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    Keane Interest: Holiday Edition

    December 7, 2019 - By 

    Happy Holidays! We had a great visit to grandma’s for Thanksgiving, followed by the longest drive home ever. Holiday traffic is the worst! Then we kicked Christmas season off right away on Dec. 1st with a visit to the GAAM Holiday Nerd Market. Next, we enjoyed the tree lighting at the Atlantic Beach Country Club and also set up our own Christmas tree. We also got to check out a new children’s book Where Will You Go Ricky Jo? There’s lots more fun to be had this month and we plan to get out and soak it all in! Happy…

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    Keane Interest: Hive Society White Party, GAAM, Chuck E. Cheese and Geek Mama T-Shirts

    August 29, 2019 - By 

    Welcome to the latest edition of the Week in Review, now called “Keane Interest” because I wanted something a little more catchy. This edition covers the latest GAAM event, the Hive Society White Party, a new love for Chuck E. Cheese and the Geek Mamas t-shirt shop on Tee Public. Space GAAM gets a New Space GAAM, my favorite video game themed party/charity event, moved to a new location this year: The Shultz Center, which is right down the road from its old spot at The Museum. They did an amazing job with the new location and bringing the “space”…

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    Rocking those Leeloo Dallas Orange Suspenders 20 Years Later

    August 15, 2019 - By 

    A lot of my “over-40” cosplay choices are not quite the same as the characters I chose in my 20’s. Add in the post-baby bod issues and an emphasis on family-friendly choices that cover most of my bits and that cancels out most the costumes from my 30’s as well. But some costumes I just can’t get rid of until I feel I got them just right, and that’s the case with Leeloo and her orange suspenders. It started twenty years ago, when I was 23 and in college at the University of Florida. Halloween was approaching and there was…

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    The Weekly Round-up: Past, Present and Future Edition

    July 27, 2018 - By 

    Since I’ve been gone on vacation for two weeks, the usual weekly round-up post is being replaced today by a short update. PAST– The biggest highlight of the past couple weeks of course was our trip to Ireland. It’s inspiring a new “Tips for Traveling with Toddlers” post. We’ve travelled with Keelan since he was an infant, both within the US and internationally, and I’ve learned a lot along the way. I’d like to share some of my favorite tips since it seems like every article I’ve run across is just rehashing the same old stuff. Most of it is…

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    The Total Cosplay Makeover – Mom Edition

    June 25, 2018 - By 

    The night I started the meds for my IVF cycle, I was supposed to run a table for my boutique at a big cosplay event. I had worked really hard to bring my character to life and was excited to wear the outfit as part of a trio. Things did not go as planned. The fertility drugs made me really ill, and I ended up puking in the parking lot before the event started. We never even got photos of our group – the Lady Luck dressphere from Final Fantasy X-2. I was Paine, the one in blue and black.…