“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
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Kls got this for her birthday:
It’s a candle making kit! Here’s what was inside:
Enough supplies to make nine soy candles, including colours and scents. Of course we’ve already made several.
Start by preparing the tin by adding the wick:
Melt the wax and colour block by floating the metal jug in boiling water (which takes about 10 minutes):
Add the scent, carefully pour the liquid wax into the candle and then let it ‘cure’ for 48 hours:
Then trim the wick, affix the stickers and it’s ready to light:
Soy candles are good because they don’t smoke, and these home-made ones are easy and come out very nice indeed. Why not get a kit and make some yourself?
Covid ‘canceled’ Halloween last year, and nothing much happened in the way of decorations or trick-or-treaters. This year it seems people are making up for 2020, since the local decorations have taken it to a new level!
That’s a quartet of creepy children in a yard not far from here. They are on a framework which I believe spins when switched on. They’re quite disturbing even up close and I imagine a real scare for young children!
The same house has a hanging skeleton (with axe in chest) and a disturbing evil clown. The quality of these decorations are leagues beyond even a few years ago, and they’re so common this year!
All of the above is in our street alone! Giant animated inflatable trees, a massive pumpkin with a flame light effect, a dog skeleton and another skeleton rising from a grave!
One of the best in our street is this Sadako (the evil long-haired girl from the Japanese film series The Ring) sitting on a swing blocking a front door. I imagine on Halloween night they’ll light this creepily, and it’ll be terrifying for kids to have to push her out of the way!
But the most impressive decorations we’ve seen this year utilize these $80 posable life-sized skeletons sold at Walmart:
People have been so creative with these! Here’s one display not far from our house:
Mum, dad, child and a dog – all skeletons! They spent big on this didn’t they?
A little farther down the road we see this guy keeping watch next to a mailbox:
Fantastic isn’t it?
And then just down the road from our house the owners have put two of these guys and poles and even strung up a net and shuttlecock to make this incredible display:
Skeleton badminton players! And they’ve even lit it at night:
Let’s hope the children are out trick-or-treating this year. It would be shame for all these decorations to not be appreciated 🙂