Halloween time!

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!!!

Halloween fever

Yes, my favourite holiday is just around the corner again, and as usual, I'm already terribly excited about it. I'm in the middle of organising my annual Halloween party and the guestlist gone really long, so I'm hoping to see loads of creative costumes.

Before last Halloween, I posted photos of all of my costumes I made and wore throughout the years, except for last year's, so here it is now with a little tutorial.
I dressed up as The Mad Hatter from Tim Burton's latest Alice in Wonderland interpretation.

This was my mad look :)

The makeup and costume part was quite easy, the main challenge was obviously the top hat. This video helped me a lot, if you want to make your own signature mad hat follow the instructions in the tutorial.



It took me a few days to perfect my hat. I used an old green tablecloth and applied some lace also from a former tablecloth on it. VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: maybe it's not obvious from the video but you have to apply the fabric DIAGONALLY! unless it will be crumpled. The same happened to me but luckily the lace veiled my little mistake. I used a lot of green and golden paint as well, I bought some hatpins and I had a nice red and black feather which used to be a decoration in a bouquet of flowers.

And here are the rest of the guests with funnier and funnier costumes:

Spoon killer, Cereal killer, a Pirate, Princesse Leia and Han Solo, the Facebook page, Harvey Dent, Stewardess aka Lady Gaga, The Mad Hatter and Catwoman

Last year my pumpkin carving abilities somehow improved and I came up with a puking pumpkin and an Oogie Boogie pumpkin to scare the bad ghosts away.

I already have this year's costume idea in my mind, but never kiss and tell, it's a surprise! :)
If you have any great costume ideas let me know! Comments are free and don't hurt ;)

Cheers and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!