craftgrrl | My 2007 costumes!

I'd make the traditional apology for being late with these, but it's NEVER too late or early for Halloween... so here are my costumes and their various crafted bits!

BTW, VERY pic-obese

So it all started when I went to my local Party Packagers and found one of those latex prosthetic pieces that you glue to your face with spirit gum, called "Sightless" which was freakin amazing and I knew I needed to base my costumes for this year on. Traditionally, my friend and I always do 3 costumes - 1 for the house party on Friday, 1 for Saturday's clubbing, and one for actual Halloween night and Trick-or-treating! Here they are!

Friday: The Sandman
based on a story by ETW Hoffman from 1817 called the Sandman where the story goes:
"Oh! he's a wicked man,
who comes to little children when they won't go to bed
and throws handfuls of sand in their eyes,
so that they jump out of their heads all bloody;
and he puts them into a bag
and takes them to the half-moon as food for his little ones;
and they sit there in the nest
and have hooked beaks like owls,
they pick naughty little boys' and girls' eyes out with them."

Now, see, clearly I am more of a "Sand-woman" but I figure the job of Sandman isn't like a one-time all-eternity gig, right, like the guy's gotta retire sometime, so I am actually just one in a long line of Sand-men, or Sand-people if you will, and I could only assume that the successors in line for the title of Sandman are a select few of the victims themselves; having potential, one is taken under wing and trained by the current Sandman into a life of makingtheeff sure that kids go to sleep. Kind of like a "Saw"-type lineage. So that's who I am!
Make-up (rushed as hell and not that great) by me, dreads made by me, eye-mask by me, and cape made by my mom! Dress recycled from formal several years ago, rope recycled from a Halloween costume in grade 6, bag of gold sand from dollar store and teddy bear with eyes ripped out(hanging next to bag, can't really see him in the pic) found randomly outside said dollar store, sad and alone in the rain (clearly he needed to be rescued and made part of my costume, a token from my previous life as a bratty no-bed-wanting little kid!)

Saturday: Little Dead Riding Hood
Originally I wanted to do "Evil Dead Riding Hood", more of a zombie feel and a wolf's head as a purse, ya know, vengeance from the grave and stuff, but frankly I got lazy and cheap and didn't wanna shell out an extra $15 for a wolf mask. So I just went for the victim side of things.

These pictures do not do the awesomeness of my make-up justice, I loved how it came out. I had random bruises everywhere and when I first put the hand-shaped neck-wounds on, (pre-made latex gash for the middle finger, liquid latex[which i ended up liking a lot more] for the others) they looked awesome. Then rapidly deteriorated throughout the night Sad

Cape the same as yesterday but on the flip-side, by mommy, corset-top from Scotland for like 5 quid (wicked!) and tulle skirt made by me in all of 5 minutes (tulle skirts for halloween are kind of my favourite thing to make

)Also, please notice the make-up I did on my friend in about 2 minutes because he decided RIGHT before we left that he wanted to come to the club too and didn't have a costume. Luckily he was wearing a red t-shirt! Also, in the last picture, in the middle, another home-made last-minute deal entitled "Tonight's Forecast".

HALLOWEEN NIGHT!: Mental Patient...
who got free from the straight jacket and ripped out my eyes! Grin

I think this was the all-around best blending of the latex eye-piece. I made the straight-jacket, again, in about 5 minutes with safety pins and krazy glue, because I ran out of time and had to get to school to do a presentation in class (in costume, because it was about engagement of the non-visual senses (har-har) in Halloween attractions!) but it looked okay in the end. Oh, also I made that necklace that I'm wearing in this and the sandman costume! Also, notice the forecast friend once again in her home-made masterpiece "Snakes on a Plane"! (making use of left-over snakes from her Medusa costume the first night!)

x-posted to halloween_fan and also craftster

Pics of my uber-crafted party coming soon!