More texture

I'm just having too much fun, trying out different ideas and texturing the textures:

The Cutest Little Monster

Okay so it's long past Halloween but my best friend finally got up some pictures of this and I had to share.

I don't know if you all remember my cute little ring bearer who just had to be Cookie monster this year but his mom worked hard on his cute little costume.

She took towels and turned those into a hoodie and pants:

But that wasn't all. This is the really cute part. Thinking that he may get hot and want to take off his hoodie she made for him a T-shirt with cookie monsters insides.Look you can see the cookies in his stomach. Take that store bought costume.

's all right in the box?

Yesterday I was calmly talking to my MOH about a few simple things. We talked about her trying on her wedding dress again, about how she's getting along with making a cookie monster costume for her son, and if she's done anything to the wig we found (got to add some cool racing stripes).

All fairly regular conversation if you ignore the fact that it's all related to my wedding. Having a Halloween reception means there are a few things we have to think of normal wedding planners don't. Like say our costume box.

Since we're sure that not everyone will remember to bring a costume or want to cart one around we were thinking about making a costume prop box. We have some things but I am not all that sure what other simple (ie cheap) pieces we should get so that people can make their own costumes.

Here's what we do have:

• One witches hat
• One bums hat
• 5 different colored lone ranger type masks
• One set of angel wings
• A set of glow in the dark skeleton gloves
• A kids sized dinosaur costume
• A large blue robe (made from a graduation robe)
• Some white and black makeup

And that's about it. So what, if you were gonna have to make a costume up quick, would you want to find in there?

Getting into Bridezilla mode

Okay, so what's my motivation?

"It's your wedding day. You've just found out that your caterer has locked himself in the bathroom and refuses to come out, the minister is stranded at the airport (no one knows what he was doing at the airport), your mother is demanding that you change everything about the wedding right this second, all of your groomsmen are on a beer run two counties over, your wedding cake looks like a small dog was sitting on it, the photographer has taken a vow of silence and denounced the art of photography as Satanical, and your fiance's tux doesn't fit so everyone is thinking about heading to Steve & Barrys to get those tux t-shirts.

And go."

* For those who don't read all my previous entries, this was all a joke as I get into the mode for my costume for the reception.

Bits and Bobbles

I am happy to say that my tall flower girl has decided to stick with her original dress and they can easily enough let it out. Turns out she has a large rib cage.

She also bought her wedding day shoes on super duper sale so I took a picture of her in them and her dress.

I find it quite entertaining that while all of my friends are shorter than me in real life for the wedding they're all gonna be taller than me. It's gonna look like I'm melting! Melting!

Another thing we've been piecing together are all the guys costumes. If you haven't heard they're gonna be the Marx Brothers. My guy is gonna be Groucho, his best man Chico and the groomsman Harpo.

My guys was the easiest by far. We realized that he'd have to get a fake mustache instead of using Groucho's grease paint as I was gonna be kissing him all night and I didn't want to wind up with my own mustache.

The cigar was a nice find at a halloween shop. It has the little orange bit hidden at the end so it looks like it's lit in the right light.

The other two have been a bit of a challenge. We've generally left the costumes up to the other guys and gals. Though if we do find something that looks good we'll get it for them.

Harpo has been generally easy, bike horn, curly wig, and we found a top hat for him.

Chico is proving to be an interesting problem. He really doesn't have as signature a look so we've been looking for a hat that would work and so far the best we've come up with is getting an alpine hat and spray painting it black.

If anyone else has ever dressed up like Chico or knows someone that has if you ahve any tips to make a costume please do share.

And now for something completely different

If you haven't been able to discern from my slight hints about the subject, we're having a halloween reception. And aside from all the candy (our favors) what else makes Halloween the best holiday ever? Why dressing up of course.

We spent a while debating who would wear what and after my Matron of Honor asked if she could wear her wedding dress again I had the idea of famous brides. She's going to be the bride of frankenstein (I've made a hobbit costume with her before, this thing will look just like the original movie) while another bridesmaid will be the bride of dracula. I think my tall flower girl wants to come as the bride of chucky, he he he.

As for me, well I called Bridezilla naturally. We figured I could do it with some really green eyeshadow and a nice long tail. So this past weekend was spent amassing fabric, batting, and some embellishments so I could sew up the tail while my guy killed Dracula (or at least all the various mannequins in Castlevania).

He actually helped to sew the end tail bit, but gave up when the thread kept knotting (thread knots should be blamed on an evil gremlin). We ran out of batting about half way through the stuffing so after visiting Wal Mart to get a new tire (we are cursed when it comes to flat tires) I got the rest and sewed this puppy up.

I'm a bit proud of myself for being able to make something that looks kinda cool all on my little own and no one needed to use spray paint or take a trip to the hair salon. Plus it's nice to have my own little piece to show that yes, we are serious about the costume idea. Yes, it's something we're both really excited about. And yes, just keep it to yourself if you think it's tacky. We really don't care.

Is anyone else doing something out of the box that you're really excited about for your wedding? Possibly a bit too excited.