Last night was a total hoot. I layered thick tights under dark gray pajama bottoms and a bright blue silk tunic. After tying my hair back, I applied extravagent eye makeup and glittery lipstick in a completely unnatural shade of dark gold and topped my noggin with a sparkly blue knit hat.
I bundled my Jack o' Tiki and my hissing kitty punkin into the trunk and headed off to the ritzy neighborhood where a friend's house gets absolutely MOBBED by children and their costumed parents.
You know you're in a nice neighborhood when, 45 minutes into your party, you realize the trunk of your car is still wide open with your digital camera just laying there. People oohed and ahhed at my pumpkins, which pleased me to no end. They took long enough to carve. Sadly, they did not ooh and ahh at my costume, Blue Dragonfly.
I have a lovely pair of dragonfly wings that I made myself. The best thing about them is the electroluminescent wire I threaded through the lacy mesh. When there is no lose connection to the battery, or perhaps when the 9volt isn't several years old and kinda manky, I have beautiful, fairy-like dragonfly wings that glow in the dark. Alas, they were dark, so I just took them off and wore my wool pea coat instead. Can't wait to fix that electrical problem. Sigh.
The candy, however, was fantastic. All the skittles and starburst I could eat. The kids were fun too. There were a lot of great costumes and all ages of kids. For a while, I started asking the youngest girls if they were Pretty Princesses. Then I got bored with that and started asking any old kid, boy or girl alike, in costumes not at all similar to princess garb if they were Pretty Princesses.
I got a lot of WTF looks. That was excellent.
one house around the corner was super-scary. Skeleton in a hanging metal cage, veiny hands coming out of a plant, chopped off head in a wine casket, and artfully hung spider webbing RIFE with all sorts of realistically creepy spiders of different sizes and shapes. CREEPY!
One year I'd like to be that house.
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