Who
doesn’t want Halloween to be epic? Especially when it comes to impressing
people with your creative costumes. Well, this year, we decided to make our own
costumes. The apartment was a disaster, but the end result was totally worth
it. We decided to go with punked out versions of different fairy tale / Disney characters.
We had Punk Belle, Punk Tinkerbell (Quinn), and Punk Red Riding Hood (Alice).
And in two weekends of epicness during October, we rushed to get our costumes
ready for Halloween.
There
was fabric, string, and pins everywhere. We wouldn’t have recommended walking
around without shoes on, it was incredibly dangerous. Everyone kept telling us
that we weren’t going to be ready in time for all the parties, but we insisted that
with Halloween being on a Thursday, there was no way nothing would be going on
the weekend after. And thus we kept at it. Quinn discovered she was horrible
with a sewing machine. There was a lot of cussing every time she was even near
the machine. Even simple, straight lines were an issue. Alice on the other
hand, was pretty awesome at it, creating her cape from scratch. Quinn settled
for a glue gun, hot gluing all the leaves to the dress she was creating for Tinkerbell.
One day, one day Quinn will get it.
As we
tore through the two weekends, with minimal thought to the fact that we still
had nowhere to go, we found ourselves pretty impressed with our costume making
skills. In fact, the idea was tossed around about become costume designers.
That quickly faded when it was pointed out you can’t hot glue everything and
call yourself a costume designer. The week before, we started looking at what
we could do, and, nothing. Niente. Apparently, the weekend before was the
weekend for all the parties, even though Halloween was on a Thursday, which is
clearly closer to the following weekend. Angered by the general population not
making sense, we were determined that all of our hard work would not go to
waste. So we went out anyway. In fact, we went out to dinner at a pretty nice
place. In our costumes. And we do have to say it was quite awesome. if you have
never been out in public in a costume before, on a day where no one else is
dressing up because you clearly missed when everyone decided to celebrate Halloween,
we say do it.
In the
true spirit of Red Riding Hood, Alice had a basket of cookies. Which came in
handy at the bar we went to after dinner! Not only did we get free drinks, but
someone even gave us money for the cookie we gave him!
All in
all, it was a great way to spend the month of October. We came out of it with
awesome costumes, and a great story to tell. The month we missed Halloween, but
didn’t care and went out anyway.
Get out
of your comfort zone,
Alice and Quinn
