Halloween, Part 2

I was feeling SO grumpy yesterday that I actually considered just letting Eric take M trick or treating. But I eventually got over it and put on my Halloween gear and faked it til I made it. I am glad I did. We had a great time.

I am the Lorax! I Speak for the TREES!

The Lorax and the Onceler are buddies.

All the neighborhood kiddos.

Man this costume is hot. And can I eat some candy? And take a break?

Oh no! The Onceler skinned the Lorax!

Heading home with one of her favorite buds and Grammie!

After about 8 houses M decided that she had enough candy and that she just wanted to hang with her buds. So Eric (the best Dad around) carried her costume and her pumpkin. She escorted her best 3 year old bud until they were both exhausted. We called it a night around 6:45, what party animals!

Now that October is over November is all the sudden here!!! How did that happen? Man I have a ton of work to do.

Peace Out Peeps!
- C

Halloween 2012, Part 1

Those of you who know me personally know I LOVE HALLOWEEN. In general it is the best idea ever. You get to dress up in a costume! You get to celebrate all things weird, spooky and macabre. Macabre is one of my favorite words. Look I even spelled it right, I think.

I say this post is "Part 1" because as usual our Halloween celebrations are many fold. Last weekend was he first test run of our costumes. E & M have new matching costumes, but due to budget cuts and time constraints, lack of creativity and a dash of laziness I am tweeking and re-wearing an oldy but a goody.

I made Marion's Lorax costume out of orange fake fur. I can tell you it is not my favorite material to work with! Every time you cut into it, it all goes POOF and flies everywhere. I was tasting orange fur for two days after I made it.

I pulled out a jump-suit pattern I had used for M's costume last year and quickly discoverd she is MUCH taller this year. I had to add over 4 inches to it and make some other modifications to make it more Lorax-y.

I added a big butt, since the Lorax has a chubby rear that he lifts up to dramatically fly away.

I also decided to make it sleeveless. Because we do live in GA and even a sleeveless furry suit will most likely be too hot on Halloween.

I made a hood out of stretchy orange material also to make it a little less hot. The signature Lorax eyebrows are made of felt as well as the mustache. The mustache is a little too big. But it is hard to properly measure and fit things on a wiggly 5 year old. I plan to make some adjustments before our next appearance this Sunday at the Home Grown Decatur Halloween Parade.

Here she is posing with the class scarecrow (that I also made), but that is a whole other post. Sadly this is the best picture I have so far. The mustache needs work and she took off the costume after about 30 minutes because it was HOT out.

The Onceler was a little more successful. But by the end of the festival his hat and gloves were off and he looked a little melted. When I measured for the jacket he was wearing different pants!! I should have made it a little longer. We need to work some kinks out of this outfit as well.

The Onceler and the Medium Witch in the school cafeteria. Picture taken by a young artist.

Hope that we there will be fun had by all tomorrow at the parade. And that we get some better pictures! However M & E are sick so we will see how this all shakes out.

Later Peeps!
Peace out, C