HALLOWEEN

So, yesterday was Halloween. Last year we didn't have the time or energy to work 0n getting fancy costumes like we wanted, so we made up for that this year by getting really nice costumes from a tailor. We just printed out pictures, handed them to the tailor, and told them to make it. My costume is a historical dress from the American Civil War era. I'm not any particular person, just someone. I don't think it should really matter what person I am, but obviously other people though so. One person thought I was dressed as Little Bo Peep. (If I were her I would have a shepherd's crook, but I wasn't and I didn't.) Or when I told them I was wearing a historical dress, they'd think I was Scarlett O'Hara, or a "southern belle," or something similar. I guess the closest thing would be the March girls, because they were my inspiration, but I still wasn't one of the March girls, just someone from that time period.

Anyway, here's a picture of me in my costume, complete with hoop skirt. Just for fun, I posed properly and altered the image to make it look old.



The collar isn't quite right (it was supposed to be pointed and stiff, not round and floppy), but it's okay for now and that's something I know how to fix. (I can just cut off the old collar and make a new one.) The thing is that the manikin wasn't wearing the collar in the picture, so we had to tell them ourselves by pointing at things that we wanted a collar, and they didn't know that it was supposed to look a certain way.

Gardening

I've been meaning to start my garden for a while now, ever since I received the seeds my grandpa mailed to me, but I haven't gotten to it until today. It doesn't affect the plants too much, though, because they're not really being planted outdoors; they're going into our glass-enclosed balcony, which is pretty much like a greenhouse. Anyway, I'll be posting some updates on the garden anytime I feel the need to. It probably won't be on any regular basis.


Here is where the garden is going. Normally the table is closer to the end near the planters, but we moved it towards the middle temporarily. (Our laundry has to hang on this balcony to dry, and we don't really want the table to be right under the balcony.) So basically what I'm saying is the stuff on the balcony will be rearranged a bit at some point soon. The planter on the right has slightly different soil than the other one, because I had two different kinds of soil and I mixed them together in that one, rather than keeping them separate but having two bags of soil which were each only about a third full.
This picture shows which seeds I'm planting, and where they are going. I have some tomatoes, chives, and flowers, but I'm not planting them yet.