This is just a super quick post so I can document my Halloween efforts this year. I'll have to edit it with better photos after we dress up again tomorrow. So Big Sis decided she wanted to be a parrot this year. We already had a great monkey suit for Little G. Parrot + monkey = jungle theme! What about mommy and daddy?? Why Jane and Tarzan, of course!
The making of the Macaw:
Big Sis wore a red sweatsuit underneath. I added shoulder and arm straps to the underside of the wings. We also painted a mask from JoAnn's, and added feather trim from the New York trip to the top.
For Mom and Daddy I sewed short tube skirts for both of us out of brown, suede-y fabric from Jo-Ann's. I cut out the side of Big G's to make it more loincloth-ish. He thought that was pretty amusing. I cut fringe on the bottom of each "skirt". For tops I made Big G a kind of sash out of suede-y leopard print fabric. For my I used the same leopard-print and made a one-shouldered number. Tights, flats, and messy hair finished off my costume.
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| No flash on these pics, so we'll have to try again tomorrow on actual Halloween. |
I don't know if this year tops our last year's family theme: Under the Sea. Big Sis was Rainbow Fish, I was a jellyfish, Little G was a baby clam, and Big G was a Geoduck (yep that's a huge clam with a REALLY huge siphon. It looked exactly like a huge p***s on his head. He picked it, not me!) Check out this link if you need a mental image of what I'm talking about:
geoduck. We accomplished the siphon by using a double-layer of ladies thigh-high stockings stuffed with poly-fill.
