never too late to play dress up

Finally, the Halloween pictures that I've been promising!  For the first night of Halloweekend, I quickly threw together a costume because I didn't want to bust out my real one yet, and I went as Piglet.  For the rest of Halloweekend, I was a tightrope walker.  Along with my roommates, we all formed a very small band of circus performers.  Our motto was, "Small band, big talent!" We created this whole backstory to go along with our costumes (can you tell we were really into it? haha)  One roommate was a clown and the other was the ringmaster.  The story was that the ringmaster had fired the clown, so she was really dejected and depressed, and maybe even a little crazy!  Also, as friends of both characters, I was caught in the middle and hanging in the balance (haha, get it?)  Anyway, with that in mind, I hope you enjoy these pictures!  Does anybody else have a good story behind their costume?

Tigger and I are BFFs!

Piglet and the Ladybug

breakdown of costume- corset + skirt I made

circle skirt made using this tutorial

close-up of the makeup

dark and spooky background

small band, big talent!

in my room, preparing to leave for the night

even though I'm this super-crowded room, I'm obviously mentally somewhere else
I can't remember exactly what I was thinking...probably dreaming up my next costume :D

sweet and savory

Just a quick update with the latest recipes I've tried recently.  For the Creative Cuisine Night, which is mentioned in this post, two weeks ago, I made these egg rolls.  I've never made egg rolls before, and my last attempt at cooking Asian food was a disaster, so I was a bit apprehensive.  However, the recipe was quite simple and they were surprisingly tasty!

Then for the week of Halloween, I wanted to make a sweet and spooky treat.  These eyeballs fit the bill perfectly!  They were also easy to make and taste like a delicious Reese's peanut butter cup.  It was so funny watching people eating them, because if you didn't know what they are, it really looks like that person is eating an eyeball!

white chocolate version

semi-sweet chocolate version

Tomorrow, I'm planning on trying my hand at coconut shrimp, and I'm already looking ahead for my next sweet recipe.  Any suggestions?

la petite fille

Putting together this outfit made me feel like a little girl again, playing in my mom's closet, but in the best way possible!  I'd really wanted these little oxford booties, but all the ones I really liked were out of my price range.  Then, I stumbled across these randomly in a Plato's Closet, and they were my size and only $8! I mean, what are the chances?!  I was in a girly girl mood, so I added the knee-high socks and flouncy, colorful skirt for a slightly dressy causal outfit that I wore to a going-away party.

Cardigan, camisole, skirt- Forever 21, socks- Target, oxford booties- Predictions

my attempt at being an innocent little girl, lol

Can I just reiterate how excited I am to wear my Halloween costume?!  Since I wasn't allowed to celebrate Halloween growing up (the first time I was able to dress up was my freshman year in college) I really like to go all out!  Also, for a while I was really unexcited about my costume, which was bumming me out, but once I decided to sew part of the costume myself, I was able to bring my vision to life.  What I especially love about Halloween here at school is that there are several days of parties and activities!  Things kicked off yesterday and will continue up through Sunday.  I'm especially looking forward to Saturday, when most of the parties and "trick-or-treating' ;) happens, and also Sunday, for the annual YSO show that's performed.  So it will be a busy and fun weekend :) What plans do you guys have for Halloween?

sneak peek

Here's a sneak peek of what the skirt for my Halloween costume is going to look like!  Now I have all the elements, I just have to assemble them (yay Joann's!).  This is going to involve some sewing, which I'm no expert at, so wish me luck!

getting crafty

Cupcakes Take the Cake

Aren't these the cutest?  For the past few days, I've been really struggling with my Halloween costume.  I couldn't figure out how to translate tightrope walker into a recognizable costume.  Working with the materials I had already purchased, I considered other costumes, like trapeze artist or elephant rider and realized that those were even less translatable than a tightrope walker.  So I went back to being a tightrope walker, but I wasn't happy with it.  I told a bunch of my friends what I was thinking about doing for my costume and they convinced me even more that no one would get my costume.  But then, I had a breakthrough!  I've decided to make several key elements for my costume and I'm going shopping for materials tomorrow.  Now I'm excited again and I hope I can bring my vision to life!  This is just what I wanted anyway, to be something interesting and to get crafty with my costume :)

tightrope walker

Two things: (1)  I've finally decided what I'm going to be for Halloween- tightrope walker!  After brainstorming a bunch of really bad ideas with my suitemates,  we finally settled on being a small band of circus performers.  One of my suitemates is going to be a ringmaster and the other is going to be a dark, deranged clown, who recently got fired from our group and is coming back to get her revenge (she created that back story herself, haha!).  So I'm really excited and hope that my finished costume is cute and looks like tightrope walker (I'm a little afraid that I might cross into ballerina territory).  I want to look something like this:

old-fashioned tightrope walker

(2)  I seriously cannot spend any more money for a while.  I checked my bank account and I am walking the thin line over the chasm of bankruptcy.  I know I have a problem, in the sense that if I want something, I buy it.  I have to stop, at least for a couple of weeks, and hopefully writing it down here will help me stick to it.