Halloween season has truly arrived. I know this because today was the day that I pulled out the big red bags o’ costumes and demanded that the kids make their final selections. I have to have time to get costumes made. Even more important I have to have time to scrounge so that I can get costumes made cheaply. Gleek has been telling me what she wants to be for Halloween almost every day for a month. Unfortunately her choices changed each day. Fortunately Kiki has consented to allow Gleek to duplicate her Ice Princess costume and I’m confident that while Gleeks choices will continue to fluxuate from day to day, when the actual day comes she’ll be happy to put on a costume like her sister’s. Link has stuck steadfastly to his decision to be Shark Boy and Patches doesn’t care and so he’ll probably end up wearing the costume that caused Link’s online nickname: Link from legend of Zelda.
All of this is good news for me because I already have most of the large peices that are necessary. All that is left is to accesorize. Well, that isn’t entirely true in Link’s case. For him I’ll be making a tunic & cuffs to go over grey sweats and a gray shirt. A little more work, but still essentially accesories.
I’ve got a cloak that I’m re-working for myself. It was given to me by a friend who no longer wanted the emotional baggage that was attached to it. The cloak has no baggage for me, so I’m happy to have it. Unfortunately it was designed for a person 6 inches taller than me, so I’m having to shorten it some. I also want to put on detail work to make it pretty. I doubt I’ll have the time or energy to make the dress I envision to wear with the cloak. Not to mention fabric. I don’t have the yards of fabric either. Besides a Shark Boy tunic, Ice Princess accesories, and a cloak is probably plenty of sewing to keep me busy from now until Halloween.
What? Halloween is near? My mind has been seeing into the future too much to see what is nearby. Good thing Ross can only see the immediate things while I am always looking into the future. Ying & Yang.
Trying to unpack all the way, and get the basement finished in time for family coming for LightningBoy’s baptism, trying for a CHEAP Christmas and the planning of a small family reunion during Christmas and thinking about traveling for Christmas with my family that I haven’t spent Christmas with since before getting married are making Halloween and Thanksgiving ghost items on my calendar and in the VERY back of my mind.
We do have our Harry Potter world costumes from last year (I like mine, Professor Crochet, Home Ec. teacher to Hogwarts!), but, of course LighningBoy wants to be a Transformer (good thing we have empty boxes still sitting around!) and when she isn’t brother worshipping and wanting to be what he wants to be, SoccerGirl HAS said that she wants to be a fairy princess… (we don’t have the materials for that.) Good thing I consider myself a creative person! Right Brain to the rescue!
Have a Happy Halloween!