Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeen

Wow! What a couple of weeks it's been! I've been ridiculously busy with work, designing a high school production and decorating my house for the party of the century! It was so much fun and so much work. Things have calmed down a bit and I can take a breather. I'm on a two week hiatus from work, between shows and my high school show opened last night! It's for Crossroads College Prep School and the production is "The American Clock" by Arthur Miller. It's about how peoples' lives changed during The Great Depression. It's funny how the themes are relevant again during this recession. But the kids are doing great and I heard opening was amazing! I couldn't be there because I was at the Regina Spektor concert last night. It was pretty great, although I wish she had played more old stuff, which is like everybody's complaint about every concert ever.

But the party went swimmingly. There were less people than we had planned for, but to zero detriment. I had a blast and from what I've heard from others, they also had so much blast. I'm hoping I can talk my roommates into having more themed parties because this one went so great. The next one I have in mind is a Dance Central tournament. A friend of mine said that I had an unfair advantage since I own the game, but believe me... I ain't doin' it in my free time! I've been having some knee pain and am going to physical therapy for it and I'm just way too lazy.

But anyway, on my old blog I shared some of my decor and wanted to save the bulk of it for after the party. I did a lot of decorating on the cheap with stuff I already had. Here's a good example of cheap and easy, yet effective:

All I did was cut bat silhouettes out of black construction paper and used double stick tape to tape them to the inside of the shade. Also, that's a red light bulb. I had a bunch from who-knows-when (maybe Park Place?) but you can find them for 3 bucks at Target. Here's another example:

In our front window, I created a Slenderman out of my dress form, a styrofoam head, fabric, plastic bags for stuffing and Brandon's clothes. The result was unnerving...

 I couldn't sleep the night after I created him. I kept having nightmares that he was going to come to life and come into my bedroom. I was happy to take him down.

Here's the Batgirl cape I made for my kitty:

And finally, here's some pictures of my costume I made myself. I made the dress out of old black t-shirts I scrounged from the thrift store. I draped the whole thing, which means I didn't use a pattern, I just basically built it on the dress form. I sewed most of it together and then sprayed it with bleach to create a space-y background.

Then I used acrylic paint and sponged on some galaxies and used a splatter technique for stars. I also used glow-in-the-dark puffy paint so it would glow in our black-light dance room.

Then I sewed it all together. I also made a hair fascinator that was supposed to represent The Sun. I originally had planned to print planets on tattoo paper and put them on my arms but I ran out of time. Here is the result:

 Pictures don't do it justice. You really have to see it in person. But here's the sun fascinator:

 And the makeup I did by myself, and my face under the black-light:

I think it turned out great! Let me know what you think! And for your viewing pleasure here's a great slideshow of more decor and some of the others' awesome costumes!