of angels, devils & little red riding hoods
with the hoopla of halloween, it was actually nice to take the entire day yesterday to just stay home and CLEAN. the place looked like a junkyard, with all my little projects, mostly involving sewing, strewn about the rooms. once i finished my halloween costume (at midnight the day before halloween, i might add), i was able to close up shop and clean up all the little scraps and threads... until, that is, inspiration struck again last night, and i felt compelled to drag out the machine and accoutrements once again. perhaps that little machine should go back to its owner, or i will be forced to live my life amidst fabric scraps.
as for the costume, i got great mileage out of it on both friday and saturday nights. i didn't wear it to work for the fact that a) the skirt turned out WAY shorter than i had intended (but long enough not to be in the total ho category), and b) not too many people had dressed up on campus last year due to the fires, so when i went all-out on a rockin' 80s outfit, i stood out in not the best way. i ended up grabbing a co-worker, also decked out, and taking her with me where ever i went on campus so people would understand we were dressed up, and i wasn't just stuck two decades back. we were so good/bad that our boss wouldn't even sit with us. so this year, i decided to play it safe(r). turns out, quite a few people took the initiative to get dressed up, so that made me quite happy. thumbs up to the creative side of the brain!

current mood: work clothes are so boring!