ALL CHOKED UP – part 1: setting my intentions

I’m feeling very excited and inspired! I’m starting a new project! Something bloody spectacular. But I’m going to take a few moments to tell you about it first. 

Right, so, I was all ready to start a blog post about Christmas and what theme I’m going for this year, when out popped my old friend executive dysfunction, and I opened Twitter. What did I see? This: 

It stopped me mid-scroll. And not only because it’s a tweet from March last year. I just want it. And it seems like the perfect time to get it. It’s October now. Hallowe’en is only a few weeks away.

Now, I didn’t grow up with Hallowe’en being “a thing”. Not saying that was everyone’s experience; people celebrated it, but it didn’t seem like it was that big of a deal. Plus, Bonfire Night is only a few days after. May as well save up your excitement for that! Does Hallowe’en come with fireworks? Exactly. And anyway, Christmas is the end-of-year celebration I truly love. But I really do want that necklace. Choker, really.

Even if all I end up doing for Hallowe’en is sit about on the sofa, drinking Bloody Marys, I will have that necklace on while I do it. Being honest, though, the original is out of my price range. And international shipping wouldn’t guarantee I could have it ready for 31 October.

So I’m going to make my own version. I will be documenting the process week by week as I go – with Part 2 coming up on 8 October – so please keep your fingers crossed for me and stick around to see how I do! 

Should we look at it one more time before I go? Okay:

* [Author’s Note 05.10.2021: since originally posting this on 1 October, I’ve learned that the choker design is based on a Dior SS06 look, and has been reproduced many, many times since then.

Don’t know how I managed to miss/forget about this. Then again, it was 16 years ago! But I will still refer to the Hell’s Belle necklace in future posts. Because, I have to be honest, I just like it more.]

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