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Spent my evening working on these babies...

They are a special request from a special friend's little girls.  I hope they like them! 

Costumes in My Closet

So I originally planned to split these posts up and scatter them throughout the month of October when...what the?  Can you believe it?  October is finished!  And tonight the Great Pumpkin is already on his way!  So I figured I better get going and do one final "Costumes in my Closet" post for the big day.  In case you are new to this post series, the deal is I am going to share how I can make Halloween costumes from items in my closet and maybe only a few little extra accessories.  I've always been kinda a home-made costume kind of girl as I tend to find that store bought costumes are either  really expensive or  really slutty (the women's ones anyway.)

So here are 3 more costumes all made from items I already had in my closet.  Please excuse the weird exposure...The lighting was strange in our apartment tonight.

Dorothy Gale from the Wizard of OZ

dress: Tulle    shoes: H&M   shoe clips: handmade by me

Holly Golightly

dress: Gap    necklace: Anthropologie

A Hitchcock Heroine 

dress: vintage 

And there you have it.  3 more easy and improvised costumes from my very own closet.  Did you dress up today?  Any from items you already had in your closet?  

Hope you are having a happy, safe and haunted Halloween!

Costumes in my Closet: Witchy Witch

Every Halloween I tend to create my very own costumes from items I already have in my closet.  Because lets face it, I can't really sew something from scratch and most store-bought costumes for adult women are usually pretty slutty.  So this is a special feature I will be sharing this month-- Costumes in my Closet!  In this feature I'll be sharing ideas for creating costumes just with clothing I already own and a minimal amount of additional accessories.  The goal?  Put together simple, clever costumes without spending more than a few bucks.  

For my first costume, I chose something really simple: A Witch.  For this all I had to buy was a hat- $3 at Target. 

I used an old black dress that I've had for ages, some purple tights (also purchased at Target, but not for this purpose) and some fun mary-janes.

Put it altogether and Presto!  I have a cheapest, simplest, fastest, home-made witch costume on the planet! 

I'll be sharing a few other quick costumes in my closet in the weeks to come so stay tuned!