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Halloween Special, 119th Journal
7 years ago
This is my head.
Yep, another journal on my Halloween experience. Though this time, I almost didn't go in costume. I been quite busy all year and the Halloween sprint pretty much nonexistent especially at work. The people that was really into it in the years past are no longer around. Only one person really decorated her cubical area and that was in a not too traveled part of the building. I did eventually put up some decorations but nothing like a few years ago. I also reside in a not too traveled area by the way.
I had the idea of going as a plague doctor for most of the year, mainly for the relative ease it would be made compared on the other ideas I had or had done in the years past. I didn't want to recycle yet another costume so making a mask, simple black robe and a hat wasn't going to take too long I figured.
Even then, I had my reservations. I expressed my concern at work on one person told me the he didn't believe me, that I always dress up on Hallow's Eve. I decided then and there to go ahead with my idea. So I did it, made that plague doctor in a couple of weekends. I was going to sew up that black robe but found a Grim Reaper costume for cheap and modified that. I cut off the extensions sown on the bottom of the arms. I used one of the extra piece to cover over my face so that my eyes didn't show through the lens of the mask as well as my chin area. It was just thin enough for me to see enough while being dark enough to observe my face.
The mask itself took the most time to make. I started with a cheap beak style masquerade mask made of plastic and build out from that, cutting and hot gluing til I got the shape I wanted. Quite happy how it turned out in the end despite the short time working on it.
The only thing I didn't modify was the hat. I didn't have enough time I thought so I left it alone. Could have been a lot better making it more appropriate for the costume. It needed a larger, flatter brim and the center part reshaped with the top being slightly larger than the base. Plus a more leathery look than the velvet it was made from.
I posted a series of photos on the costume and mask with some descriptions on how I made them in my gallery. It starts at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/29260451/ and goes from there. I'll post more if someone request it though I doubt anyone would much less read this saga.
Anyway, I am glad I went through with it. I ended up have fun at work by simply walking around and giving out bubonic... I mean chocolate candy. I had a bog of 170 of them and gave almost all of it out. I even through in some plastic spiders, scorpions, centipedes and the like in the candy bucket I carried around. One person accidently pull out a spider and she jump back with a yelling "ahhhh, spider!". That was hilarious I must say.
Another person ask it was all right to take a scorpion. One of the rare times I talked, I told her that you not supposed to eat the scorpion, the scorpion supposed to eat you. She gave that "ewww" look, heh. But I remained mostly silent, shaking the candy bucket while holding it out to vict... people. I even sneaked up behind some people and gave them a good fright. Fun stuff.
Yeah, I am glad that I choose to celebrate Halloween. I just wish more people get involved into it. In years past when we fist got into the new place, we got like 30 people dressing up. The sad thing is that we a lot more people employed here this year but maybe a handful got into the spirit. I would like to see it get up to like the old days. A few years ago, we even had employees bringing their kids over to the office to go trick-n-treating. That was a blast. I had my improved pirate costume that time and even though I somehow didn't win the costume contest, the kids thought I had the best outfit, especially with the display I had in my area.
I had pirate themed music (mostly from the Pirates of the Caribbean) playing, spooky skeleton, and bunch of scary stuff. I even had the bottom section of Santa Claus sticking out from under a box and telling the kids Christmas was canceled due to Santa having an accident while pointing to the box with his legs poking out from it.
Maybe next year I can pump up the spirit. I'll give it a try.
I had the idea of going as a plague doctor for most of the year, mainly for the relative ease it would be made compared on the other ideas I had or had done in the years past. I didn't want to recycle yet another costume so making a mask, simple black robe and a hat wasn't going to take too long I figured.
Even then, I had my reservations. I expressed my concern at work on one person told me the he didn't believe me, that I always dress up on Hallow's Eve. I decided then and there to go ahead with my idea. So I did it, made that plague doctor in a couple of weekends. I was going to sew up that black robe but found a Grim Reaper costume for cheap and modified that. I cut off the extensions sown on the bottom of the arms. I used one of the extra piece to cover over my face so that my eyes didn't show through the lens of the mask as well as my chin area. It was just thin enough for me to see enough while being dark enough to observe my face.
The mask itself took the most time to make. I started with a cheap beak style masquerade mask made of plastic and build out from that, cutting and hot gluing til I got the shape I wanted. Quite happy how it turned out in the end despite the short time working on it.
The only thing I didn't modify was the hat. I didn't have enough time I thought so I left it alone. Could have been a lot better making it more appropriate for the costume. It needed a larger, flatter brim and the center part reshaped with the top being slightly larger than the base. Plus a more leathery look than the velvet it was made from.
I posted a series of photos on the costume and mask with some descriptions on how I made them in my gallery. It starts at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/29260451/ and goes from there. I'll post more if someone request it though I doubt anyone would much less read this saga.
Anyway, I am glad I went through with it. I ended up have fun at work by simply walking around and giving out bubonic... I mean chocolate candy. I had a bog of 170 of them and gave almost all of it out. I even through in some plastic spiders, scorpions, centipedes and the like in the candy bucket I carried around. One person accidently pull out a spider and she jump back with a yelling "ahhhh, spider!". That was hilarious I must say.
Another person ask it was all right to take a scorpion. One of the rare times I talked, I told her that you not supposed to eat the scorpion, the scorpion supposed to eat you. She gave that "ewww" look, heh. But I remained mostly silent, shaking the candy bucket while holding it out to vict... people. I even sneaked up behind some people and gave them a good fright. Fun stuff.
Yeah, I am glad that I choose to celebrate Halloween. I just wish more people get involved into it. In years past when we fist got into the new place, we got like 30 people dressing up. The sad thing is that we a lot more people employed here this year but maybe a handful got into the spirit. I would like to see it get up to like the old days. A few years ago, we even had employees bringing their kids over to the office to go trick-n-treating. That was a blast. I had my improved pirate costume that time and even though I somehow didn't win the costume contest, the kids thought I had the best outfit, especially with the display I had in my area.
I had pirate themed music (mostly from the Pirates of the Caribbean) playing, spooky skeleton, and bunch of scary stuff. I even had the bottom section of Santa Claus sticking out from under a box and telling the kids Christmas was canceled due to Santa having an accident while pointing to the box with his legs poking out from it.
Maybe next year I can pump up the spirit. I'll give it a try.
