{"id":665,"date":"2010-11-02T12:40:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2026-08-02T01:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T05:04:40","slug":"this-is-halloween-everybody-make-a-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/this-is-halloween-everybody-make-a-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Hallowe’en, everybody make a scene!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was invited to a party on October 30th this year, and I figured it was high time I broke out my Gothic Landscape houmongi<\/a>. I’d originally wanted to wear it with my crow obi<\/a> but I still haven’t had the opportunity to repair it. Oops! I figured in the spirit of all things Creepy and Spooky, I’d see about pairing it up with my spider obi<\/a> instead. I’ve been hesitant about this combo since the kimono and the obi are so close in colour, but my salvation arrived in the mail on the Thursday before the party, in a boxful of shigoki obi. A splash of red was the perfect way to visually separate the two pieces as well as tie in the leaves on the obi. It also helped that one of the shigoki had tassels in the exact same shade as the glorious spiderweb haneri from Naomi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I decided to further emphasize the spooky theme of the ensemble with accessories – I made myself a cute little hairband with black feathers, a raggedy purple “veil” and a sparkly little spider. I used some of the same tulle from the veil to make a big puffy bow to stick in my obi. Unfortunately, I spent nearly two hours in the car before I was able to get these photos, so my obi musubi has gotten sort of squished and lopsided \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\t\t