throwback (halloween) thursday: selecting a costume

Sometimes a search for a costume is more fun than whatever you end up with.

throwback (halloween) thursday: the squirt

Ninja sushi chef

It glowed in the dark, too

As Aragog the Spider (poor Ron!)

The (not so) Wicked Witch of the East

Pretty kitty and cute hot dog

happy halloween!

halloweens past

I found some fun pictures of some recent and not-too-recent Halloweens. The kid is going as a black cat today. She was a cat last year too, but she has made some adjustments and refinements ...  but I won't be able to post our trick-or-treating photos until tomorrow.

My little kitty, from last year

My little spider trapped herself Ron Weasley - it's Aragog!

The cutest little wicked witch of the East

Contrary to popular opinion, this wasn't how I went to work every day

My brother impressed in this homemade scarecrow costume

My tiny one was a ninja/sushi chef on her second Halloween

My brother again, this time as Groucho Marx - brilliant

Happy Halloween!

halloween, old hollywood style

 Carole Lombard

 Charles Chaplin

Ava Gardner

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homemade halloween

Jezebel's righteous criticism of a recent Target ad got me remembering all of my brother's and my homemade Halloween costumes growing up. I'm not snobbish about folks who buy their kids (or themselves) a costume from a store. Halloween and dressing up should be about having fun. And candy. But we never had store-bought costumes when we were kids. It wasn't even a consideration. Any opportunity to be creative would be seized. One of my mom's old floppy beach hats, dad's old shirts, a broom pole through the sleeves, some lipstick make-up: and instant scarecrow costume.



My dad, who had his own weekly newspaper, photographed our school's Halloween parade. The mummy is brilliant, isn't he? I made my Statue of Liberty headdress (second from right, below) and halfway through the costume creation process decided it needed the map of New Jersey on the front robe. So it's sort of the Statue of the Spirit of New Jersey or something. I couldn't even explain it at the time. Awesome.



Another winner from my brother was his knight in shining Reynolds Wrap. Homemade costumes don't get any better than this. I just wish I could find that photo of me as a hobo with our dog Rusty ...



The offending Target ad ...

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