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Last year, I saw amazing costumes, outfits and masks. I would love to explore this more and see what is available, but possible be on the more cost effective end of it. Any suggestions?

Visions of Venice is offering a discount to Goth Cruisers for Masks.

www.visionsofvenice.com

IN the comments section, type in: "2008 Goth Cruise"

Do you know what type of discount?

its about 15%.

I got mine from a local friend. I have her card somewhere and will post details.

Her website is always way behind because she's only sober about 10% of the time I think, but she creates custom leather masks that are just breathtaking.

OK, got the info for you.

I bumped into faithful Tyffany this weekend while clubbing, and she went and got herself a brand-new storefront! A very exciting move for her.

If you liked my mask at all, it was the simplest of what she could make. I liked it because being an athlete things that restrict movement too much make me uncomfortable.

However she has some incredible stuff, so I don't mind giving her a shameless plug here.

Her site is in a constant state of flux, and she does ren-faire so jun-august is not a good time to be in a hurry for her services, but otherwise she's pretty snappy if disorganized.

www.artsmyths.com

Is anyone thinking of making their own mask??? Anybody know of any cool 'do it yourself' websites?
thanX
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Last year I got one of the Victorian type masks (with the big pointy nose, for men) from a costume store in Seattle, cost about $15 or so. It was paper mache. It worked fine for the costume ball but then started falling apart. My wife had one of the masks that you hold up to your face (covering half of the face) but it broke in transit. We should've hot glued it or used wood glue to make sure all was in order. She also had a generic black type eye mask, also very cheap from the same costume store.

I've been meaning to say something about that store - it's where we got our masks, too. The store is called "Display and Costume" - check out their website and scroll through all the masks. The ones we bought are there, as well as a bunch of other stylish and totally appropriate ones. And at 13 or 14 bucks a pop, you don't feel too bad if they get mauled in transit.
On that note, we brought glue and a sewing kit with us because of the potential breakage issues - and it paid off! It's kind of cheesy, but we also put notes in our luggage to the lovely TSA folks asking them to PLEASE be careful with our masks and to re-pack them as best they could. They seemed to oblige because ours made it there and back intact.
I'm so sorry about yours, defaultet! Hit us up for glue next year, eh?!

A suggestion! Jon and I last year, went and got a small box from a packing store and 1 small bag of packing peanuts, then packed our masks that way. Then just hand carried the box onboard. (Which would have fit in our hard-cased luggage, but I was paranoid).