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André the Giant

Harris is appearing today as the legendary wrestler André the Giant. He was one of my favorites. Before I was even pregnant I said a boy would be cool so I could dress him up as André . Yep, terrible but true. I knew he wouldn’t have the hair but I figured he would be a little more plump. I hope one day he looks back at this and laughs.

The “leotard” is an old black bodysuit that I just cut. I used the arms to extend the length of his socks. The boots were old hand-me-downs that have made a few appearances in Stellaween. A few years ago we went to a Thrasher’s game and they gave these awesome mullet wigs to the first few hundred people or so. I cut it up a little (or a lot and not too well) for this pic and tried to add a little makeup for André ‘s iconic chops. And I attempted to make a championship belt out of ribbon, craft foam and gold wrapping paper. I did not make it “Harris-proof” though so it didn’t last too long.

October 21, 2014
The Flying Dead: ZomBEE

Yeah, you thought the walking dead was bad. Ha! The only thing scarier than a bee is a ZOMBEE!!! The show “The Walking Dead” came out the first year we started Stellaween and people have asked since if we were going to do a zombie. Well the time has come. She asked why I put all the blood on her. I told her it’s just pizza sauce and that “zombees” love pizza! Hey, we aren’t trying to brew up any new nightmares over here. My aunt gave her that dress a couple years ago just to play in. It’s obviously more my size but it worked. We put some of my old torn black panty hose over an old dollar store set of butterfly wings and attached black pipe cleaners for antennae.

As you can see, folks try to spray these things but it just didn’t work.

October 20, 2014
The Classic Witch

My favorite Halloween costume has always been the witch. Every year I had to be one. Some may say it’s unoriginal. I say it’s timeless. So here’s Scarlett looking like a mini Stella. It’s yet another outfit from a consignment sale. This costume is worth far more than the four bucks I spent. It’s Koala Kids and I must say that I’m very impressed with the quality. It’s big though so we may just get another year out of it.

Wicked!

I had to add this one. She’s casting a spell onto the flying pumpkin! Or pretending it’s a ball. Tomato, Tomato. (Writing that in no way gets the point across like saying it.)

Stella was back assisting again. See it’s always Stellaween even when she’s behind the scenes.

As you can see she’s a wearer of many hats=)

Silly girl and I love her.

October 18, 2014
The Golfer and the Putting Green

Yes poor Twiggy. No worries. In case you cannot tell, which I’m sure you can, this is a digital dye job. *I’ve come back to edit this. I feel the need to go on further about this terrible photoshop job. It looks like I used Paint. I rushed through it thinking it wouldn’t matter but it does. I should have known it would activate my OCD and it has. Yep, I’m crazy. I think you all gathered that from the get-go though. Stella thought it looked good. So at least it’s four year old approved=) *Okay, that’s all for now. Back to original text: I LOVE knickers! It makes me sad that they aren’t the style of today’s golfers. I’ve actually had my eye on Harris’s outfit for a while. When I saw it at a consignment shop, I couldn’t pass it up. Twiggy was going to be the caddy but I thought putting green with a little flag would be so much better! I couldn’t get her to hold the ball in her mouth as I had pictured in my head. I’m just impressed that Harris left his hat on! And I’d like to mention my lovely assistant, Stella, who stood behind me and helped generate that incredible smile on his face=)

Also, I didn’t get this in to throwback but how about a Flashback Friday? It’s a thing. It’s just not as popular as the #tbt thing. It’s the twins from last year dressed as the Georgia Peach and the Peach Picker. The photo we put up last year was of Stella and Scarlett. This was pretty cute too though.

October 17, 2014
King Kong, Ann and the Empire Stella Building

It finally felt a little more like fall today so I suppose it’s time for some Stellaween. I hate that we haven’t been doing the daily pics but these twins have been a real game changer. I attempted to do this photo one day while Rob was at work. I guess I was feeling a little confident. Oh boy. It all went horribly wrong. Harris kept running away crying. Scarlett took off her diaper and decided to pee all over the place. Poor Stella was in that box and could barely move. She’s such a pro though=) I re-shot them the following weekend when I had an extra hand. That black and white image, however is from the first attempt. As Stella says “You get what you get and you don’t pitch a fit.”

I always like to talk a little about the costumes and the thriftiness. I saw a gorilla suit posted on a Facebook yard sale page for only $2. Naturally I had to get it. I didn’t realize the head piece was missing. I put an old hat of my mom’s on him to compensate but he didn’t really care for anything on his head. Surprise Surprise. My first thought was King Kong and we went with it. Scarlett is Ann Darrow. White dress, done. And Miss Stella is the Empire State Building. A couple of diaper boxes, backdrop paper and electrical tape was all we needed.

So Happy Stellaween to everyone! Grab your candy corn and enjoy=)

October 15, 2014