JENN McKINLAY: I love, love, love passing out candy and checking out the Halloween costumes that parade across my porch. My favorites are when entire family dresses up together, but I am a generous candy giver regardless. There might be an extra fun sized chocolate bar tossed into the jack-o-lantern bucket for obvious extra effort but otherwise it's all good and everyone's a winner at my house.
One of my favorite things about October is the costume pics that come across my feed, starting in September. Since it's Halloween today, I thought I'd get us all in the mood with a few recent favorites.
Being from AZ, this was a winner for me:
I think that's Kenough - LOL.
What about you, Reds and Readers? What are some of your favorite costumes that you've either seen or worn yourself? Lookin' at you, Karen!
Happy Halloween! One of the cutest costumes I've seen was a Little One dressed as a crayon . . . .
ReplyDeleteHappy Halloween, Jenn!
ReplyDeleteHappy Halloween, Everyone!
Those are great! Some of my favorite costumes were the years my bestie Jennifer and I dressed up identically or nearly, wore our black wigs, put on lots of face paint, and went to parties together to confuse our friends. This year Ida Rose has the cutest costume - her mom found her an orange fleece NASA flight suit, so she's going as Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut (my adopted grandgirl is Black...)!
ReplyDeleteI should have mentioned Jennifer and I are the same size. Another year Katherine, who is nearly a foot taller than me, and I dressed up as vaguely European gentlemen in men's dress shirts and vests and neckties and our hair up in fedoras. I had a pillow under my shirt and Groucho glasses and a very weird accent. SO much fun.
DeleteHappy Halloween! My little sister was a huge Flying Nun fan, so I made her a Flying Nun costume out of old sheets and cardboard.
ReplyDeleteOh, these are great! I once went as a teabag, very successful! But my best was when Jonathan and I went as the Arcs, Noah and Joan of.
ReplyDeleteAnd Jenn, your new book is SO GOOD!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteFrom Celia: Happy Halloween to you Jenn and everyone in JRW Land. Costumes, such fun. I dressed as "the Scarsdale Diet" one year. Don't remember what I wore but I had the sign and carried a revolver.
ReplyDeleteI made 4 yr old Olivia a queen of hearts costume by sewing a circle skirt using silver and pink
Lured - silver section- BIG pink heart. The skirt had 4 sections so was quite a sight. She went as Barbie another year with a huge yellow wig. I usually made a costume as requested by her majesty. Hope you all have fun.
My favorite costumes growing up were the Flying Nun and when my best friend and I went as Donald and Daisy Duck in 8th grade.
ReplyDeleteI made my kids a lot of great costumes over the years. The younger kids had to wear the hand me down that fit them some years and some costumes were repeated the next year. It started with a penguin. There was a firefighter, a cowboy/girl (I sewed faux leather vest and chaps for that one) Troll, hippie. Pirate, Harry Potter. Cat in the Hat and Thing One and Thing Two. My sister made them Scarecrow, Dorothy and Tin Man costumes.
They were Uncle Sam, Statue of Liberty and an army guy. Those were re-worn and won first prize in the JayCees July 4th parade. They entered that parade twice and won first prize both times. The first time they were much younger and we had a Wounded Minuteman pulling Betsy Ross sewing the flag and Baby Uncle Sam in a wagon.
The secret to success with any costume is all in the accessories!
Parting with the costume bin in the Great Purge of 2024 was the saddest thing for me.
I love, love, love Halloween! And quite noticeably it seems so does everyone else...It has made quite the comeback on the "decorating the front lawn" scene. Residing in an HOA community I am limited as to what can adorn our front yard. I have to keep it to a minimum but inside our condominium I enjoy hauling up from the basement a slew of Halloween decorations. (Although as I get older the trips up and down have lessened and so haven't the "doodads".) But like Christmas/holiday baubles I have my favorites that are years old with sentimental memories attached to them and they will always have a place in our home...our bisque pumpkins purchased from The Christmas Dove forty years ago, our "speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil" and "yoga" skeletons, my witch gifted to me from a dear friend when we first moved here in 2014, two funky ravens from MacKenzie-Childs and some new additions this year added to the bat theme ~ a black metal flying bats wreath and six bat-themed cast iron tea light votives. [check these fun votives out on the Crate and Barrel website; they are on sale now for $3.97...Holy Batman! :-) ] Although you could not pay me enough to watch a horror film there is just something about this "holiday" that I love ~ perhaps it is the gateway to the upcoming holiday season as well as the enjoyment of Autumn.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up in the 50's trick or treating usually meant being encased in those polyester/vinyl costumes with the plastic mask that had a thin elastic band in the back. Unless of course they were homemade; i.e., white pillowcases with eyeholes (Casper the ghost). I was fortunate that I could recycle most of my dance costumes that I wore in dance recitals every year for a decade. Back then if you didn't know how to sew you had to find a seamstress who custom made these fabulous costumes for you. My favorite was a devil costume. A one-piece jumpsuit in fuchsia red with a matching fuchsia cape lined in silver metallic fabric. A fuchsia headpiece with horns and a matching pitchfork completed the look. I was a big hit that year while trick or treating in the neighborhood...haha!