<p>Halloween costume party Saturday night: any ideas for H and me?</p>
<p>Thing 1 and Thing 2</p>
<p>His and Her punk rockers (with a pasted on “diamond” nose stud)</p>
<p>A pair of co-workers once came to a party as the devil and the deep blue sea. Basic devil costume (red outfit, some sort of mask or horns, tail) and the other person wore all blue with a sailor hat.</p>
<p>You could be a cloud and a rainbow. Get a package of quilt batting and white duct tape. Cut out two large puffy cloud shapes, tape together leaving openings for head, arms and legs. Wear white pants and shoes. The other person can wear a rainbow effect of clothing from red to violet (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) from head to toe. Or, if you have a swanky silver outfit, your H could be the cloud and you could be the silver lining.</p>
<p>Google or Bing
last-minute Halloween costumes
There are quite a lot of listings there on bing.</p>
<p>Black eyed peas: black out one of your eyes and draw the letter “P” on matching t-shirts.</p>
<p>(I may be using this one if I end up going at the last minute to a party on Saturday…)</p>
<p>Yin and Yang.
Jack the Ripper and victim. (We’re doing this cross dressed.)
Go as a local high way. Dress in black. Use electric tape to make lane divisions. Sew a couple of toy cars on.</p>
<p>Victims of the Titanic (or survivors if that’s too dark for you). </p>
<p>My daughter did this one year and wore an old prom dress (she distressed it a lot by tearing and dirtying it first), a tiara, fancy shoes, a fake mink coat and a life preserver from my neighbors pool. We wrote Titanic on the life preserver. Lots of gel in her hair made it look wet. . She may have also stuck some seaweed in her hair (pick up some plastic seaweed at the pet store in the aquarium section). You could even glue a few fake fish to your dress. Your husband can wear a tattered tux or old fashioned looking suit.</p>
<p>My d is going as a black widow spider. I thought her bf could go as The Fly. Anyone remember that movie?</p>
<p>Help me! Help me!</p>
<p>(Yes, I remember that movie!)</p>
<p>One has a sign that says “human”, the other has a sign that says “dancer”.</p>
<p>One year my H and I went as a garbage collector and a bag of trash. </p>
<p>I “wore” a large black garbage bag stuffed with newspapers (to fill it out) over a black leotard top & bottom. I had to tape the arm and leg holes snugly around me and cinched the top opening about my neck with some thin twine. I made a headpiece out of dried out cooked spaghetti formed on a balloon and decorated the outside of the bag with wrappers and food labels. </p>
<p>H wore denim overalls with a sign on his back for our local trash collection company. </p>
<p>All night long, I kept teasing that the party was the only way I could get him to take me out.</p>
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<p>Characters from Glee? I got D an addidas track suit, put “SUE” on the front and “CHEERIOS” on the back to make it obvious. H could be the coach with the too short shorts.</p>
<p>I saw this idea a little while back on a different CC thread–the Publisher’s Clearing House Prize Patrol. Carry a big check & balloons, etc. (love this idea because I don’t really like to dress-up.) Last year I went as a hockey mom (complete with shoulder pads, etc.) and my H went as Joe six-pack–but now, a year later, this is hopelessly outdated.</p>
<p>I love the Glee character idea! My d is going as the golden ticket from Willy Wonka (and I have the song stuck in my head now because she keeps singing it)</p>
<p>white(painted face) black beard, blue oxford and khakis- ghost of Billy Mays</p>
<p>^^Add a can of Oxyclean and a shamwow sticking out of the shirt’s pocket, and everyone will know who you are :)</p>
<p>Thanks for your suggestions! You got my brain going. Here’s what I am thinking right now:</p>
<p>I will go as Swine Floozie. Short skirt, low neckline, heels, fishnets, boa, too much jewelry and little pink pig ears (assuming I can make some little pink pig ears).</p>
<p>DH and I decided against being a “set.” I think he is going as a Tarp Fund (canvas tarp with dollar signs painted all over it fashioned as a poncho).</p>
<p>I love the Swine Floozie! Felt ears can be hot-glued to a plastic headband. Have never done pig ears but have done cat ears…</p>
<p>mafool–what an awesome costume idea! Have fun!</p>