I can't believe it's here again but it is!! So I thought it's high time for a blog update (as I've just realised I forgot to make a Halloween post in the last two years) to give some ideas for those who are about to decide what to wear and how to prepare for Halloween in the last minute.
So here are our costume ideas from 2011.
I dressed up as Sally from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, I spent a whole day sewing my dress and another making my yarn wig which looked quite nice eventually. I even made some (extremely lame) tutorial photos which I'm not going to post here :) All I did was that I bought a simple black dress from a second hand shop, digged out old fabrics, eg. T-Shirts, tablecloths, etc. and sewed them on the dress according to Sally's outfit. Then I used a blueish eyeshadow for my skin and added stiches with a black eyeliner. It was very easy!
For the wig I tied together a few pieces of yarns and sewed them on a "cap" I made from a pair of unused tights.
Sally
Bonnie & Clyde, Nudist on Strike, Beatrix Kiddo from Kill Bill, me as Sally, pantomime girl, zombie girl, Leeloo from Fifth Element, Magnum, prehistoric woman and Clark Kent
Last year I dressed up as Ellen Ripley from Aliens, and I even managed to sew a facehugger. I drew the outline of the little bastard on a T-Shirt, cut it out loosely and sewed the outnine on the sewing machine. Then I stuffed it out with pieces of spunge and there it was! :D Okay, maybe it's not as "cool" as the one you can buy in shops but much cheaper and funnier :)
Facehugger
Me as Ripley
And the rest of us: Darth Vader, Obi-Wan, me as Ripley, Cruella DeVil, Corpse Bride and The Punisher
Nóri was clearly the winner of last year's costume "contest", as she made the best homemade Darth Vader mask I've ever seen!! :D
More posts of my pumpkin carvings are coming up!
Happy Halloween!!!
