Whatcha gonna be for Halloween??
Ok, so I may be a huge child at heart, but I love dressing up for Halloween. I don't go trick or treating or anything, but there is a big bash at the bar that I can't wait for!!
I usually don't do anything drastic, but I love my outfit. I am going to be a hippie with authentic hippie jewlery (thanks mom), homemade bells (thanks mom), army jacket, and funky glasses. I can't wait. The only piece I need is something to put in my hair. I am either going to tie a leather string around my head or use a scarf I already have to put around my hair.
What are you going as?
I thought I'd try going as a sane person, but I don't think I can pull it off.
I dont think I have anywhere to dress up AT... but I'm going as Ziggy if I go anywhere.
I'm guessing Ziggy Stardust
Oh...you mean Arnold Corns.
Oh...you mean Arnold Corns.
He so corny
I always have trouble thinking of a theme, and usually don't dress up at all. So this year I'm considering going totally random. I bought some black contacts. I also bought a Pirates of the Caribbean wig/hat thing. I don't know how they will go together, or even if they will. I might ebay the wig.
I found out that if you make the hat brim go floppy instead of pirate-like, it kind of makes a Deliverance crazy hillbilly thing. I might take the beads out of the hair in front and see if I can't complete the effect. I also found, but haven't yet bought, a cheesy fake chainmail looking thing with a big cross on the front and back, kind of a knights templar sort of thing. It's really disco-y and would complete the costume well I think.
There were also some fuzzy rainbow slippers at WalMart the other day.
We're playing a gig the weekend before Halloween and I want to wear my stuff onstage. We were all going to dress up as the Tunak Tunak Tun guy, but we couldn't find affordable Indian dress.
The Dr. from Nightmare Before Christmas.
sweet "that's the second time this month you've poisoned me with deadly nightshade!"
Yup. That's me. "We'll have conversations worth having!"
Will you have the matching set, IE home-made female companion?
No. :(
Kan is going as a sexy vampire... of cours not too unhappy about that.
Heh, I'm gonna try to see that movie in 3D tomorrow.
Oh the agony of having Elvira as your date!
LOL... yeah, I'm so put upon.
Heh, I'm gonna try to see that movie in 3D tomorrow.
I can't wait to see it! Going to Disney to watch it.
OH YEAH
Get off the dope Jim... (you have to take pics man!)
This is me, trying out me new GWB mask for Halloween:
party is tonight. i tested the costume wednesday at the parade.....got lots of good responses, so......
people tell me i look like him without the costume, so it's kind of an obvious choice, but hey, play to your strength, I always say. ..... well, actually, i seldom say that, but i've heard it before.
A fat old guy drinking beer and handing candy out to all the trick-or-treaters.
I'll be going as a witch, either that or a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
One of my personal favorite costumes was "Extra from a Mad Max film."
...a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Only people dressed as a member of the Liberal Media Conspiracy would be able to spot you...
Half of a spider - my BF is the other half. We're going to press our bodies together and wrap them in black plastic, and wave our eight limbs around ...
I'll be going as a witch, either that or a member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
...
Bill O'Reilly?
Don't forget the horns and ear-plugs.
Half of a spider - my BF is the other half. We're going to press our bodies together and wrap them in black plastic, and wave our eight limbs around ...
This is about costumes, girl, not your perverted sexual practices! :D
My kiddo's going to be a sumo wrestler. I can put his hair into a passable topknot and everything!
This is about costumes, girl, not your perverted sexual practices! :D
But it
CAN be!:p
I'm gonna be a teacher and my GF is dressin up as the hot & sexy lil schoolgirl. I am SOOO psyched. Thanks Limey for starting it. :yum: :yum:
I don't get to do anything for halloween :(
I have to work...In fact I've had to work or be at a football game for the past five years...I don't even know what its like anymore...
If I could dress up tho, I would be...Mother Earth w/ green leotards and baggy brown shirt, leaves and flowers woven into my hair and through my shirt, vines crawling down my arms and legs...
I really wish I could dress up
I'm gonna be a disgruntled traveller for Halloween.
Jesus Christ he actually pulled it off...
LJ, is that costume homemade? The logo looks great.
yeah, started with a $9 tshirt from the disney store. i had the boots and gloves. i cut the mask out of felt, $0.20 elastic band $1.44. black stretchy underwear $5.90. the big ticket item was the red union suit from carhart $40 shipped (but i'll wear that again this winter, i'm sure) the belt was a piece of fabric $2.60 and velcro to close it $1.44 again. $2 sewing kit...... $62.58. but the only parts i won't continue to use cost $5.68.
Practical AND a cool outfit !!
Well done Jimbo !!!
Wooo Ooooo LJ!!!! Do we get to see Jinx's pics too???
I wish we celebrated Halloween :(
I wish we celebrated Halloween :(
WHAT!?
Do I read you correctly? You Aussies DON'T celebrate Halloween? Tragic. I'd think Oz would be Halloween Headquarters.
LJ--you look awesome. My nephew is going to be the boy Incredible.
We dont Bri!!! The last few years certain suburbs in the major cities have started their own little halloween/trick or treat thingie.
But other than that we dont, its just another nite.
Occasionally, if someone is having a birthday that weekend, it will be turned into a Halloween party.
mmmmmm......
I admire the US attitude to Hallow'een, and the inventiness they deploy in their costumes and preparations for that night. I reaaly do wish that had been translated over the pond to us in good old Blighty.....
but, sadly, that is not the case....
Rather, it has become not just an occasion when pre-teens can bang upon your door and demand 'trick or treat' without the slightest comprhension of the culture behind that phrase, but also a 'marketing opportunity' for our supermarkets to offload several tons of rather tacky 'hallowe'en party essentials', which consist in the most part of rubberised face-masks that approximate a childs perception of a vampire, and possibly even (in the de- luxe versions) a candle to put inside the (optional extra) turnip head.
As Halloween is a weekday, I will be at work. Although there are people on day shift in nursing that dress up (this is a recent innovation), generally it is not a good idea to put on masks and facepaint around people who already think they see demons.
I do have my Official Pointy Witch Hat, but haven't worn this at work since I moved down to the clinical side.
LOL... yeah, I'm so put upon.
I can't wait to see it! Going to Disney to watch it.
Just saw it. Very cool.
I'm not sure how these glasses work. The polarization doesn't work like the polarization I've seen before.
Wooo Ooooo LJ!!!! Do we get to see Jinx's pics too???
I wish we celebrated Halloween :(
Be proactive....have a Halloween party, invite everyone you know....start a tradition. You could be the person named in Wikipedia as being responsible for Halloween taking off down there. :biggrinje
I will be going in a functional costume: a maid. Since I will be serving at a buffet for a party, it was deemed appropriate. Yes, for ALL ages; there will be children present. So, NO naughty French Maid!
They asked me what I wanted to be at first, so playfully, I said "a princess". THey took off with that and told me I could be Cinderella and in my usual deadpan way I told them that knowing them as I did, they would be mean about it and make me dress as Cinderella Pre-Fairy Godmother, in an old Goodwill dress and soot on my face. We laughed so hard about that that the idea was dropped. Lucky me. So now I get to be a serving maid in a black dress with white trim. Yes, I expect to look silly but so what? It's all in fun anyway.
I'll try to get a postable pic to share after the fact, which is next week.
Brian
I will be dressed as a Wiccan Priest, since that's what I'll be doing. We have our coven's open Samhain Sabbat on that night (which is also my ninth anniversary this year), but this is the first time we'll be holding it our home.
Wooo Ooooo LJ!!!! Do we get to see Jinx's pics too???
Yeah, after the party on friday. Didn't get any good ones this time.
.... Rather, it has become a 'marketing opportunity' for our supermarkets to offload several tons of rather tacky 'hallowe'en party essentials', which consist in the most part of rubberised face-masks that approximate a childs perception of a vampire, and possibly even (in the de- luxe versions) a candle to put inside the (optional extra) turnip head.
How cynical Jay! I'll have you know it's also an occasion for splendid traditional treats. And I've attached evidence in case you don't believe me. Tacky consumerism indeed, tcha.
I know the US posters on this site find some of our weapons laws in the UK pretty laughable. While I am quite happy to accept restrictions on sales and carrying of various dangerous items, I admit seeing this poster in my local shop nearly made me drop my biscuits (not a euphemism btw)
As it's come out quite small I'll elucidate - no sales of eggs or flour to unaccompanied under 18s in the period coming up to Halloween and Bonfire Night (November 5th)
Further information here.They want all the thrown eggs on Halloween to be pre-rotten?
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Lord, girl...you are finer than a new set of snow tires.
LJ...how'd you get that wonderful woman?
actually, i make her laugh......... with my huge cock
Nice things
Thank you! I got some compliments at the party... several people suggested that "dead" works for me. I wonder if that's a good thing...:skull:
I think I'm going to be tired and disillusioned.
Lord, girl...you are finer than a new set of snow tires.
With studs and whitewalls. :thumb2:
Last year we dressed the inchlet as a bumble bee. He became upset when he thought that he would actually become a bee. He maintained that he wanted to be a little boy.
This year we think he knows he will not actually be a leopard, he'll merely dress as one. We'll see. cf being eaten by a lego cow, and still worried that he will go down the drain with the bathwater...
As for homegirl, she's still not sure.
I have a tyvek suit that I am thinking of decorating with black blotches, I can either be a cow or a dalmation, depending on how fat I actually am.
I have a tyvek suit that I am thinking of decorating with black blotches, I can either be a cow or a dalmation, depending on how fat I actually am.
Or you could get a small battery powerd fan , some tape , some string and a saliors hat and be the stay puff marsh mellow man , She could dress up like SHENA , to tame the fierce leopard ,
Now you KNOW that pics are required !!! ;)
Jinx, I notice you are wearing your new shoes in the photo... :)
I have a tyvek suit that I am thinking of decorating with black blotches, I can either be a cow or a dalmation, depending on how fat I actually am.
Or you could get a small battery powerd fan , some tape , some string and a saliors hat and be the stay puff marsh mellow man , She could dress up like SHENA , to tame the fierce leopard ,
Now you KNOW that pics are required !!! ;)
I like that idea! You are an idea man! maybe we could get a leopard sitter for the evening and she could be "the gatekeeper"...
But then you would have to dress up like a nerd !!!
Jinx, I notice you are wearing your new shoes in the photo... :)
Since thursday, I've only taken them off to bathe and sleep.
But then you would have to dress up like a nerd !!!
Nahh, I could still be the staypuft marshmallow guy.
Just saw this costume on the web. I like it.
These are the costumes I made.
Beautiful sis-in-law is wearing last year's costume and I am wearing a new one I made this year. I got smart and made the vest, bodices and skirts LACE-UP to accomodate changing waist sizes. ;-)
Husband agreed to the kilt if he could have a sword. To get him into one, I said Yes!
I did not have enough time to shop for fabric to finish the blue costume. I wanted a silver/gray blouse and underskirt. No fabric stores had the type of fabric I wanted, so I used store bought black knit top and skirt.
Heidi
What does Sis-in-law have on her finger?
Oh shit, now you show me his sword. :worried:
Went to a friends house tonight.
The house was decked out and after dark the porch lights, light up the decorations.
The storm window/screen was out of the door leaving a hole.
She was standing inside the door, in the dark, with a smoke machine blowing out the hole in the door.
The parents would typically stand on the sidewalk and send the tykes up the walk where she would jump up, wearing red and black makeup, rastifarian wig and a hooded cape.
Tomorrow she'll have to scrape the tyke poop off the walk. :D
What does Sis-in-law have on her finger?
It appears to be a beer cozy. The kind that is used on bottles instead of cans.
*Two* stinking trick or treaters. *Two*! Man, what has become of today's youth? I am depressed. If it hadn't been for the forty people at the ritual and feast, I'd be nearly suicidal.
Despite the lack of trick or treaters (I wonder if having signs saying "The Witch is In" and "Witch Way" and other such things in our yard year 'round discouraged them somehow. Didn't put the JW's off this weekend...), we had a terrific time celebrating both Samhain and my our ninth anniversary. I love Halloween.
Pics later. My wife looked so *hot*.
The usual 80 of the little fart-knockers here. I bribe them with full-size bars from Costco, and they go crazy. It is their only interaction with me and I don't want to be called that weird guy who we never see.
Two separate lads declared that my house is "really cool". I explained that it was highly mortgaged and that if I don't find some work in the next few months their parents could buy it from me. They screamed in horror and ran.
Don't be bummed, Elspode. I didn't get nearly as many trickertreaters this year. The kids that did come were so...so...dejected and downcast that you could have mistaken them for middle aged, mid-level managers at Wal-Mart or something. So many dispirited, unenthused, "trick or treeeeet"s. Was sad, I tell you. Like they were being forced on some Bataan Death March.
Our kids started out with a lot of enthusiasm, but then kind of forgot what the ritual was, and they would just knock on the door and stand there, not sure what they were supposed to do next. I had to keep reminding them between houses what they were supposed to do.
When I was a kid, we used to freakin' scream "trick or treat!"
I didn't get any tickertreaters at all, but I live in a second floor apartment with the porch light always on (i.e. the residents don't control it) so there was no way for kids to know that I had candy. And it was really cold last night, so that could be part of it. But I didn't expect anyone anyway. They don't go to the apartments.
Maybe there are so used to having everything handed to them the thought of actually going out and working (dress up and extort) for it, depresses them. ;)
Apartment complexes used to be the absolute primo ground for candy ... low walk to loot ratio. The place I'm in is probably around 15% occupancy, if my own court is typical, so slim pickings here this year.
There are few kids in the complex currently, so I didn't even bother turn turn on the front door light, which is the magic signal that candy is available. No problem, that just means more fun size bars for me.
I think, though, that what has changed are not children, but parents. Kids still love going from house to house getting enough sugar to power a major city for a month, but their parents won't let them. I know that for at least one of my friend's kids, trick-or-treating meant mommy driving them around to the homes of trusted adults ... her friends, parents, in-laws, and grandparents. Almost doesn't seem worth the effort, does it?
Our kids started out with a lot of enthusiasm, but then kind of forgot what the ritual was, and they would just knock on the door and stand there, not sure what they were supposed to do next. I had to keep reminding them between houses what they were supposed to do.
When I was a kid, we used to freakin' scream "trick or treat!"
When you were a kid, did your parents take you out, tell you where to go, what to do, how to act and never let you out of sight for a minute?
I was on my own and that was half, or more, of the adventure. Sneaking up on people that could care less, but in my mind being terrorized. Nobody knew where I was or what I was up to, although in truth, the parent/neighbor network was keeping watch.
Now Halloween is run by Home(land) Security......keeps you safe......at a price.;)
I had to train myself not to send them off with a cheerful "seeya later!" like I do everyone else, because after I thought about it, that's a really creepy statement from an adult male who lives alone who they don't regularly see.
I would say at least half the kids at the door this year didn't actually say "trick or treat" at all. Which was irritating to me, you're trick or treating, that's what you say. We also tended to get mostly older kids, in the 8-10 age range, which for me is pushing it as far as trick or treating age goes.
When you were a kid, did your parents take you out, tell you where to go, what to do, how to act and never let you out of sight for a minute?
When I was a young tike, yes. But I don't remember how old I was when they cut the strings. Mine are now 4 and 7. The 4 y.o. is too young to be on his own. I'd maybe be OK with the 7 y.o. going out without us if she had an older kid with her.
Times change :( .
We also have more traffic in our neighborhood on Halloween than when I was a kid. I think some kids get ferried in from other neighborhoods. Lots of minivans with kids jumping in and out of them. Crazy.
We also tended to get mostly older kids, in the 8-10 age range, which for me is pushing it as far as trick or treating age goes.
I saw my wife giving candy to a couple of teenagers, in their street clothes, holding big black trash bags. I was like "What the fuck are you doing?! Did you ask them what they are (dressed as)?!" Then again, I guess you don't want them to come back and burn your house down. Little shits.
I was Luigi's wingman, Mario.
The kids that did come were so...so...dejected and downcast that you could have mistaken them for middle aged, mid-level managers at Wal-Mart or something.
Samhain is the best night for divination, you know. Perhaps they'd seen glimpses of their futures, and they were too bummed to enjoy themselves.
There has been a big change in Halloween, the last 10 years. It used to be something kids loved and adults sort of dreaded. Now it's become a big deal for adults....more decorations, cards, costumes, parties.
The side effect is more orchestration and choreographing of the kids activities, which makes them feel they are just along for the ride......just a piece of the adults festivities.
Of course the other thing is safety and there is no doubt parents have to be more careful. They had the nerve to ask me why I painted FREE CANDY on the side of the van with no inside handles. Harumpf.
:2cents:
A friend sent me these pics of her kids ,
and Yeppers the girl in the muddle is preggers , and married ,
Finally got a couple band shots in, they all suck of all of us, but here's my costume, and a long shot of the band between songs. We had a great crowd that night, too bad the pics don't quite get the energy. I am some flavor of pirate. Mike had a robot mask that he didn't wear for long cuz it was hot, Josh was Donnie Brasco, Justin, the new bass guy, was ... i think... Johnny Cash, and Nate didn't wear anything.
I think it will be awhile before I talk them into GWAR paint. But hey! I got to be "lol, pirate"
snip~ and Nate didn't wear anything.
Wouldn't that be a NSFW picture? :eek:
Two separate lads declared that my house is "really cool". I explained that it was highly mortgaged and that if I don't find some work in the next few months their parents could buy it from me. They screamed in horror and ran.
But they didn't give the candy back, did they?
OK, folks, you got it from the horses mouth......the horse that keeps this board running. If you can't find the PayPal button, just ask. ;)
I donated a bit. I felt terrible that I hadn't done it already, as much as I use this place. I'll try and do it more regularly.
I got another report from a friend in Maryland on low turnout of tykes.
....there are townhouses behind the single family houses and there are usually a bunch of kids-i usually go thru 8-9 bags of candy; this year, i only used 2 of the 4 bags i opened. i think it's sad that the kids and some adults, don't go out and just have some fun-i do trick or beer for the parents-i have some really good stuff too -their lose.
These are the costumes I made.
Beautiful sis-in-law is wearing last year's costume and I am wearing a new one I made this year. I got smart and made the vest, bodices and skirts LACE-UP to accomodate changing waist sizes. ;-)
Husband agreed to the kilt if he could have a sword. To get him into one, I said Yes!
I did not have enough time to shop for fabric to finish the blue costume. I wanted a silver/gray blouse and underskirt. No fabric stores had the type of fabric I wanted, so I used store bought black knit top and skirt.
Heidi
This would have been easier. ;)
this is what I looked like:
You just wish it was YOU!
Well, THANK YOU!
At last! Someone with an eye for beauty and good taste!
No offence intended , its just I had a teacher ( I think 3rd grade ) that looked like that .
Hot, perhaps, but scary. :D