Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Wardrobe Wednesday: My Flower Fairy





























The day before Halloween was the most beautiful day I've seen all year.  The sky was a dazzling blue and the air was a warm 70 degrees.  The forecast for Beggars' Night was predicted to be exactly the opposite.  It's true what they say about Ohio (especially in the fall), if you don't like the weather wait five minutes.  I made the executive decision (as head costume constructor and ego-maniac) that we must take photos of Vi's costume while the weather was on our side.  Aaron came up with the brilliant idea to go to the Children's Discovery Garden. The pictures turned out so great that we decided to make a storybook.  Here's the link if you want to look at it, but those who share my genetic material should probably not look unless they want to spoil Christmas.

Sometimes I can't stop staring at a photograph I've taken.  My fellow artists will understand this feeling, but I'm pretty sure I can't stop looking at this one because of Violet's eyes.  Either way, I sure do make pretty things.


Sunday, November 1, 2009

Little Beggars


We had a wild night trick or treating with our friends. Violet's first three Halloweens were spent with her camera wielding, familial entourage, so last night was her first real kid Halloween.  I had to trot to keep up with them, but it helped keep me warm.  It was so much fun.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Wonder Woman & the Witch's House

For the past three Halloweens we have taken Violet to my Aunt TeeTee's house for Beggar's Night. She only lives a mile and a half away, but our neighborhoods are worlds apart. At the Heathen House you get homeless, costume-less adults begging for candy. At TeeTee's house you get flocks of adorable supervised children in well-made costumes. Also, TeeTee's neighborhood has a theme. All of the streets have names like Buckingham and Devonshire and the houses are built to match. It's like walking through a fairy tale. My favorite house has a turret and a witch weather vane. I pine for this house. I long to snatch it up in a tragic foreclosure...but, I digress.

Violet has been Wonder Woman around our house for two months now. After all the rehearsal, the big night finally came and she made it about an hour out on the street. She looked fabulous while it lasted. She was ready to stop the begging, but she was not ready to give up the costume. I spent 20 minutes locked in battle with a squirming, screaming Wonder Woman who did not wish to be stripped of her powers or her tights. If I looked this cute I wouldn't want to give it up either!


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