. Those are wee cloth rose buds being thrown this year, a little safer than the hard plastic light globes from last year! Youtube muted the vid because of a Bob Dylan track so I've tried Vimeo instead.( Read more... )