I loved playing “dress-up” as a little girl. But now that I am twenty-two and in college…
…I still love playing dress-up! What can I say? I’m a five-year-old at heart. Sadly, there aren’t nearly as many occasions for grown-ups to dress up as there are for kids. So I have to take full advantage of every opportunity I do get. Halloween is one such opportunity. The creative side of me always gets super-super-excited sometime around August or September, when I let my imagination go wild trying to answer the question “What imaginative costume can I create this year?”
Some costumes of years past:
1. Miss Mars, the Martian Beauty Queen
2. Monster Chef (I used a kitchen pot as my trick-or-treating bag)
3. One-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater
4. Sandwich (a.k.a. Sand Witch– complete with a black sand bucket for trick-or-treating candy)
5. Dust Bunny
This year, I was a “Devil in a Blue Dress” (like the song).
In my previous post, some of you asked to see scrapbook pages. Therefore, I’ll try to incorporate more scrapbook pages into my future posts. Here are two past Halloween pages:
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!
(Fifteen-year-old me, contentedly carving a pumpkin. What, high-schoolers can’t enjoy kiddie activities?)
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Those sound like some fun costumes!
Cute post! I love the idea of Miss Mars, hehe! Also, didn’t you get really cold trick or treating in that teeny bikini top?? lol =)
What great costumes!
You make me want to scrapbook – it looks so fun!
Adorable costumes
Hehe, I still love carving pumpkins and I’m 22.
I love dressing up too…who cares if I’m “too old” to dress up! Halloween is one of my favourite holidays because we *can* dress up and get crazy!
Your past costumes sound like so much fun and I love your costume this year!
love the costume recap through the years – so impressed w/ your scrapbooking!
Your costumes are so creative!
loL! Thats so funny! The MOnster Chef costume sounds very creative, especially carrying a pot around!
i hope you went trick or treating too! i would’ve been freezing if i were you! is it warm in texas?
haha i didn’t get dressed up this year… unfortunately… well, i did wear hooker boots around the house and did carmen electra videos haha
Haha, fun costumes!
So … are you implying that as an adult I shouldn’t regularly dress up in costumes for the office? Hmm, that would explain some things about my most recent performance evaluation.
Katie!!
Hah!! The costumes LOOK….amazzzzing =PP just pure FUN!! =)))
I’m looking forward to A DAY IN YOUR LIFE post..!! =DD
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Enjoy the time!!
1st of all…you are so very pretty!
2nd.. Great costume Ideas. I love Devil in a Blue Dress…great song and great costume!
How cute are you!
I love your creative costume ideas! Especially the Sand witch, I had to giggle at that one.
And yay for more scrapbook pages!
Love the walk back through costume memories. Great scrapbook pages!
Great costumes! I’m glad you still enjoy dressing up on Halloween – be a kid as long as possible.
LOVE the costumes… especially that sexy devil!
The dust bunny one is quite adorable, too!
aww i lovve creative costumes! great ideas!
I carved a pumpkin this year AND dressed up, so I’m definitely a kid at heart like you
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Love the costumes and the scrapbooking!! I really wish I did more of that because I have SO many pictures that are just piled in boxes!
Very creative, the idea with the Martian beauty queen was especially interesting
Its very nice to come accross your blog and I look forward to visiting it more often.
Good day
Devil in a Blue Dress… I love it!! Too cute. I don’t think I’ll ever feel too old to dress up or carve pumpkins – it just makes me too happy!
i love fall holidays. for me being a jew it’s non stop fun in the fall: rosh hashana, yom kippur, sukkot, simchat torah, then ending with halloween. and all of them involve food! i was sarah palin this year. i didn’t really look like her 100%, but i stayed in character most of the night and got to make people laugh by saying stupid stuff.
You definitely win the prize for extremely creative costume ideas…Hey, that makes you the Costume Queen!
Some great costumes! I used to love to dress up too, well into my 30s, so you’ve got loads of time ahead
Loved the scrapbook, too.
And OF COURSE no one picked #14! We all love hearing from you, polls, posts, and everything else
I love halloween, it is probably my favorite holiday. Now I have Devil In a Blue Dress stuck in my head.
so many cute halloween photos katie! i love your costume ideas, especially this years. and do not worry, im still a child at heart and continue on with traditions for every holiday
i hope you had a fun night and enjoyed delicious treats!
what great ideas for costumes!
Ummm if 15 year olds supposedly can’t carve pumpkins, then an 18 year old like me shouldn’t be doing it either…
but I did!
i love all of the costumes! you are so gorgeous
the scrapbook looks amazing– i have SO much scrapbooking to catch up on!
You are quite the costume girl!! I never ever have good ideas. =( Love ‘em!
wahaha!! that’s fun!! so cute
i especially like your 15 year old pic hehe
You? Are adorable! I love the costumes!
Well I’m from toronto, so the heat change makes me smile lol.Very creative on the devil costume hehe. I looked at your earlier blog post and WOW! #1 that dish looked awesome #2 Heck yeah a meet up would be awesome. Maybe even a monthly one or something. Umhh urban market from the looks of it is just a whole foods type shop setup in downtown…May be cool to go walk around but I prefer to buy most of my stuff at Natural Grocers.
Umhh not to sound wierd but if you ever want a vegan friend from dallas
I’m all ears.
I still like carving pumpkins!
Great costumes–I want to see a picture of the Purple People Eater
How could I pick number 14? Everything you post is lovely, even the vote posts!
You are wicked beautiful… BOO-tiful! Your smile is so contagious!
The picture of you leaning your head against that pumpkin should win an award for most adorable picture of anything ever!
Check out your abs, Miss Dust Bunny!
We Skint Vegans love a bit of impromptu dress-up too, any excuse really!
awww such cute photos! love the 15 year old pumpkin carver
Romina—
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Thanks! And it’s greeeeeeaat to hear from you
Michael—
Not weird at all! I definitely would love another vegan friend, especially one in “real” life. We’ll have to put our heads together and plan a meet-up. Patrick, Tara, are y’all reading this? Alaina, you’re invited too!
I say we should be allowed to dress in costume more often! Let’s make up holidays!
Used to have a creative streak for costumes. Here a few family faves:
Barbie was easy if I found a formal gown at Goodwill or a rummage sale. Just wear WAY too much eyeshadow, a ponytail, and I heart Ken button.
Schizophrenic was my sister’s creation. She bought a package of “Hello! My Name Is” sticker badges and wore about 12-15 different names all over her outfit.
And our most hilarious was the “Coat of Arms” (Code of Arms). We cut the sleeves off of a bunch of old shirts, stuffed them, and sewed them to an overcoat. Not the most comfy costume, but it got a lot of laughs!
Oh wow, I LOVE your ideas, especially your sister’s Schizophrenia one. I still need to think about what I’m going to be this year!
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