Happy Halloween!
My favorite holiday. I love this time of year the best-- the fall colors bursting out all over, the leaves blowing around and getting whipped up into the headlight beams of the car at night like colored, swirly snow. The COOLER TEMPERATURES. Candy is a nice plus. The deeper meanings behind what we now know as "Halloween"-- originally (and STILL) "Samhain," November 1st.
Here are our pumpkins-- mine's the little, conventional one on the left. Daughter #1 carved the one on the right-- the "brains" and eye-goo are coming out of the top of the head and eye. Daughter #2's is more gross-- hers has a bullet-hole in the middle of the forehead, with a little ooze. But the back of the head is cut out, as a result of the "bullet", and the ickies are splattered on the porch upright behind it. No, I did NOT raise my children to think of things like that-- they did it all on their own. I go for sweeter, kinder-type things. Oh, well.
Here are the pumpkins at night. We have little fake tea-light candles inside that "flicker like real flame!", but it's hard to tell anything's flickering in the photo. It looks pretty good when you're just looking at them, though.
Here's Daughter #1 in her Elf ears. She wears them during the year, as well. Usually the ears barely poke up through her hair, and it's fun to see people on the street or at the mall do double-takes. Sometimes they even sidle up to get a closer look, trying to be nonchalant about it, and sometimes they just turn around and follow her, then ask her where she got her ears. The fake ears match her skin tone pretty exactly, and are subtle. A couple of people have said they thought she'd had plastic surgery! But she's not being an elf tonight-- she's wearing a long, black dress with lacing up the bodice that she wears for various Faires, and is carrying a long, plastic scythe, so she's the Grim Reaper's Niece. Nice kid, huh?
And here's Daughter #2, dressed as a "Yamanba Girl." It's a Japanese thing. In Japan, some of the kids dress this way, sort of like the kids here in America who dress "Goth." It means "blackface," but not like the Al Jolsen blackface. The girls wear really dark foundation makeup, to look super-tanned. You'll have to ask the Daughter about it-- I've probably gotten something incorrect here. She spent all year getting the right kind of makeup-- I guess white eye shadow is a little hard to find. She got some long, fake eyelashes, but they wouldn't stay stuck on, probably because the makeup got in the way.
Oh, we just lerrrrv Halloween. Except I forgot to go out to the garage and get all the stuff I've made for it over the years. Oh, well, next Halloween, for sure.
Here are our pumpkins-- mine's the little, conventional one on the left. Daughter #1 carved the one on the right-- the "brains" and eye-goo are coming out of the top of the head and eye. Daughter #2's is more gross-- hers has a bullet-hole in the middle of the forehead, with a little ooze. But the back of the head is cut out, as a result of the "bullet", and the ickies are splattered on the porch upright behind it. No, I did NOT raise my children to think of things like that-- they did it all on their own. I go for sweeter, kinder-type things. Oh, well.
Here are the pumpkins at night. We have little fake tea-light candles inside that "flicker like real flame!", but it's hard to tell anything's flickering in the photo. It looks pretty good when you're just looking at them, though.
Here's Daughter #1 in her Elf ears. She wears them during the year, as well. Usually the ears barely poke up through her hair, and it's fun to see people on the street or at the mall do double-takes. Sometimes they even sidle up to get a closer look, trying to be nonchalant about it, and sometimes they just turn around and follow her, then ask her where she got her ears. The fake ears match her skin tone pretty exactly, and are subtle. A couple of people have said they thought she'd had plastic surgery! But she's not being an elf tonight-- she's wearing a long, black dress with lacing up the bodice that she wears for various Faires, and is carrying a long, plastic scythe, so she's the Grim Reaper's Niece. Nice kid, huh?
And here's Daughter #2, dressed as a "Yamanba Girl." It's a Japanese thing. In Japan, some of the kids dress this way, sort of like the kids here in America who dress "Goth." It means "blackface," but not like the Al Jolsen blackface. The girls wear really dark foundation makeup, to look super-tanned. You'll have to ask the Daughter about it-- I've probably gotten something incorrect here. She spent all year getting the right kind of makeup-- I guess white eye shadow is a little hard to find. She got some long, fake eyelashes, but they wouldn't stay stuck on, probably because the makeup got in the way. Oh, we just lerrrrv Halloween. Except I forgot to go out to the garage and get all the stuff I've made for it over the years. Oh, well, next Halloween, for sure.
Lori finally stopped procrastinating at 10:00 PM
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