What I wore for Halloween 2011

When you want to eliminate the possibility of wearing the same outfit  as someone else - you make the costume yourself. I found my inspiration: a top in my closet that I had never worn - it was a man shirt with a scary pirate on it from Jay Jay's (When the new Pirates of the Caribbean Movie was out). 

I also had a spare blue and white striped shirt that I didnt' like anymore - I ripped it up and mutated the man shirt to create a messy dress for a Pirate!

I looked for a red bandanna, handkerchief, fabric place mat - nothing. I did find a red tie in my cleaning adventures and thought that would be alright to wear instead! I finished my outfit off by wearing one arm warmer with mismatched bling; gold earring one one ear and feathers on the other

My eye make up was fun cuz I just splashed color on my eyes. I threw on lots of blue eye shadow - and added stripes a bit of blue and silver on my cheek.I then smeared on thick eyeliner to make my eyes stand out. I learnt from vids on youtube that you put on the eye shadow before the eyeliner - and it makes life so much easier!

Toastmasters Meeting~ 1 Nov 2010

Toastmasters had a meeting on Monday the 1st of November, and the theme was Melbourne Cup which was to be held on the next day! I was still not over the Halloween theme (It was just YESTERDAY!). I found a black maxi dress and wore my cape for Halloween over it! I think it was a good idea and no one else wore the same outfit as me! Now, my dad, I don't know what he was wearing, and there was no way of convincing him to change before we left. He though he looked good in that~I disagreed; I thought he looked comical. Honestly look at it! Bland tan pants, a orange polo shirt, black vest, a loud print tie topped off with a Crocodile Dundee tourist hat. Doesn't that look funny to you? (My outfit is not funny it is cool!)

Here I am with Justin and Teadora! Justin dressed up according to the Melbourne Cup theme; formal with fashion. Everything ironed and clean; even his tie was to the correct length to cover all his buttons! Teadora cam whipping in from work but still looked great in her work gear! Black pants, shimmery striped button-up top with a black jumper to match the pants!

Here is the glove I wore on my left hand for the whole day. I remember getting this pair of gloves at Primark in Leeds. I lost the right glove somewhere, along with the button on the left one that held the mitten back. So, I used 3 pins to hold the mitten part of the glove back. I was surprised to see how well it looked on my glove for a little Halloween accessory! So, if you have an odd glove round the house, I recon you can jazz it up by adding, pins, buttons or anything else that's laying around unused to make it more interesting!

Halloween Night ~ 31 Oct 2010

Halloween was now upon us! I was frantically trying to decorate the home with what I had and I went out to get more lollies! Ellen and I biked into town and then hung out at Steven's place and saw this EPIC bike! Remember Ke$ha's bike from Tick Tock?

Halloween Dress up night 30 Oct 2010

Halloween this year landed on a Sunday~perfect for the kids, go get candy and come home at a reasonable time to get up for school the next morning. For us young single folk, with no kids and are WAY to old to trick or treat, Saturday was the day for us. My evening started with some movies and make-up at my house before going out. We saw Scary Movie 3 and Rocky Horror Picture Show!

My sister got her friends to go nuts on her eyes and they were great at it! Leah just used eye shadow to create this blue cats eyes on MC. She grabbed a lighter blue to go up and over MC's eyelid, to under her brow~making her make up more dramatic and exciting!

Halloween ~ Where did it begin?

Halloween is coming soon and I must admit that I really did not know why we celebrated this holiday every year. Probably because I'm not a child dressing up anymore, this is going to be my first year giving candy instead of receiving it. So I thought maybe, I should investigate what holiday I am really celebrating. 

I heard many stories about how Halloween started; from my research, it looks like Halloween is an old Celtic celebration, and somewhat mixed with Christian celebration. The Celts celebrated the last day of October as the end of summer. They believed it was on that day, the dead would be able to come back to life. The Christian religion has a day for all dead people on the 1st November; All Saints Day. This is where we pray for all the people who have died before us. So the mixing of the two different celebrations, but both around the theme of death must've merged in together to create Halloween.

I remember hearing a story about why we give out chocolates and candy to kids. Back in the middle-ages, beggars would come to the door and beg for food in exchange for praying for the homes dead ones. The beggars were usually given sweet bread and that's how we came to this day to give out sweet things and candies to the dressed up kids!

Here are some links for further reading:

More reading on History

How it stared in Ireland

Great pranks