A couple of weeks ago Micah and I attempted (key word attempted) to go to a haunted house with my friend Sheridan & her guy Brian. The Fear Factory wasn't open unfortunately :( so we went to dinner instead at a restaurant in sugarhouse called Flatbread -- suuuuuper yum!
Plenty of scary-awful-acting movies have been watched recently on netflix and hbo. Micah and I use the apps on our Xbox and I freakin love it. They're seamless and easy to use Xbox smartglass app on our cells. I heart technology.
We just had our Russell family Halloween party.. Way fun! We were Ghostbusters. I got the idea when I was watching ... Ghostbusters ... On netflix. Love that classic horrrrrible special effects movie haha. Micah has been wanting to get Carhartt jumpsuits/coveralls for both of us for a while now, so this was kind of the perfect excuse to buy them. Surprisingly enough IFA had the coveralls for only $79 each. Score! I know it sounds crazy expensive for a costume (which that totally is) but for all of our Moab outings and jeep trips they will be used plenty.
I bought some nerf guns from the DI that Micah spray painted black, taped vacuum hoses to the handles, & stuffed the tubing into backpacks. Perfect ghost killing guns for literally $2. :)
I hand-sewed these ghetto-fantastic name tags & ghostbusters signs. Impressive, right? :P
Olive was the Stay Puft monster.
I found the idea online, but seriously no one was selling one. *sigh* I was hoping this halloween would be hands-free but apparently that was not meant to be.
Bring out crafty-manda.
I used a plain white onesie, bought blue cotton fabric (Joann's happened to have my exact color in a scrap so it was super cheap), red ribbon (I bought a little bigger than I probably needed so that I can re-use it for Christmas gifts), and red & blue string.
And I should've taken pics as I went but total fail, I didn't take any. I hand-sewed this because the blue cotton was soooo thin I didn't trust my sewing abilities enough. So I used the blue string and just did a simple backstitch on it for the blue. Then for the ribbon I switched to red & pretty much just made a mess of sewing the middle of the ribbon to the onesie, then tied the bow once it was properly attached.
For her hat, I bought a sweet white Hogle Zoo hat from the D.I. I flipped it inside out and sewed a band of blue cotton (again I totally failed at taking a pic during...) this time with my sewing machine, threading the blue string through. Because the hat was pooled out to protect from the sun, I had to fold and sew as I went, to make the hat actually stay on. I just folded over where the hat already had seam marks so that it was less bunchy.
I then hand-sewed the ribbon onto the top of the hat (with red string) and cut the tails to have a fun end shape. I used a silver sharpie to write the "Stay Puft" on her hat and then boom! Done. :)
Oh and I put a red tutu on miss Livi to complete the costume. I didn't like the look of it without it... too boyish. Micah of course thought the tutu was ridiculous before I put it all together. No complaint from him after! ;)
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