halloween

inspiration:

final product:

yes, it was tons of work. i don't know why... pretty simple and straight forward. the girls were super duper excited, and my dad was visiting from texas and was the coolest grandpa ever for playing along!

on saturday when we were trick-or-treating people kept stopping us in the street, or yelling across long distances, "THE CAT IN THE HAT!! MOOOOMMMMM!! LOOOOOK!! IT'S HIM, andandand those THINGS!"

it was pure awesomeness... for about 27 minutes. my girlies are early birds, so we made it a 1/3 way up one street and deli says, "k guys, 3 more houses k. just 3 more houses."

then she kept counting.
"only 2 more, k? just  2."

and after the last house she grabbed our hands and dragged us back to the car.

FAQs:

hair: wigs. blue bob wigs that i teased and sprayed and teased and sprayed and teased and sprayed until they looked like crazy messiness.

clothes: cheap-o at walmart... just painted the "thing 1" and "thing 2" circles, etc. on. when i washed them, all the paint came off. :( sad day.

the cat: bought feaux fur at a local fabric store and sewed a huge chunk of that shedding beast onto a black turtle neck (not available in HI... had to buy that on the mainland. true story.) didn't get around to tail or bowtie... but grandpa worked it.

what were case and i dressed as?: um, we were supposed to be the boy and girl from the story. "sally and brother", i think. and we were gonna walk around holding a fish in a bowl. a.DOR.a.ble! well, it was a busy weekend. and the sally dress never got sewn. just use your imagination...

HAPPY belated HALLOWEEN!!