halloween

I'm already thinking about halloween. I like to start early so there's a lot of time to work on costumes should something need to be made. Lauren and I were talking about the boys costumes and want to do these:




I think we could put these costumes together. The most difficult part would be finding the onesie for Max. The rest would be adding felt and fur and buttons. For the Wild Thing (specifically Moishe, the striped one) a striped shirt and scaled bottoms. Again, I think I could find a plain onesie and use fabric paint or felt to achieve the stripes and scales, then it's just felt and fur for the face and tails and claws.

I've also always thought it would be fun to do Peanuts costumes.

This picture is weird because the colors are off, but there are a lot of options here. Monkey could be Charlie or Snoopy or even Linus or Woodstock. Bug has a nice round head (earning him a nickname of Canonball from a friend at church) and would make an adorable Charlie Brown.

I've been wanting to do a Lucy costume for myself - already having dark hair, I would just have to work on the style and find a dress and saddle shoes. But Lauren would make a cute Lucy as well and she already has a blue dress. Then Wil could be Charlie or we could make him be that tree with Charlie's kite stuck in it (Wil hates costumes, so we try to make them as easy and comfortable for him as possible...both of those pretty much just equal him wearing his regular clothes with a few slight modifications).

Monkey expressed interest in being a Witch for halloween this year. So there's an option. Building some sort of good Wizard costume...or making him Harry Potter, which would be taking the easy way out but he would be super cute.

I might just make myself a tutu and be something easy like a dancer or a witch. Let's be honest, as long as I get to wear fake eyelashes, I'm pretty happy. I'm just done with the snowflake costume...and wearing last year's costume without Megan and Whitley would just make me look depressing I think - one lonely fate.