For some bizarre reason, halloween In Miami has been officially moved to TONIGHT instead of Sunday. The church people didn't want the evil, Paganistic Halloween interfering with the Sabbath and petitioned City Hall to move it to today. (Echos of the Grinch and Puritanism, eh?) But that's another story, and possibly a rant. Every year I take deep pleasure and pride in throwing together my kids costumes at the last minute. I think they're wonderful! Daniel dressed as a Kabuki actor, with kimono, face paint, and a sword. Beautiful! Clarissa I dresses as a Geisha, again with kimono, obi, face paint, and up-do with fancy, dangly beads. I thought they looked gorgeous, and they got a lot of compliments as we went TOTing. The Japanese guys at the sushi place recognized them for what they were, and bowed to them. "Ah! You're a Kabuki!" Bow. But they kept saying how they were the only ones with homemade costumes and everybody else had store bought ones. Honestly, i think store bought costumes with that awful synthetic materials look tacky and cheap. My kids look like someone took time to be creative with them. They were certainly the only Kabuki and Geisha out there among the zillions of Harry Potters (totally cute, BTW!), Princess Jasmines, Renessaince Princesses and Screams. So, will the poor kids be totally traumatized and scarred for life because of their home made costumes? And do I really care?
i went for tacky and cheap this year. i just wasnt feeling inspired. oh well, the little one is only 3, he doesnt care what he wears, and could really care less about the whole halloween thing anyways. how strange that trick or treat is tonight for you. and i'm sure your kids look absolutley wonderful
Brighid, those cheap tacky store costumes totally and completely SUCK. If the other kids give your kids any grief, it's because they're jealous.
Ugh. I'm so worried that they moved it here and I didn't notice and that my kid'll be the only one out on haloween. He wanted to be Sonic the hedgehog this year and they don't even make that costume anymore so I've gotten out the blue hair spray........
I had much more fun when I was 6 and my mummy made me a dragon outfit, then when I went in a dstore-bought witch outfit! Keep being unique and creative, your kids will thank you later in life!
we always had homemade costumes. growing up we thought kids with store bought costumes were somehow missing out. even now i think that way.
Brighid, our Halloween was rescheduled as well. I've never heard of such a thing before...I'm sure Halloween has been on a Sunday before. I made Maddie a ballerina costume...I sewed the whole thing...until I got to putting the bodice and the skirt together...I cheated with safety pins! I made Virginia a little cave-girl...they are so adorable!
When I was a kid my folks would let us buy masks but not costumes and I felt deprived somehow. But now I think the shiny plastic costumes look cheap. Try wearing a gorilla mask and hands in a 3-piece suit. Some green food coloring will give your face a nice color, cheap! One halloween my costume was just a fake blood bullethole in my forehead. I got a lot of double takes! Sometimes less is more!
Yeah for homemade costumes! I also made mine, a bat for the boy and my girl is a cat. The school already had theirs, I'm pasting a picture here, as you can see, the other kids are store-bought, ALL the kids I saw were. LOL I have homemade kids, not store-bought! I mean, who are people kidding trying to make their kids look like what? They bought them off QVC? Becca
I think home made is best, i feel so lucky that im able to have the time to do things like that for my kids and they really enjoy helping out. This year isnt much of a challenge my daughter wants to be a mummy and my son is Thomas the tank engine- we were given his costume last year. I heard that a few places here in canada were having halloween tonight instead of sunday, but it wasnt for religious reasons just simply because of how difficult it would be to get the kids to school on monday. Personally that wont be a problem ,our kids are pretty young so its not like theyll be out past 9pm.
I made me the jolly green giant and my son was sprout...that was real fun! He was 10 months old. I made the costumes for us so we were alike. It was awsome. Our computer crashed so I may have lost those pics forever...we'll see. Maybe if we get our computer working again Illl post those pics again. Last year he went as a hippie. I made that costume. This year he's a dragon and I'm a honey bee. I got his at a thrift store! That was only 2 bucks! sheesh and mine I made myself.
I can't sew to save my life! My sister used to make my kid's costumes, until she had to go back to work full time. Poor Sage has had mostly store bought, but I refuse to do the Disney-Movie-TV costumes. This year she was a doctor, and I made her an "ID Badge" with a caducus and her picture on it. She was so cute.
Homemade costumes are awesome. My mother always made mine for me when I was a child, and I was always so proud, because everyone oohed and ahhed over what a fantastic job she did. Yay mom! I love being creative, and putting together costumes is so much fun! My kids are still pretty young yet, so I'm not sure how they will react as they get older and see all of the other kids in their store-bought costumes. Hopefully they will enjoy being unique and they will be proud, just like I was!
Hey, I can't really sew either. That's probably why by the end of the evening the feathers were coming off of my oldest son's duck costume. *lol* I mean, I can sew, but definitely not with a sewing machine. Geez, those things intimidate that heck out of me! I made bedding for my twins while I was pregnant with them and I nearly threw the dang machine across the room! Course, that could have been the hormones too.
