Here Comes Halloween…Again
For me, the end of October means Halloween. It also means that my husband’s birthday is right around the corner and now, that NaNoWriMo is too!
On the subject of Halloween, I still have a gorgeous lion costume I was planning to take to a consignment shop. But like last year, it’ll languish in the closet for at least another 365 days. Sometime between now and the dawn of Halloween, I’ve got to find a 6′3″ Elvis costume. Hmmm…
However, I am getting off easy this year. I don’t have to dress up. I even missed the volunteer sign up for my daughter’s kindergarten class party. I tell ya, that sign up was full before it was even tacked to the wall. Yikes!
In past years, waaaay back when I dressed up as Pippy Longstocking.
That was a fun costume. I stuck coat hangers in my braids to make them stick up and dyed my coverall shorts blue. I even sprayed my blonde hair red. I really went to town on that costume. However, finding stripy leggings to complete the costume was difficult. So difficult, that I ended up sacrificing a pair of white longjohns and painting them, in all infinite wisdom, with the metal paint I had on hand from doctoring up my car.
Sorry, the editor won’t let me turn Mikey the right side up. 
Let me tell you, it takes a long time for metal paint to dry on waffle long johns. In fact, they still weren’t dry when I went out to the bar. No worries, right? Well…the paint fumes might have been a problem if I had been a smoker and it only took a few days for the paint that had soaked through the fabric to wash off.
Have you ever dressed up as a literary character? Go over to Matt’s blog and vote if you have (or haven’t). And have a safe and happy Halloween everyone!
