Anybody else planning their Halloween costume yet?
I love everything about Halloween as I'm sure you know. I like watching scary movies, I like candy, I like decorating my house with a spooky theme, and of course I like costumes! It's the best holiday as far as I'm concerned.
I hope to finish things up this coming weekend - hubby has to work all weekend and I work best when I have no distractions, so that will be ideal. Only 10 days now until the big Halloween gathering here! I'm getting excited, I need to start watching my favorite Halloween movies and specials. MJ's Thriller, Garfield's Halloween special, the Nightmare before Xmas, oh and my favorite scary movie - Saw! Anybody else watch scary movies or Halloween specials to get in the Halloween mood?
Let's talk about Halloween! Does anybody know what they're dressing up as yet? Anybody started work on their costume? He's a huge Looney Toons fan, so we're dressing up as Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd - specifically, from the "What's Opera, Doc?" cartoon. Bugs as Brunhilda and Elmer in his viking-esque outfit with his "spear and magic helmet". Unfortunately we won't be able to bring the spear downtown, as anything even vaguely weapon-like is strictly prohibited (in years past they have confiscated canes and also pink plastic swords, so I'm sure a spear would just get confiscated by the police too). But we'll likely make a spear just to be completists and for taking photos prior to going downtown.
I'm leaving that part up to hubby. I'll let you know what he ends up doing for the armor. I sewed myself Bugs' skirt too, I just made a simple wrap skirt out of pink satin. It's awfully short, but I'll be wearing the leggings under it of course. Oh, and we got a long blonde wig and braided it into pigtails, so that'll be incorporated into the foam mask once it's further along. Hubby started making the masks but he hasn't made much progress just yet.
My hubby's working all weekend, but he's off Wed-Fri this week. So I'm hoping he can get some work done then on his end of things. I'm hoping to work on if not finish sewing everything this weekend. I don't have much more to sew, so that's feasible. I need to go buy a bit more fabric - I did a search on google shopping for a gold t-shirt like what Bugs wears, and I really couldn't find anything acceptable. So I'm going to have to go look for some shiny gold (satin?) fabric and will make myself the t-shirt. I'm also going to look for a contrasting brighter gold fabric to make the bra. Wish me luck... I might need it! Gold lame' is too thin & flimsy, which is why I'm tentatively thinking satin. And if I can just get an interesting piece of gold fabric from the remnant bin for the bra, that'd be ideal. I need some good luck at the fabric store!
I will be Bugs as Brunhilda:
The Bugs & Elmer costumes we're making this year, that was all my hubby's idea. He's an animator, and classic Looney Toons cartoons are probably his favorite thing ever (he could go on and on about how the frame rate per second was so much higher during the era of classic Looney Toons and that's why they move so fluidly, etc). He could watch them all day if I let him, and this particular cartoon ("What's Opera, Doc?") is one of his favorites. He's been wanting to do these costumes for years, and I finally said okay to the idea this year. It's a pretty famous cartoon, but still, I'm concerned that not a lot of people will know specifically who we're dressed as, or if they'll be confused as to why I'm sexy lady Bugs and hubby is viking Elmer. That's my one big concern - are these costumes too niche or too nerdy for most people to get? Most of the people who go downtown are college-age kids, so at the risk of sounding like a very old person, do kids these days even know who Bugs and Elmer are? Did they grow up watching these cartoons like us 30-somethings did? My hubby usually gets the cooler costume. Like, when we were Edward Scissorhands and Kim Boggs (Winona Ryder's character, in the white "snow dance" dress), nobody knew who I was but the hubby was obviously easily recognizable as Edward. Other years it's been similar although not quite that bad - I know, nobody knows who Kim Boggs is and only a few people asked me if I was "supposed to be Winona." Live and learn! I'm just hoping people know who Bugs (dressed as Brunhilda) is!
So I'm going to use one of my t-shirts as sort of a pattern or at least to get a good idea of how to sew Bugs' shirt, and I'm going to use a pair of hubby's sweatpants as a guide to make slightly baggier pants for Elmer. I think I'm just going to cover an existing strapless bra I have with the gold fabric rather than make something completely from scratch - if I feel Bugs should be bustier than I am, I can put a bit of padding in between the fabric and the bra. The sleeves, I am just going to eyeball that. How hard can it be to make a couple of grey fleece sleeves, right? So there's a peek into the madness that is me sewing. It's kind of dangerous but also fun!
At least I can get out my seam ripper and undo some of my sewing mistakes (can't undo cutting the fabric wrong obviously though).
Just kidding, but it's seeming like that's what it's going to take. Just didn't feel up to it, have been rather exhausted lately. I know there's now less than 2 weeks left until the big reveal so I really, REALLY need to get going!
It's coming along slowly but surely. Only 10 days to go though so I'm getting nervous!
Phew!
I probably will make a tail, then safety-pin it on to see how it looks. If it looks weird with the skirt then I'll go with the panties option instead. And if it looks okay safety pinned on, then my other option is to do both - wear white panties over the grey fleece leggings, and then pin on the tail over the panties. I'm hoping that looks okay. I'm just afraid that having a tail with a short skirt will mean my skirt doesn't look right. So I'll have to play around with my options there.
