Costuming for Nerds, Part 5
Apr. 25th, 2016 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A short one today. It seems I need time to recover from everyone rattling around the house for a week during spring break. And I still haven't managed to shake nearly two months of sore throat/coughing, in spite of the medicine the doctor gave me and the (what feels like) gallons of honey water I'm drinking. I don't even really like honey. Uccch.
Anyway....2006 was a pretty simple year for costumes. We chose a Wizard of Oz theme. It was a good Halloween for finding stuff at the thrift store.
For my Dorothy costume, I found a blue and white checkered jumper dress that worked nicely. Then I just needed a basket with a toy dog and braids in my hair. Oh, and the shoes. I'd swear it was the very next year that I started seeing adult-sized sparkly red shoes everywhere I turned, but in 2006, nothing. I finally just took some red felt, hand-sewed shiny red beads to it until I got tired of the tedium and said, "Eh, good enough," and stuck them on a regular pair of shoes. As it happened, no one seemed to really look that close at my shoes, and you can only catch a glimpse of them in the picture. Heh.

Mark's costume had gray pants we found at the thrift store and a box covered in aluminum foil. You can't really see his hat, but that was also wrapped in foil. Very handy for a tin man costume. The heart and axe came from a costume store. Luke just needed old clothes with patches sewn on them and the hat, and Emma actually wore a monkey costume, which worked great once we put some yarn tassels at the end of the tail. As was fitting for her age, she hated wearing the costume, but she tolerated it just long enough for the picture.
Big changes were coming, costume-wise: starting the next year, I had a sewing machine. And Emma started to choose for herself what costume she wanted to wear. We haven't really had a theme for the entire family's costumes since 2006. I'm glad Emma and Ryan like to have their own individual ideas, but sometimes I miss doing something coordinated like this. If they ever express a wish to do a five-person set of costumes, it'd be fun to see what we could do.
Anyway....2006 was a pretty simple year for costumes. We chose a Wizard of Oz theme. It was a good Halloween for finding stuff at the thrift store.
For my Dorothy costume, I found a blue and white checkered jumper dress that worked nicely. Then I just needed a basket with a toy dog and braids in my hair. Oh, and the shoes. I'd swear it was the very next year that I started seeing adult-sized sparkly red shoes everywhere I turned, but in 2006, nothing. I finally just took some red felt, hand-sewed shiny red beads to it until I got tired of the tedium and said, "Eh, good enough," and stuck them on a regular pair of shoes. As it happened, no one seemed to really look that close at my shoes, and you can only catch a glimpse of them in the picture. Heh.

Mark's costume had gray pants we found at the thrift store and a box covered in aluminum foil. You can't really see his hat, but that was also wrapped in foil. Very handy for a tin man costume. The heart and axe came from a costume store. Luke just needed old clothes with patches sewn on them and the hat, and Emma actually wore a monkey costume, which worked great once we put some yarn tassels at the end of the tail. As was fitting for her age, she hated wearing the costume, but she tolerated it just long enough for the picture.
Big changes were coming, costume-wise: starting the next year, I had a sewing machine. And Emma started to choose for herself what costume she wanted to wear. We haven't really had a theme for the entire family's costumes since 2006. I'm glad Emma and Ryan like to have their own individual ideas, but sometimes I miss doing something coordinated like this. If they ever express a wish to do a five-person set of costumes, it'd be fun to see what we could do.