Last time in Hallowe'en costume??

[shootingstar]

It's been ages....I don't dress up for hallowe'en at work. Though a few employees voluntarily on their own, do it.

Let's see, for me, that would have been nearly 18 yrs. ago. I guess our social circles are quiet at around Hallowe'en. Or maybe we should do a Hallowe'en costume ride....if one could see in the dark..

[LBTC]

Every year I answer the door dressed and talking like a witch. When I work on Halloween day, I dress as a witch. It's just so easy. But I usually take the day off to get the yard ready. We do a crazy job of it to entertain all the kiddies....

This year we have 2 halloween parties to go to, one that night at which we are supposed to be comic book characters, and for the other, our friend has said my sexy little demon/devil costume will be perfect if DH dresses as something religious. He's decided on hare krishna.

We've had fun over the years dressing up with our friends and hitting the town. We won prizes at several bars a few years in a row. Too much fun!!

oh - any suggestions on the comic book characters would be great.

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[shootingstar]

oh - any suggestions on the comic book characters would be great.

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

You would be cute as Marmaduke, the Great friendly Dane dog. Or Bambi, as Fred flinstone's kid... Not sure if you're allowed to carry that caveman club..

By the way, my partner was up in your area a few wks. ago. On cycling matters.

[7rider]

My last time in costume was 2002 at a friend's Halloween Party in Rhode Island. I was a Jack-o-Lantern. I'll post the pic - I suppose it's better than the time I went to a co-worker's party dressed as a Playboy bunny - complete with fishnet stockings and high heels. They still talk about THAT one! Gads...I was bold (and skinnier) then!

[Zen]

i went to a party last year wearing my regular leather jacket, my dogs collar and carrying a riding crop.
Great excuse to whip men with a stick.

one year i dressed up as the creature from the black lagoon and sat out on my porch. Kids just thought I was a stuffed thing. Scared the bejeezus out of them when I moved.
I quit when I drove one little girl to near hysterics

[Aggie_Ama]

My work is crazy about Halloween. This year we are going as 80's prom goers. Last year we were panhandlers, you know the begging "homeless" on the corner by our office.

[mary9761]

Last Weekend at the Hilly Hundred


I dress up every Halloween as a witch and pass out goodies to the neighbourhood kids. I don't have a porch light so I usually sit outside with a candleabra. The kids are getting older but they look for me every year.

any suggestions on the comic book characters would be great.

Hugs and butterflies,

~T~

If you find a witch hat in red and possibly a red tunic/robe, there's always Wendy the Good Witch from Casper the Friendly Ghost...

[Lifesgreat]

I was going to be a yard gnome for Hallowe'en, but my beard isn't growing fast enough. . .

[tulip]

Long time ago. But this year I'm going to dress up--my front porch and myself! There are alot of kids in my new neighborhood and so I want to create something that they might remember. Plus, it'll be fun. I bought costume parts and tacky decorations over the weekend. I'm going to decorate on Friday morning. I've never decorated any house or apartment I've lived in. This will be a first.

[shootingstar]

Am such a dud. (What type costume would that be???)

At a Hallowe'en dance years ago, there was a good costume where somone wore a black long sleeved lyra top and black tights. Multi-coloured balloons were blown up and she was all wrapped up in clear plastic with a big bow around her neck. She was ..a bag of jelly beans!

One wondered how she went to the washroom. And how hot it became when she was dancing for an hr. or so. but she did win a prize.

Her dance partner won 2nd. His head was the decapitated head on a table of ghoulish stuff. He put his head through a long piece of cardboard...which became the table "smorgasbourd". Dancing around with the cardboard table sticking out at least 3 ft. long.

Zen, you look different in get-up compared to cycling gear. But what would I know ..being on the Internet.

[Crankin]

OK, I'm a spoiler. I think Halloween is for kids...
Really, I don't understand why adults get into this. I never minded giving out candy, but now we live in a neighborhood where we don't see anyone. I guess those kids don't want to climb the hill!

[Aggie_Ama]

Crankin- Hadn't done it for years until I got this job!

We are one of the few true neighborhoods in my town. Most are large acreage lots spread out or gated. Last year I did not realize we would be the "park 'n treat" stop for the entire area! I was not appreciative since I only bought enough candy for about double the size of our tiny neighborhood and we had probably 5-7 times that. They also kept knocking after the lights were turned off- in the entire house. This year I am buying more candy but the cheap stuff, not to be a grinch (or the halloween equivalent) but I can't afford the brand name candy for several hundred kiddos.

[Tuckervill]

We started dressing up again about 10 years ago. It depends on if you have somewhere to go or not, I guess. One year we went as Madonna and Dennis Rodman. (My husband--we painted his hair red, his face black, and put a veil on him. I couldn't let him go in the liquor store that night looking like that.) The next year we were a baseball catcher (me) and a blind umpire. The next year we were pirates, because it was a pirate themed party, and I was playing in an all-girl pirate band. My husband went as Smee from Peter Pan.

I've made costumes for my kids for the last 20+ years. Some of the best were Three Musketeers, and storm troopers and Darth Vader (which I made with poster board and duct tape, and a few different elbow and knee pads). My youngest was Billy Joe Armstrong last year and that turned out pretty good, too. I've made lots of Power Rangers masks for one child (construction paper). I like making costumes.

Re: Baby Blues, reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEs2P_Ftasw

Karen

[sfa]

I love to dress up for Halloween! Last year my sisters and I and my DD all dressed in traditional witch costumes, although for work we had a Disney theme and I was one of the seven dwarves, so two costumes in one year.

This year I'm borrowing my sister's coffee fairy costume--she made a dress out of fabric with coffee cups and beans all over it, made wings out of the cardboard coffee boxes you see at meetings, glued coffee beans all over everything and brought in coffee for everyone at work.

We emigrate for trick or treating--we go to my sister's neighborhood, which is MUCH more friendly for trick or treating (although our neighborhood could be the set for every horror movie ever made--there's a funeral home at one end of the street and a mental hospital at the other end). My kids are the only elementary age kids on our street so the place is dead (ha-ha! Pun not intended.) on Halloween. My sister's neighborhood has lots of kids and impromptu block parties for Halloween. We do, however, contribute our own candy to pass out. I wouldn't want to be a complete freeloader.

Sarah

[crazycanuck]

I'm really really annoyed that Halloween has become a bit more accepted down here. It's just another AMERICAN thing that we have to put up with.

URHG.