Megan&Marcus Co.

Happy Halloween!
While Halloween isn't my favorite Holiday, I love it for the wonderful excuse to be creative. Ruth, again designed her costume, she drew me this picture of what kind of witch she wanted to be (their are SO many different 'kinds' of witches to choose from: I think I came pretty close, I just didn't have time to attach the lights (that's what the orange polka dots are.)Her costume was the most expensive I made it from a t-shirt I sewed some fabric of her choice to. I also picked up all the accessories for her (Aunt Hillarie loaned her the necklace)so her costume cost about $13.00

For my Star Wars junkie Neil, I found a fantastic video tutorial on YouTube about how to transform yourself into a Jedi (or any other star wars character...honestly I think the guy was a little obsessed he has MANY Star wars video tutorials.) We ended up having everything for his costume already except for the felt pieces and some boots. I already had some brown fabric that I hashed into a robe and My mom found some shoe covers I modified into boots for him that worked fantastic. Total cost for his costume... $3.50.
Liam was a bit undecided on what he was going to be for Halloween, I was pressuring him into being Dobby, I would LOVE to make one of my skinny boys into a house elf, they would be perfect (and perfectly hilarious) dressed in a pillowcase but I have been unsuccessful thus far in my attempts at persuasion. Neil was pressuring him into being Darth Vader, and Ruth wanted him to be Yoda. He didn't care what they wanted, and when he stumbled upon this picture in a costume magazine: I seriously contemplated purchased my first ever store bought costume. When I tried it on him in the store, the thing collapsed flat and in no way looked like a car, so I bought it. But only for a pattern to make my own. I traced around it on some cardboard I found in someones bulk pick-up trash pile and then tape the bits together with red duct tape. Not to hard right? I ended up covering the entire thing in the red tape out of laziness and as a way to hopefully reinforce the cardboard. Then I bought White duct tape and some tubes of paint and over a few weeks slowly painted on the details.
He would get so excited when I got it down from the piano to paint. "zanks mom for my Lightning McQueens EYES!" "Zank-you mom for my Lightning McQueen's Lightning BOLT!" "Zanks for my Lightning McQueen's Mouth where he says: KACHOW!" He would then get upset when I wouldn't let him play in it afterwards. Megan <--mean mom. Price for entire costume $11.50

The inspiration for Adele's chubby bunny costume came from a picture I saw 2 years ago online where a lady covered her baby carrier with white felt to look like a cracked egg and made her baby a little yellow chick. SO CUTE. I was going to do that, but I liked the bunny idea better. I already had the ears and all I ended up getting was the fluff (a child size shawl, or shrug...whatever they are called) It worked perfect because it was already sewn to wrap around your shoulders, all I did was cut very large button holes for her arms to pop through the back and she was ready. Total cost $5.00. So on the whole, I spent more time in labor, but felt it was worth making 4 costumes for about the price of buying ONE!
We went Trick-or-Treating with My Mom, Hillarie and Travis and his family around our Neighborhood. Travis and Marcus hung back for a bit to pass out candy and then caught up with us a little later on. They couldn't find us at first and so they were just walking down the street together, Marcus said they felt like people were looking at them like they were child predators or something. (I'm sure they weren't)(looking at them like that I mean) After collecting a fine booty of candy, we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa Evans' house where we again went trick-or-treating and then had some yummy soup in bread bowls. Halloween is fun, I'm excited to think up what I will make Adele next year, Maybe I will incorporate a stroller into her costume! Hmmmm...