Trick or Treat

Of course when one thinks of Halloween of course it brings to mind pumpkins, black cats,candy corn, orchids. Yes, orchids at the annual orchid show at Tower Hill.

This year brought a very blustery Halloween. As night fell, the howling wind and dark was really quite spooky. The wind was also not very helpful to the wings that my costume required. I was a bee. Not a slutty bee however (given the alarming trend of women's Halloween costumes to be quite inappropriate I feel the need to clarify).

My costume started with a bright yellow t shirt that I merely needed to apply stripes to. It was easier that is sounds. Luckily I know my way around a fabric store so I was able to solve the problem after three attempts. My initial thought of using black duct tape and then ribbons and iron-on interfacing were both spectacularly unsuccessful. The winner was black fabric paint. Of course, one curious feline made her mark on my white kitchen floor by walking over the wet shirt. Luckily the prints wiped right off the floor and her paws.

If was a fun evening with a bunch of trick or treaters outside my door, antenna that did not quite prove to be so easy to drive with and wings. The wind did indeed cause an issue so I had to tuck my wings under my coat to arrive at my friend's Halloween Housewarming party. It was a fun evening with some interesting costumes and great conversation. The best line of the night from a person I had just met was "When not being a bee, what do you enjoy doing?" All in all, it was a very Happy Halloween.