As my blog title says, I love 'living life' and having fun! I am definetly a big kid and halloween is a time that I think let's your inner child come out to play!!. Although I think my inner child comes out to play way too much sometimes (future blog to come: Dustin and I playing on a kids playground one afternoon). Even if you are a poised, cool, collected individual (which I certainly am not, ha ha), Halloween let's you be who ever you want to be and just let loose and have fun!!
I usually start my costume planning several months in advance. One reason being is for several years, I've sewn my own costume and considering I'm no professional seamstress - it takes me quite a while. I thought I'd go through my halloween picture collection of the last few years to share with you some of my costumes. Recent years have been more of a 'throw my costume together the week before'.
(On the left) Last year there was a group of us that went as farm anaimals. I was the sheep. There was also a chicken, donkey, pig and the farmer was missing. This picture doesn't show my outfit very well, but I had a dress made of cotton batting. (On the right) I'm a cave women. I had to laugh, that year there were quite a few ladies dressed as cave women or Pebbles. They were all cute, and pretty and dolled right up. I took it to a whole new level with crazy, wild, teased hair, blacked out teeth, dirt all over my body and a cow rib that I carried around.
(Left) Bar wench - probably one of my most favorite costumes I've made. (Right) Pregnant hillbilly - and I actually had a bartender ask me if I was really pregnant when I ordered a beer.....ya, and this baby I'm shaking on the dance floor is real too!?!??!?!?
(Left) 70's Chick - complete with a real hair piece my aunt used to wear. (Right) Chiquita Banana - I quite love how this outfit that I made turned out. Except that fruit headpiece was a pain in the a$$ to keep on.
(Left) Another 70's chick. (Right) Geisha - this is also one of my favorite outfits I made, although the white makeup was kinda itchy.
Stay tuned for this years pictures. I am so excited because I'm going to 2 halloween parties this weekend so of course figured that was an excuse to have 2 different costumes.
Hopefully in the next few years to come I can get back to sewing costumes as I still have patters for a Flapper girl and a Fairy!
Happy Halloween Everyone!
Let your inner child out!
1 comment:
This is awesome - I love the progression and the tour through the photo album of Jody!!
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