Frozen Oasis Today

It's that time of year again! Time for the FOXmas party! this year it will be at my house again so we have to limit attendance so please RSVP and do so soon so I can make sure we have enough food and drink.

To change things up a little this year, we decided to do a themed FOXmas Party - "My Little Party: FOXmas is Magic". What do ponies have to do with Christmas, you may ask? And the answer is that that is like *the* stereotypical thing little girls ask for from Santa. I suspect that's actually how the MLP franchise came about... parents who's daughters asked for a pony and they don't want to disappoint.

This year we HAVE to be Strictly 21+, and we will be checking IDs for any and all newcomers.

Grazing will start at 7pm and the party will get underway officially at 8pm on December 10. Food & mixed drinks provided (its a light dinner of finger-food mostly. Don't expect a full sit-down spread! Although at some point someone always orders pizza at these things, but if you want pizza bring a couple extra bucks to pitch in!). If you would like to bring food to help out please check with me ahead of time so we don't wind up with 100 bags of tortilla chips and no salsa!

It is also Goatmancer's birthday so we will have CAKE!!!!

Hangover breakfast is at 12:30 the following afternoon. The location to be decided at the FOXmas party... but typically it will be someplace with all-day breakfast (breakfast has such good hangover food).

Its going to be the _BEST NIGHT EVER_! (At least until the next one) :P

Artwork by Jaspian

That's right fellow furries.... FOXDAY Night.... Furs will be walking up and down the corridor looking at the the connecting rooms and listening... 293 nope not there... 295... nope... The president's room... Nope not there either... They continue to walk past the various other meeting rooms and then there is a chill descending down upon the hallway the closer they get to the Adams room. As they reach the room they see Mystee dressed as Alice standing in front of the door which now resembles a giant mirror. She smiles sweetly and proclaims that you are late as a low fog rolls along the floor and the thumping base lets the furs know they have reached their desired destination for the night... the FROZEN OASIS!!!!


That's right furs, as many of you know the Frozen Oasis is now in event space! We have taken over the Adams room and will be transforming it into our own version of wonderland. We will have an all updated laser and light show with lots of surprises. A large separate lounge area in the same room to get away from the flashy flashy (the lights, not Jaspian he will be allowed all over) and not be all huddled and cramped like in the rooms. We will also have the frozen drink machine manned by a hotel bartender till 2am. We have upgraded our equipment and now have drink capacity that can serve upwards of 300 drinks an hour so people shouldn't have to wait long for their frozen goodness.

This stands to be the best party yet and the light show will rival any con dance and are looking to pull at least half the con through the doors. I look forward to seeing you all there FOxday night!

Our teaser poster is below, Jaspian is feverishly working on the main poster.


~Soron

PS: we are not the ONLY event on FOxday but we are the ONLY one you wont want to miss!!!

Time flies, doesn’t it? Today was the Friday of FWA 2011, which means that Frozen Oasis is five years old today as of midnight. We’ve come a long way since our humble beginnings as a generic late-night one-room party to becoming the talk of the fandom for a few years. There have been ups and downs and bumps along the way, but it has been a fun ride so far, and five years and twenty-two parties later, we’re still here, even if we’re not as active as we were when the Frozen Oasis started. I like to think that what we’ve cut back in quantity has been more-than made-up by quality for you guys (although I’d like to start doing more FO events too!) now that we have a real soundsystem,  real DJ equipment, a real frozen drink maker, a real laser and light show... and even more to come!

So I’d like to thank you all for your support, and here’s to five more years of epic furry parties! For those of you who are interested, I've been slowly adding the years of amassed Frozen Oasis artwork to our Furaffinity Frozen Oasis profile at : http://www.furaffinity.net/user/frozenoasis/ ... if you're interested please subscribe. We'll be posting more content there in the coming years because... well... its easier to follow people on FA (at least I think so) than on LJ. Of course we'll still post here too, but the artwork gallery will be on FA. .. Anyway! I hope you'll all come out to Morphicon as we take over Friday night and redefine what a furry party ought to be in the main dance room. 21+ only, per-usual, and you will need your conbadge to get in. Hope to see you there!



Cheers!

-Jaspian

Another year, another FOXmas! And this one was a special milestone: that was the fifth annual FOXmas and it’s still going strong. Personally, I thought it was the best one to date. Great food, great drinks, and most of all - great people.

So we had a total party attendance of 45, which means that we’re getting precariously close to our previous record before we decided to restrict attendance to prevent overcrowding, but the new layout, I think, kinda addressed that and made for more open space at the party. We did set a record for Hangover Breakfast though, with 33 furs attending, which is the most we’ve had for any Frozen Oasis Hangover Breakfast, not just for FOXmas, but for *all* Hangover Breakfasts so far, and there were 8 for the Sunday movie afterward... which wasn’t a great film. Review is up HERE for those of you who’re interested. As for the party...

For alcohol, we finished off …
* 6 gallons of Holiday Pepperment Chai
* 3 gallons of Mulled Cider
* 3 gallons of Pina Colada
* 3 750 mL bottles of fine champagne
* 1 L Everclear
* ⅕ of Amaretto
* ⅕ of Chestnut liquor

For food, we finished off...
* 10 lbs of ham
* 15 chicken breasts
* 3 lbs pasta
* lots of dip, chips & other snacks

So overall I’d say it was a very successful event. The party went from 7 pm until finally wrapping up at 5 am. Jaderia and Tiff played first set (Thanks guys, you were great!), mostly Industrial Techno. I played second set, starting a little before midnight, mostly Dubstep.

There was also a Special Announcement made at the party... for those of you who weren’t there, I think you might be interested to know...

Frozen Oasis will now be a con-sponsored event at Morphicon. Having such a positive reception in recent years that we managed to close down most of the convention events after 8 pm on Friday by draining them of attendees, Jewel has decided to give us a main ballroom, so that we can throw the Frozen Oasis party like it’s meant to be thrown - with plenty of flourish and style - and supposedly all convention events except for Frozen Oasis will be closed. This will hopefully be a big thing for the furry community in general - first ever con-sponsored convention party, and it being in a ballroom. And we hope to give back to Morphicon by significantly increasing their attendance this year. So please, if you like Frozen Oasis and can make it out to Ohio in May, come to Morphicon and bring your friends...! With your help, we can show all the doubters what a boon con-sponsored convention parties can be to the furry community as a whole, (so that there can be more of them)! As usual, FO @ Morphicon will be 21+ with photo ID, and you will need to have a conbadge to get in.

Hope to see you there!  -^.^-

Hey Oasis Visitors! Its 4 days before FOXmas and I have a lot of RSVPs (~50) which puts us at or very near our maximum so I am declaring the event closed for the year. I want to thank everyone who is coming and I look forward to see you on Saturday.

For everyone who could not make it or did not respond in time, Please have a very nice, happy and safe holiday season and I look forward to seeing you next year.

Enjoy!
~Soron

Hey guys,

Just wanted to let you all know that there won’t be a Frozen Oasis at Mephit Furmeet this year because.... quite simply - we won’t be there. Its nothing against the convention or anything like that. Its simply too far away. While up until now this hasn’t deterred us from attending in the past, in recent years three new furry conventions have opened in the Northeast / North Central. Closer conventions means less expense, both in cost and vacation time. This means that I can attend more conventions if I cut out MFM and FWA. That’s not to say that these are bad cons - quite to the contrary. MFM especially, is one of the greatest conventions I’ve ever been to.  However, it takes 58 hours of total travel time for me to attend MFM if I bring the Oasis, and I can’t help but wonder if that time might be better spent at least trying some of these local conventions instead.

So, at least for 2010 and early 2011, there will be no Frozen Oasis at MFM or FWA. Hope you guys have a fun time there even without us, and you’ll be missed. Next FO will be FOXmas in early December.



Sorry to disappoint,

-jaspi

So the Panda Party is over, and in its wake is nothing but piles of used paper plates and red plastic cups and memories. First, I’d like to thank everybody who came out to celebrate Soron’s 40th Birthday Party with us, especially those who came long distances for this occasion. Thanks also to those of you who brought presents or donated towards the cost of the party.

The party was pretty big... not quite as big as FOXmas, but Panda Party is getting close. There were exactly 50 furs in attendance this year. We plowed through 12 gallons of mixed drink, and 6 liters of straight alcohol. There were also some jello shots... some beer... unfortunately because Panda Party doesn’t have the “no outside liquor” rule, its hard to gauge exactly how much was consumed and of what. We had some Apple pie liquor and some Midori and Amaretto... anyway, the point is, a lot of furs got pretty damn tipsy.   :)  We also went through 5 packs of leis ( about 50 in total) and about 2 dozen glowsticks.

The party kicked off around 2 pm on Saturday, and went until about 5 am on Sunday. Lots of furs used the pool, and we had projectors showing movies on the back fence (Sherlock Holmes) and over the pool on the house wall (3:10 to Yuma.... which I thought was epic!), as well as some old Western on the regular TV. Dance Room kicked on around 7 or 8 or so. I took the first set, spinning mostly Dub and DnB. Effects pad was kinda cool, but for the first time ever I figured out the scratcher to full effect. Yeah, I need to get better at it, but it wasn’t bad at all. I will practice and use it more in the future!  :)  Jaderia took over after that and played a bunch of DnB and Industrial Dance. Card games went on all day and night and then again the next day. Hangover breakfast was at 12:30 on Sunday. and 24 furs went to it.

Overall, I think the party went over pretty well. There was a little miscommunication about what the Panda Party would be like, which caused some to be shocked. Next year, we will be explicit as to what guests should expect, and what the rules of the party are. Next year’s Panda Party will not be a Frozen Oasis party because Soron wants to shed some of the expectations that come with being “Frozen Oasis”, which is really designed to be more of a convention party, rather than a house party. FOXmas will remain a Frozen Oasis, however, because of the volume of guests, even though it will be a house party again this year. (FOXmas will not be a con in 2010. Sorry guys!)

I’m sure that some of you heard that Soron had to be hospitalized the day after Panda Party broke up. To dispel any rumors, its because a chair broke while he was sitting on it and he fell pretty hard. He was released the same day - so no worries, doc says he’s fine.

Anyway - thanks for coming out, and hope to see you at PandaParty next year!

Saturday is fast approaching! Furs have already started arriving for the party! The food and drink order has been placed (RSVPs will be wrist banded) so if your name is not below you are still welcome to come but it will be BYOF and BYOB. I hope to see everyone Saturday.



Attending:

1. Soron
2. Jaspian
3. Nilla
4. Freaky Lynx
5. Watcher
6. Tailly
7. Katmandu
8. Pyrophin
9. Scitters
10. Sea Fox
11. Silky
12. Kalida
13. Leon
14. D_Bandit
15. Tempest
16. Dragoth
17. Fretts
18. Wags
19. Areun
20. Cory
21. Talmak
22. Xan
23. Lupis Lupine
24. Crex
25. Jadaira
26. Tiffany
27. Corralled Pony
28. Woyro
29. Aegis
30. Chewie
31. Chewie's Hubby
32. Happy Puppy
33. Taridium
34. Josh
35. Zach
36. AyCee
37. Drakie
38. Ruckus
39. Noah
40. Luna
41. Foxwell
42. Ashton
43. Dreamwolf
44. Ryu
45. Erin
46. Jessica



Maybe:

1. Joey
2. Alex
3. Alyssa
4. Jirashi
5. Genki
6. WolfBoi
7. Saphlion
8. DL David
9. Sasho
10. Squeaky chew toy
11. Landis
12. Tru
13. P_Pardus
14. Jbadger

Thanks
Soron