i believe i can fly!!

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Well there is a convention comming up in late september called Archon, they have a masquarde ball i believe that saturday night and i'm going to be buying most of my costume (my costume is modeled after the main character in a story i'm writing, she's half vampire and half angel), there is only one part of the costume that i'm going to be making and that's the wings. I'm going to make them life size, and little shorter than me, but not long enough that they'd drag on the floor. I'm going to be using two big pieces of mat board, i'm goign to draw out the wings, cut them out and then i'm going to hot glue red and black feathers onto it. I had come up with an idea, i think it would be cool if i could make the wings expand when i wanted them too... yet i don't know how i could do this, since the memories are MIA i couldn't look there for any ideas. Anyone have suggestions?