Costume 2011!

Don’t know if you know, but I simply ADORE Halloween. I love to spend hours, days, weeks working on a costume that I will wear for 1-3 hours and then store somewhere ‘just in case’ I need it for something. (I will never need it for anything; it just seems like waste to throw away something you worked on so hard). God help me if I ever have children and they start making me stuff. I’m going to need a stuff room in the imaginary dream house I’m making in my mind. A stuff room which is categorized and labeled and neat and can be used for doing crafts. Sigh……..

But I digress. This year’s costume went like this (I did a horrible job of taking step-by-step pictures):

Steps 1, 2, 2 1/2, and 3:

1. Obtain giant piece of cardboard. Cut the edges so it’s sort of squoval shaped

2. Paint the middle section white (for math purposes mine was 22 in wide by I can’t remember tall), and stripes all around.

2 1/2. Weigh down or pin down edges, because the paint will make your cardboard curl up. I learned this too late…rookie mistake.

3. Use hot glue to hot glue some hot glue sticks (you with me?) 4x4x4 inches apart.

Steps 4 and 5:

4. Add game name and glitter glue the crap out of everything

5. Hot glue pieces/strips of foam core to the sides and to the ‘containers’ at the bottom where people can win no money.

Steps 6 and 7:

6. Add special touches such as a t-shirt, name tag and thought bubble. (Oh, and make the little game pieces)

7. Be AWESOME with it.