july 11, 2013. Course of the Force visited Tech campuses including Flickr! where Cindy reunited with R2D2.

Cindy and the landspeeder.

Christoper spent years trying to convince Cindy to bring her infamous handmade Queen Amidala costume to Comic-Con. He had seen the costume in person and knew it would be a big hit. There was a LOT of convincing to be done, though—the costume itself takes up a whole large suitcase, plus the headdress takes up a separate box, plus the hair & make-up, etc. Finally, we got to spend some time with Cindy and Matt at the Penn State Conference for .

I can’t remember when I met Cindy. It just feels like I always knew her. I grew up in Jacksonville too, but I left many years prior to her years. I was at SXSW starting around 2006, so it could have been there. I had my own business back then, and Cindy did a lot of my client’s design work (designing doesn’t suit me since I’m a tweakaholic and never satisfied).

In 2007, Jeremy posed for a slightly unsettling picture wearing Cindy’s stunning Amidala headdress. He also went to Web Directions North in Canada, and when he came back, he told me that Cindy and a guy named Matt Harris had been bonding over cough medicine. And the rest is history…