Big. Red.

I started work today on Alton's Halloween costume: this year he's going to be Clifford the Big Red Dog, the beloved canine character from the Norman Bridwell book series. I bought a sewing pattern and red, silky, long, curly fake fur to make it with. I cut the pieces of the pattern today, and my dining room floor was covered with staticky, microscopic polyester fiber strands from all the ends of the fur. Total carnage. I think that for the next three days, our home is going to resemble Nightmare on Elmo Street.