halloween pt. 2

Okay, time to show off my goofy costume!
I'm not really good at being things that are recognizable. For example, last year I was the best darned home-made Katy Perry you ever saw.



The jumper was sewn using a vintage pattern I snagged off ebay. Kind of painful considering I get most of my vintage patterns for 10c or so from thrift stores. But I needed something specific!

Now this year...I was a fish. The rainbow fish. A rainbow trout. A "Big Fish" (for my roommate's Tim Burton costume party, natch). Whatever, just a fish!


Here I am with my good friends Blake and Laura.


The tail, of course, the most important part.


And a really terrible photobooth-closeup of my gills/makeup.

The outfit consisted of:
a dress slip (underneath, for warmth and decency)
a skirt slip with the slit worn to the front, the hem pleated to the back with fabric attached for a tail
a gray nightgown with strips of fabric (previously hems of dresses I salvaged from the trash at work, yay upcycling!) ruffled and attached
tights and FISHnets
amazing feather fake lashes for gills

We spent the night at a First Teenager Ever house show, and it was fairly uneventful for me. Not so much for everyone else. The evidence...













Click for larger at my flickr. Hope everyone had a fun, safe, creative Halloween this year!

happy halloween!

My roommate's son, Elliot, was dead set on having a Mr. Freeze costume for Halloween........until he saw the previews for Where the Wild Things Are. And since he knew that his mom loved Max so, so much, that's what he wanted to be.

Roommate who knows how to sew to the rescue!



It took about two evenings and one morning (right before the Halloween party!) to finish, and I would guess cost less than $15 to make.





We're all really quite pleased with it!

Post with my costume tomorrow, hopefully.