Decorations

This last weekend was the culmination of months of planning with the decorations committee for the Vampire: the Masquerade game that I was involved in during three of the nights of KublaCon. Each night had a theme and required that we make the very large space appear different for each night because the game was set in three different locations, though in reality we were using the same physical location all three nights.

The first night was themed "Rebirth" and was supposed to evoke the idea of a phoenix rising from the ashes. The second night was without a theme, as it had been decided that we would use the existing space  as is to give a clean/uncluttered feeling as a juxtaposition to the other nights. The last night was "Masquerade" which was my favorite and, by far, got the lions share of my attention and imagination and resources.

Nights one and two were fine, but I want to share night three, since that is the decorations that not only looked the best, but brought about comments that they were the most amazing decorations the convention had seen (considering that the same was said for the decorations I did for one of the nights last year, I'm extremely proud of continuing the upward climb). The space was a large tent with ten round 6ft tables, chairs arranged around the tables, chairs in a few rows, a small dance floor, a small platform that was dubbed a stage, and a few tables that we could move around the outside of the very large tent. Everything was white or drab, as befits a stereotypical hotel pavilion, but we made it rich and vibrant.

Through the use of fabric in reds and golds, masks, fake beaded fruit, jewels, fake candles, vases, fake flowers, real flowers, ribbon, fur, and hard work, the team and I made the space amazing. There was a plethora of art by my friend Jenny J. (who I will link as soon as I have her permission), who was of great assistance with the decorating committee as well as being an amazing illustrator and painter and costume designer, and I feel that her art pieces really made the space what much more imaginative and festive and beautiful. Thank you Jenny for adding the depth to the space.

Pictures will be posted as soon as I can get ahold of them.