Halloween

A week ago I woke up from an afternoon nap to find an email from someone at instructables.

She'd seen last year's halloween costume on Craftster and wanted me to enter it into the Instructables Halloween costume contest.

So I did.  I reckon you should vote for me.

Fancy Dress

On Saturday night I went to a gangster themed salsa night and in fancy dress tradition, we made time for a photo shoot before I left the house.  Luckily I live with Paul Kelly, who knows how to take a good photo:

This costume was no trouble at all to come up with - I had most of it in my wardrobe and only needed to buy a few pearly accessories - unlike some other fancy dress costumes I've donned in the past:

From left to right:

• Little Miss Muffett with a halloween twist, for which I had to make a dress, and bonnet, and then hand sew 50 odd plastic spiders all over.
• Rubiks cube, for an 80s themed party - I made the skirt which was, by the way, solvable.
• Rudolph - for fake Christmas one year - my first attempt at making a dress.  It was way too short.
• Sheep - for another Fake Christmas - this time, the nativity scene - it was slightly less labour intensive, since I just had to stick a photo of my head to some cotton wool and pipe cleaners.
• Lost - not for any particular reason - just a cold winters night when we thought it would be fun to get into some summer clothes and pretend we were in Lost
• Wizard of Oz inspired Witch - low maintenance, only back-combed hair and 'ruby' slippers required.
• Dangermouse - another 80s party, thought of and made on the day of the do - I won the fancy dress competition
• Rock chic - no party, just for fun, using the clothes I already had in my wardrobe
• Gangster - my first incarnation as a gangster, with a corset made out of a pair of pinstriped trousers.