Halloween Costume - Page 9

sageofages · #**121** 10-30-2007, 03:34 PM

I just had to share....

My youngest son spent yesterday evening working on some sort of project...
"Mom do you know where the duct tape is? How about the hot glue gun?"

Tape...cut..."Got a big piece of cardboard?"...

Tada..."What do you think of my halloween costume..?"

My son is going as a "drive-in movie theater"! LOL. He made a huge
diorama complete with little matchbox cars, trees, big screen...etc.
It is a placard to attach to the front of him.

SWTXBelle · #**122** 10-30-2007, 05:31 PM

That's not crazy - that's brilliant! And he did it all himself. I am impressed. Especially that a 14 year old knew what a drive-in theatre WAS.

NinjaPoodle · #**123** 10-30-2007, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by sageofages

I just had to share....

My youngest son spent yesterday evening working on some sort of project...
"Mom do you know where the duct tape is? How about the hot glue gun?"

Tape...cut..."Got a big piece of cardboard?"...

Tada..."What do you think of my halloween costume..?"

My son is going as a "drive-in movie theater"! LOL. He made a huge
diorama complete with little matchbox cars, trees, big screen...etc.
It is a placard to attach to the front of him.

Hysterical!! I love it. What a cool kid you've got there

I hope you take pictures!

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

That's not crazy - that's brilliant! And he did it all himself. I am impressed. Especially that a 14 year old knew what a drive-in theatre WAS.

My thoughts exactly!

bejazd · #**124** 10-30-2007, 08:52 PM

I was at a party Saturday night in Coto de Caza and a guy with a beard came dressed as a "Real Housewife." Leopard print mini dress barely covering the back porch. black panty hose, stillettos and a long blond wig.

He was better looking than those sleezes!

sageofages · #**125** 10-30-2007, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

Hysterical!! I love it. What a cool kid you've got there

I hope you take pictures!

Here they are....!

Ok, I can't figure out how to link to the image from my myspace.

You can see them under my pics
http://www.myspace.com/indysage

NinjaPoodle · #**126** 10-30-2007, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by sageofages

Here they are....!

Ok, I can't figure out how to link to the image from my myspace.

You can see them under my pics
http://www.myspace.com/indysage

Even a concession stand!! Awsome!

FSUZeta · #**127** 10-31-2007, 09:17 AM

for those last minute costume makers, the today show just had some good ideas:

woman took poster board, placed post-it notes on it and wore it like a sandwich board, tied a red ribbon in her hair and one around her finger. had on a black turtle neck and black pants underneath.

man had on grey sweatsuit on which he had written "30 rock" in rocks on the top. woman was dressed in grey and had an anatomy sandwich board-she was grey's anatomy.

but my favorite one was "wonder bread woman". woman had medium blue shorts and sleeveless top on. she made the wonder woman headband out of posterboard and aluminum foil. cut star shapes out of bread and pinned them to the top. took wonder bread wrappers and used them as trim on the arm holes and as wrist bands.

nittanyalum · #**128** 10-31-2007, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

woman took poster board, placed post-it notes on it and wore it like a sandwich board, tied a red ribbon in her hair and one around her finger. had on a black turtle neck and black pants underneath.

Ok, I'm trying to picture this but can't figure out -- what is she?

Other easy-to-make last-minute ones are: dress all in green, cut out construction paper "p"s and attach them all over you, put black makeup in a big circle around one eye, you're a "black-eyed pea"; get a package of those mini-cereal boxes, empty them, pierce them with plastic knives (some red paint for added effect is nice), attach them to your shirt, carry one big cereal box with a big knife, you're a "serial killer" (my husband was a big hit at a party one time when I put this together for him).

Taualumna · #**129** 10-31-2007, 02:18 PM

People at my office don't go all out...a couple of witches, a pirate or two a toilet papered mummy.

ForeverRoses · #**130** 10-31-2007, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

for those last minute costume makers, the today show just had some good ideas:

woman took poster board, placed post-it notes on it and wore it like a sandwich board, tied a red ribbon in her hair and one around her finger. had on a black turtle neck and black pants underneath.

.

I can't figure out that one either!

AlethiaSi · #**131** 10-31-2007, 03:05 PM

so i have like Tminus 3 hours to put togehter a costume for tonight... I think we're going tot he parade in nyc... meaning i need comfy shoes...
and i'm broke... so i might be lindsay lohan in or after rehab... and i'm gunna make a "hello my name is" sticker... b/c no one will get it lol

ooooh and an alcohol anklet thing that she had... foil maybe??? lol

honeychile · #**132** 10-31-2007, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Taualumna

People at my office don't go all out...a couple of witches, a pirate or two a toilet papered mummy.

Which reminds me of this, from the Darwin Awards people:

"CONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD: Mummy Says, Don't Smoke
"Another Incentive to Kick the Habit"

For Halloween 1998, a Canadian man dressed as a mummy by wrapping
himself from head to toe in fluffy cotton batting. The cotton was
taped at the wrists and ankles, and white gloves and running shoes
completed his ensemble. As the mummy waited for his girlfriend
to dress for pictures, he carelessly lit a cigarette...
and the fluffy cotton burst into flames.

The reason for flame-retardant costumes became clear.

Firefighters arrived within minutes, yet already the mummy costume
was reduced to ashes, right down to the white coveralls underneath.
The man kept repeating, "It's my fault." He was taken to Soldier's
Memorial Hospital with 2nd and 3rd degree burns, where he died.

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1998-11.html"

NinjaPoodle · #**133** 10-31-2007, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by honeychile

Which reminds me of this, from the Darwin Awards people:

"CONFIRMED DARWIN AWARD: Mummy Says, Don't Smoke
"Another Incentive to Kick the Habit"

For Halloween 1998, a Canadian man dressed as a mummy by wrapping
himself from head to toe in fluffy cotton batting. The cotton was
taped at the wrists and ankles, and white gloves and running shoes
completed his ensemble. As the mummy waited for his girlfriend
to dress for pictures, he carelessly lit a cigarette...
and the fluffy cotton burst into flames.

The reason for flame-retardant costumes became clear.

Firefighters arrived within minutes, yet already the mummy costume
was reduced to ashes, right down to the white coveralls underneath.
The man kept repeating, "It's my fault." He was taken to Soldier's
Memorial Hospital with 2nd and 3rd degree burns, where he died.

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1998-11.html"

Ouch

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taualumna

People at my office don't go all out...a couple of witches, a pirate or two a toilet papered mummy.

@ my office Im the only one who dressed up.

There are 16 people in my office. No-fun-having-old-farts!

SWTXBelle · #**134** 10-31-2007, 03:57 PM

My eldest daughter pulled out her old pirate costume. A few years ago - SO cute. Today (about 4 years and some impressive cleavage later)- she looks like a pirate hooker. NOOOOOOOOOO. . .

VandalSquirrel · #**135** 10-31-2007, 04:06 PM

I forgot to mention that Dick in a Box was pretty popular this year. Two guys at the party I went two did a really great job and had candy in the box, blow pops to be exact.

I was invited to a Reformation Party tonight (around here most of us do Halloween on the weekend so we don't have to worry about hangovers and work during the week) and people were encouraged to come as their favorite saint or other characters of the time. There's going to be pin the 95 theses on the Wittenberg door and a diet of gummy worms eating contest. I think for sanitary reasons the baptismal bobbing for apples is out, and since it is freaking cold no papal bull roast on the grill.