Frightful Frocks: Pumpkins

 Today is the penultimate post for our Frightful Frocks! That is an excellent word - penultimate. It means "next to last" and the only reason I remember that word at all is because my family is completely obsessed with Taskmaster, a British comedy competition show on YouTube. It's fantastic and mostly family friendly. A little language, a little suggestiveness... but for teens like ours, it's hysterical! 

Anyway, that's my fun new word at the moment.

We have a pumpkin page for today. One more to go for tomorrow and I am trying my absolute best to get it out on time! 

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 I wasn't quite sure where to go with this one. I made a couple of fantastic pumpkin dresses for my Flapper Halloween book and I didn't want to repeat those ideas. Instead, I went in a sort of 19th century direction. I saw a few costume enthusiasts who designed some pumpkin themed dresses and I sort of riffed on those. The hat, however, was VERY inspired this specific hat: 

I think hers is far better than my orange-on-orange rendering. It's lovely! Her blog and social media seems to be inactive but still worth a look. 

So tomorrow (fingers crossed) I'll post the last costume. 

ALSO, for anyone looking for digital art software, Affinity just announced today that is free for all. Might be time to finally commit to learning it...