What is Domo?

Since we have been traveling we haven’t had much in the way of decorations for your apartment. We are really missing the festive stuff as the year bends toward the big year-end holidays. For example, we went out and got a table-top Christmas tree the other day. We also bought a pile of felt. We’ve decided that the Domo we bought for Halloween will be our all-purpose holiday Domo. What is Domo? Officially, he’s the mascot of a Japanese television station, but he is popular enough to have his own show and spin-off products all over the place. We discovered him as part of Target’s Halloween promotions. You likely saw him too, if you shop at Target. He came in a pumpkin costume, but for Thanksgiving Maya suggested we make a turkey costume. Matt thought this was a great idea and we set about making it.

There really isn’t much to say about it. We divided the work up quite naturally. We’ve never really worked on a creative project together like this, but we seem to work well together. Maya made the feet, the beak and the body of the costume. Matt made the feathers and assembled the tail with some suggestions from Maya. He also dressed up the hat we bought with the belt and buckle to make the pilgrim-esque hat. We thought one Domo was indulgent back in October, but now we wish we’d gotten two. That way we could have a pilgrim and a turkey, or next month Santa and a reindeer.
The blog isn’t caught up yet. There are a couple of other places we’ve been in the last few weeks that we haven’t talked about. However, we’ll be leaving tomorrow for our first weekend trip in Arizona and we wanted to at least mention it before we go. We’re heading north to the Flagstaff area. We plan to see Meteor Crater and the Grand Canyon! We’ll have more to say when we get back. Happy weekend!