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. 

First Commute of 2011!

I can't believe I'm riding in January. This wasn't in the plan. Luckily I'm super tough and awesome!

When I rode up to my parking spot (a sign post) these workers who had ladders & scaffolding were on my post and one of them recognized me and had the post cleared so I could lock up my bike there. He said I was tough for riding in this. It's DRY and it's in the 30's-ish. It was 28º on the CNN clock I see from Central Park.

I finally found a cute ear-warmer band to wear under my helmet- thrifted, of course.


I got a new L.A.M.B. bag on super-clearance... the green, leopardy-camo. It's a lightweight cross-body.




Little organizational bit- I've been home alone and had girl bombs all over the apartment. That means little areas where I dumped out baskets of jewelry or switched purses and left serious evidence behind.

The landing pad in the entryway BEFORE:


AFTER about 20 minutes of take it all out, put it all back and throw a little bit away or just put it in a better place elsewhere in the apartment-




And here's where all my McDonald's Sanrio 50th Anniversary watches are chilling:

I collected them all! (With a little help from some friends!)

Just wear a beret til' it grows all the way out.

The past week I haven't ridden my bicycle to work at all. I will probably ride tomorrow, Friday due to a "heatwave" in the 30's. Sadly, that's the first week in many, many months that I have ridden so little. I've been taking so many photos on my bicycle commute that today I took some randoms on my other commute. 

Hoofing it from the subway. Geez!

I don't have a set commute that I love. There are a lot of options and I'm not settled. 

I need to do a post about how I collected (with the help of some loving friends) all of the Hello Kitty - Sanrio 50th Anniversary watches. This is Choco Cat, he matches a lot of my outfits, and he helped me be on time today.

My face looks like a huge dork and my hair is in a really low/sad/suicidal place, but this is pretty much my outerwear look for today.

I did have a black sequined beret on. I should keep it on until my hair grows into something cuter. 

Last night - Wednesday - I wore this to see Amy Sedaris again. 

And we were really lucky the event was slow, and we got to take a pic.

So Special & Sweet!!!! She insinuated I live in a group home. And on the other hand, after I named off a ton of crap I've collected & bought from her over the years - she was glad I got that poster I got back in November. 

I have a big New Year's Resolution/Change in my life I'm eager to get into. Can't wait to tell, and see how it goes.

24ºF

This is the face of a girl riding in 24ºF and it wasn't terrible.

I really cannot believe all the guys - mostly delivery guys - riding with no gloves, ear-cover, scarf - they are insane. Or tough as nails. I even put Carmex under my LipGlass. (MAC Viva Glam Cyndi Lauper Edt.)


I'm being pretty tough! I might look for some more fierce gloves. I also lost one of my knog clip-on lights tonight. I'm really great at losing bicycle lights. Luckily, I'm aware of this and had a back-up.


I lost the light after I stopped to take this on 6th Ave.

I went to the Hello Kitty Truck at Herald Square. They gave you a flier to pre-shop before you get in the line. I wasn't dazzled by the offerings so I chose something small that I'm going to give to some little Hello Kitty maniacs I know for Christmas.






I do not know this lady. They were taking too long so I had to just include them.





And these are the amazingly clear view I'm getting in Central Park at night now that all the leaves are gone. I'm sad they're gone but I'm dazzled by the lights.




When I was riding home the temp read 29ºF. Yay! Where are the high 40's?