Halloween
Last night Alana and I went to a Halloween party hosted by her delightful friends Rosie and Brian.
Being a bit of a handy, arts and crafts type of person, I made myself a costume during the week before.
I had this idea of going as some kind of possessed evil pumpkin monster. So I had decided to paper mache myself a pumpkin head and put together some kind of ethereal-meets-hessian sack robe.
My first attempt at the paper mache ended with the balloon I was using exploding, sending paper mache all over the lounge room. My second attempt ended up with a mask that was prune shaped too small to fit on my noggin, as I hung it upside down to dry a
nd the balloon had a slow leak. Only on my third attempt did I end up with something that could be usuable as a mask. I then cut out holes for the eyes and the teeth and painted the mask bright orange. During the week I had also bought some curtain fabric which I sewed roughly together as a robe. I'm a gun with the old sewing machine once it is set up with the thread in the right way. From my brown farbic I managed to stitch together a reasonable robe. I ended up slashing the ends of the sleeves and at the waist to give it a ragged effect. Anyway, I was quite pleased with the way it turned out.
Come Friday night we are almost the first people to arrive at Rosie and Brian's place on the 16th floor. We get changed and Alana puts on her sexy flapper costume. The gloves were pretty cool and a bit super-hero so I particularly liked them. It became quickly evident tha
t I was going to have a hard time seeing out of the pumpkin. But no matter I could sort of pull it back and set it on my head like some kind of hat. Alana said I looked like the alien purple head with boobs from the Mighty Boosh.
Rosie and Brian had also some door prizes for the party. One was for best costume as voted by the party goers. And the other prize was for guessing how many candy-corns (an American thing) were in a jar. Now I never win anything. Ever. Anyhow, come the voting for best costume I voted for the guy dressed as a pirate who l
ooked like pirate Steve from Dodgeball. Eleri, other Ed, Jos and David had all come as mummies - zombies. Brian was dressed as a cat burglar with a cat in his pocket - haha! Rosie was dressed up as Dame Edna and looked fabulous. Other costumes were another pirate, Caesar, a noble, two odd cats, Morticia Adams, and a vampire girl.
As it turns out people really like my costume, so I won the first pick of the door prizes and opted for the Japanese DVD
of The Ghost. Then I also won the candy-corns with a guess of 157 which was closest to the 158 candy-corns in the jar! Brian joked that this led to the impression that the door prizes were rigge
d! Ha! Some people had tried to work it out quite scientifically, but I just picked the first number that popped into my head that was over 100.
We then drank a fair
bit. Then we danced the night away once there was just the eight of us left. And at about 3am we watched Shaun of the Dead. I ended up falling asleep.
Being a bit of a handy, arts and crafts type of person, I made myself a costume during the week before.
I had this idea of going as some kind of possessed evil pumpkin monster. So I had decided to paper mache myself a pumpkin head and put together some kind of ethereal-meets-hessian sack robe.
My first attempt at the paper mache ended with the balloon I was using exploding, sending paper mache all over the lounge room. My second attempt ended up with a mask that was prune shaped too small to fit on my noggin, as I hung it upside down to dry a
nd the balloon had a slow leak. Only on my third attempt did I end up with something that could be usuable as a mask. I then cut out holes for the eyes and the teeth and painted the mask bright orange. During the week I had also bought some curtain fabric which I sewed roughly together as a robe. I'm a gun with the old sewing machine once it is set up with the thread in the right way. From my brown farbic I managed to stitch together a reasonable robe. I ended up slashing the ends of the sleeves and at the waist to give it a ragged effect. Anyway, I was quite pleased with the way it turned out.Come Friday night we are almost the first people to arrive at Rosie and Brian's place on the 16th floor. We get changed and Alana puts on her sexy flapper costume. The gloves were pretty cool and a bit super-hero so I particularly liked them. It became quickly evident tha
t I was going to have a hard time seeing out of the pumpkin. But no matter I could sort of pull it back and set it on my head like some kind of hat. Alana said I looked like the alien purple head with boobs from the Mighty Boosh.Rosie and Brian had also some door prizes for the party. One was for best costume as voted by the party goers. And the other prize was for guessing how many candy-corns (an American thing) were in a jar. Now I never win anything. Ever. Anyhow, come the voting for best costume I voted for the guy dressed as a pirate who l
ooked like pirate Steve from Dodgeball. Eleri, other Ed, Jos and David had all come as mummies - zombies. Brian was dressed as a cat burglar with a cat in his pocket - haha! Rosie was dressed up as Dame Edna and looked fabulous. Other costumes were another pirate, Caesar, a noble, two odd cats, Morticia Adams, and a vampire girl.
As it turns out people really like my costume, so I won the first pick of the door prizes and opted for the Japanese DVD
of The Ghost. Then I also won the candy-corns with a guess of 157 which was closest to the 158 candy-corns in the jar! Brian joked that this led to the impression that the door prizes were rigge
d! Ha! Some people had tried to work it out quite scientifically, but I just picked the first number that popped into my head that was over 100.We then drank a fair
bit. Then we danced the night away once there was just the eight of us left. And at about 3am we watched Shaun of the Dead. I ended up falling asleep.
2 comments:
Cool party Edward! Photos look like they capture the good times. Pumpkin head looks pretty fairdinkum too.
It was good silly fun! Particularly enjoyed the eating sugar and crazy dancing. Plus Jos insisted on listening to Red, Red Wine, which became and funnier and funnier as the night wore one. Thanks for the comments Ladlitter.
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