Did you know Halloween's only four days from now? Yesterday, as I sat and carved faces into milk jugs to set on the front porch, I couldn't help feeling the holiday had snuck up on me, again. Except, this year, our bank account's a little lighter than last year. While I secured the jugs to the railing, with twine, I did my best to brainstorm cheap, easy costumes able to be completed entirely by glue gun. But, though my nickname on the rough streets of Craftville is "Mean Melty McFelty", ideas weren't exactly falling out of my jugs. So, I did what I do in a non-crisis and tried to glean inspiration from good-mom magazines. Here's a few blurbs I'm saving to help put something together for Butch and Sundance...
"Making costumes has never been easier. Just follow the chart from step 5 all the way to step 1. In no time, your child can be a RAEB, HCTIW or a TSOHG. - Jan, The Crafty Dyslexic
"Make sure it's plastic and has your name on it. Then you swipe it, like, you know, with purpose. If you're custom-ordering, online, just type in the numbers. I always volunteer to "make" costumes for the school plays." - Ellen, Rich Mom Weekly
"Let the candy corn guide you to what you want to be." - The Quiet Candy Storm Weekly: Extra fat edition
"Every year I hear bout this "Halwen" thing, and I'm tellin' the kids this year what I did last. We ain't celebratin' no holiday has anythin' to do with door-to-door salesmen. We got a us a new vacuum five years ago." - Phylis, The Country Housewife
"You'll need some string, scissors, yarn, poster board, batteries, glue, glitter, oven mitts, a trained bear, three hoola hoops, clean motor oil, cotton balls, a toothbrush, rubber cement, milk and tin foil, and someone who can drive a big rig."
- Linda, All Hallow's Abstract Quarterly
"I usually hide behind the shades, until it's all over. So yeah, I guess you could say I go as a ghost, every year." - Beverly, Good Housekeeping Recluse
I'll keep working on it...
What costume ideas are you guys throwing around?
Until Next Time, Readers!
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LOL! So much fun :) The Scribe is going to be a princess mummy and the Hippie wants to be Katara from "The Last Air Bender."
ReplyDeleteHahaha, I love Phylis! No halloween here. Not because we don't 'celebrate' it or whatever, just because it's not a big deal over here. Maybe that's because it's a bit 'close to home' for the Irish still and they are still sore on Druid sacrifices and such...
ReplyDeleteEven though she picked out a Belle costume from the clearance section at the Toys R Us that was closing, The Girl still says she wants to be a Princess-Zombie-Ballerina. This from the girl who wants to be a Picture-Taking Neonatalogist Ballerina when she grows up.
ReplyDeleteI loved the last one best, although all were amusing. We don't do Halloween in SA so I'm safe with doing nothing :)
ReplyDeleteI thought about going as a hooker fish but thought that might set off the neighbors for a new stream of bashing, so instead I told Mr. P I was going as a crazy mom. He said "Duh but what costume are you going to wear?" This is the first time in years I don't have to worry about costumes. I have a purple pimp suit that I stroll the town in usually complete with a Jamaican wig and chains. Phil told me to stop scaring the kids so I sold it. So sad.
ReplyDeleteRIP pimp suit. I will miss you
I don't do Halloween anymore. My kids are grown up, but an easy costume we did for my son one year was having him wear a black and white striped shirt, a ball cap, and a whistle. He was a referee. He liked it and he was too well behaved to drive us crazy with the whistle.
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Lola
I posted this on another blog--don't remember whose. I don't know what my costume will be, but my husband told me he's going as a grumpy old man. I asked him what he was going to wear & he said, "My blue shirt." 'Nuff said.
ReplyDeleteHappily all my kids are grown up and having little goblins of their own, but to keep a child-like atmosphere, I decorated with ghosts dancing around my tree.
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Ahahahah I love this! YES HALLOWEEN THEMES! I freaking love it! You rock Paige, thank you for the midnight laugh
ReplyDeleteJust browsed to your site through a FF from rejected writer and im so glad!! love it!
ReplyDeleteyou sound like you are a bit of a halloween fan, why not enter my fancy dress competition? the more the merrier!
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So funny!
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