I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween. We had 50 trick-or-treaters on Thursday evening, which is when my town decided to have Halloween.
I don’t like to purchase pre-packaged costumes because I don’t like how they feel and then I feel like I’ll only wear it once. Of the five Halloween’s we’ve spent in this house, we’ve been around and dressed up for three. Year one I dressed up as a pirate, year two I dressed up as Slash from Guns ‘n’ Roses, and this year D and I dressed up as the Super Mario Brothers. All of these costumes can be mostly made from items around the house. For Slash and the Mario Brothers, I purchased inexpensive hats and embellished them myself. And aside from the hats, the entire costume can be reused! D looked so awesome as Mario that he plans on dressing up as him every Halloween now.
Costume:
Overalls. If you keep an eye out, you can find them at thrift stores for cheap if you already don’t have any. I found khaki colored ones and dyed them blue.
Long sleeved shirt. Red for Mario or green for Luigi.
White gloves.
Work boots/shoes.
Hat. Instead of buying the official hat for $20, I bought a newsboy hat for $5 and cut the letter emblem out of felt to glue on.
Optional:
Mustache. We had them but decided against wearing them. You can also draw on a mustache.
Power flower. Spray paint a $1 dollar tree stem/bunch so it’s red, yellow, and white. This took only a minute to do.
And now for the finished product…
