Garden of Thought

My coral and purple costume worked! The hair-fall I braided did too and stayed in place. I really do need lighter colored dance shoes, though - looking for something else that works now. I was kind of freaked out about doing this one because it was a difficult piece but yay, I survived and I kind of like how this pic came out. It helped that I was at the tail end of the show and there wasn't a lot of audience left. Now I get to do it again at a Lavender Festival later this month, yoiks.

Carpet! What a nice morning, hot tea in a cup and the rhythmic banging and shuffling of workmen downstairs finishing up with the new carpet there. I'm delighted to have that done, though it does mean lots of crawling around on the floor for me later as I have to reattach all the baseboards once they're finished and then get all the furniture back in place. It really makes me realize how bad the old carpet was, that's for sure! Aaaaaah.

Church! My goodbye party at my "old" church went well (so weird to think of it as the "old" church now), only half as many people as said they would come actually showed up so we had WAY too much food but otherwise a good time had by all. Lots of dancing and dress-up and eating too much. Thankfully you can freeze both hummus and curry perfectly well, no need to make dinners for a while. I'm really enjoying being able to use my Sundays to visit other churches, it's been a lot of fun and there's so many great people out there in the world.

Costumes! I finished working on a set of hair falls to go with my purple and coral costume and just in time as my first performance for this piece is tomorrow. I'm in with a troupe that dances at rest-homes, it'll be a good dry-run for an actual dance show coming up in April that I'm signed up for. I got a gorgeous skirt to go with it that has yellow chiffon panels over a tropical orange underlayer so the result is coral but it flares out if I spin. Goes well with the coral-and-purple hydrangea hip-scarf. Yay. Just have to go find coral nail-polish for my toes this afternoon.

Crocuses! Looking forward to spring already, they have arrived along with the snowdrops, so pretty.

We have a dance group of older women who go by the name of Potpourri because it makes something lovely out of old, withered flowers. ;-) I got to dance with them at a rest home this week to try out my new song - thank goodness I did get that costume together at last (except the shoes, my silver shoes literally disintegrated and I spent an entire day of last-minute ripping around town trying to find suitable dance shoes in my size - arrrgh...otherwise...).

SO - since I did have a couple people ask for pics whenever I managed to wrangle this thing into order, here's a little something. I managed to do some makeup (yes, you may laugh at me - but I am NOT a makeup person normally so this is a learning curve)-



Thankfully remembered to remove my glasses before performing. And someone did snap a picture of the entire outfit -

Can't believe October is already coming to a close, I'm scrambling to get my costume and decor ready for this year's Trunk or Treat where we decorate our cars and hand out candy from the trunks in the church parking lot.  Last year we got a downpour that drove everyone inside, I'm hoping it will be drier this time around.  We usually get about 180 kids.

I'm using my silver dance wings and doing up an angel costume, complete with white wig and fluffy halo on a headband.  Sparkly blanket in the back of the car with twinkle lights and such should work, figure that way if it rains on us again its something relatively easy to transfer to a table inside and still have a theme. I did this once before a while back, the preschoolers eyes about pop out of their head when I slowly open the wings.  :-D