#aas 229

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My penultimate post for the day is BDNYC co-founder & newly-tenured @huntercollege professor Dr. Kelle Cruz! She’s been featured here at least twice before, and her new company ScienceBetter Consulting was instrumental in launching the STARtorialist booth at AAS229 earlier this year. In the top photo she’s wearing a necklace & earrings c/o @lostinspacejewelry & bracelet c/o @yugentribe, and as you can tell from the bottom photos, she’s lots of fun even when she’s not making AstroBetter. She was recently recognized for her service by the American Astronomical Society and elected to the AAS Council by her colleagues, and I can tell you from experience she is a peerless peer & student mentor as well as a fierce friend.

--Emily

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It’s always a good day for celebrating the startorial awesomeness of our AAS229 booth volunteers!

From top to bottom:

Stephanie Douglas in Modcloth and ThinkGeek

Colleen Cleary in Target and Modcloth w/ Victoria Di’Tomasso in Shadowplaynyc

Marina Dunn in Charming Charlie

Teresa Panurach in Forever 21

Ashley Pagnotta in Lord & Taylor and Joy Susan

Rebecca McElroy in Black Milk Clothing

Karen Knierman in Surly Amy, ThinkGeek, LuLaRoe, and Brittnee Braun

Jennifer Weston in Modcloth

Several of the items pictured here will be making an appearance on the blog in the near future so watch this space.*

This is also a great time to mention that many of our AAS229 vendors have extended their discount codes through January 31st - so you still have time to support them (and us!). DOOOOOO IT. 

- Summer

*pun always intended ;)

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AAS229 Sunday Selfie Storm, Part Three.

Day 3 OOTD: One of my most fav spacey dresses - Heart and Solar System dress by @modcloth (clearly other people’s favorite dress too, see all previous posts), earrings by Surly Amy (“remember to look up” + “made of stardust”, purchased at GeekGirlCon), planet/orb-esque necklace from Accessorize in the U.K.

- Summer

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AAS229 Sunday Selfie Storm, Part Duex.

Day 2 OOTD: Cosmic moto jacket by Funktional (original post featuring Felicia Day), Planet Ahead earrings by @modcloth, Cosmic Star necklace by @tattydevine.

- Summer

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Apologies in advance for the onslaught of posts featuring my face, but I’m just going to share all of my OOTDs from AAS229 at once in a Sunday Selfie storm. 

DAY 1 OOTD: supernova twirl skater skirt from @modcloth which we’ve posted only once before, paired with a brand newdouble-sided necklace featuring Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s astronomical drawings of Jupiter & Mars courtesy of @lostinspacejewelry . 

Watch this space for more amazing designs like this from Lost in Space Jewelry... In the mean time, you can check out our feature post on them from AAS229. 

And just a reminder that @lostinspacejewelry is offering a 10% discount ending at midnight tonight! 

- Summer

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A relative newcomer on the startorial scene at our AAS229 booth is AstronoBEAds (aka @astronobeads​) by Bea (get it?!) Doheny, whose shop was originally brought into our orbit by @startalkradio.

Bea has been steadily expanding her collection beyond the classic Solar System bracelet and elegant Pale Blue Dot necklace to include subtly evocative galaxy choker and moon bracelets (all pictured above). I love how simple and fun the designs are!

Bea is offering a discount of 20% off any orders using the code AAS229 (as are many other vendors - check out the full list!).

–Emily

Full disclosure: vendors paid to be represented at our booth in order for us to cover the costs, but we are only representing awesome vendors!

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TBT to our amazing inaugural booth adventure at AAS229 last week! It was a smashing success and the place to be during the conference. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, supported us, helped make it happen. 

Thanks to all our amazing vendors: Stern Design Works, SMLX Good, Tactile Melodies, Celestial Buddies, Svaha, Eclectic Eccentricity, Pacalin, Lost in Space Jewelry, Yugen Tribe, Boutique Academia, SciChic, Pretty Little Earth, Kokoba, Astronobeads, and Shenova. 

And thanks to all our stellar volunteers: Vanshree Bhalotia, Colleen Cleary, Victoria DiTomasso, Stephanie Douglas, Marina Dunn, Jaquelin Erazo, Haley Fica, Paige Godfrey, Karen Knierman, Rachael Livermore, Rebecca McElroy, Ashely Pagnotta, Teresa Panurach, Nicole Cabrera Salazar, Jeanine Shea, Jennifer Weston.

As we mentioned to everyone we spoke with, almost all of our vendors are offering SPECIAL DISCOUNTS! You can find a link to all the vendors and their discount codes on either the conference website or the app (as pictured above). Discounts are good at least through Sunday, January 15 with the possibility of extension...stay tuned... 

NOTE: the more you support (read: buy from!) our AAS229 vendors, the more likely we are to expand booth next year and actually be able to sell things on site! 

- Summer & Emily

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Let’s start the features with our only toy: plush planets (and more!) from Celestial Buddies! We’ve posted them several times before (and even used them to inspire a research mascot), and we have samples of all 13 buddies at the booth. That is one star, eight planets, a pair of dwarf planets, a comet, a Moon, and a black hole that can hold them all!

I LOVE the details on the buddies - the polar ice cap on Mars, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, Uranus’ iridescent ring (best viewed in infrared light!), Neptune’s storm, Pluto & Charon’s distinctive surface features, and the comet’s coma-over hairstyle.

Self-care during conferences* is very important so feel free to stop by the booth to give your favorite planet a hug and maybe even order one to have waiting for you when you get home!

--Emily

*Shout out to @drssarahcare!

Full disclosure: vendors paid to be represented at our booth in order for us to cover the costs, but we are only representing awesome vendors!