Every new year, usually the first day where we are home but the kid goes to stay overnight with grandma, I set aside the day to watch the entire collection of Alien movies. I've been doing this for over 20 years now. I do this because I could never get through the first Alien movie, it was too gory for me. I was in my late 20s when I was finally able to sit through the whole movie, and I watched it on TV on New Years Eve. It was almost a rite of passage for me.
I don't just watch the original Alien movies with Sigourney Weaver, I watch them all, even the spin-offs. Except there's one that I watched this time around that I thought sucked so bad I won't watch it again... I rented it from Amazon Prime and I am SOOO glad I didn't buy it. I don't even remember the title.
This year, I decided to complete a project that I had bought the felt for a year or two ago. I decided to make a plushie face-hugger. I've always wanted one as a companion for watching the movies! So I set up a craft table in front of the TV, loaded up pictures of plushie face-huggers on my computer screen for inspiration, made some popcorn and filled up a jar with rum and coke, and got down to the business of movie watching and crafting.
I very nearly got the plushie done by the time I'd watched all the movies. I had a little detailing to do with embroidery stitches later, but I got the basic form completed by the time my son came home from grandma's on sunday!
He wanted to pose with it for a picture, and then he announced that he loved it so much he wanted one of his own! Well, it was a lot of work to make one, and I had no desire to do it all over again. Fortunately, he was okay with that, he said he'd make it himself, and make it smaller. So I set him up making his own!
Neither of them are quite done yet. I still need to add my embroidery details and he still has to finish his. But I'm sure they'll be done and ready to cuddle come the next new year, when I do this all over again!
