Ever since I've been a little kid, Halloween has been my favorite time of the year. I've always liked spooky stuff, and I'm sure the fact that my birthday is 3 days before it has a lot to do this too. Making my costume for trick or treating is something I've enjoyed about the season, and since we've had kids, I've looked forward to making theirs. Store bought costumes are a major pet peeve of mine. My wife always points out, as I'm trying to finish things at the last minute, that it would be much easier to simply go buy costumes. She's right, it would be easier. It would also be easier to eat lunchmeat sandwiches and chips for Thanksgiving instead of turkey and mashed potatoes. Somehow that seems to miss the spirit of the holiday, though. Likewise, buying some cheap, piece of shit costume that will look exactly like everyone else who bought that same outfit misses the spirit of Halloween. Anyway...the kids are really big Pokemon fans, so they decided to be a Poke-family: Pichu, Pikachu, and Raichu. I dressed up like a Pokeball (the little baseball looking thing that Pokemons live inside of). None of the adults knew what I was, but the kids all got it.I made the costumes from a combination of things I found at the Goodwill and some extra fabric I bought. All together, I spent about $26 for the materials to make 4 costumes. $6.50 a piece for costumes that will serve as play clothes for a long time to come, not to shabby. The kids all had a great time.
Good stuff. The costumes look good. I can see why parents might not get it though. With the sock hat and beard you kind of look like some sort of futuristic, cartoony pirate ar something.
ReplyDeleteNoah went as a monkey. Alicia's mom made his costume and she is one hell of a seamstress. It looked much better than a store bought costume. Of course I have no idea how much she paid for the fabric and stuff, but I'm not going to worry about it since she paid for it.
Alicia and I didn't dress up as anything...again. I wanted to make a little fez and vest for Noah and dress up as an organ grinder. Alicia's argument is that we have nowhere to go and therefore no reason to dress up. We did in fact go to some school thing, so sucks to her ass-mar; next year I'm dressing up!