I’ve been Halloween-ing in my bits and fragments of spare time. October reminds me so much of my Grandma Lemmon. She sewed my Halloween costume every year when I was little. She used to tell me stories about the Halloween parties she went to when she was younger and the costumes she wore. One year she went as a sailor, and cut some of her own hair off and glued it to her chest so it would stick out from the edges of her collar. Seriously, the woman is one of my heroes. She had such a hard life, but she never complained and she always looked for opportunities to make things fun. She always had a twinkle in her eye.
My dad inherited her love for Halloween, and he was the master of face paint. I remember one year I wanted to be a werewolf. He got fake skin to put on top of mine to make it wrinkled and then stuck fake hair to it and painted over it and blended everything in so it looked real. I felt like I was in Hollywood. Whenever it was his turn to stay home and hand out candy he played scary music out the window and dressed up to answer the door. And the years that it was his turn to take us around trick-or-treating he always put a mask on the head rest of the passenger side seat so it looked like Uncle Fester or a creepy scarecrow was riding with him.
So I come rightly by my Halloween fetish. But I don’t sew and my face-painting skills are marginal at best. Luckily, in the age of Pinterest, I don’t have to let my weaknesses hold me back. I’m basically convinced you can make just about any costume in the world with either duct tape or iron-on transfers.
This year the Swans are going as skeletons, all eight of us. It took some fancy talking to convince everyone, but I pulled it off. Our ward fall party was tonight, so we got to have a dress rehearsal of sorts. I have all the shirts done, but I ran out of white duct tape before I could finish the pants. Aaron did all the pelvis bones on the pants, but I didn’t get leg bones on them yet.
Still…we made a darling skeleton family at the party, I though. :)
1 comment:
This is so cute, and so easy. Great idea.
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