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I love Halloween.
*g* And not even being sarcastic, for once, I really do love it.
I let myself in for a fair amount of work by making my own and my eleven-year-old sister's costumes... depending on your perspective, we were White Mage and Black Mage from Final Fantasy I, WM and BM from 8-Bit Theater, or a Priest and a Wizard from Final Fantasy Tactics. Yeah, we're geeks. She doesn't admit it yet, but we are.
Of course, I got the fabric two weekends before and didn't touch it for days, and ended up doing 90% of the work on Wednesday and Thursday. But still. The sister -- this is Rikku, by the way -- wore a massive poncho-cloak thing that I made with Lulu's help from slightly shiny blue fabric, a collar of the same stuff, the pointy yellow hat (posterboard and foam core) with black semi-transparent fabric stapled to hang down over her face... and despite the less than professional methods, she looked awesome.
Mine didn't turn out quite so good, I don't think. I wore a semi-toga-looking long white underdress, which I was going to put red triangles along the bottom hem of but ran out of time, with a white hood. Over that went a long cloak that I did manage to get red triangles along the edge of (painful though it was -- stupid hems)... and I had mismatching but halfway-decent red gloves which Rikku stole about half an hour into the trick-or-treating because her hands were cold.
Oh yeah -- and both of us had ~5 foot walking sticks, borrowed from Mom, which were a nice touch until Rikku duct-taped her tie-dyed pillow case for candy onto the top of hers. :P Ah, well.
Halloween's a big deal at my school, too -- but I have to get to programming class, so the gory details on that are going to have to wait. :)
I let myself in for a fair amount of work by making my own and my eleven-year-old sister's costumes... depending on your perspective, we were White Mage and Black Mage from Final Fantasy I, WM and BM from 8-Bit Theater, or a Priest and a Wizard from Final Fantasy Tactics. Yeah, we're geeks. She doesn't admit it yet, but we are.
Of course, I got the fabric two weekends before and didn't touch it for days, and ended up doing 90% of the work on Wednesday and Thursday. But still. The sister -- this is Rikku, by the way -- wore a massive poncho-cloak thing that I made with Lulu's help from slightly shiny blue fabric, a collar of the same stuff, the pointy yellow hat (posterboard and foam core) with black semi-transparent fabric stapled to hang down over her face... and despite the less than professional methods, she looked awesome.
Mine didn't turn out quite so good, I don't think. I wore a semi-toga-looking long white underdress, which I was going to put red triangles along the bottom hem of but ran out of time, with a white hood. Over that went a long cloak that I did manage to get red triangles along the edge of (painful though it was -- stupid hems)... and I had mismatching but halfway-decent red gloves which Rikku stole about half an hour into the trick-or-treating because her hands were cold.
Oh yeah -- and both of us had ~5 foot walking sticks, borrowed from Mom, which were a nice touch until Rikku duct-taped her tie-dyed pillow case for candy onto the top of hers. :P Ah, well.
Halloween's a big deal at my school, too -- but I have to get to programming class, so the gory details on that are going to have to wait. :)