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Halloween’s Almost Here

Mama Bear wants to know…

Still stumped on your costume for Halloween?

I completely knew. I tried on 2 costumes and went away to think about it. Then I went to buy it and they were sold out (!) so I’m back to square 2 (with a tiara, wand but no dress for the ball).

Fairy Godmother seems to be late for her appointment so I’ll have to do some innovation/magic without here. What’s that they always say, procrastination is the mother of invention?

CostumeZone has ideas, tips and costumes — from normal clothes with a sign around your neck saying “nudist on strike” — to tips for “Quick Transformations”, such as

An easy way to make a skeleton – use all white clothes and then put on electrical tape to form the bones. Or use all black clothes with white cloth medical tape. You can use tape to make stripes on clothes for a prison uniform, or to put stripes down the sides of pants legs for police uniform, etc. The beauty of this technique is that the tape comes off and you don’t have to destroy anything to make your costume.

There’s also a discussion going on about costumes nearby.

Featured Links: Want to brush up on your Halloween History? Or go over to Hoarded Ordinaries and see some spectacular Jack-O-Lanterns . Here’s an rtf file on Halloween simplified from Wikipedia.

Poetry Note: The Beechwood Cemetery Foundation invites you to raise Ottawa’s literary spirits! Join us for Dead Poets Live —an evening of music, poetry and merriment, Thursday, November 17, 2005, 7:00-10:00 p.m., at the Beechwood Cemetery Reception Centre, 280 Beechwood Avenue, Ottawa.

The evening is a fundraiser in support of the Poet’s Hill project. Tickets are $20. To purchase tickets, or for more information about this fundraiser, contact the Beechwood Cemetery Foundation at 741-9530.

Meme: Well dash it all –

I’m a Hyphen 38% Sociability and 58% Sophistication!

You are comfortable around others. While you don’t have to go out every night, yet you take pride in being easy to get along with. This should not, however, be misconstrued as believing (as many do) that you are without subtlety. In fact, you have the power to inform the anal retentive that, indeed, they are discussing an anal-retentive issue. Who else can do that? Quotation marks intimidate you a little bit.

Link: The Which Punctuation Mark Are You Test written by Gazda on Ok Cupid