Just A Sweet Transvestite

 

"I'm not much of a man by the light of day,

But by night I'm one hell of a lover."

Would You Buy This?

 

It's a Gothic Spider Bride costume made by me! I started this costume last year with intent to start up Boo Couture, my costume design business. But with being evacuated during the Witch Fire and then whole craziness of the holiday season, it ended up in the UFO pile. I finally put all the finishing touches on it last night, and I plan to try and sell it once I get some better pictures of it.

It's a size 16/18 gown (I need to take some more accurate measurements) with with a headband based veil. The whole gown is constructed from a polyester satin and trimmed with metallic rick-rack, tulle bows and plastic spiders. It'll look great with some goth makeup and fishnet stockings. I'm really, really happy with how it turned out. It's going to be hard to part with it. I hope whoever gets to be the Gothic Spider Bride for Halloween takes really good care of it.

 

 

Friday night Lindsey and Cornbread came up to our house for dinner. Lindsey made some wonderful pasta for dinner and I've been enjoying the leftovers all weekend! I wanted to put out some seasonal appetizers since it is now officially Halloween season, so I tried out my new eyeball mold. The green zombie eye dip is kinda like french onion dip and the blue zombie eye dip is garlic and chives. I just dumped some dip type ingredients in blender then added a packet of Knox dissolved in hot water. After the eyeballs set-up over night I painted the veins and iris with gel food color. The blue zombie eye dip was definitely the yummiest. Onion flavored eye ball dip is just a little too creepy for me. But the garlic and chives eyeball dip is a keeper and is fabulous on buttery Keebler Club crackers.

Happy October Everybody!

YIPPEE! It's October 1st! That means Halloween season!

For our engagement Gail got Michael and I this really cool Halloween Bat-globe. It's a very affectionate skeleton couple going for a ride in their dead mobile with bats flying all around. Plus, it's a music box that plays "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"! Momma Gail always finds the coolest stuff!

We also were very privileged to receive a donation to the Halloween party from Alex and Kimbra. The newlyweds found a really cool skeleton candle holder while they were on their honeymoon cruise and immediately thought of the Halloween party. Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Castillo!

Michael brought home two "Wee Bee" pumpkins for me yesterday and I think they look fabulous on our table. I can't wait to get carving on some squash this year. I've decided that I'm not limiting myself to just pumpkins. I want to try some other produce. Any ideas?

I've been making progress on costume construction and the party invites were mailed out today. If you don't get one in a few days send me a quick email and I'll make sure you get one.

shannie@hhhsd.org