Two weeks until Halloween and we haven’t even begun the costume negotiations. Kiki wants to be a white sorceress. That should be fairly easy. Link wants to be Metal Mario from Super Mario 64. I’m not at all sure whether we can manage that. Gleek and Patches haven’t expressed their Halloween intentions yet. Tomorrow I’ll haul the Big Bag O’ Costumes down from the top of the garage and the chaos will begin.
The timing on this actually works really well. I’m done tweaking the store and I’m not yet getting stressed about all the shipping and release party preparations. I have a couple of weeks to concentrate on giving the kids a happy Halloween. That is important because they haven’t had much of my attention for the last couple of weeks. I keep arriving at bedtime and realizing that I’ve taken care of the kid’s needs all through the day without really looking at any of them. My life has been moving so fast lately that I keep missing bits of it.
Metal Mario shouldn’t be too difficult, with a bit of imagination. An old DI pair of overalls, a DI long-sleeved shirt, a $2.00 pair of band marching gloves (likely available at a band music store), an an old baseball-style cap, and a can of silver spraypaint, and you’re set! If you want to go into silver-colored facepaint, that’d be a nice additional touch, plus a moustache…
Metal Mario shouldn’t be too difficult, with a bit of imagination. An old DI pair of overalls, a DI long-sleeved shirt, a $2.00 pair of band marching gloves (likely available at a band music store), an an old baseball-style cap, and a can of silver spraypaint, and you’re set! If you want to go into silver-colored facepaint, that’d be a nice additional touch, plus a moustache…
And for parts that you don’t want to spraypaint (say, shoes), you can cover them with aluminum foil.
If you do go this route, there are spray paints made specifically for fabric…
And for parts that you don’t want to spraypaint (say, shoes), you can cover them with aluminum foil.
If you do go this route, there are spray paints made specifically for fabric…
I didn’t even think of foil! In that case, almost everything can be foiled! The possibilities are ENDLESS!!! 😀
I didn’t even think of foil! In that case, almost everything can be foiled! The possibilities are ENDLESS!!! 😀
I have that problem all the time!
I have that problem all the time!
Sad, isn’t it, that we get so busy in our lives that we forget to really look around us? And then, ohboy, then there’s the guilt (at least, I have guilt when I realize it’s been three days since I had a real conversation with my boy).
My son has decided that he wants to be a witch for Halloween. I know that the ancient predecessor of the word “witch” is non-gender-specific and all, but.. well, darnit, most of the time a “witch” is considered female in our society. I’m trying to shift it to wizard, but he won’t have it. Yeesh. Maybe I’ll be able to talk him into Spider-Man or something…
Sad, isn’t it, that we get so busy in our lives that we forget to really look around us? And then, ohboy, then there’s the guilt (at least, I have guilt when I realize it’s been three days since I had a real conversation with my boy).
My son has decided that he wants to be a witch for Halloween. I know that the ancient predecessor of the word “witch” is non-gender-specific and all, but.. well, darnit, most of the time a “witch” is considered female in our society. I’m trying to shift it to wizard, but he won’t have it. Yeesh. Maybe I’ll be able to talk him into Spider-Man or something…