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- Today I officially finished my Hallowe'en sewing
- The baby flamingo costume has arrived in San Francisco for the youngest
- Complete with a crocheted hat with a crooked beak
- Swerved it a bit so it wouldn't fall between her eyes
- Anika is going to be busy enough putting the fluorescent feathers in her mouth
- Finished a Flash costume for the five-year-old boy.
- Oh to be so young and innocent
- That a sweatsuit pattern made from red ponte scraps with some yellow zig zags straight stitched on can make a person race around at top speed
- "Did you know Babsie that when I run I can feel a cloud of air behind me?"
- That such magic can be created from just this
- Made a black cape with a hood and a mohair skirt from some black wool I once had high ambitions for
- Found black elbow length gloves for a ten-year-old (terrified I was going to have to make those) at Value Village
- And bought black tulle for a veil
- So that pre-teen can feel both terrifying and cool
- Made a filly apron and hat for our baker
- With a giant pocket in the front for loot
- And found 1. a toy tray and a mug that we glued marshmallows on and 2. Japanese sugar marshmallows that look like donuts
- All glue gunned to the tray
- A person hits a strange season of life when they don't miss a former profession and job
- But they are thrilled out of their minds to have found fake donuts
- Maybe I haven't left something but am returning somewhere
- Am going to make bound buttonholes tomorrow
- A soft boiled wool jacket would be violated by machine buttonholes
- Had to get Hallowe'en done early because I am going to Winnipeg to see my mom next week
- Forgot to ask if the snow was melted
- The one city I never get lost in
- Has the geography of a Monopoly Board
- Do the police on Portage still wear Buffalo coats in the winter?
- They did when we were kids
- What did those coats weigh 100 pounds?
- Yup that's my background
- Created people who are very resourceful
- But without any sense they could actually move somewhere else
- If they had sense
- A place where your lungs can freeze in the winter if you breath too deeply
- Where my sister once froze her cheeks solid while we were playing
- I remember the white circles on her face
- I was supposed to bring her in then but didn't
- A place where people say things like
- Well Joyce lost her legs to cancer but you know she still got her canning done
- Of course she did
- A place where no one was allowed to sleep in
- And you saved it for good
- And the liquor was kept in the linen closet behind the towels
- In case the grandparents came over
- And we wore our Hallowe'en costumes over our snow suits
- So they had to be made big
- And I once won a city wide competition for a Little Bo Peep costume
- To go with the lamb costume my sister wore
- That my mother made while lying on the couch recovering from a miscarriage
- Which is exactly why I retired to crochet a flamingo hat
- And to glue gun Japanese sweets to a plastic tray
- It makes perfect sense
