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Homemade Halloween Decorations
We live behind a photography studio (and no, Toby doesn’t work for them) that constantly fills their dumpster with giant sheets of cardboard. They do a lot of those fancy dancy family portraits that rich people hang over their fireplaces and the frames come in great big six-foot boxes. What this means for us is that we have an endless supply of flat cardboard! My dream medium.
So the other day Bug and I were kicking around with nothing much to do and we decided to make some halloween decorations for our windows. Why not, right? We don’t need no stinkin’ Walmart crap that I have to find a place to store the rest of the year! We can recycle the nice clean trash right next door and have no guilt about throwing it out when the season is over. Or maybe I’ll just give them to somebody else who does have room to store seasonal decorations.
First we sketched out what we wanted to make. Bug drew some kind of robot buddy guy or that’s what she called him anyway. I made my cliche spy cats. It was my way of thumbing my nose at my landlord who made me wash the graffiti cats off the cement wall by our house. She can’t make me take halloween decorations out of my windows I don’t think. Pffft.
Then I cut them out with my handy-dandy box cutter. I love that thing.
After we had a motley collection of scary-looking silhouettes we got out the paint. Black and white for me and green, yellow, pink and purple for Bug. I think we have very different ideas about what Halloween looks like but whatever. I’m all for free form art.
Bug and her buddy had quite a fun afternoon together, just hanging out and relaxing on the cold hard cement.
I love it when we paint together. Everything else in my head just floats away…
Buddy Guy ended up looking scary after all. And yes, I did help a bit. I really need to not do that but sometimes I just can’t help myself. I think he’s kinda cute in a pickly-clown sort of way. You just know any minute he’s going to hop up and say “Boo!”
After the paint dried we took them upstairs and decorated the windowsills with them.
Spooky, no?
I’m kinda partial to the one guarding my dish rack.
Then we just had to wait for it to get dark to take some spooktacular pictures. We probably won’t get any trick-or-treaters this year (we never do) but at least it was fun for us. Maybe we’ll do the same thing for Christmas except with big giant snowmen and flying saucer-sized snowflakes.
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Funny Fashion Friday: the late edition
I thought I’d have a camping post for funny fashion Friday but I don’t really. Yes, she did put some funny outfits together but I didn’t really take pictures of them and the pictures I do have are not posed so you can see her outfit clearly. But go ahead and use your imagination, I’m sure you won’t be far off. If it was green, she wore it. The above fashion statement is thanks to some super sucking mud that she stepped into near the lake.
Here she is in the little town of Ferndale. This look fit right in with the rest of the townspeople. We were on an early morning mission to get coffee and a doughnut before Toby woke up. She loves loves loves this skirt my mom made her. I think she’d wear it every day if I let her. The boots are her special “camping boots” and the white socks are white because the pink ones were dirty.
I don’t know what to say about this outfit. It’s not that terrible but yet it is.
And lastly, the best outfit of all. Seriously, I can’t make this stuff up. This is all Bug. The hat and sweater are hand-me-downs that have been passed through the family all the way from the 70’s. My Grandma made this sweater and hat for my brother when he was THREE. Or maybe two, I’m not sure. He was a pretty big kid. Anyway the sweater has held up quite well, don’t you think? The flowered capri pants are hand-me-downs from Annalie. Her shoes are the fake crocs that won’t die. My Aunt Keren gave them to her a year ago and they still fit. She wears them every single day it seems like and yet they will not fall apart. I guess that’s a good thing. If only they weren’t so day-glow green… but then of course they wouldn’t be such a favorite.
Then five minutes later she found a lei in her dress-up drawer that matched. I guess it all makes sense…if you’re three.