Halloween 2008
 

Are your kids planning their costumes yet?

I was inspired today for Minifob's costume--he would absolutely love to dress up as a Mover (these guys.) You actually can buy a little costume from their website... for 100 damn dollars (and it's on backorder at that price!) That ain't happening. So I was trying to find some sort of generic "mechanic" coverall costume that I could adapt, but no luck so far. The closest I got is a "UPS guy" costume, and I don't know if I could successfully bleach the brown and dye it blue. I even looked at sewing patterns, but they're all adult-sized. I'd basically have to freehand it anyway to get it small enough, so why buy the pattern? Plus, my sewing skills are questionable at best.

So my new theory is I could get a generic blue tracksuit from Wal-Mart, and sew the jacket/pants together. If the jacket's on top, then the zipper front would still go down past the hips, and the pants waist would be gone--that would look kind of like a one-piece coverall, right? Then I'd just have to cut the hood off and turn the remainder into a half-assed collar thing.

Of course it would be easier if I could just find a place that sells toddler-sized blue coveralls...

what about Baby Gap? I bought coveralls there for Danny when he was a wee lad. Maybe they still sell them.

I'll check there. I've also made an excellent discovery: they're called "boilersuits" in the UK, and blue ones for kids are amazingly common. Now I just have to find one that's cheap enough and ships to the US.

Are you stuck on blue?

How about brown?

Twenty bucks.

if they don't, you can have it shipped to my MIL and she can ship it to you.

Ten Hut!
http://www.soldiercity.com/childrens...s/c/701/lc/315
No blue, but they do ahve black which when bleached a lot gets bluish. They also have od green and a pale desert camo which may blue up.

Yeah V, unfortunately it's a character thing, so it has to be dark blue or it's not the right costume at all--it would be like dressing up as cookie monster, but using brown fuzz.

The khaki suit in foot's link might take blue dye nicely...

This is exactly what I need. It's made by Dickies, but for some reason it's only sold in their UK stores, not the US. I've got an email into their customer service department to see if they can ship one to an American Dickies outlet for less than $20 (which is what a variety of resellers of that item generally are charging.)

Cool suit---I can see why Minifob wants one!

I hope you get it all sorted out. Halloween is, after all, the most important night of the year! Pumpkins! YAY!

here's a cheaper one on ebay

we can do the onward shipping thing. if it's only 2.50 to mail in the uk, it can't be that heavy

Same here Clod - happy to mail to you if it helps.

Anyone have plans to do Yo Gabba Gabba?

Gabba Gabba?
Hey!

My boy is going to be a pirate. He put together a really good costume from crap we already have around the house. I'm quite impressed with this 1st grader's scrounging abilities.

My girl's going to be a person walking on her hands. She'll wear a shirt as pants and sweat pants as a shirt with her head hidden in one of the legs. Shoes on her hands and gloves on her feet. And we've got this paper mache head kicking around that she's going to dangle from the neck of the shirt between her legs. So far, I'm not impressed with the look of it all, but I give her credit for her idea. She has to walk around holding her arms over her head and with shoes on her hands I don't know how she will hold on to anything. They are supposed to wear these costumes at school.

Both are pretty independent and don't want me to barge in and take over, so I'm not sure what to do about my daughter. Her costume doesn't really work. I might have to ask her about the details of this thing and let her see with her answers that it won't work as is.

Shit... Another reason my hypothetical kids will not be exposed to TV.

Wha?1 Yo Gabba Gabba is A W E S O M E

hebe wants to be Rosie the Rivetted.

hector wants to be some obscure dinosaur that looks like t-rex but has a long thin face (he knows the name, i forget}

Thor....... *sigh*

All I can picture is this woman intently concentrating, waving her hand and saying "Shh! Not now, I'm watching my program."

that was my mental image too, but she's after this crossed with Frankensetin's monster

not Rosie the riveter , Rosie the riveted !!!

exactly, hence Foot's "shh I'm watching TV comment"

I have no idea if I'll dress up this year. I'll be doing well to get the kids outfitted. Son wants to be a werewolf. Daughter, well, who knows? She's 12, she can't even make up her mind what to order in a restaurant.

What about adult costumes? What are you gonna wear this year?

Here's me, a few years ago...lovely, eh?

http://www.wayswriter.com/pam/pkavatar.jpg

I always just went as Stevie Nicks. Scared the shit out of people.

I may have to help with grandkiddos' costumes. Daughter No. 1, despite her creativity, always seems to want to buy costumes. Boughten costumes for 4 kids comes out to lotsa moola.

I've never bought an entire costume in my life, and I'm known for my costumes. But that takes time and energy.

The sewing machine is on the kitchen table. Pics when they finish!

OK, Thor's confirmed as a stingray, Hector has agreed to go for a triceratops because he actually wants people to know which on he is, and we got the material for Hebe's head scarf from the 50c room at the thrift shop today.

best costume news, though, is not for halloween... Hebe's book project this month was mythology, and the end task to pick a character, dress like them and be able to tell everone else who they are and waht their story is. Of course she chose Hebe (Greek Goddess of youth, Cupbearer to the Gods...)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Moyr-Smith.gif
... we went to a resale store and got two full length underskirts for $1 each, cut the waistband plus an inch or so off one, then cropped arm holes and neck holes in the remainder to make it vest tunic shaped. tied the shoulder straps together, used the cut off waitband to cinch it on on the bra-line, put the other skirt underneath... bingo. it's awesome, took 5 minutes, will take pics, am annoyed she won't wear it for Halloween too :lol:

oh and we got a goblet and tray for 50c each to finish it off....

-laughs- This is going to be my first Halloween with a miniature. She's ten months old... and I can't for the life of me find a costume I like! My sewing skills are a bit above average, but I'm not going to have access to my machine til the 20th or so... which means I'm cutting it VERY close for having something made in time. Her daddy's a Marine; I'm thinking about just putting her in little cammies, but then again I'm sure EVERYONE on base will be doing that! Any suggestions? Thanks, fellow cellarites!

Dip her in food color and paint M&M on her tummy. :haha:

Ten months?
Wrap her up in yellow cloths and say she's a maggot.

Sorry.

Bruce, that's actually not a bad idea... considering I'll be back home in Hawaii for the holiday and it'll DEFINITELY be warm enough for her to ride around in nothing but a diaper and body paint... Zen, OMFG... -falls over laughing- I love it!! Her father might have something to say about that idea though... :P

@ZenGum. That's grub, not maggot, grub.

:lol:

Well, I went with maggots since they're on an army base ... maggots, raw recruits, etc.

Maggots being fly larvae, Goostav looks like some big beetle larva or something. Down under, folks would call that a witchetty grub and the strong-nerved would eat the sucker. Yep.

-grins- TECHNICALLY, we're talking Marine Corps base, but yeah... we get a lot of "boots" (Marines straight out of boot camp), and you occasionally hear some officer going off on someone for being an idiot, so "maggot" gets thrown around... I found the idea of dressing her up as a maggot to be quite apropos (sp?)

You win, I didn't make the military connection. :smack:

Pssst, Treasenuak, I think Zen is stalking you.

Bruce!!! SHHHHH!!!!!!!

My son wants to be a GATORADE BOTTLE. I can handle the bottom part of the bottle -- a few hula hoops with a clear table cloth attached, but holy heck, how do I do the top of the bottle?!?!?! --sigh-- Yet another disappointment he'll have to suffer through...

Smaller hoop with maybe some wire hangers to support the shape you want?

Cut holes in a large plastic pumpkin for her legs (the kind used as a candy bucket). Make or buy a green tam-o-shanter for her head and she's ready to go. My SIL did this with her kids.

cut down a plastic bucket from the dollar store, or get some old tupperware from the thrift store....

Believe monster. She is the halloween costume queen!

wow. "free paper toys" does not do justice to this collection of print-and-assemble spooky thingies

http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html

dar, a wonderful idea, but she DOES have to sit either in her stroller or my arms for the duration of the evening... I would think a plastic pumpkin would make either of those propositions rather difficult? Unless I'm missing something... which is quite possible.

Zen, stalk away, honey ;)

Put a rope handle on it, and carry it like a bucket. ;)

I don't think SIL had them in the pumpkin for very long at a time. Mostly for grandparent Kodak opportunities. They were wearing orange corduroy overalls, so that was the look for the rest of the evening.

10 month old kids are pretty much going to take off whatever they can figure out how to take off, anyway.

Do the same with a kitchen garbage bag, and she can go as a choking hazard--er, I mean ghost.

Hebe as Hebe

So monster, what are you making me to wear this year? I'm stumped....oh....nothin'...ok. Well, tell me when you have something in mind.

What do you want to be for Halloween, cic?

(Hector has now changed to Iron Man :eyebrow: )

:stifle:

gasp

:weakening:

snort

:failure:

:lol2:


I'm so sorry. Really.

The good news is that it's not the night before.

I don't know monster. That's what I was asking you. I might not even go anywhere but I think it still would be fun to dress up. And of course I am doing my Days of the Dead thing again. Which makes that celebration even more fun.

Any suggestions?

How about David Bowie?

heh. :)

But it's going to be so hard to look as feminine, with short hair, as he does! hard one monsta!

ok, how about you go as The Economy? We'll wrap you in dollar-bill print fabric, cinching in mid-thigh, where we'll use a hoop and a little craft foam sheeting and paint to make a big old drain. you could even have a drain-themed bucket if you plan to trick-ot-treat. :D

(hell, you know it might be cheaper to tape the Washingtons together than buy the fabric....)




alternately you could go as a clown car......

Heh. Love it! Yes! Yeees! Maybe while I am dressed as the money I can do a turn to give the swirling effect of the money going down the drain. I'm into it....:)

I could put less work into it and go as a dead broker. (noose around neck and 3 piece suit)

I wonder how many couples will go as Fannie & Freddie this year...

Hector update: B52 pilot....

Ladies n gents, we HAVE a winner!! White onesie, cotton balls, pipe cleaners, and some pink and white felt... she's a BUNNY!!

Cute. Watch for the cotton balls, though, they can detach easily (they pull apart), look yummy and are nasty when fluffy bits are inhaled. A fur-fabric ball might be a better bet? Unless she's just not the type to taste-test anything accessible.