Trick or treat

Smile! :-D

This was my first ever attempt at carving a pumpkin, though really, it was a team effort between my boyfriend and I. I designed it to be like a pirate with an eye patch. When I was carving the smile, one of the corners came too close to the eye patch, so we used toothpicks for support. The toothpicks actually added a cool effect. If we could have found a flimsy, black piece of fabric to put over the patch, then I wonder what kind of effect it would give it.

On Halloween, I also got to go trick-or-treating, something that I hadn't done in years! I was part of a group who dressed up as characters from the "Star Wars" films. Ahead of time, we had gone to thrift stores to find clothing to put together costumes at an affordable price. The results were amazing:

I was Princess Leia, and I probably spent less than $25 to put together an outfit that consisted of a white robe, a white skirt, and her famous hair buns that covered each ear. I pinned dog mullet wigs (go figure) that were each in hairnets to the sides of my head.

Afterward, we watched "The Others," starring Nicole Kidman:

Kidman plays a 1940s mother to a girl and boy, who all live in a big house in England. The children are sensitive to sunlight, so (conveniently) the rooms are so dark and add to the mysterious atmosphere when the family thinks there are ghosts haunting the place. The movie is suspenseful and there are parts that can make you jump, but it's not a film filled with blood and guts, which is good, since I can't stomach (ha ha) violence and gore. I was also familiar with the big twist of the film without having seen it. While that might have "spoiled" it for me in that regard, at least I could watch the film without being too jumpy and running out of the room.

All in all, it was quite a nice way to spend a Halloween evening.