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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Playing dress up

Halloween has come and gone.  The candy is no longer here, the decorations are put away and the costumes are stored for another time.   Not another year per se but another time.  The boys have always enjoyed costume play.   I enjoy costume play so they have always have a variety of dress up things to play with.   Chris and loved shopping the the days after halloween to get 70% off costumes for the boys to play with throughout the year.  The most used were the wizard cloaks and scary masks when they were younger.  The costumes they use now are more involved.  Seamus has a Link costume I made him for his birthday last year and they all love getting dressed in the suit jackets and bowler hats from last years halloween.  I love getting dressed up!!!!  Halloween gives me the excuse to do it!  

Each year we try to make the costumes from second hand clothes. I am not a seamstress by any means so if it is not easy it doesn't get made.  Here are some pictures of Halloween's past

Halloween 2008
We used bandage gauze to wrap them.  Easy costume idea.  Not so easy to keep the gauze in place.

Halloween Party attire 2009
We threw a big halloween party with the theme of haunted abandoned historic hotel.  The boys played parts.  Eoin was the big shot owner, Liam was the butler, and Seamus the bartender.  I was a maid as you see below and Chris was a creepy handy man.  My parents played the part of two missing tourists from the 1900's.


Halloween trick or treating 2009
Eoin's costume:  Jester made from Seamus' Link costume parts and a Jester's hat from the Michigan Renaissance Festival
Liam's Costume: Wizard using old Harry Potter cloak and silly Wizard hat
Seamus' Costume: Warlock again using old costume parts and the walking stick he got from his grandparent's trip to Texas
Chris' Costume:  A ghoul I think
Jenn's Costume:  Maid's costume from halloween party.  I got the dress from Value village and made the apron and choker.


Halloween 2010
Liam's Costume: Hockey equiptment spray painted over camo clothes to be a "futuristic marine"
Eoin's Costume:  He went for the commerical costume this year with blood pumping through his false chest
Seamus' Costume:  He combined is Link costume with a cloak and a traditional masquerade mask

Halloween 2010
Jenn's Costume:  Twisted tooth fairy made up of my grade 12 prom dress
Chris' Costume:  Twisted dentist Dr. D.K. Payne

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