A Christmas Story, Save-the-Dates, and Philip Glass

...floating through our heads the past few days. 

Our Halloween costumes, the Leg Lamp & The Crate from "A Christmas Story," came out better than hoped.  As of 6PM Friday, Oct.30, all we had was an idea, some fabric, cardboard boxes, a Word doc of a "Major Award" certificate, and a dress pattern.  Roughly 26 hours later, we were on our way to join the ranks of many amazing costumes at a house party hosted by our good friend, and wedding officiant, Kelly. 

To accomplish this marathon of costume making, we scrambled around nearby Jantzen Beach shopping center Friday night for tights, wood-grain contact paper, Pex tubing, a few sewing notions, and candy - for the anticipated trick-or-treaters...and Jake...and, well, me too, since it was just sitting there by the door! Then it was off to our separate areas of the house, me in the spare bedroom/ sewing room, Jake in basement, to craft our respective get-ups. And the final results... (apparently we're a bit addicted to cardboard-based costumes.)

What doesn't come across so well is Jacob's "illuminating" idea for the lamp, via an LED headlamp around my waist.  Really have to see it in person to get the full effect.

With Halloween behind us, and no Steelers game on Sunday, all I had left was to look forward to the arrival of our Save-the-Dates (from Etsy seller Vermilion Star Press) and Philip Glass on Tuesday. 

I'm so happy with our custom/ cooperatively-designed Save-the-Dates, and less so with the Glass "lecture" last night.  Oh well...