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okay, so those of you that know me well know that halloween time is my favorite. also that i love insects.... and also you are aware that i cannot stomach the thought of being anything but dead/morbid/undead/gorey/gross/scary.... or at least a hint of. no french maids, puppy dogs, or anything cute. but i think i might be relaxing the rules a little. i'm not sure. LAST year, i thought i dug all the fairy/butterfly wings at the stores. they are terribly cute in a good way. i like to see girls and boys prancing around in them... so i thought of a way to incorporate it into my personal halloween rules. LAST year i thought "hey! i'll be a SQUASHED bug for halloween!" and then i listened to the advice of others. they said, " people will just look at you funny and ask what happened to your costume". so instead last year i was simple being eaten alive by spiders... but this year, i threw that crummy old advice out. and i prepared to be a squashed bug. initially, i was going to make a small windshield prop to carry around, but thought the better of it. drink in one hand, candy in the other- where do you hold the prop? priorities, right? So here's what i did: I melted and bent an antennae, drew big X's in my 'eyes', bent 2 of my 6 legs outta shape, had some bright green-and-bloody guts spilling out, and bent and tore the hell out of my wings. somehow, i feel that i managed to completely NOT capture the essence of gore. novel, yes, but not gross. and somehow it worked for me anyway. the result: only 2 people at the first party thought "something was wrong with my wings but didn't want to say anything". and the second person thought i was a "sexy fly"... i suppose i'll take that. somehow at the first party i managed to lose my gloves. i looked at my hands and they were gone.... i don't even remember taking them off. so imagine their presence, if you will. at byan & jeaninne's party, everyone knew exactly what i was. and as the night when on and i became less squashed and more smashed, we had a little fun squishing me a some more.
by the way, this is my first time putting photos in this thing, so i'm hoping it works...
this is me "before" the drastic and nearly unrecognizable metamorphosis.
wolfman and bug girl...
a phone camera self portrait to send to mom :)
getting squashed by Shaun of the Dead
by the way, this is my first time putting photos in this thing, so i'm hoping it works...
this is me "before" the drastic and nearly unrecognizable metamorphosis.
wolfman and bug girl...
a phone camera self portrait to send to mom :)
getting squashed by Shaun of the Dead