I almost forgot, I have won 2 costume contests. My first was when I was in the fourth grade, my school had a Halloween carnival and costume contest. The theme was Storybook characters. My mom made me a Little Bo Peep costume and my dad turned my bike into a sheep, I came in second place. The second was a contest at work. I dressed up in a long black negligee with a matching robe, my makeup was a slit throat. Sort of a deadly honeymoon type thing. I won first place for that one. I think it was the black negligee that won me that one. I also won two decorating contests when I was working. The first was for Halloween, I attached black streamers to thin dowels to make walls and hung them above the empty cubical next to mine. I decorated the cubicle with spider webs and dressed up a skeleton and put him in the chair at the computer. I rigged a piece of fishing line to the chair so I could make the chair turn around when someone looked into the cubey. I also dressed a dressmakers dummy with a black robe and put a grim reaper mask over a red balloon. There were ghosts made out of thin plastic packing foam sheets, various bats, spiders and black cats. The second was for Christmas. I decorated each cubey to represent different parts of Santa's workshop. There was the lights shop, bakery, ornaments, candy, wrapping paper, etc. The tops of the cubey walls were covered in cotton batting snow and the end of each set of cubies had brick corrigated paper.
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