Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween


Halloween is always a BIG DAY around here. Our outdoor decorations are pretty minimal and have been with us for many years - nothing very scary here...
We made these little ghosties out of grocery bags and paper towels when the Man-Cub was two and we pack them up and get them back out every year - we're down to about 10 of them now - we used to tie them all in a tree but here they flutter on our deck...
The witch cutout is also from the Man-Cub's second year and that's about as scary as it gets here - when he was little - he didn't like her - I got the template from Martha Stewart's website - I wonder if it's still there. The purple window cover is actually a door cover - but you can't see our front door from the street so I put it in the dining room window instead - we got it when we moved to Columbia when the Man-Cub was three...
We love making our costumes and getting dressed up. Tonight, we'll go to the Man-Cub's school for "Fall Festival" (designed to keep kids from trick-or-treating) and then we'll go trick-or-treating afterwards.

This is the inside of the Darth Vader shoulder pad thingy - I cut out the shape from poster board and covered it with a trash bag.

These are the quilted gloves - per the Man-Cub's instructions the quilting on the tops of the hands is vertical and the quilting on the wrist bands is diagonal...
I attached quilted sleeves to an old black turtleneck...
This is the quilted skirt thingy (but don't call it a skirt) - it's just a big rectangle with a string closure that opens in the front - vertically quilted...
The groin protector thingy - also poster board covered with trash bag - it's sewn onto the bottom of the shirt so that it hangs appropriately...
I'll post pictures of Darth tomorrow...

And we love carving our pumpkin - we got this one when we were at Red Willow.

Here is the Man-Cub's design.
And here he lights the Jack-O-Lantern - the wind blew it out immediately so we had a dark Jack...


These two guys have little light bulbs in them so they don't blow out...
Happy Halloween!!!

5 comments:

  1. Looks like a lot of fun (and a lot of work). It is 9 PM here and not a single Trick-or-Treater. Hope we don't have to eat all that candy. HA HA. E

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  2. hey, no trick-or-treaters here either....not unusual, though.

    looking forward to seeing the man-cub aka darth!

    love, k

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  3. Hey and Happy Halloween - we've just gotten back from T or T and we had a lot of fun - lots of people out walking - it's pretty nice here - no snow on the ground yet and about 40 degrees - perfect Halloween weather in my opinion. We had a couple of dozen trick or treaters the Man says...

    Love,

    T

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  4. Anonymous11:40 PM

    You sneaky mom, going trick or treating afterwards!

    I went and bought vegan candy but no one's come by and it's getting on towards 9. Oh well. I guess we'll have to eat the "ghost dots" ourselves!

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