Crafts
I purchased the pieces form various websites and altered them to fit me. Since women only wear slutty costumes for halloween, apparently these were all made just for men. Tall, fat, broad-shouldered men.
More photos and Jeffrey's costume at Flickr.com.
The image was a little too complex and the carving was a little too clumsy on this guy for my tastes. I prefer the traditional clean-cut, no midtone chunky cats of years past. But this design will make a nice painting later. :)
I was a highwayman this year (went to my costume ball on Saturday). Inspired by Black Adder's "Amy and Amiability." The event photographer was a French aristocrat and I swear, if I was socially well-adjusted in any way at all, dammit, I would have snuck up behind him with my pistol and demanded he hand over all his valuables. *sigh* Missed opportunities.
It turned out very nicely and I am a little sad that painted functional objects are viewed with such disinterest when compared with painted canvas, because I actually find it much more enjoyable to paint some existing object than a boring flat piece of paper. C'est la vie, I suppose.
I got to carve pumpkins this year! Yay! The cat is my previous skinny cat pumpkin design, rendered beautifully using one of those $5 electric carving blades. What a great idea that was! And I roasted pumpkin seeds after with sage and black truffle olive oil. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
I started this costume in 2004 and failed so miserably that I haven't worn a Halloween costume for two years. But I decided to finish it this year for my trip to the Black Cat Ball. I also entered in the deviantART costume contest. You can read more about the horrors of making the costume on my deviantART version.
I made the coffin box from Nightmare Before Christmas to put my duck toy in. The interior is bright, bright red, and the exterior has the patterns and ribbon from the movie.
Halloween 2003. White vest and pants with velvet and blue canvas coat and satin sash. Fake boot tops and hat were purchased separately.
Halloween 2003. Modified from a Sense & Sensibility pattern.
Hair made from cheap halloween witch wigs. That was - alas! - as high as my boobs would go. I just don't know how they got them up so high back then - years of corset-wearing, I suppose.
