Halloweekend Wrap-Up

Hi everyone, Happy Halloween! It's so weird to think that today is finally here after an entire weekend of celebrating (Lesley compared it to several days of Christmas Eve).  All-in-all, I think it's safe to say that Halloween was successful on several accounts: Our costumes, meticulously thought-out and constructed, turned out great and received ample attention from the BC crowd.  Party-wise, we enjoyed mod-hopping, dancing on tables, and socializing with friends.  We even won a football game against Clemson for the first time in a long time!

Thank God for Facebook....we've spent the whole day running through photo albums documenting this weekend's most clever costumes and priceless memories.  Thought we'd share a few with you guys to help reminisce:

Halloweekend begins on Thursday with JTree: Janine and Kelly dress as a sexy sailor and cowgirl

Add Shiva as Snooki, Danielle as a flapper, James as a lifeguard, and Lesley as a spider!

A better view of Lesley's homemade spider costume, complete with stuffed felt legs, fishing line, and a self-shredded white tank top for a web. Tough work lifting those legs up. 

Some clever costumes from Thursday night: Meghan as Eve, Mary as Madonna, and Sara as a loofah! 

For Friday, Lucy was Ke$ha. She wore denim shorts, ripped tights, big black motorcycle boots, a hand-shredded band t-shirt, and self-done feather wraps. The resemblance was uncanny.

Lesley as Davy (Daisy) Crockett in an authentic vintage raccoon hat, toy gun, handmade faux suede fringe vest, and Jeffrey Campbell wedge booties.

Cut to the mods: Les as Davy Crockett and Danielle as Ms. Marilyn Monroe

We found Ariel, the prettiest princess of them all. Molly, right, wore neon and glowstick-stuffed pants to cleverly portray a firefly.

Lucy as Ke$ha, Shiva "Snooki" Snickers, and Davy Crockett. Pickles, anyone?

The Lion King Crew starts Saturday off right: Danielle as Mufasa, Shiva as Pumba (and Timon), Lesley as Scar (with her prisoner Zazu), and Lucy as Rafiki.

RR's Best Costume Award goes to our friend Jason as Gandhi!

Scar and Rafiki looking surprisingly stylish.

We hope you all had a great weekend! It's never too early to start planning for next year!

xo

Lucy and Lesley

Confessions of a Halloween-holic

I don't care what anyone else thinks, I will still be taking Halloween seriously at 26, and at 47, AND at 93. It's my favorite holiday of the year (I still think we should get a day off of school for it) and no matter how uncool it gets to wear a costume, I'll be doing it.

I think my addiction to Halloween is the result of my childhood. From a young age (infancy, perhaps?) my parents always made sure I had a memorable one. To this day, I have never worn a store-bought costume. My mom used to spend hours making authentic (and sometimes historically accurate) costumes for me, and as I got older, I would put my costumes together on my own, whether it be by using items in my own wardrobe mixed with vintage pieces from my mom's closet or a thrift store, or by neglecting my fall midterms to sew elaborate and often over-ambitious outfits in college. Not to mention, from pre-school through senior year of high school I was involved in several forms of dance, countless plays and musicals, figure skating, and so my love of playing dress up extended far beyond October 31st.

As Zorro at my first ever ice show.

I was the most historically accurate pioneer girl in the history of Halloween. I was a Dutch girl one year too (with a handmade lace hat and authentic wooden clogs) but unfortunately I cannot find any pictures.

From a Filipino dance recital.

The year I did a number to a Greek ethnic song. Opa!

Randomly dressed up in luau gear at my neighborhood block party. Laddie, my dog, wanted to dress up too.

Trick or treating as the devil with some friends.

No, this is not a Halloween costume. I used to enjoy dressing like a beggar woman on random days and going around to my parents asking them for money. Some things never change... as a college kid, I still beg my parents (just in a better looking outfit).

I love Harry Potter, if you can't tell.

My favorite ice show costume ever. Probably because I picked it out and it actually was pretty.

Senior year of high school, we all managed to stay within our preppy dress code while still dressing up for Halloween. Almost every senior that day was an emo kid. Can you spot me in the crowd?

David and I as William Wallace and Pocahontas (Pocahotass) for our first Halloween as college students.

I took being a flower child literally... spent days and days sewing individual flowers onto a dress-shirt-scrap of fabric. Excuse the awk pose, I'm pretending to hug a tree.

With Danielle, as Alice and a cave woman.

As Bjork. Looking like a mess after too much sweaty dancing.

Usually, I just spend all my time working on one really great costume for Halloween, but this year -- god knows why -- I've decided to have three. Granted, none of them are as mind-blowing (if I do say so myself, but hey, it was a runner up in Rackk and Ruin's costume contest last Halloween) as my Bjork swan dress from last year, so I guess I'm making up for it by having multiple ones:

1. Spider

2. Davy Crockett

3. Scar from the Lion King

I've wanted to be a spider since last year, so I only hope I can pull this off as well as I'm picturing in my head. Davy Crockett was a last minute idea -- I've been noticing the fox tail key chains hipsters have been clipping onto their bags lately, and drew inspiration from that. As for Scar, my roommates and I decided to do a group thing one night, and I cannot wait.

Stay tuned for a post-Halloween pic post and DIY costume tips!!!

The Ghosts of Halloweens Past - Lucy

I love looking through old pictures.....the photos remind me just how much of a creative and fun childhood I had.  Luckily, my super-organized and camera-savvy mother organizes snapshots in chronological, seasonally ordered albums.  When I proposed pulling a few pics of past costumes for a blog post, she happily obliged.

My parents were always SUPER involved when it came to helping me and my brothers with our costumes.  I have flashbacks of my dad sketching, tracing, measuring, and slicing into styrofoam until 2 am, only to wake up the next morning to some sort of structured masterpiece (to give you an idea, he once created "LaGuardia Airport" for my brother Keenan, who literally wore a layout of the control towers, buildings, and runways).  My mom would drive miles to get me the perfect accessory to complete my look, following up with extravagant front-lawn photoshoots.

I'll admit, some of these costumes I'll boast about to strangers (Tamagotchi - I mean....come on, how creative is that?!), others I had forgotten about completely.  So on that note, let's reminisce....

Blue Fairy - blue is still my favorite color

Shirley Temple - it took 2 hours to curl my hair which fell straight 2 hours later!

Tamagotchi  - my  personal favorite, this costume helped me to win a costume contest in my town and landed me in the paper!

My pirate obsession is still going strong 10 years later

Miss Frizzle! My mom is a science teacher, so she loves this one

Medusa - I had totally forgot about this one....my mom spent hours pinning rubber snakes in my hair....I remember coming home from school and wanting to take them out at the end of the day!

Christopher Robin and Piglet - my mom tells me that I kept running away from her while she was trying to put on my stripes

Anchorman was my ALL-TIME favorite movie in highschool (it still is one of my faves)...my friends Ann, Paola, Nina and I won a school costume contest as San Fran's favorite newsteam

Also from my high school years was an award-winning costume ensemble as the Breakfast Club.  This picture isn't great, but I'm in the front as Andrew (Emilio Estevez)

Hope you enjoyed the pics! Which is your fave???????

Have a happy and safe Halloween!

xo
Lucy