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Halloween
#31
RE: Halloween
(September 18, 2015 at 10:28 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Damn, now I wanna watch Hocus Pocus.

I rewatch it every year.
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#32
RE: Halloween
It's a 90's classic. Smile
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#33
RE: Halloween
I love Halloween.  I'm going as Professor Mcgonagall, my daughter is going as Draco Malfoy (Yes, a Slytherin boy, lol), and I think hubby will be Dr. Horrible again this year.

I make our Halloween costumes.  Here is the Howie Lab Coat I made for my husband a couple of years back (Modeled on Dr. Horrible and also the lab coats worn in Alien), I drafted this pattern myself.  My blog on "how to" for other sewists Sewing Blog.

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And here is my family (I made all 3 costumes) a few years back.   My daughter actually won $100 for her Tinkerbell costume (Also drafted from scratch). 

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 My hubby on the left is wearing a leather trimmed, silk lined Edwardian coat for his Steampunk costume, and my dad (far right), as always, is a pirate. Smile


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Here is me, same group, my 16th century houppelande gown made out of sheets, lol.  I even made the rolled head piece, hand sewed on all those beads and trim.  This was modeled mostly on the famous painting of The Lady of Shallot (not the colors, but the cut).
Lots of fun!

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Yeah, I'll post pictures, if anyone is interested, once I finish this years Harry Potter costumes. Smile
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#34
RE: Halloween
You guys are ridiculously cute! Great job on those costumes. Wow!
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#35
RE: Halloween
Telling children or anyone who has the audacity to walk up my drive to fuck off.

And by that I mean ignoring the doorbell till they go away, because I'm British and we view interaction with strangers to be strange and uncomfortable. ^_^
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#36
RE: Halloween
You silly Brits. Big Grin
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(September 17, 2015 at 4:04 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I make change in the coin tendered. If you want courteous treatment, behave courteously. Preaching at me and calling me immoral is not courteous behavior.
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#37
RE: Halloween
(September 18, 2015 at 12:24 pm)Aroura Wrote: I love Halloween.  I'm going as Professor Mcgonagall, my daughter is going as Draco Malfoy (Yes, a Slytherin boy, lol), and I think hubby will be Dr. Horrible again this year.

I make our Halloween costumes.  Here is the Howie Lab Coat I made for my husband a couple of years back (Modeled on Dr. Horrible and also the lab coats worn in Alien), I drafted this pattern myself.  My blog on "how to" for other sewists Sewing Blog.

[Image: July+20%252C+2012-17.jpg]

And here is my family (I made all 3 costumes) a few years back.   My daughter actually won $100 for her Tinkerbell costume (Also drafted from scratch). 

[Image: DSC_7640.jpg]

 My hubby on the left is wearing a leather trimmed, silk lined Edwardian coat for his Steampunk costume, and my dad (far right), as always, is a pirate. Smile


[Image: October%25252031%25252C%2525202011-6.jpg]

Here is me, same group, my 16th century houppelande gown made out of sheets, lol.  I even made the rolled head piece, hand sewed on all those beads and trim.  This was modeled mostly on the famous painting of The Lady of Shallot (not the colors, but the cut).
Lots of fun!

[Image: October%25252031%25252C%2525202011-14.jpg]

Yeah, I'll post pictures, if anyone is interested, once I finish this years Harry Potter costumes. Smile

Aroura, you are gifted my dear!  I wish I had someone like you to make my costumes!
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
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#38
RE: Halloween
I totally agree. I look forward to your photos the most Aroura. Every time she puts up a photo, I say to myself, "Wow, such an awesome family!"
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
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#39
RE: Halloween
(September 18, 2015 at 1:47 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: Telling children or anyone who has the audacity to walk up my drive to fuck off.

And by that I mean ignoring the doorbell till they go away, because I'm British and we view interaction with strangers to be strange and uncomfortable. ^_^

I've heard that in recent years the British have begun adopting the American trick-or-treat thing.

People don't trick or treat in my complex so I don't even bother to buy stuff if they come to the door, which is good because I'd just end up buying Reese's peanut butter cups and eating them all myself... Angel
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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#40
RE: Halloween
(September 18, 2015 at 1:53 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:
(September 18, 2015 at 1:47 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: Telling children or anyone who has the audacity to walk up my drive to fuck off.

And by that I mean ignoring the doorbell till they go away, because I'm British and we view interaction with strangers to be strange and uncomfortable. ^_^

I've heard that in recent years the British have begun adopting the American trick-or-treat thing.

People don't trick or treat in my complex so I don't even bother to buy stuff if they come to the door, which is good because I'd just end up buying Reese's peanut butter cups and eating them all myself... Angel


That is a terrible thing to copy us on.  And rather ironically, it is fading in the U.S. from what it used to be when I was a child, which was a faded version of what it was when my mother was a child.  A smaller percentage of people do it now, and the age of people doing it is dropping (that is, the older children no longer do it).  When my mother was a child, the "trick" part was still in full play.  Now it is typically just begging (so it should now be called "treat" without the trick part), but many years ago, it was a threat:  give me a treat or I will play a trick on you.  And the tricks were not things you wanted happening.  For example, they might overturn your outhouse if you gave them nothing.  Or some other thing that you did not want them to do.  Typically, some act of vandalism, though it may also involve theft.

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