Look, I fantasize about playing a Disney Princess at Disneyland. And yes, I have been an official Disney Princess, and it was extra special because it was an original princess. However, I still long to STILL be one still.
And the one I am to be has finally arrived on the scene:
When I saw Tangled, I was completely surprised by the glorious ending! And now, guess who I want to be for Halloween.
Well, to be honest, it’s between post-haircut Rapunzel and an Oompa-Loompa.
Votes?
I wanted to base my costume off of this section of the Lucy archives. I paid close attention to the details of the entire outfit, and I think I got great results.
Jason’s Ricky costume was not exactly how I pictured it, but the ladies I recruited to do the sleeves did the best they could! I made the bongo drum myself, which was a fun project with the girls, and also, not perfection, but a good effort:
And in case you’re wondering where I get it from, in my later years of rediscovering family ties, I’ve realized, apparently, it’s genetic.
Phoebe wanted to be a vampire for halloween. I wasn’t interested in going the fangs/blood route, so I told her about a little story called Twilight and a character in it who was a childlike vampire. And she was totally sold.
We practiced putting in the contacts a few times before our parties tonight, and unfortunately there was a tiny tear in one of the contacts, which turned into the contact ripping right in half in her eye after our first party. She was disappointed that she didn’t have them for the second party, but it was still totally RAD!
When I read about Jane I totally picture her as a much younger girl than Dakota Fanning’s version, so I was quite pleased with the whole costume. The ladies that messed up Jason’s sleeves, redeemed themselves with this cloak (though I changed out the flimsy ribbon they chose for the tie and added a little cuff since the sleeves were a bit short.
I like that Phoebe took her character so seriously and yet wanted to keep her little ghost earrings in!
This year I’m acting as class parent for kindergarten. As part of that job, I have found myself in charge of a Halloween Booth for the Halloween Dance. As soon as I saw this amazing post on my bestie’s blog, I knew that was the idea for us!
Of course I was met with resistance from some haters, so I added plastic animals and army guys to the arsenal of what would be turned into zombies mummies. Yes, mummies are much tamer. We added a few fun mummy facts for education and voila!
I fear our zombies mummies won’t be quite as cool as Carrie’s, but we’ll try. My friend Mary thinks I should dress up as a Barbie Zombie to accompany my booth, and I totally would if I had another chance to be Lucy, but alas, both of my parties are on the same night, so Lucy it is!
In case you don’t follow me on twitter, here are a few sneak peeks I have sung out into the world.
Things are shaping up nicely. Those eyes on Phoebz are REAL. NOT photoshopped. Turned out better than I dreamed!
We had a fitting this week for the Today Show Mommy & Me Fashion Segment NEXT week, and the offices were decked out:
Besides this and a few other GIANT spiders, there were plastic cockroaches EVERYWHERE. It was one of the coolest random Halloween displays we have stumbled upon.
The doorlady called up and said the girls had a package. Lolly and I went down to get it, and when she was handed the brown box, she hugged it to her chest and said: “I KNOW this is from Grammy.”
Sure enough, it was. Grammy had sent a Haunted Gingerbread House Kit.
Oh dear. I am so not the gingerbread house mom.
As we looked it over I saw it came with a handy dandy base to prop up the gingerbread house. I started feeling more hopeful.
The girls were pretty excited about getting started. After repairing the large components of gingerbread that had cracked while shipping (this mom should NOT receive the cracked kind), we followed the instructions step by step.
We did pretty well until it was time to decorate. The weight of the sugar candies were too much for our little gingerbread house. It stayed up for just a few frames until it was razed to the ground by the forces of evil that do not wish gingerbread making on this mom.
We did have fun while raising and then razing our little house, but maybe next time we’ll just make gingerbread cookies!
gingerbread house kit (maybe I should have watched the video)–I didn’t let it dry for 15 minutes. for the record, I do not think anything about that frosting is easy for kids.
I had this idea to Halloweenify photos of the teachers at my kids school as decorations for the upcoming Halloween party. Add a little tape to put them on the walls-instant portrait gallery!
I sent this photo of myself to the chair of the party and she deemed it too scary…so I guess I will have to cut out the blood and up the amount of cutesy Halloween stickers. Thanks to picnik, that should be no problem.
Kage and Jason: playing a married couple from tv.
Lolly: fulfilling a recent obsession of the past 6 months (or longer).
Urban Mom, Kristy Glass trying to juggle family, work and the city.
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