Holiday Observances
Sep. 26th, 2015 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I came up with an awesome costume for myself : the night sky! I need to find a few yards of sheer black cloth to stick the stars on, but failing that I can use my black sheet. I'm a smidge disappointed that I won't be able to wear it to work, but I'm really excited for Halloween on a Saturday. I need to figure out where to put a sign to direct trick or treaters to us.
Now to help the bambini figure theirs out.
I'm trying to plan ahead and figure out how much I have energy to do. So, some thoughts.
Shall I do:
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2) The Fruitcake Project? I don't know if I have the energy and wherewithal. But I really want to make and share fruitcake. I feel a determined joyou obligation to battle the maligning of fruitcake, one happy mouthful at a time. [Remind me to research 3-inch wafer paper for the panforte. Or maybe I could dampen wider wafer paper and tuck into greased pans like a muffin paper. Anyway.)
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4) Cards? - I really want to send cards to EVERYONE this year, and to stick a copy of Happy Everything on my workplace fridge
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Date: 2015-09-26 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-26 08:29 pm (UTC)Best of luck with the kids' costumes.
Re: winter holidays:
I think all 4 projects, full scale, would indeed be too much. I'd stick to one or two; decide how much money and time you are able and willing to spend, _in toto_, then decide how to allocate them.
Postcards can be fun, but still, the time and postage, if you're sending out several hundred of them...
Or, on second thought, you can actually do all four projects, just significantly scaled down.
Just my two cents ;)
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Date: 2015-09-26 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-27 02:45 am (UTC)How does trick or treating work in Boston? We're on the third floor, will we just not get any? Although I guess I don't want to be running up and down all those stairs every five minutes, either.
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Date: 2015-09-29 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-27 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-27 10:20 pm (UTC)Feel free to ping my work address, if you like, with the number of names you have in your mailing spreadsheet -- it may be cheaper if I do the postage and mailing from my end.
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Date: 2015-09-28 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-29 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-29 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-28 07:47 am (UTC)Cards are awesome. I'm always really happy to get them from you even if I'm really bad about ever sending cards. (Every year I mean to and every year December is a giant whirlwind of concerts and rehearsals which will only be worse this year since I'm now in an extra bell choir, and then I get to the day after Christmas and collapse and by the time I'm recovered it's January and seems a little late to send things.)
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Date: 2015-09-28 05:47 pm (UTC)re: panne forte: Sue bought patty paper this year for oragami in class. But it is really for food. I asked here where she bought it (cheap!)
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Date: 2015-09-30 01:34 pm (UTC)