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Friday, October 28, 2011

Halloween Hop


So my amazing friend put this link up on her blog and being a true lover of Halloween, I had to participate. As a kid, Halloween was a time to dress up and be someone completely different, even if it were just for one day.  We usually stayed up a little later, got our costumes the day of and got a ton of free candy.  We usually drove to a nicer neighborhood, teamed up with our cousins and knocked on every door until our legs gave out.  The downside?  Mom collected our candy that night and put it in a plastic tupperware and we were not to eat the candy unless she handed it to us.  Bummer.  It was for our own good I guess. Last year when my baby was "trick or treating" Mechanic Hubby let her have any candy she could open up on her own.  She learned how to open up candy quite quickly. 

I really do love to be scared, even if it means sleeping with the lights on......for a few days.   During my goth years (yes, I was that kid in high school) I was a lot braver and never turned away from the screen.  Now, I get totally freaked.  I don't get it.  One of my favorite "Halloweeny" type movies isn't scary but after I watched it, I wanted to be Winona Ryder.  Only the cool Winona, not the nerdy one.  Ha.

Beetlejuice

The costume I am most proud of, and was the winner of the company costume contest (tongue twister) is this:
Yup, I was a pregnant skeleton.  I used regular white craft paint for the shirt and I used an old t-shirt for the pants.  I didn't want to ruin my sweats because I pretty much lived in them during my last trimester.  But I won 200 bucks to Circuit City.  Remember Circuit City???


As for my costume for this year?  I've worked hard on it...she's a lovely pink pear shaped television character.  I'm almost done with the entire ensemble.
It'll probably be way to hot out to wear this for very long but my baby will be Brobee so I have to stay dedicated to this bit.  It's only for about an hour so what's the big deal?  It's going to be my interpretation because 1. I have no patience for sewing and 2. I have no patience for sewing. 

Here's my kiddo modeling the Brobee hat I made for her.




Hooray for Halloween!


11 comments:

  1. Holy crap! That hat is amazing! I'm so impressed.

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  2. Halloween Hop
    My favourite horror movie: Predators
    My favourite costume: ghost

    Hi Raven, I'm now an official follower. Hope you'll stop by my blog too. Wishing you a Happy Halloween.

    Jayde
    jayde-scott.blogspot.com

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  3. I LOVE Beetlejuice! I actually posted that on my blog also, lol!

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  4. Happy Halloween Hop, Raven - I LOVE the pregnant skeleton! Terrific!
    My personal favorite (though admittedly not as good as yours) was the year my boyfriend dressed up as a man dressed up like a woman to snag a seat on a lifeboat off the Titanic and I went as the drowned woman who’s seat he stole. I just wish somebody'd actually gotten it ;)

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  5. BOOO!
    Hiya!Hay! Love Beatlejuice..Beatlejuice...BEATlEJuIcE!
    Freakin' cute hat, but the model is adorable ;)
    Hoppin down the blog trails!
    Fav. monster movie....ready? Monsters Inc!
    IT was the scariest book I've ever read. EEK!
    Costume~cat of course!
    Happy happy hopping trails!
    A pumpkin 4U!

    ✫•°˜”*°•.✫(((^_^)))✫•°˜”*°•.✫

    Come see my kitty then
    follow me 'cause I'm following you!

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  6. Happy Halloween Hop! LOL at the pregnant skeleton costume

    Love how committed you are to the occasion! :)

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  7. Beetlejuice is such a classic! Love it.

    Dropping by for the Halloween hop :-)

    My favourite scary movie or book...erm well i'm not really a fan of anything scary to be honest lol! A total wimp! Though i did manage to sit through Sleepy Hollow- Johnny Depp had a lot to do with that :-D



    This year i won't be dressing up until next month when i go and visit my sister in Scotland. Not a clue what i'm going to wear yet...lol.

    New follower here :-)

    TToria
    xo
    http://ttoria.blogspot.com

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  8. Hello fellow hopper!

    So glad I was able to visit your site! :) I am visiting from the Coffin Hop--I am # 63-- and happy to take part in this hop also. This Halloween I will be dressing as a swashbuckling pirate. Two of my favorite scary books are The Witching Hour and Let the Right One In. A fave movie is Bram Stoker's Dracula. I love this time of year--we get to indulge in a bit of darkness. Please hop over and visit me if you like at www.penelopecrowe.blogspot.com where I am giving coupons to your choice of my books and you can enter and win a NOOK! Thanks and hope to see you there!

    Penelope

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  9. i am looking for beetlejuice to dvr it!
    and that preg skeleton is awesome!
    yeah for you coming up w/creative costumes!
    HaPpY HaLLoWeeN!

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  10. I’m here visiting from Jeremy Bates' blog hop, and I love your blog!

    My favorite scary book is IT (scared the crap out of me as a kid), movie that horrified me most was Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween, and I did not dress up this year, because I suck. One of my favorite costumes in the past was "Dead Baby Roller Blades."

    Happy Halloween!

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  11. love beetle juice! i even watched the cartoon lol
    stopping by late bc something took me out of the city for a couple days, but hope u had a good weekend--and hop!
    my favorite horror movie is the shining, or alien...they're too different to only pick one!
    c u around online!
    best!
    jeremy

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