This is Halloween, everybody give a scream…
I can’t really believe that Halloween is tomorrow, although it definitely feels like it; and I don’t just mean the weather.
Tomorrow is going to be a tough schedule, the classes are standard, but the evening is a little bit crazy. I’m teaching until 5:00, then helping the kids’ club with their trick or treating at 7(ish), working greeting duty for the show at 7:30 and then attending the Halloween Monster Mash upstairs at 9:30 (that’s required, it’s the passenger party, not a crew event). In between which I have a hair appointment, and I have to change costumes twice. That last bit is really my own fault, I suppose I could stay as one the entire day, but I brought two with me, and I love them both so one is being my daytime costume (the heavier of the two, I found out the hard way that I can’t dance in the TARDIS costume, as beautiful as it is) and the other is for the party (I even went so far this year as to buy false eyelashes with pink tips. That’s going to be fun to apply as I’ve never worn them before. The cast will hopefully be helping me with that.
Its been a few years since I wore Chesh, so this year I got new purple hairspray and new stripey pink and black tights and we’ll see if I can still pull it off the way I used to. At least I remembered to bring her paws!
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But honestly, the day was – or rather has been as this is one of the few entries I write as I go – rather insane. From 10:30 this morning I have had something almost every hour, and some of those things take considerably longer than usual. For example, my hair appointment which last time took only 45 minutes clocked in at over an hour, which meant getting into the T.A.R.D.I.S costume was more than a bit of a rush (and I can’t find my Dr Who hairbow, this is mildly upsetting). The guests love it though, but even though it was made as light as possible it’s not a costume I can wear for long, it’s just too heavy. So whenever I can find a few minutes I hide in my room where it’s nice and cool before putting all the layers back on and heading back out.
My feet may hurt and my ribs are aching from the constricting nature of the TARDIS’ corset top half, but I still love this holiday
Even though they won’t shut up…but I’m trying to ignore that..
While the TARDIS is more elaborate looking, the truth is that Chesh takes more time and has way more pieces. To illustrate the breakdown for the two costumes is as follows:
TARDIS:
– Waistcoat
– Skirt
– Corset
– Earrings (three, including one special cuff)
– Sonic screwdriver
– Pocket watch (which I forgot)
CHESH:
– Dress
– Shrug
– Ears
– Legwarmers
– Leggings
– Striped socks (one pink and black stripes, one black with stars)
– False eyelashes
– Paws/gloves
– Purple nailpolish
– Full face make-up
– Contact lenses
– Purple hair spray
– Doc martins (also pink)
– Earrings (one black feather, one pink feather, one alice in wonderland “drink me” bottle with cuff chain)
– Oh yeah, and the little plain white socks I have to wear under the fancy ones to make sure the doc’s fit properly
See, chesh takes WAY longer! But she looks…absolutely brilliant when she’s all put together properly.
The party went exceptionally well, longer than we anticipated but that’s always been the way. There was a small hiccup with the costume contest, which I’m ashamed to admit was my fault – nothing major, just a moment where I made a bit of a wrong call, easily dispelled thankfully but I feel badly about. But the rest of the night was full of music and dancing and some pretty amazing costumes.
But it was a long long day, and now that I have finally come back to the safety and quiet of my own room, and have washed the purple out of my hair and set aside all the various pieces of all the various characters I don for this night, I want nothing more than to simply curl up and sleep…
Good night Neverland.
Be safe…and blessed be