I tried to do a Bride of Frankenstein but it didn’t really work and I lost patience with it:
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What ever it is… it is disturbing, so you win.
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I made my first pair of cyber falls to wear this Halloween. I tied in some of my black acrylic scales so they would have a little bit of a chainmail theme to them since that is my main crafting thing.
I don’t know if I’ll manage to get pictures with the full outfit and makeup.
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What did you think the ribs at the Outback Steakhouse were?
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I managed to make a little side money this year by selling a photo of my kid’s costume to a prominent tabloid.
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Bat boy is missing, isn’t he? Could be the next big thing.
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My husband, Saturday night: Oh yeah, I forgot there’s a costume contest at work Monday. What do we have I can wear?
Me: Well, you could wear Cardboard Tube Samurai, but you don’t like that costume because it doesn’t have pockets.
Me, Sunday Morning: No wait. I know what you’re gonna be.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you video game sex symbol Lara Larry Croft.
$20 at the thrift store, because we already had the holsters.
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I always have trouble coming up with ideas that I like (I like to do things that don’t require buying a pre-made costume, but I’m also averse to wigs and makeup so my options tend to be limited), so I was happy that this last minute idea popped into my head Saturday in time for last night’s party: Li’l Baby Punkin’ Chestburster:
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I have never, ever been more grateful for “Star Wars” than I am tonight. My 8-year-old is Rey and we can finally, finally place a lasting moratorium on the princess crap.
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The great thing about the original trilogy was that the costumes, for the most part, could be cobbled together from stuff around the house. An old karate gi, a bathrobe, an adult’s white turtleneck; that’s all the kids needed to do Star Wars.
Rey’s outfit brings that back. Your kid has a white tee, capri pants and a strip of fabric and she’s good to go! No elaborate prequel Mongolian headdresses required.
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Wait. I’m still chewing on this Now & Later, but yes. I could have cobbled it together, and I love your point. However, I was so delighted that she didn’t want to be a princess that I spent way, way too much money on her costume. I even bought the staff and optional goggles. Hey, we might need those someday.
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Is that like baby food pumpkin on your shirt?
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We had 300 or so kids tonight and some incredibly creative costumes:
- Tons of homemade Star Wars, including a fantastic little Han Solo with the perfect hair and a homemade Plo Koon.
- The Ghost of George Washington
- A classic: Clark Kent Becoming Superman (wear business clothes, put black frame glasses atop your head, undo your shirt halfway to reveal Superman t-shirt)
- Poseidon, Medusa, and Mercury
- A very small Blackjack O’Hare
- A kid in a homemade Nick Wilde outfit who was super pumped that I recognized him
- A Boxtroll (kid in a box with a fish painted on the front) who was similarly excited to be identified
- A surprising number of homemade Undertale outfits! We had an Undyne, a Mettaton, a Muffet, and a very small Toriel.
- A toddler with a jheri-curl wig, ruffled shirt, and purple pants with a fuzzy plush purple guitar. The tiniest Prince!
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Until Episode VIII reveals Rey is yet another Space Princess who was sent into exile for her own safety.
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Daymn - that is a lot of kids.
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Oh yeah. It’s not a rich neighborhood but it’s an “artsy” one, and the houses go all out for Halloween. Kids come from all over the city to hit this area. We open up the front hallway (decorated with cobwebs and stretching portraits and candlesticks and bats), get dressed up and blast the Haunted Mansion soundtrack. It’s a good time.
There wasn’t much time for elaborate costuming so we threw on some makeup and top hats and cloaks. The kiddies got a kick out of it.
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We had about the same number of kids in the early hours; things were just starting to get hopping when I had to shut down at 7:00pm to get to rehearsal. Coming home at 9:30pm I saw a couple of families leaving our block, but they were the last stragglers. No idea how many kids I missed.
The costumes were fabulous this year. I don’t know cartoons, comics, etc. so I missed a lot of references, but as you say there were some great homemade costumes that really showed creativity and ingenuity.
Once the sun went down, the temperature dropped and the coats got zipped up so it wasn’t as fun anymore. Just as well I had to go.
This is the first year I didn’t get a photo of any of my kids in their costumes. 
It’s no fun when they grow up! (They had costumes, I just didn’t see any of them dressed up for the night, let alone get photos.)
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My hypothesis that children are the future has been confirmed.
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I have made two Star Wars costumes for my son. Both involved hastily constructed robes I sewed from fleece, which turns out to be pretty easy to pull off if you have no idea how to cut clothing patterns from scratch. The first was a Jawa (even wired LED eyes for that costume), the second was Yoda (I knit a hat and gloves in addition to the hastily constructed robe). Unfortunately, I don’t have any pics handy. 
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