Okay so now I'm really on a kick and want to blog every day!! Crazy but I'm enjoying this. I love drawing and creating, and have found a few blogs out there that are fun and educational. Proko is a really funny guy who know's his stuff. He is an excellent artist and has video's he makes and shares about drawing the nose, eyes, ears etc. He's really awesome check him out at www.proko.com his newest video about drawing the ear is too funny.
Halloween costumes for the family are almost complete and I'll post pictures next week after we've tried them out at the annual Johnson Halloween Party!! We love Halloween and go all out for our costumes! I spend almost 20 hours of work each year sewing up costumes. The kids love to choose obscure characters to be for Halloween so, of course there are no patterns to buy of these in any store, but I love to make them so I create my own patterns and run with it. I think this has something to do with those 20 hours. Making it up as I go is fun but also a little stressful, I feel like I'm on "Project Runway" and I'm in a time crunch and I've got to satisfy my judges (the kids and Bryan) so they are happy Halloweeners....um ya.
It truly is a "make it work" moment. :) Love that Tim Gunn. This years run down of everyone's costumes.
Bryan - Scary creature (kinda looks like the creature from "The Village") Obscure
Me - Medusa
Gwen - Princess Mononoka (A Miyazaki film from studio Ghibli, if you've not seen it I recommend it) told you obscure!
Vivian - Nausicaa (another Miyazaki film from studio Ghibli, also recommended if you've not seen)
*Kael - drum roll, Red Power Ranger! I know you didn't see that coming. Dang Netflix totally got him hooked! :)
*Fiona - Cinderella, she is so in love with Cinderella. I don't mind, she's a great roll model!
*Lydia - a sweet little lady bug!
*I did not make (sadly and with a little but of shame) Kael's, Fiona's or Lydia's. Kael's Power Ranger has muscles and I know I couldn't do that justice. :) Fiona's I did make some adjustments to but it was all ready for her, and Lydia's came from Target, I saw it for 9 bucks and couldn't pass it up. :)
4 out of 7 is failing in any other grading so I guess I'm a failure. Just kidding I'll totally sleep fine tonight knowing I didn't make everyone's costume. I'm no seamstress (can't believe I spelled it right without spell check) but I love doing it. Bryan so lovingly pointed out (after I was lamenting my botched sewing job on my own costume) that I only sew pretty much once a year and a few "fix it's" every now and again, so I did awesome. This is him making me feel better.
Well the partying starts tomorrow so I better finish up.
Happy Halloween Everyone!
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