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!
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2007: http://mleiv.deviantart.com/art/Halloween-Pumpkins-2007-69206355
2008: http://mleiv.com/pumpkin_2008/
2009: http://mleiv.com/pumpkins_2009/
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.
image © 2006 mleivThe second attempt at painting this cat. I like this one much more, although there are still minor flaws that bug me. The paper on the foreground worked out really well, as you can see in this detail:
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.
Halloween 2002. From the Sci/Fi Series Lexx. Very authentic, but perhaps a little too much skin.
image © 2001 mleivA *fierce* halloween wolf. Goes with the cat carving.
image © 2000 mleivThe best pumpkin carving I've ever done. Little kids wouldn't leave after being handed their booty, they were so in awe of the skinny little cat carving.
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