Friday, August 27, 2010

Bookweek Parade 2010

As soon as Fixit walked in the door last night, I told him he had to make a trident for Climber to carry at the Bookweek parade tomorrow, and handed him the nice long cardboard fabric-roll stick I'd scrounged that morning from Rathdowne Remnants. Then I got going with sewing Cherub's Harry Potter cape out of the $6-metre of crushed velvet (you see how I can whip things up now? I even put a little wand pocket on the inside at Cherub's request) and putting dinner in the oven and testing Climber on spelling words for the test tomorrow and getting Cherub to choose which of the sticks I'd picked up by the side of the road he wanted to use for his wand. Meanwhile Fixit had not immediately seized the cardboard stick and set to work, so I've said come on, make the trident because then we have to paint it. Which caused him to mutter something like when is this parade and how long have you known about it? I mean, as if that man is not perfectly capable of knocking up a really good stable trident in the space of half an hour! And then supervising the paintwork and sanding the side-of-the-road-stick into a good looking wand. What is this advance notice he thinks he needs?

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Harry Potter (sans glasses, the one item I couldn't actually knock up at home, and why if wizards have all this magic do they need specs anyway?) and Percy Jackson (son of Poseidon, hence the trident because otherwise his chief costume accessory is a ballpoint pen.)

17 comments:

  1. I did suggest to Son #3 that he grab a pen on his way out the door and just go as Percy. It didn't go down too well, needless to say.

    However our parade has been postponed for two weeks (half the teachers away today at a funeral) so I can procrastinate for another 14 days before I put some old clothes on him and tell him he's Oliver Twist.

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  2. Whipping things up like crazy! I love Cherub in the background of that first photo.

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  3. Very clever. We will be creating over the weekend too. I love bookweek.

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  4. I wonder if we do that here (USA...) - I would love to dress my kids up as book characters! I love the photos. Cherub's expression in the latter is something! And the trident looks great! Nice work, Stomper Family. :)

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  5. Lovely!

    I was trying to hard to relate to the trident in regard to Harry Potter, I am so glad you clarified that, I was starting to think I was going to have to go back right to the beginning and start reading/watching blu rays all over again! :)

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  6. Well, if he read notices from school he could have got to work on that costume earlier, couldn't he?

    Nice work crafty lady!

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  7. Fantastic.

    I sent Eldest to her book day as The Worst Witch last year even though she was ill, because I had made the damn costume. They sent her home after half an hour.

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  8. Nice whipping up!

    I think the wand pocket is perhaps showing off though...

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  9. My kids never had to do that. They DID, however have a parade on All Saints Day, where Number One Son was the English martyr, St. Edmund Campion. Which horrified my wife.

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  10. My kids never had to do that. They DID, however have a parade on All Saints Day, where Number One Son was the English martyr, St. Edmund Campion. Which horrified my wife.

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  11. Very cool costumes!

    Our school didn't have a dress up book parade...instead they could bring in a teddy or doll dressed up as a book character. Great. Costume required IN MINATURE. I convinced the Impossible Princess to take a teddy dressed up as The Folk of the Faraway Tree's Mr Saucepan Man and we just tied items from a plastic teaset to his back and fixed a plastic frying pan over his head. Voila. No advance warning needed for that job!

    (I love your reasoning about wizards wearing specs...you should write to JK R and ask her why!)

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  12. Goodness, that sounds very exhausting. Glad I never had to do that for my kids. Impressive, though!

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  13. Those are quite some creative genes you've pooled, SG and Fixit! Love that cape. It would go over aces here too. I am in awe of your whip up power.

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  14. Bookweek parade was strange at my boys school...... in so many ways...

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