Halloween Costumes

Jem and Rio - Probably my favorite because we both look cute.
Matt's tan is Sally Hansen spray-on tan for legs.  I sewed my dress and belt. My earrings are foam-core. I dyed Matt's pants and made him that iron-on shirt and spray painted both our hair. I worked at my job at ad production-type place in this. It was fun driving (I had a jetta and worked in Raleigh) to work in this get-up. Talk about Rock Out!

Bride of Frankenstein + Frankenstein. I think Matt wore one of my jackets to be extra-tight. He definitely had some of my pants on.


I loved being scary Carrie. I didn't break character. I broke for a second from delight from this Kim Jong Il

This was easy - I had a thrift store slip and bloodied it in the bath-tub a few days before so it would be dry blood and I wouldn't be wet and freezing, but my hair is wet with goopy fake blood. I'm glad I committed to the messiness. I remember my phone being slimed with blood.

That sweat band has fake flowers on the other side - Carrie's prom corsage!

Prep-work!


First halloween in NYC! I made this purple flapper from scratch. Really proud of it. I think I still have it. Fringe is the funnest thing to wear.




Remember during the Obama/McCain campaign and that one girl beat herself up and lied and said Obama supporters beat her up? I was her and this was love at first sight.

This 2nd Halloween in NYC was one of the hardest cabs I've ever hailed and almost immediately gotten kicked-out of. I also dropped my first iPhone on hard tile in the bathroom and got the white screen of death, played dumb, and the wonderful people at Apple gave me a brand new one.



2003 - Film camera days!

Raccoon make-up

That's eyeliner, babe. Pencil. Yes- it took some time.

Raccoon suit. Funny story- I worked at the Pat Field store and weeks and weeks later someone called to ask whatever happened to their job application and I was like "We never got that" and the person on the phone said "I gave it to the raccoon." Busted! 


I had a lot of hair for a while and used my hot rollers and squeezed out this Midge:


Last year I went to the Rally 4 Sanity Halloween Weekend and had this get-up going on.

But that was for the Rally, totally not Halloween. Halloween fell on a Sunday and I had a house party to go to and I pulled together this Rachel Maddow.

-But I was at a mostly-lesbian house party and most people thought this was my look.
They were very nice and liked my look but didn't realize that I was being Maddow.

These are my nieces/nephews and a friend's baby but these are more get-ups that I crafted.

Queen of Hearts and her cards or court? There was a Joker and a 3 and an Ace. I made these out of felt and pleather cut-outs glued on. Her tutu has cards and beads and all kinds of stuff attached.

 I'm very proud of this mermaid skirt

I made her brother the nemo fish out of felt and lame.

The Flintstones! This is super cute looking back on it. Stretch vinyl.

This Hello Kitty was hi-tech. It has piping inside and a bag of air to try to keep it up high. Someone had to hold it during the parade. I'd like to try one of these again someday.

I was really proud to knock-off the Pottery Barn Kids witch.

This outfit also had components so she could just wear all black and be a cat at school.

I don't live anywhere near these guys - I've been lucky guess-timating measurements. I'm also too cave-girl to use real patterns. I just put stuff together. I've been on Martha Stewart, but overall I would say I have the sewing skills of a 6th grade girl.

I should have taken sewing/home-economics in school! Imagine if I had been practicing all these years.