I spent most of Sunday dyeing fabric for my Halloween costume–I started out with one box of dye for ~5 yards of fabric, which isn’t enough for solid, dark color, but I was looking to try and get a more mottled, aged effect. Dyeing turned out to be easy enough and relatively mess-free when one is careful, and while the fabric mostly turned out with the effect I’d hoped for, it was not nearly as dank and gross-looking as I wanted, so I ended up buying four more different-colored boxes of dye and putting it through two more dyebath processes. The result is fabric with a wonderful amount of color depth and variation and it should go nicely with the other fabrics I purchased.

I’m starting to get things pinned to my life size Mellzah voodoo doll, and while I don’t want to get my hopes up too high this early in the game when so very many things can go wrong, I’m thinking that this year’s costume should turn out to be pretty cool. I’m going for something of my own design instead of a cultural touchstone, which is sort of iffy because costumes tend to resonate more if it’s something that people recognize, but this way I get run wild with my imagination instead of trying to copy what someone ELSE’S imagination already conceived.

Tonight, I go to see The Flaming Lips at the Paramount–I’ve been a fan of theirs since 1997-ish and this will be the first opportunity I’ve had to see them live, so I am quite excited! I would be MORE excited if I hadn’t gotten up at the godawful hour of four-thirty am in order to get my ten hour workday completed in enough time to get to Seattle and hopefully get decent seats as the show is general admission, and also maybe cram a PoDog in my face on the way.