Little Rep Lemap from Berlingmont, MA (Minnesota?) writes:
>I know we have a meeting tomorrow night. I even know that we're doing masks or skulls. However, where are we meeting? As always, I'm happy to host at my humble abode.At last, the respect that has been so long lacking in this group! Just because she was so nice, I think Rep should be allowed to host Tomorrow's meeting! Thank you, Rep, and we'll see you at:Richard, Oh Great One, please let us know the final meeting destination.
7:00-ish at Pam A's houseProject: Make a Mask - or Make a Skull - or Extract a Skull - or Mask an Extracted Skull - or Extrude a Mask - or Learn All the Accent Marks in "Papier-Mâché"Tuesday, 16 Octobular 2007
So bring your face-or-head-or-skull-shaped bases and paper/ feathers/ rubber-appliances/ paint/ bangles/ glitter/ glue and ways to attach the finished product onto your face-or-head-or-skull.
For example, I've long been wanting a mask I can wear glasses inside of, and am contemplating something light which can clip on the front of my glasses or hat-like that hangs in front of my glasses. I'm tired of being the Blind Mummy every Halloween!
Other options - Carnivale feathery masks on lorgnette-style sticks, a mummy head where the mummy is not necessarily a human head -- like a Frankenstein head with bolts, wrapped mummy style (wait, that's the Frankenberry guy!) or a horse-head with Dracula fangs. Giant bugs are always cool, and you might want to make extra legs to go along with the bug-eye mask.
Originally I'd been excited about making papier-mâché masks of our own faces, but wise Betsey figured out that we'd have to drive back home with our heads back while the still-moist masks continued to dry, and that would not be, um, optimal. Plus, there would be no time to actually decorate them...
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On a separate note, I'd like some SANE feedback - I was supposed to actually be nice to Betsey for a month after she did a nice thing for me... but thus far, all I've been able to come up with was to avoid her, and thus avoid harrassing/being nasty to her. Let me know (at the meeting is fine) your opinion about whether this meets the spirit of my arrangement, or merely the letter of same.
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On another separate note, a famed Somervillian author and Halloween enthusiast is having an event at a bookstore in Davis Square - on Sat, 27 Oct, she wants to set a Guinness World Record for the number of people (women, men and/or kids) dressed as Halloween-style witches gathering in one place reciting poetry (verses from her new book, an illustrated Halloween parody of the Night Before Christmas). It is, of course, a gimmick to launch her book, but she's a very nice person (Dy has worked with her at a few Halloween events). More info here:
http://www.mcintyreandmoore.com/halloween.html
"'Twas the night before Halloween and all through the cottages
The witches were stirring their brews and their potages.
Their cupboards were bursting with hop toads and newts
And they'd shined up their pointy-toed fancy dress boots."
--from "Witches' Night Before Halloween"
(text by Lesley Bannatyne, illustrations by Adrian Tans)
