It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Yeeear!
I love Halloween. I
hate to ever pick favorites and, you know, Christmas/NYE are pretty awesome,
but seriously dudes – Halloween!!
There’s magic in the air on Halloween.
You can dress as someone completely different and embrace an
aspect of yourself that you keep hidden the other 358 days a year (because
Halloween is a week-long celebration, obviously).
I actually lost a friend once because she ragged so hard on
Halloween (we made up eventually and now we’re friends again). I’m not pointing that out to say “Don’t you
dare criticize Halloween in front of me”.
I’m pointing it out to say “Don’t you dare criticize Halloween in front
of me unless you want to get stabbed in the kidneys and in the face.” I don’t
take Halloween haters lightly. You’ve
been warned.
*ahem* Sorry about
that. I’m a little too murder for my own
good some times. *Back to the post*
Since I love
Halloween so much, I usually go all out on my costumes.
This year, I planned to be a phoenix. Like Dumbledore’s bird, Fawkes, not Jean Grey’s
alter-ego.
At the beginning of October, I went on Amazon and purchased
roughly $70 worth of ostrich feathers in black, red and orange. I went to the fabric store and bought more
feathers and eight yards of organza and sequined fabric in varying fiery hues. I made a pretty skirt out of some of the
fabric:
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| The edge of which still needs to be hemmed... |
The intent was to make the rest of the costume out of the
same fabric and then put feathers everywhere, paint my face to look fiery and
have wild hair.
Then I tried sewing the feathers.
Then I said Fuck. That.
Sewing feathers is super hard, time-consuming, and just all
around awful.
So I returned everything I could (which was everything other
than the fabric I’d already cut up) and last Monday I began to panic about what
my Halloween costume would be.
For work, my department is dressing up like the characters
from Clue. It was my idea because even though I don’t
know if other people think of it that way, I always feel like Clue is a great Halloween movie. I’m going as Mrs. White.
I thought I had the appropriate black tube dress in my
closet but when I went to put it on, I realized 1.) It was way too short for
work and 2.) I looked like a stuffed sausage when I was wearing it. So once again, I was up a creek without a
paddle.
Luckily, the crafting gods were smiling on me and within one
of my many boxes of crafting and sewing supplies (I like making things, don’t
judge me) I found roughly four yards of a beautiful black fabric that I’ve had
around for over a year and had forgotten about entirely.
I immediately set about making myself a simple tube dress – in the most
complicated way possible. Since I
didn’t have a zipper on hand I thought, “Eh, I’ll just get creative with
buttons and hook-and-eye closures.”
Yeah, that didn’t work out well.
By Friday night at 7:30, I was at my wit’s end so I decided I had to set
it aside, resolving to work on it this week instead when I wasn’t in such a
rush.
That’s when I dug out my box of Halloween costumes and found
my Mother Nature costume from five years ago.
I also had some lovely green fabric I’d been intending to use for throw
pillows but decided to turn into a quick cape instead. By Friday night at 10:00 I had a fun costume –
and it was good!
Saturday, I spent the day cleaning and decorating my
apartment for the Halloween party I had that night. Around 5, I went over to Natalia’s and she
did my makeup, which turned out amazingly!
The Halloween party went off well and I don’t think I pissed
off my neighbors too much.
I think it’s safe to say a good time was had by all.
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| I barely remember taking this picture of me and Quail Man |
Now I just need to finish my costume for our work contest
tomorrow! I haven’t touched it since
Friday. Luckily I work best under pressure ;-p
