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Look Ma, I managed to land in the first twenty pages of an issue of Journey Planet!

Seriously, though, some of the issues of Journey Planet have been tremendously huge, but the latest issue is a nice and reasonable 48 pages. Edited by John Coxon, James Bacon, Chris Garcia and Alyssa McKersie, it is the first issue since Chris got to move back out of a hotel and be HOME, post the August 2020 California Wildfires, and is is also the first issue featuring input from our own Rosie Gray, which didn't just share her thoughts for the article -- she actually sat down and typed a sentence of her very own on our shared google doc!

It was an article co-authored by her father and myself, but we wanted her in on it, because it was about a costume we'd all worked on for HER. Brian gave it the somewhat momentous title, Halloween as Gateway Drug: This is the Way, and ended it with a line that pretends Rosie has not been dressing up in homemade cosplay since she was 4, but I decided to go along with that, since he is the STORYTELLER in the family and it makes for better story.

In any case, you can check out it and some other nice articles about recent Star Wars spin-offs and great Mandalorian fan art at the Journey Planet 56 web page.

As we expected, they were not able to publish all the process photos we submitted. You can see the other three that detailed the foam cutting and gluing process on flickr here or by clicking on the image below.

Rosie's Mandalorian Costume
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Our little cutie.

We dressed Rosie up as Rainbow Bright for an event at her preschool before Halloween. I've posted some pictures of her as well as of Brian dressed as a slightly Polish Viking on our Halloween set. If you look closely you can see that Brian grew his beard long and did something fancy with it. He looked quite smashing and got a lot of compliments.

Here's my favorite of the two of them:

Rosie Rainbow Bright and her viking father

I think I commented somewhere that I didn't think any pictures of what I wore existed. It wasn't a costume, per se, just black boots and a grey and black skirt I'd recently acquired, with a black sweater to top it off, but I felt very comfortable in it (aside from my feet hurting from the high-heeled boots after I spent 45 minutes volunteering at the bake sale).

But there is actually a picture - they had a backdrop set up in one of the rooms, and we got a picture of me and Rosie. Unfortunately our scanner wasn't working last time we tried, so I just snapped a picture of the print they gave us.

Anne and Rosie at Goblins

The Halloween picture set also now includes a shot of the Rocket ship costume Brian worked so laboriously to finish on time, and which Rosie subsequently refused to put on. We will keep it and have no doubt SOME child WILL wear it, eventually.

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