It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!
Right??? Right?!? Right!!! I don’t know about you, but October is my most favorite month because of my most favorite holiday. And I just feel so blessed because Halloween is the very last day of October so I get an ENTIRE month to act like a total nut job that can live in a witch’s lair for a full 31 days without judgement from the “normal” people.
So my girls school has Trunk-or-Treat every year and I just really feel like this is why I was born, like this is my purpose in life. Now, it’s a group effort with my cousins, but we have made it our personal goal to put our hearts and souls into our costumes and trunk. The truth is, it’s becoming a task to outdo ourselves, and the pressure is anxiety inducing. Yet we do it every year and we LOVE it. I thought I would share the last few years that we’ve done. Tis the season, am I right?
2018: Beetlejuice
“My whole life is a dark room. One. Big. Dark. Room.” Lydia Deetz
So this theme was seriously fun. We got Styrofoam heads and some old sheets to be the hanging ghosts on the side of the trunk. I found some prawns on Amazon and tried my best to re-create the dinner scene when they all dance to Day-O. I was happy to be Lydia Deetz because I didn’t have to smile all day. My cousin, Jodi(Beetlejuice) made the sandworm and the tombstone. We have found black lights to be a big hit in the past so we painted extra tombstone’s in neon colors to make them really pop with the black light. And talk about dedication by my cousin Roxanne for ALL THAT BODY PAINT. We also made sure to have the soundtrack playing at all times-hence my car dying by the end of the night. It was WORTH IT.
2017: Suicide Squad Joker and Harley Quinn
All My Friends Are Heathens, Take It Slow
Okay, since Roxanne got tickets to a show this year, Jodi and I were a two woman show. I feel like this may have been my favorite make-up job for myself. Transforming into The Joker was so fun, with the hand and face tattoos and the jewelry and the green hair. Jodi knocked it out of the park as a jailed Harley Quinn in the back of my car. She sipped her tea. She read her romance novel and she asked the young trick or treaters to break her out. I spray painted a big roll of paper with the HA! HA!’s with neon spray paint and they just popped with the black light. Jodi made the Arkham sign and the Suicide Squad art. Sucker For Pain and Heathens played the entire time. My car did not die this night.
2016: Alice In Wonderland
Curiouser and curiouser
With this theme we did a real mash up of both the animated Alice In Wonderland and the newer version. The trunk was the rabbit hole that Alice falls down with clocks and cards taped to the sides. I made the flowers from the animated version and set up a real tea party on the table on the outside of the trunk. Jodi is such a great artist so she made the sign that said “Down the rabbit hole” with the white rabbit. the Chesire Cat sign that said “We’re all mad here” and the playing cards. Roxanne was the Red Queen and OMG it was soooo great with the wig and make-up.I really loved making the flowers and setting up the tea party for this theme because there was so many little details. I got most of my Mad Hatter costume from Good Will and oddly enough my mom found the hat at a second hand store in Oklahoma. It was meant to be!
2015: Hocus Pocus
It’s just a bunch of hocus pocus!
Okay, this was not our first trunk-or-treat but it feels like it. I can’t find our first one, which was a mediocre Wizard of Oz. Hocus Pocus was a game changer and my favorite one of all because I love this movie with all my heart and soul. Now, we chose this theme before there were Sanderson sister costumes to buy, so we just put it all together the best we could. I know I put socks inside my hair to get Winnie’s Dracula hairdo and I have no idea what Roxanne did for Mary, but it was perfection. And her on the vacuum?! I can’t. It was TOO good! Jodi’s “Amuck, amuck, amuck!” as Sister Sarah was on point. She also made the book and it was a god damn masterpiece. We had the trunk decorated like the witch’s cabin, with a big cauldron full of dry ice. A sign that said “Come Little Children” sat on an old chair where we suck the lives out of the children of Salem, right next to the Black Flame Candle. Oh, if I could re-live this night I would!
“I Put A Spell On You” and “Come Little Children” played through our car speakers and yes, my car died that year as well. Once again, it was WORTH IT. I got to be my idol, Winnifred Sanderson for a full four hours and you just can’t go back from that kind of thing. She’s a part of me now.
So that’s it! We are plotting for this year’s festivities and can’t wait…also can’t wait for it to be over- because man, the pressure. Ha! Happy Haunting!