Showing posts with label Pippy Longstocking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pippy Longstocking. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween Part 2

Happy Halloween Everyone!!! So, I think I should add, for the sake of honesty, that I actually own a lot more costumes then the ones shown. I just thought, to not disrespect that most frightful of holidays I would only include ACTUAL Halloween costumes...not say, my Lord of the Rings costumes with full elf ears, or my Firefly get up, I have the complete Kaylee outfit...so only Halloween, because otherwise this would be a long post indeed!

80s punk, and the return of part of my Pippy gear! Also I cut my hair, MYSELF, about 10 minutes prior to this...so that would be how I ended up with such funky hair for my passport 6 months later...

BEST HALLOWEEN EVER, it was Absolutely Fabulous (haha)! You can't believe how nice people are to you when you're Edie and Patsy! The free booze and cigarettes. I could not even guess how many people we posed for pictures with. That's Hunter S. Thompson, apparently he had a thing for Patsy...

Patsy and Edie in typical heckle mode. We had anyone dressed up as clergy running for fear due to use shouting "La Croix" at them...

My last year of college totally sucked and I needed a quick yet evil costume, my friends were throwing a theme party, the orcs had taken over Rivendell (literally, their co op was called Rivendell and we had orcs) and I wanted to vent my rage. I went as a Vengeance Demon. Lots of fun and scary too. Note the all out vein action.

So obviously everyone should have a Harry Potter costume. Really they should, you don't realize how useful they are! Plus, aside from the cloak, the individual parts can be worn at any other time without looking like a schoolgirl. This is me with my cat, who would so go to Hogwarts with me...TAKE THAT all my friends who say they're take owls cause it's like email.

Better shot of the costume taken this summer...yes I do occasionally wear it...so?

The year of, wear whatever you find at the thrift store in Ohio. Totally fun, and I took to wearing the wig wherever. Also a kid at the door when I was handing out candy said I looked like his teacher...hmm...what school does he go to?

Back in Ohio a year later I was able to convince my friends (Sarah and Matt) for a group costume...aka Team Zissou. Easy, fun, cool pics, and best of all, we went to an aquarium for cool photoage. As to me pointing to England...I think we were playing the where would you rather be, and I was watching Brideshead Revisited and I am pretty sure I'm pointing at the precise location of Castle Howard, I did study the map for awhile to be sure...

Team Zissou takes the riverboat down the Amazon...no that is not a person you see to the right...and it doesn't look like we are below water level....

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Halloween Part 1

I thought that to get everyone in the spirit for Halloween I would show everyone what I've be wont to wear for this glorious of holidays. While other holidays might have come and gone, Halloween was always a big one in my family, my mom often made my costumes and it was a fun filled old fright night. Now to the pictures...here are my pictures from earliest Halloween through high school, college and beyond will be my second post! I might also add, some of this costumes had a tendency to be worn whenever I felt like it (which was often)...but these are all actually from Halloweens past.

This is a little Pierrot clown costume my mom made me and I just loved it, it's so cute...also fit me for years to come.

Most likely my fright at learning Halloween meant I got candy. I had an irrational fear of candy at this age, favoring carrots and vegetables. Apparently I was known to break down sobbing if I was going to a birthday party for fear I would be forced to eat cake.

Princess is not pleased to meet alien, that's for sure. Apparently aliens are "beneath me." That's John Clifton for any of my old high school friends who might be reading this. His costume being far more "snazzy"...but does he have a foam core and glitter wand? I don't think so!

Ok, this is one of the cutest costumes ever (notice the wand from the previous year is back), BUT it itched like a mother! Just the memory of it is making me break out in a rash, it was awful, there was no way this outfit could be made comfortable. Horrid stiff tulle. You will also notice my friend, Erin is wearing one of my old costumes...I don't think they asked me about this...must be karma that destroyed the other half of the picture.

School parade of costumes. Best picture I could find of me as Cinderella. You will notice that it's a re-purposed princesses dress...Also can you tell it was the 80s? Cabbage Patch Doll anyone?

My favorite costume EVER! So cut and comfortable, also reminiscent of Max from Where the Wild Things Are. My brother was a mouse, and this being a typical Wisconsin fall, it was sleeting, and five minutes into trick-or-treating he fell in a puddle. Not fun.

Me as a very pissed off Pippy Longstocking. I think it might have to do with the fact I thought my braids were crap cause one of the older kids actually wired their hair and I wasn't allowed to have long hair because I chewed it. Also take note, the 80s pink shirt, it will be used again for Halloween about 15 years later!

More Pippy...you know I don't think I've ever even read the book...I just really liked that crappy movie that came out around then and I had to be a literary character that year per "teachers decree."

The cat has been updated to a leopard! Plus I was like 5 inches taller so the other one didn't quite work anymore.

7th grade and everyone had to be a flapper...I'm not sure why flapper became the big thing in 1990? I have a vague feeling it had to do with the film Dick Tracy...

Also just a hint, sack dresses means it's very hard to lift your arm to answer questions in science class without the person next to you looking down your dress...thanks Greg.

Freshman year hippies...and yes, those are A Different World Dwayne Wayne glasses, don't judge! I'm sure you had them too!

Alice in Wonderland...and I really wanted to dye my hair dark to be true to the description of Alice in the books versus the Disneyfication...ah well, at least I had a flamingo.

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