Hallowe'en 2011

[przed]

Hallowe'en continues to be one of Ros' favourite days of the year. Costumes, candy, and getting to tear around the neighbourhood with her friends? There's nothing better.

Here's Ros with our pumpkin for the year. (I drew the witch, Ros and the Sweetie did the carving.)


Here's Ros in her full costume: the Fairy Princess Soccer Player. (The costume was entirely her idea. And she's already planning out her costume for next year.)


The pumpkin with the full candle effect:


Here's the costume I pulled together for a neighbour's party on Saturday. (I figured I had the Annie Lennox hair cut, I might as well try for the full thing.)


Here's the effect I was going for. (I have dyed my hair for costumes in the past, but chickened out of going red this time.)

Comments

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I love both of your costumes and the pumpkin is fun.

We had a surprisingly large number of little ghouls and goblins visit us to demand sweeties with menaces tonight considering that it was raining really hard all night. Still, it being a school night meant we saw our last one about 8:15pm which was nice.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Love the concept of the Fairy Princess Soccer Player - and you make a cool Annie Lennox, even without the red hair! Glad a fun time was had.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone at the party got my costume--they were either too young or too old to be Eurythmics fans--but I was happy with it.

I'm so glad the rain skipped us. We had a ton of kids (at least 150) but it was all over here at about 8:15 too. Thankfully. Ros ran around the neighbourhood, then helped hand out candy (which she loves doing almost as much as getting candy) and then passed out in a heap.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I figure I'm doing something right if she's getting the soccer player in there. I have hopes she'll want to go to Toronto FC games with me soon.

I make an acceptable Annie Lennox, but I had fun doing it.

A fun Halloween time was had by all.

[kanders07.livejournal.com]

Great pumpkin, great costumes and she's getting so big. Just adorable. Love the fairy princess soccer player.

[bluespirit-star.livejournal.com]

\o/
Looks like you all had such fun!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Ros is turning into quite the young lady. (Though she's still the smallest in her class.) I love that she came up with the costume idea herself, in July, and then stuck with it. She certainly knows her own mind.

[przed.livejournal.com]

We totally did! \o/

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

You are both so frellin' adorable! And here I thought you were going one of the Blues Brothers. *ducks and runs off giggling* Cool pumpkin!

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Heh, a fairy princess soccer player is what I call a Hallowe'en costume! Very cute and I like her style (and yours *g*)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

You both look great. I love the idea of Ros's Fairy Princess Soccer Player.

And that's one stunning pumpkin!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, a Blues Brother would have worked to. (The sunglasses weren't actually part of the costume. They were just to hide the fact that I always, always, always blink when there's a flash. Better cool shades than looking stoned.)

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping she continues with the love of footie. *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Ros definitely has her own sense of style. Which is awesome.

The pumpkin turned out well this year. Ros can't wait until she's old enough to carve one up by herself.

[soundofthesurf.livejournal.com]

Awwwww! You're both so adorably cute in your costumes! Fairy Princess Soccer Player is the best costume EVER! :D And the pumpkin is absolutely awesome!

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Love both your costumes - you can just see your baby is having the time of her life... awwwww!

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Fabulous costumes and fabulous carving too!

Ros is growing up so much :)

[sooguy.livejournal.com]

Great costumes!

I forgot you had mentioned that you had cut your hair. Looks fabulous!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, thanks so much. I do love the Fairy Princess Soccer Player. And we got a heck of a lot of compliments on the pumpkin.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I think Ros possibly likes Hallowe'en even better than Christmas. Not that I blame her.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Ros is growing up in ever astounding ways. (We ran into her old daycare teacher this evening, and we were all "remember when she was just a toddler..." Scary stuff.)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I just had my second short haircut, and I think my new stylist did an even better job this time. Last time I think she was hedging her bets in case I freaked out about going short. This time she was all "how about I cut it down to an inch." Yay!