Carnival Season 2014

First post for 2014...so as is obligatory "Happy New Year"!!!

I've not done much feting this Carnival season.
Also it's the first year in ever that i collected on the absolute LAST day of collection!
This year as well, I am feeling seriously unorganised...so unlike my usual well-prepared self.

Let's see:

• Costume - check
• Tuesday Boots - check
• Wearing Monday - who knows?!!
• Shoes for Monday - again...who knows?!
• Bag - uhmmm nope
• sunblock and vital supplies - again...nope
• stockings - check

So, there's lots to secure tomorrow in order to get ready for the road Monday/Tuesday.

Otherwise the Carnival season has consisted of:

• ONE Fete 
• HNC's Vintage Fuh So!
• Kerwin and Friends @ Zen
• Soca in B Square
• Army
• Different
• Caesar's Army AMbush

I am very happy and ultra hyped to be on the road, especially since I didn't play last year!

I'll do mini reviews of the events and the Carnival experience in subsequent posts.

Quick News Brief

My how the time has flown.

Distribution Schedules
Both Tribe's and Island People's Costume distribution schedules are out.
  

Check List Items

• Stockings - check
• Boots - check (yep ah doing boots dis year!)
• Money to pay off d costume - check
• Accessories - to be decided after collecting d costume
• Make-up - Pre-arranged with d resident artists!

Now, I wait patiently on Wednesday February 3rd 2010 between the hours of 5:30pm and 8:30pm, to collect mih costume.

2009 Carnival update..part 2

Another update, this time not good news.

Due to the economic climate in the US one of my cousins has had to make the painful decision to not play mas for 2009. This hurt her tremendously as this would have been her first year being here for Carnival. Just a couple weeks ago she was sooo excited about coming in and even had her flight booked and stuff. At this time though, with her job in jeopardy she won't be here. To say I'm bummed about that is an understatement.

Another casualty is my brother. This would have been his first year 'officially' playing mas. He's always on the road with us (his sisters), or with his friends. He actually decided to play for 2009. But due to the timing of payments for his studies he is not able to play this year either.

This news sucks a$$...

Carnival update...

So after seeing Saucy's post on Tights in stock I set off for Micles, Price Plaza yesterday.
That was an exercise in patience. Usually there are soooo many sales staff on the floor you have to keep politely tell them to take a hike. Yesterday was a whole other story...I spent almost five (5) entire minutes trying to locate a sales person.
After that the process of identifying colour, which by now I should know right? Anyways, colour determined...BTW my colour is salmon, size determined using that chart on the back of one of the display packs, then it was to locate my size in the stock. That was nerve-wracking.

• Plus size normal tights - salmon: lots and lots of pairs!!! All too big for me
  
• Normal tights - salmon in large: none
• Low waist tights - salmon in large: none
• Low wait tights, toeless - salmon in large: four pairs

I bought two(2) pairs. One for Monday maybe, defintely one for Tuesday.

Tights - check!