Halloween

I love Halloween!  Most years, I make my own costume from scratch, so here are a few of the most recent.

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Indiana Jones is one of my favorite movie characters.  After a few trips to thrift stores and a few weekends learning how to use a whip and I was ready.

2011: White Trash.  When I came up with the idea one September, I already hadn't shaved for almost two months.  I let a beard grow for another month, then shaved in the handlebar mustache.

Added to a perfectly matching hat/wig combination and a fake drawl, several people at my university didn't recognize me at all.

2012: The Toy Box.  This costume required almost sixty stuffed animals sewed to a long-sleeve sweatshirt.  It weighed almost twenty pounds!  This costume won first place in the university costume contest.

2013: Invited to a Halloween party with the theme, Carn-evil, (evil carnival) I decided to go with the Freak Show act of the half-man/half-woman.  I drew a stitch down the center to give a Frankenstein's monster effect to make it fit the theme a little better.

I won the Biggest Attraction prize at the party.

2014: The party theme was, Malice In Wonderland, so I made a creepy White Rabbit.  The clock was made out of a fold-up camera reflector and felt clock hands.  With a quick twist, it collapsed into a small circle I could tuck into my jacket.  Pulling it out caused it to snap open at full size to give the cartoony effect of pulling a giant clock out of my inside-pocket.

I won the Most Mad prize.