Images of Halloween

It is Halloween today.  It is a fun day to dress up.  It is a day to have fun.  Everybody can be a child today and have candies.  The business side of this holiday is a bit negative but it can be a festive day if we makes abstraction of the selling part of the day.  It is a day, with easter, that sweets are kings.  Of course, easter deal more with chocolate, it is a big part of a sweet tooth.

As a child, it was fun going for treat or treating on Halloween.   It was fun getting dressed up, choosing the costume or making it.   The two last years I dressed up for Halloween, I made my own costume and it was the two best Halloween ever.  The first year I made my costume, I made my own version of Boy Georges (http://www.boygeorgeuk.com/)  It was more his 80's look (https://www.google.ca/search?q=boy+george+80%27s+style&rlz=1CAASUB_enCA614CA614&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS04CG2pbXAhXH7YMKHUtOA1IQsAQIJw&biw=1366&bih=702)  Of course, my costume wasn't as elaborate than his look but it made a effect.  I had more fun dong the costume than getting the candies.  In addition, a relative was able to use leftover of my costume.  I had cut the tips of a pair of gloves.  She used the tips of those gloves for her whitch costume.  It was really fun to share.

My last year of Halloween, I made a Zorro costume.  I made the hat with cardboard and silk paper (a very thin paper).  Of course, the material was all black.  I also got an homemade cape made by my grandma.  The only purchase was a plastic sword.  The only thing I didn't liked about my costume: my moustache.  I wanted to do it myself but it was done by someone else.  It ended up more like a villain moustache than the one we usually see on Zorro.  Beside that, it was the costume I had the most pride in.  Later on, my black cape was used in a Batman costume for someone else.  I just hope that other child had a good halloween.

In recent years, I started to appreciated the images side of Halloween.  It all started with the Halloween Tarot (http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/halloween/)  The deck contain all the classic and iconic images from Halloween.  Be it the black cat, the ghosts, the witches, old monster like Frankenstein's monster, his bride or the werewolf.  It is a nice deck that is very well done.  It is a bit whimsical but very well thougth out.  I like the Hermnit being a mad scientist.  I do have a soft spot with mad scientist.  I have created my own mad scientist in my writing.

Now, the thing I enjoy most about Halloweeen is the imagery linked with the Dios of los Muerte.  It is in recent years that I have discovered this Mexican tradition.  I live a bit far from this contry, so this is why it took me a while before discovery this rich festive day.  It would have been great to know about this earlier in my life.

Happy Halloween with a lot of candy!  A lot of fun also is great.