Happy Halloween! (Page 4 of 5)

No, I meant, people usually cut off the top for the lid. But when I first looked there weren't any obvious cut lines. I see them now though, since I cleaned my glasses, so I'm feelin kinda silly.

Oh, Cin, I saw your pumpkin, I just didn't really understand it. It's awesome looking, I just didn't really get it as being a tree. Maybe I'm just not looking at it right. Is it a dead tree, perhaps? I'm just used to trees having stuff at the tops, and not the sides. Or is the red supposed to be leaves? I'm sorry.

And, yeah, the beard and glasses were taking away from it, but nothing we can do about the glasses so he figured he'd just keep the beard too.

As for machines, I'm not sure how old my sewing machine is, fairly new I think, but the only stitches I care about are straight and zigzag, I don't need a bazillion different stitch types. I do have a serger which I love lots, it is my precious. I had to put the fringe and trim on by hand, and that is what took a lot of my time I think. Me and hand stitching do not get along at all. The fringe took a week and a half cause I hate hand stitching so badly. lol The back of the dress was actually a lot of the problem, I couldn't get it to lay right. That part took a week or two as well. That was probably just inexperience. But I'm learning more with each new project. For example, on this one I used mitered corners, which was something I'd never done before. And I also did it without a pattern, which was also a first for me. I never follow patterns exactly anyway, I use them as a base, but I've never started from scratch before. And I mainly sewed on my days off, and as I only get two of those a week... I guess if you took my actual time making it and added it together it wouldn't be so bad to say, like, "This took me two weeks to make." But a lot of times after work I don't feel like working more. So that's why if I do get into sewing as a job I won't be working on that till after I quit my current job, cause until then I just won't have the time or energy. Oh, and I'm entirely self-taught, that doesn't help my speed either.

Yeah, I've actually been meaning to put together a little "what I've sewn" page on my site. Maybe I'll work on that today, I don't have a whole lot else planned. (day off) When I do I'll put it on it's own thread so we don't hijack this one too much more.

Thinking of it as a dead tree I get it a lot more now. It's sure a lot better than what I did, lol. My skills at pumpkin carving stop at, well... you saw mine. And a dead tree is a good idea, very halloween-y. I didn't mean that it wasn't that good, I figured it was just me.

In Japan Halloween lasts until December because people here just can't grasp the concept that the holidays in the movie " The Nightmare Before Christmas" are supposed to be different worlds that are active in this world at different times of the year, they can't make the separation between Christmas and Halloween, so we get Nightmare merchandise and decorations from September to the end of December! I hate the holidays here!

Here we have people keeping their Xmas decorations up all year round outside, lol, just coz they're too lazy to remove them or reinstall them...

Stores here have had Christmas stuff up since early October. It's horrible. By time Christmas actually gets here I'm sick of it already. Plus at this rate in order to get any good Christmas stuff you have to buy it early otherwise it's gone by December. Same with Halloween and any other seasonal stuff.

Having Christmas up all year round takes all the fun and joy out of it. Makes it just another boring day. Oh, hey, Christmas is here now, good, now we can finally get on with our lives instead of trying to maintain months worth of good cheer.

We could skip over Thanksgiving though. I hate Thanksgiving. I hate November in general anyway.

I just hate it cause I work in a grocery store and this holiday is about food. It is complete and utter hell for the entire two weeks before Thanksgiving especially, but it's already started now. I end up in tears the day before Thanksgiving every year. I usually have to run to the back and sit down and just breath and let it out. Customers are evil, especially in the two weeks before Thanksgiving. They show you what evil little demons they all are and how much they hate you and everything about you and how they want to make your life as miserable as possible just so they can stuff their greedy fat faces. Thanksgiving is supposed to be about giving thanks for what we have, thanks to those that supply it. Thanks for the food we have because of the people who help us get it, the food that I suffer to bring to you, I get no thanks just a slap on the face. And I'm just the deliverer, forget about the people who actually farm and make that stuff. We get so busy. I'm just one person doing the job of four or five people, nothing to be stressed about, I should be cheerful and happy, right? I'm helping selfish, greedy, stupid people get more food. More more more, buy as much as you can, you're the only customer, the universe revolves around you. Go ahead, buy every last one on the shelf, not like anyone else wanted any, right? Not like you'll be going to the grocery store again in the next month and a half. All the whipping creams, spray whips, butter, milk, buttermilk, orange juice, coffee creamers, people will buy, buy, buy. I always wonder if they can even eat that much before it goes bad. Oh, and I always end up working at least 10, sometimes 11 days straight before Thanksgiving. I get Sunday off two weeks before and then I work straight through to and on Thanksgiving and then I get Friday and Saturday after it. Usually I end up working a half hour to an hour of overtime every day too. And last year I had the fun of having a cold in the week before.

Well see I'm just insane.  I accept that.  And don't let Miba fool you, she loves my year-round Christmas thing.  Sometimes something Christmasy happens in off times and she turns to watch my face to see if I'm gonna tear up.

In Aussie Halloween is strating to catch on but please explain the Pumpkins?????
that Alien one best I've even seen
I have a friend that sends me these Bats LOL!!! love them ,,
Yes I did get dressed -up as a Alien Mr Death   thought I'll try it out in the daytime
as nobody would know me ,walked pass the Pub the ,looks on the Drinker's faces
when I said ''Be seeing you all soon ''
But my poor Neighours got the treat, as I had also  had two little Gouls,, come along
with me and my cat Siris joined in he had a ball running around with us ,,only one
Lady was very rude I had to tell her it was me ,her Hissy-Fit in front of the Kids ,where
the rest we left laughting .Had my Bat bag full  of Lollies I gave them to these Kids
  bats

Well some of the lesser laborers are probably illegal mexicans so we don't have to thank them.

But, yes, sometimes the customers ARE just being mean. Like the ones that stand there and watch me pick up a yogurt and set it right and then they come in and knock it back down and leave it. I swear some of them actually smirk as they walk away. Lazy, idiotic most the time, but sometimes they are being mean. I do notice a vast difference between when I'm in there wearing work clothes and when I'm dressed normally. In work clothes if I'm walking they'll cut in front of me just so they can stop and stand in my way, in normal clothes they'll smile at me and say, "Excuse me, go ahead." and let me pass.

So them not selling turkey there doesn't really bother you, then, I assume?

I never had trouble finding Turkey at Lawsons around Thanksgiving.  What part of Japan do you live in, the ghetto?  (or for those with the proper movie background.. "What part of Japan are you from... south Central?")  Seriously though, failing finding a Lawsons, you have oh.. about a 100% chance of getting ones in Military base commissaries.  The bases treat expats very well, especially on holidays.