Happy Halloween!!
Last year I shared my witch costume from college - and that was the last time I dressed up :( Don't know if I will this year, but I'm reminded of Halloweens past..
Thanks to my crafty momma, I used to have AWESOME costumes growing up. None of those store-bought movie characters for me! (Also, I was a huge dork). My parents wouldn't let us be anything that wasn't creative (ha) and our costumes usually involved sewing or hotgluing or some kind of shenanigans to pull together.
I wish I had more pics, but these are the only ones I have scanned. The other photos are trapped in a messy cabinet at my parents' house print-purgatory where old photos go to die ...poor little guys...
(I was the biker babe first, but it was such a hit, Cait had to try it too! She could pull off angry waaay better than I could! And can you believe that little hippy or gypsy or whatever the hell she was is going to be a momma soon?? I can't.)
Those aren't so bad. Kinda cute (if not a tad stereotypical - but hey, it was the 80s). But this one solidifies the nerdiness:
I'm a koala - for those not up on your marsupial knowledge. That was my favorite animal for FOREVER. I had a koala wallpaper border. I had koala fact books. I had a whole gaggle of stuffed koalas.
And I had a fur suit complete with fur head.
But my mom made it, and it meant something. And I freaking loved it - coolest costume ever.