Halloween giggles

Gailen’s homemade Alex Anderson 4-in-1 Essential Sewing Tool costume was so spot-on perfect, we just had to do a little video to show it off.

Since one of the terrific features of the tool is the barrel design (it’s squared off so it won’t roll off your desk or sewing table), we positioned her lying down on her desk. Only she was having trouble, um, not rolling off. I’m not kidding…she was trying to lie on her side, perfectly straight, and she rolled backwards and almost fell off her desk! We didn’t catch that on tape, but it gave us a serious case of the giggles that carried through when we did have tape rolling. I even kept mispronouncing her name, so on our third try, you hear me pausing to concentrate on saying her name correctly without laughing. The picture on her office door is one of our how-to shots which shows that you can use the tool to stuff a doll’s head…and we put a picture of Gailen’s face over the doll face.

We also caught a glimpse of PacMan and the Ghost running through the maze of cubicles in our office. Our Publisher Amy made fabulous costumes (with a whole bolt of fast2fuse!) for her son Parker and his pal Will…and they surprised us with a guest appearance.

Amy painted the fabric for these costumes with Liquitex® Acrylic Inks!—notice how bright the colors are? She needed less than half an ounce of each ink color, mixed with lots of water, to paint the fabric for the whole costume! Now that’s some amazing pigment! She made the ghostly orange herself by mixing the red and yellow inks. That Liquitex is good stuff.

We hope you have a wonderful Halloween!