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BOO! my younger brother by 14 years reminded me of the halloween when i made him into a bumble bee. he won the contest at the school and adulation wherever he went. he was 5. he was mortified. my downstairs girlie girl was going to be a knight until she realized she couldn't wear her wings or her tiara.....now she's a fairy princess. her 2 year old brother is a dragon. but with a cape and a sword because you just try to get that damn cape off him...dare ya. all our halloween costumes were handmade when i was growing up. not always beautifully crafted but imaginative. a lion was always easy for a baby - big muff and tail...paint on the nose and nice and toasty for a cold night. last year, we saw at least 20% harry potter, lots of punk girls and a smattering of witches and ghouls. i preferred the old costumes.....where you sometimes had to guess that the in the box was a robot not a carton of cocktail franks....i swear the coils looked like little weiners...honest. the porch is done....the cemetery will go out tomorrow and the fog machines on saturday along with two flying ghosts who jump from the tree and head for the porch. pop rocks and dry ice for the witches cauldron.... and we're all in costume.... i love the foolishness.......makes me happy.... my favorite costume ever was me as a spider..... what was yours? You cannot conceive the many without the one. |
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In 5th grade, I made myself up as a hobo (you know, old cloths, etc, handkerchief tied on a stick) and wore one of my Dad's old slouch hats pulled way down on my head. I wanted to use some burnt cork for a whiskery effect, but we did not have any cork to burn, so I got some scraps of black felt and made a beard that pretty much covered my face from my upper lip to my chest. At the school halloween party, we showed up after lunch in costume (in those days EVERYONE went home for lunch) and sit in someone else's seat, in costume. The teacher started guessing everyones' identity. In the end there were two people not yet identified, me & Bill P. We both slouched way down in our seats as we both knew there was a good height difference, and in the end she gave up. I don't remember for sure, but I think Bill P was also a hobo. Home made is still the best, I think. Have a happy holiday, WE. Tomorrow I'm going into Brownsville and will spend the evening with a co-worker who has three kids (2 - 5 & 9) ... he says it is big time excitement, I can't wait. Chas
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10/29/2009 8:52 pm |
My kids have (almost) always had home made costumes (one year I didn't have time to sew, and ordered them from the Disney website...we had a dalmation, Woody, and Captain Hook...). I have always loved making halloween costumes. I made my 2 year old daughter a poofy pumpkin, and each of the three kids wore it at least once...I've made a costume for Neo...Aragorn...Legolas...Pandora...a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle... When I was growing up, we never had purchased costumes either...I was often a gypsy...the skirt my mother made was fun to wear and I got to raid her costume jewelry box! Lots of jangly, sparkly chains to drape around my neck...and screw on earrings dangling from my ears....  hard to pick a favorite...  "All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you." - Judith Crist, crack film critic
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10/29/2009 10:23 pm |
When I was a kid just outside Boston, it was a group effort. Everyone in the family helped the three kids develop a costume. the one I remember most was "The Little Professor." They made me that because sometimes that was my nickname. Can't remember much other than the tie and the mustache and drawn wrinkles. I do remember my dog Sukie, a Norwegian elkhound, who went with me that year and scared off a couple of bigger kids who tried to steal my bag of candy. Filled it up, went home, dumped it and went back out. When we got a little older we went out with soap, and if you didn't have the "treat" we soaped your windows so that next day everyone knew who didn't "treat' the kids. Don't do much on Halloween anymore ... but from time to time I do theater when there's a part I fit and a group I like. Something like Halloween, only you get applause(hopefully) but no candy.
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I have to admit, I have zero creativity when it comes to costumes. On Sunday I had the treat of seeing a costume that a friend of mine made for her nephew this year. He wanted to be a matador. She went out and found a matador-style hat, found a little black jacket at a thrift shop that she could convert into a bolero. She had lovingly sewed red braid trim and black lace all over the place on the costume - it was a work of art. Oh, and of course - a swashbuckling red cape.  
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Happy Halloween--wickedEasy! I only went trick or treatin' twice when I was a kid--once as a mummy and the following year as an alien. Other Halloween's I went to parties and Fall festivals. I remember it being my favorite holiday, though. John Lee Hooker Recommended: [blog lucyjane78]
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cool i love the houses where people such as you decorate and enjoy the hallween spirit!!!after all it is so much fun!!!!hugs dear WE the best costume my mom made for me was a begger costume and i loved it...i keeped it and passed it one to a fiends child when i was about 25 or so!!! hugs we for being you!!!   []   Seduce my mind and my body
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I was Andy Warhol.
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11/3/2009 10:52 pm |
Haloween was not celebrated in the bush when I was growing up. But we did have an annual fancy dress party and I recall winning when I was about 10 for being dressed as Ned Kelly. Recent post: [post 2369941]
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I'm feeling a little bit better every day. Still have some neuropathy in my left hand and chemo brain, but other than that...able to step up my exercise a bunch, and able to last a full "work day"...
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