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Halloween 2014

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    Tamara @justsewit

    Our town is having a halloween party for the kids at the local youth centre. My kids have begged to go. I have managed up until now to avoid the whole thing. But having said that the one and only time I ever went trick or treating was when I myself was a child of just eight (the year I spent in the UK) and I enjoyed it that much, I feel quite a heel for not allowing my two to actually exoerience some of the fun. So the party is the thing even though they have also requested to trick or treat – I think we will go with just the party.

    One child has picked the character they want to go as but the other hasn’t so I will be throwing around some (sensible) suggestions for him to mull over. Hopefully it will be fairly easy and won’t entail days at the sewing machine!

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    needlewoman @needlewoman

    Oh no!!!! T, like you don’t have enough to do. Mind you, I think any opportunity for kids to dress up, and enjoy being kids is to be welcomed but it’s scary to think that the whole Halloween frenzy is making its way across the seas to our virgin shores. Do tell what your kids have in mind, and fingers crossed it won’t be too hot.

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    Tamara @justsewit

    In terms of geat I think it will be managed. The hall is air conditioned and the party will be in the evening. They split the age groups up so it won’t an all night affair. Imogen wants to go as a Pokemon ball thing – something that was a craze as I was exiting childhood I’m afraid and like lots of things has made a sort of comeback. This will be cardboard of which we have to dismantle tge box for the new dryer to make and paint accordingly. Noah on the otherhand is undecided but I will have to get him in the costume deciding mood or he will be going as himself!

    Halloween has been around on Aussie shores for a while now. It just wasn’t a really big thing when I was a child here at least. You would have the occassional dressup party and witch cake but it wasn’t the done thing to go trick or treating – stranger danger and all that. It give the country kids something to do even if it is an old English tradition that was taken off on American shores and somehow morphed into what it is today – no more putting cakes and food on the doorstep for the souls of the dead – we have to dress up AS the dead! Haha!

    Yes the late seems to be very full of late, somethings though I would gladly dispose of in life’s compost bin – this little plan though I will keep. Besides it makes me happy to be able to do things that will make long,asti g and positive childhood memories for my children to hopefully repeat when they are parents.

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    meleliza @meleliza

    My kids always have the day off for Halloween and All Saints after because they’re in Catholic School. Combine that break with their love of dress up and I suspect Halloween has become even more special at our house. We have a whole tradition.

    In fact, I’m now looking forward more to it being over. After trick or treating, which we do in the same neighborhood every year, we always stop at the same place for pizza, go home and binge on candy while watching Halloween movies. Lots of fun.

    I’m glad they’re not Elsa too. I’m repurposing last years witch cape and long black dress with a (purchased) mask to be Darth Vader, or “Darth Mom” as Charlie called me. We went to a

    Halloween party last Sat night and as we walked there with the boys battering light sabers the whole way, and my cape blowing behind us, we got lots of great comments from all the young hipsters on their way out. Super fun.

    Maybe in the future, I would make a really nice Elsa/Anna costume because I think the costumes in that movie are seriously fantastic, but not this year when I would have to compete with tons of the cheapo disposable Elsa ones.

    That said, sewing with leather is doing my head in. At least I know these costumes will get lots of use. They even keep stealing my Darth Vader mask!

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    Mama_Knowles @Mama_Knowles

    Sounds like a great to me meleliza !

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    Lightning McStitch @LightningMcStitch

    I think the fear of the stranger is a much newer arrival on our shores than Halloween and trick or treating. Growing up in Canberra we went trick or treating every year. It just seemed to be certain towns where it was done. We also had Guy Fawkes night and other celebrations that the rest of the country missed out on. (for the international readers, our nation’s capital is the only place you can legally buy porn, smoke a joint or buy firecrackers. Those politicians know enough to know to feather their own nest!).

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    needlewoman @needlewoman

    That’s interesting Shelley, I thought firecrackers could only be bought legally in the Northern Territory – certainly I think they are the only state that still has a Cracker Night. In NSW, it used to be held on the June Long Weekend (I think); I remember it was always very cold, and dark. I loved the sparklers! I think one of the problems of celebrating Halloween in this hemisphere is the light. With Daylight Saving, it’s still very light til at least 7.30-8.00pm. For some parents/events, this is an advantage; for Australians generally, they know enough to associate Halloween with the coming of winter OS, and they feel rather self-conscious ‘marking it’ on a warm Spring evening. That said, I’m so glad your town is doing something, Tamara. I hope the kids have a great time. And everybody else’s too. Really looking forward to photos of the kids in the costumes that have been previewed.

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    Nicole @motherof5

    Tildy took a wolf mask to wear at school to scare her teacher.

    She has also packed a long black wig. When Hugo asked her why she replied it was a disguise so the the teacher wouldn’t know it was her!

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    meleliza @meleliza

    So I didn’t use any Oliver and S patterns this year, but here’s my Leia and if you scroll through, you can see the rest: https://www.flickr.com/photos/24264063@N05/15056892933/

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    needlewoman @needlewoman

    Lol, Nicole. I hope the teacher acted suitably amazed. Yes, Mel I just looked at your kids – brilliant. Kitty’s hair is a triumph!! Jesims has used the fairy tale dress, and lots of imagination to create a Rapunzel dress for her little girl. Check out the O+S flickr- P looks gorgeous.

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    Tamara @justsewit

    The party was small but the kids enjoyed themselves. I told them they had to make their own costumes but I had to help Noah because he was too busy being indecisive. He ended up going as “death” wearing the only black things he has (school shorts and a black school bus t shirt) and I bought him some gloves, a mask and a reaper. Imogen asked me to get her some pink silk – I got satin – and she made herself a costume representing a music goddess, without any sign of music on the cape because I forgot the felt she also asked me for which would have been the applique she had planned. She wore a hand me down top from her cousin and her older field trip cargos which are now too short and I am wondering how she wrigggled into them. But out of all that she won a lollipop as her second prize and she was quite thrilled with that.

    There were quite a few small children going up and down the street with their parents but other than that the town seemed very desserted. The party went for only about an hour and that was enough for the experience.

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    jay_1965vw @jay_1965vw

    You can’t buy fireworks legally in Canberra any more – I don’t know about Porn or smoking a joint though, I haven’t wanted to find out!

    We didn’t even get any trick or treaters knocking on our door this year. I was at least prepared with a pile of Freddo Frogs.

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