BB Readers' DIY Costumes: Spider and Plague Doc masks

In our Epic Halloween DIY Costume thread, Boing Boing reader Celeste says,

We've made masks again this year. My husband Jacob is a plague doctor. I'm a spider (ironically, my least favourite animal but I loved working on the mask!). More pics and a bit of info on how they were made here.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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I just finished reading Vernor Vinge’s SF epic — A Deepness in the Sky.

Makes me think of spiders as heroic and innovative. I’d gladly wear that spider mask…and maybe change my name to something like Sherkaner Underhill.

Read the book. You’ll like the mask all the more.