Lil man's school began having a Mother & son dance last year. This year's theme was The Monster Jam which also meant one of my favorite things. COSTUMES!
I Picked up a Vera Wang bed sheet from the thrift store and whipped up my costume as well as finding platform chunky boots. I refused to wear a wig so when I found a Bump it on sale at the hair supplies store, I grabbed it. Although it did not help that much, I ended up teasing my long hair & I swear, so much hair spray was used to get it to stand that I should have worn a "flammable" sign!
My lil Man went as a werewolf.
I found faux hair we cut into small strands and applied by small pieces to his face & chest. For anyone attempting this with spirit glue as your adherence substance, grab a cuticle orange wood stick! Use it to place the hair onto the face where you applied the spirit gum. It goes on without a hassle & saves you the sticky fingers with hair looking as though you have an issue.
We did have a prosthetic nose but the spirit glue would not hold it on very long {note we also has an issue with the ears but we kept tapping them back in place- having the hair close to their face edges helped keep it miraged}. The pictures do not do justice on how well he looked. He was even elected to be in the costume contest but beat out by the kid in a K.I.S.S mask... I think his groupies followed him, otherwise he would have slaughtered it! They had to redo the crowd loudness vote 3 times between them!
We have 2 additions to the Hen yard and I have a trip to the Mormon cannery to share but tonight I will cut this short. I have not been feeling well and found out I will be going in for an ultra sonic breaking of kidney stones that will not pass. Yay me! {sarcasm intended}.
I will share more on all the latest news on the hen yard, the cannery & such soon. I even have special permission to get some video footage inside the cannery when I make another trip this week!
Now I must go wash my hair a few times and hope the knots come out. Plus I have werewolf hair to pluck from my son's chest & face...
Until next time...
Sweet dreams,
~Tammie
4 comments:
What great costumes! I applaud the creativeness that comes with home-made costumes and all of yours have been fantastic...I just got finished reading through all your years of posting... :)
Now, to keep up with you in the present!
Take care,
Sarah
www.beewenchfarm.com
You two look super-scary (especially you, Tammie!)
Feel better soon , from my Husband's experiences with stones I know it's not nice.
xx
Fran
Hi Sarah Jean and welcome to my odd little world. lol. Thank you for such a kind comment on the costumes. It is such an enjoyable passion. I recently had 3 hours to come up with 2 costumes for Panda and her bestie for Panda's FIRST boy girl party. Oh my heart! A trip to the goodwill and they ended up as zombie bride & Maid of honor. shaking head. Killed me to buy a costume already complete {no alterations or anything on Panda's} but I still made it creative by way of makeup, altering the bridesmaid gown and doing a 1 minute photoshoot which made for a fun halloween picture the girls could pt proudly in their memory books.
Fran~ Thank you. :) Mine was easy minus the BIG hair. That took a good 30 minutes being mine is so long. It took me about 2 1/2 hours to get both of us ready for the event. Good thing I started my hair just before they got home from school. lol. & Thank you for the well wishes. I have had them so many times I can deal with it pretty easy compared to most but this one is too big to pass on it's own & will be going in for the ultra sonic blasting sometime in the next few weeks- Urologist is one busy man. :)
That is so creative and you're costumes are amazing! What fun!!
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