"Stack of Jacquard loom cards, about two meters in length at Queen’s Street Mill, near Burnley"
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From Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest.

This is @tweedlydo waiting for trick or treaters on our porch last night. It was a slow start, and we only got around 35 kids total (we had the only porch light on for the whole block), but the ones who stopped by had fun.

Guillaume Lavrut was visiting the small French town of Aurillac with his wife and three children when he took this photo. The family were looking for souvenirs together and exploring the streets when they happened on a canopy of umbrellas.

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#Botober was fun! I enjoyed the creative outlet.

I'm a graphic designer. My skills are generally directed at making sure my clients get what they want and that their audience responds accordingly. I develop and follow a lot of design systems and while my creativity is used, it is limited by another entity's needs.

But this Botober thing? This turned into a design Funfest. Through the daily process I learned that I need to do more design with the purpose of just enjoying graphic design without barriers and that I have the free time to do it.

Thanks to everyone else who took part. It was so much fun to see how we all decided visually unraveled the most absurd collection of prompts ever.

Thanks to @ba for posting the intital prompts and everyone who posted encouraging words all month, some days I definitely needed them because no one on Earth wakes up with an idea ready to go for a prompt like "sozerfrapple".

"Candles were placed inside the turnips and they were used to frighten people on the night of 31 October. The pumpkin that is prevalent today is an American development of this Irish tradition."

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This is the Labubu head before the face was attached and the fleece added. It's made of chipboard strips that I laser cut and taped together.
The face is made of styrene in the same way the way old Halloween masks from the '60s-'80s were made. The CNC carved wooden buck/mold in the foreground was used to vacuum form styrene for the face.
In all, this was a good exercise in digital fabrication and costume making

Down the block from where I live.

This year's costume was a hit with the neighborhood kids and some of the adults. I made the head and found the fuzzy fleece bodysuit at the thrift store

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Social media-famous Chicago hot dog joint The Weiner's Circle got dressed up as "Black Castle" for Halloween. I presume customers still got yelled at.

One of my customers has spent over 20 years making these. He displays then in his yard beginning in early October. This is just a small portion of over 400 carved pumpkins on display.

I am the proud owner of one he made for me of Spy vs. Spy.

Oh, and he gave the trick-or-treaters the choice of either candy or a potato. He's a real legend.

I didn't get a good photo of my costume so here are the dogs instead.

I got to scare a TON of kids while handling out candy at a friend's house though. It was pretty great. A creepy mask and black hoodie paired with a growly voice made for some interesting treat distribution. A bunch of cautious kids told me they were thrilled by it so I'll take that as a win.

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Happy Halloween

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