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I came up with a costume in the nick of time this year (as usual): a romantic picnic for two.
I wore a red plastic tablecloth with a hole cut out for my head. Each side had a place setting attached. Then I tied a basket to my head with crackers and wine. I finished it off with a necklace with a heart dangle. (That's the "romantic" part, see.) And green pants and shirt and socks underneath (grass).
(Now, if I were really in the spirit, I would have used an orange tablecloth with black silverware and plates, and with gross eyeballs and things in the picnic basket, which would have been made of a pumpkin or skull or something.)
Costume creation notes: Tape does not hold plates or silverware on plastic tablecloths, even if the plates and silverware are made of plastic. Knots do not keep thread from coming through thin plastic tablecloths. Tape does keep thread from going through tablecloths, and thread keeps place setting attached. Except for knives, which eventually cut through the threads.
Also, things do not stay on heads. Even though I balanced the basket with a bandanna ring on the bottom, and the cracker box was empty, and the wine was really an empty plastic water bottle with a steamed-off wine label attached, and it stayed on my head perfectly during practice (held on by a ribbon tied like on a bonnet). This is because at parties I do not just sit around looking at myself in the mirror for some reason. I walk around and look at things in various directions and at varying heights.
Funny halloween journal entries: Check out I'm exactly where I should be by GoddessKristin. Do click on that link from Halloween two years ago, You're no fun anymore. Together these make a before-and-after picture of Halloween. Before: "Fortunately, another colleague dressed up so I wasn't completely alone in the staff meeting. He dressed as the Big Bad Wolf, complete with furry pants. We sat next to each other, two lonely fools in a sea of normalcy." After: "As my students filed in, I crabbed at them in a funny old lady voice, 'Sit down! Get to work! You're making an old lady crazy! Wanna see my cats? I have 27 of them, you know...' and so on. Funny thing was that even through the giggles, they did it. Within a minute or two, I had quiet order in my room." Also check out I Am The Wind Blowing Through Your…Vacant Empty Hole Between Your Ears, by Invincible Girl, scary party preceded by Oktoberfest story. "I found myself, in a relatively clear area of the park, holding hands with a goose-stepping three-year-old at a German sausage festival." Do read the comments for this one, too.
I wore a red plastic tablecloth with a hole cut out for my head. Each side had a place setting attached. Then I tied a basket to my head with crackers and wine. I finished it off with a necklace with a heart dangle. (That's the "romantic" part, see.) And green pants and shirt and socks underneath (grass).
(Now, if I were really in the spirit, I would have used an orange tablecloth with black silverware and plates, and with gross eyeballs and things in the picnic basket, which would have been made of a pumpkin or skull or something.)
Costume creation notes: Tape does not hold plates or silverware on plastic tablecloths, even if the plates and silverware are made of plastic. Knots do not keep thread from coming through thin plastic tablecloths. Tape does keep thread from going through tablecloths, and thread keeps place setting attached. Except for knives, which eventually cut through the threads.
Also, things do not stay on heads. Even though I balanced the basket with a bandanna ring on the bottom, and the cracker box was empty, and the wine was really an empty plastic water bottle with a steamed-off wine label attached, and it stayed on my head perfectly during practice (held on by a ribbon tied like on a bonnet). This is because at parties I do not just sit around looking at myself in the mirror for some reason. I walk around and look at things in various directions and at varying heights.
Funny halloween journal entries: Check out I'm exactly where I should be by GoddessKristin. Do click on that link from Halloween two years ago, You're no fun anymore. Together these make a before-and-after picture of Halloween. Before: "Fortunately, another colleague dressed up so I wasn't completely alone in the staff meeting. He dressed as the Big Bad Wolf, complete with furry pants. We sat next to each other, two lonely fools in a sea of normalcy." After: "As my students filed in, I crabbed at them in a funny old lady voice, 'Sit down! Get to work! You're making an old lady crazy! Wanna see my cats? I have 27 of them, you know...' and so on. Funny thing was that even through the giggles, they did it. Within a minute or two, I had quiet order in my room." Also check out I Am The Wind Blowing Through Your…Vacant Empty Hole Between Your Ears, by Invincible Girl, scary party preceded by Oktoberfest story. "I found myself, in a relatively clear area of the park, holding hands with a goose-stepping three-year-old at a German sausage festival." Do read the comments for this one, too.