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I forgot what count I’m at for featured Websites of the week…

so I’d like to say that this is featured website of the week…_____

I was looking around for pictures of Judy Jetson for my History of Halloween Blog when I came across a very pretty dress and I clicked on the picture. I was taken to the Blog of a woman who is using patterns she sees in fashion magazines like vogue to create her own wardrobe. This girl then models the clothing she’s made and blogs about how she made it what he problems were and how a person can do the same thing back home.

I particularly like this website because it reminds me of the old fashioned values people used to have…where woman would make their own clothing and a mother would present her daughter with a prom dress or a new blouse. A real timeless feel that I never received from my mother or grandmother because they aren’t the type to knit or sew…they are rather the type to buy you new clothing or pass it down to you.

I feel that when I get older I’d like to be the kind of woman who has the skills to make my own clothing as this woman does…I wish I could hire her as my personal tailor so she could make dresses for my body that could fit me and look as nice on me as they do her.

I can really see where she is coming from for what she thinks is beautiful I lOVE HER STYLE!

The Blog I am Featuring is Called Very Praire:

It is owned by a young woman who I have yet to learn the name of… who started the blog in 2006. She goes by the alias Very Prairie…she poses for most of her own work and she is very beautiful check out her site you’ll be amazed at what she can do!

So it is almost October which will bring with it colder weather, more leaves and Halloween!

Personally I never celebrated Halloween when I was a child because it was against what my parent’s taught me to believe. To some people Halloween is just a day during the year that their children dress up in costumes and go door to door asking for candy in exchange for being targeted as a house to be pranked.To other families it is considered something much darker.

Growing up I was raised that Halloween was bad because it was a time when people would do witchcraft and worship the devil and demons and other evils in the world. Some children growing up with me thought that I was being brainwashed with a bad ideal but I was a obedient child to my parents and I never celebrated until I was 17.

I personally wondered sometimes if my parents didn’t want to celebrate Halloween because they had so many kids that they’d have to take out trick or treating or because they didn’t and couldn’t afford to make 6 kids Halloween costumes every year. I remember as a child having a lot of candy simply given to me around Halloween time because it was cheap, and my parents didn’t want me and my siblings to be left out.

There was one Halloween were I remember my father had put out a boombox and set up speakers on our front porch to blast “don’t want no monsters in my house tonight” a song written by a Christian Singer named Carman about demons and monsters.

On Halloween my siblings and I would skip school and remain at home…we said it was for religious reasons. I was really confused when kids at my own church would come to me and ask me how my trick or treating went…I knew a select amount of other families whose children grew up not celebrating Halloween but most of those families were against the idea of their children eating a lot of candy one day a year.

It was really interesting through the years my different experiences with Halloween it made me feel like the awkward kid…the one who could never relate. I was never invited to Halloween parties and I’ve never gone trick or treating.

When I got to the age where I began questioning my personal belief in Halloween I was too old for it to be acceptable for me to go door to door to trick or treat. All of my friends began saying that trick or treating was for babies and I felt that I’d missed out.

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My understanding of how different age groups celebrate Halloween is this:

From Baby to toddler your parents buy you a cute and silly looking costume for them to put on you all of Halloween for people to ooww and aah over you.

When you become old enough to pick your own costume (out of a select few your mom or dad has deemed appropriate) you are also old enough to go trick or treating. You go trick or treating with your parents at this age and often the whole family will have a theme or some sort of matching costumes.

When you are a bit older I’m thinking 7-11 you get together with your school friends and you all go out in a group trick or treating around the neighborhood the costume you pick is probably of the cartoons and superhero comic book characters that you enjoy watching. (Power Rangers, Pokemon, Superman, Spider man, Disney Princesses..etc) When you go out to trick or treat you think you are alone fully but there is always a parent tailing you in a car or a few houses down the street from you hiding behind bushes and trees to make you feel like you are alone. You go back to one of your friends houses and count, sort and exchange your candy.

From ages 12-15 you either question if it is alright to still trick or treat and do it anyway picking your own costume, or making your own costume, or buying your own costume with allowance money. You head out either with a group of friend trick or treating and having a blast or you head to someone’s house for your first taste of a costumed Halloween party. Some of the luck ones go and attend a haunted house that is age appropriate that is parent chaperoned. Some kids stay home and hand out candy

from 16-17 you question the trick or treating and decide that you’d just like to go and buy some candy and maybe go over to a friend’s house and watch scary movies. You may not even dress in costume but it is likely that you do..and strangely enough the female costumes are getting a little less innocent and the male costumes aren’t as tame anymore.Some high school theatre clubs might have their opening night of a show on halloween and you may have the pit orchestra dress up or have the cast go out trick or caroling after the show the tunes etc. or a kid could stay home and hand out candy.

from 18-20 Trick or treating is for kids and unless you are taking your siblings or young cousins out you probably aren’t getting candy from anywhere but close friends. The costumes are a competition for who can dress the sluttiest and the punch at the costume parties may or may not be spiked depending on your crowd. You may still have a scary movie night or you might be putting on a haunted house at your local college campus in which you try to create as much gross guts and gore as you can to scare people. You are able to go to amusement parks and 18+ haunted houses or maybe a darker night club scene were you enter a costume competition for the grand prize of  a 300$ gift card somewhere. Or you could take over for your parents and watch your younger siblings and hand out candy.

At 21-25 Partying and getting drunk for Halloween is appropriate …maybe hooking up with the hot slutty dressed girl in the corner is the girl’s goal or scoring the hope of a future date is the girls. You may no longer celebrate and you might just stay home and watch a sci-fi marathon or you may still be busy with work. There is always handing out candy.

I’m not sure what it might be like when people get older but I assume alcohol and parties may be involved where people try to out scare other people with their cool special party effects. People might be lucky enough to have kids that they can dress up and take trick or treating…they could be chaperoning and spying. Also handing out candy.

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When I was eighteen  I was working at a place called Bobby and Steve’s auto shop when I was invited to attend a Halloween party I at first had the feeling that I wanted to decline but being older and to the age that I could make up my own mind on if I wanted to celebrate Halloween I decided to accept the invitation. I had only known a few things about what it was like to celebrate Halloween and one of them was that the costumes for girls were slutty as they got older. I wanted to go as a nurse but my mother and I decided to make it a sexy nurse to spruce it up a bit.

I was surprised that my mother was being so supportive of my decision to celebrate since she’d raised me to not celebrate. But I now know that it was due to the fact that during that time my parents had been separated, their divorce was still in the beginning of its now finished stages. My father was trying to get back at my mother through my little sister . He allowed my Little sister Cynthia to dress up for Halloween to get at my mother who was against Halloween. Instead of being upset and not allowing my little sister to celebrate instead my mother let her and also that year let me.

I went to the party that my coworker was putting on and I felt a little out of place. The crowd I was with was much older and the woman I was around were much more experienced in dressing ’sexy’ for Halloween. I felt like I was a semi-sexy conservative nurse in a crowd of sexy ones. It was hard to explain what I was when my coworkers would ask me why I was wearing the scrubs and the lingerie top.

I remember that my coworkers who were my same age were drinking and I was surprised when I was offered a beer which I turned down…I was underage and my coworkers knew it…why were they offering me drinks? I remember that at that party there was a lot of playing ten cup, and that was my first time ever being introduced to the game. I didn’t drink but a threw for the guys a bit and I tried to pretend that I was used to being at a lot of parties…which I hadn’t been.

I was kind of scared but I found that I had to most fun on the dance floor with the DJ…when the floor was empty most of the night the DJ would dance with me. Now that I think about it he was flirting and trying to hit on me the entire time. I remember also that my coworkers were being strange around me and I discovered why because the next day I was fired from the position under the accusation that I’d stolen money.

After that I didn’t care much about Halloween because I felt that it was only a holiday for woman to act stupid and dress slutty and for men to get drunk and act stupid. I spent my 18th Halloween at home watching TV and I also went  to a movie and shopping with my mom in Edina. I saw a group of my high school friends all dressed up and going to a party while I sat at a corner stop light on my way to AMC…I longed to be with them in my heart a little.

My age 19 Halloween wasn’t going to be very special I spent it in my dorm room. I watched as all the other people in Drew dressed up and headed out to their respective parties and I watched as all the hot men got drunk and hooped and hollered down the hallways all night. I opted not to go to the Hamline Haunted house in Manor because I felt that I’d rather stay in my dorm room and watch wedding shows. I did lend one of my buckets to Emily my roommate so that she could make some fake blood to pour all over her room and her prom dress for the haunted house that she was a part of. While I was watching wedding shows i decided it would be nice to call Craig and see how he was doing. Craig at that point had already been deemed by best friend we talked almost every other day and I could go to him with anything!

It was in that conversation that Halloween night that I ended up bringing up a code that I had created a while back in which I had asked Craig if he could ever consider me as more than ‘JUST A FRIEND’. At that point I knew Craig liked me…I’d known ever since that Code night (which I think had been a little while earlier) … Craig and I had become so nervous with each other after having admitted that we liked each other that we had gone into a strange happy time where we talked ‘more’ but, we talk about the same stuff that we always had as ‘just friends’. Craig and My liking each other was deemed a small problem that we didn’t bring up. We didn’t bring it up because we thought that a long distance relationship would never work for us, we knew that if we tried something more our relationship would never be the same…but we both realized that our friendship had been a relationship for 4 or 5 years by then and that going deeper may be the only way we would ever feel good about our futures together. We could remain friends forever and wonder ‘what if’ or we could give it a try and make it official…so, instead of just acknowledging our crushes for each other we skipped the whole dating phase and we decided to become boyfriend and girlfriend that Halloween night over the phone.

Dating for us was not only impossible and extremely hard but it was also useless…dating is a time when a couple gets to know each other Craig and I at that point had no secrets, we were the closest of friends and we’d been close for years, it just seemed to me to be a step that made perfect sense…the love was there and the longing for more was there the getting to know each other phase was done and there wasn’t anyone else for either of us.

So Halloween 2008 became when I began being Craig McCreath’s girlfriend. This is funny because we had been listed as engaged on Facebook for almost a year and a half by then after high school and a certain rumor Ashley Thayer began that I ran with. I remember to this day how happy I was with Craig on that Halloween and how I didn’t mind the costumes and the candy people had…I was simply just happy to be someone’s girlfriend.

It will be almost a year to that date coming up next month and I not only want to make this next Halloween special because I’m giving it a try again but I am also happy to be celebrating my 1 year anniversary with Craig as my boyfriend. Craig and I have been through a lot his past year…(moves, deaths, births, arguments, visits, breakups and makeups etc.)…an awful amount of change.

I want to make this Halloween extra special because it is my anniversary and it falls on a Saturday/Sunday for Craig and I in different parts of the world. I’d totally kill to see Craig on October 30th because I haven’t seen him physically for a long time. As for Halloween now that I am 20 years old I feel that I have missed out of my time to trick or treat until  I have children of my own..so I’m thinking of just dressing up and I have a hope deep inside that I will be invited to some Halloween party to celebrate the holiday for my 2nd time ever…hopefully with me now drinking I’ll be able to fit in better. It would be nice to have Craig around so if I decide to live by the tradition and stereotype of my age group and if I do decide to dress slutty I’ll have someone to dress slutty for…sadly Halloween is not a Holiday that gets its own school day or week off.

To make up for lost years I have decided to make a promise to myself to dress up every Halloween  until  have kids of my own to dress up.

This Year I’d like to dress as Judy Jetson because I love the color Pink and I’ve found some really cute costume options I could try to copy.

One involves a Vintage looking dress that looks like Judy’s I could try to copy and make myself:

Another looking I could go for is the hippy  flower power Judy jetson look:

Or I could try a sexy Judy Look (Which I don’t think is me at all!)

Or I can Try a plain and simple innocent Judy:

All very good options though..I’ll think about it. I’m getting way ahead of myself it isn’t even October yet!

I wonder what it would be like if CRAIG surprised me by showing up on Halloween all dressed up as a knight in shining armor come to take me back to Scotland with me…;D

Do this without lying… Can you fill this out without lying? You’ve been tagged, so now you need to answer all the questions HONESTLY. Have fun! :)

1.What was the last thing you put in your mouth? Kool aid and bobby pins

2.Where was your facebook profile picture taken? In front of Sebastian Joes in Uptown Minneapolis after I had a successful job interview for a job I have since left

3.Can you play Guitar Hero? I spent all my free time in Scotland mastering Craig’s guitar hero…it was awesome!

4.Name someone who made you laugh today? Craig (in an email)

5.How late did you stay up last night and why? last night is this night and it is currently 2:44am so I’m assuming till 3am

6.If you could move somewhere else, would you? If I had money…Scotland with my current situation anywhere but home…but nice!

7. Ever been kissed under fireworks? YES! So fun! New years omg that was amazing! (Love you Craig!)

8. Which of your friends lives closest to you? Not sure I just moved back home

9. Do you believe ex’s can be friends? Kinda.

10. How do you feel about Dr Pepper?I like it but I wish i could tell the 23 (or something) flavors 1 from the others.

11. When was the last time you cried really hard? Last Sunday when Brian and Janel Goff semi fired me

12. Who took your profile picture? me.

13. Who was the last person you took a picture of? person? um my mother…picture in general cat

14. Was yesterday better than today?today is just beginning

15. Can you live a day without TV? yes.but not for long…I wouldn’t die without it

16. Are you upset about anything? not now

17. Do you think relationships are ever really worth it? definitely w people & God

18. Are you a bad influence? It  depends on what you consider bad

19. Night out or night in? Depends on my mood and what I could fill my time with

20. What items could you not go without during the day? my computer and a bra

21. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital? Decent Dosh,yesterday afternoon@ hcmc

22. What does the last text message in your inbox say?TEXT? I have no cellphone but email…probably one from Craig talking about some voicemail…

23. How do you feel about your life right now? I pray that one day I can get more of what I want out of it, I’m not happy with where it is going

24. Do you hate anyone? no but I have some problems with some people

25. If we were to look in your facebook inbox, what would we find? messages from everyone except my boyfriend and family

26. Say you were given a drug test right now, would you pass? I have Ibuprofen in my system would that turn up?

27. Has anyone ever called you perfect before? no never

28. What song is stuck in your head? Little ol me by Carman

29. Someone knocks on your window at 2:00 a.m., who do you want it to be? CRAIG!…hopefully no one hears him and he’s here to stay the night!

31. Name something you have to do tomorrow? Call people for job interviews

32. Do you think too much or too little? too little?…but I think it is hard to think too much

33. Do you smile a lot? I used to not really now.