Wednesday, October 31, 2012

ALL HALLOW'S EVE

It's that time again, when Spirits join the world of the Living ... which one are you?

This is my favorite holiday of the year.  Spirits are unleashed, and along with them, unabashed creativity.  Uptight folk -  always afraid of looking ridiculous - finally find a great cover for loosening up.

Halloween also happens to be our wedding anniversary!  Revelers surrounded us in NYC during this full moon many years ago.  You wonder what odd people we are -- and yes, we are odd -- to have chosen this date.  Even odder is that my older brother and sister in-law got married on the same date many more years ago.  They had their own reasons.  Ours was simply the full moon.  The extended revelry was a bonus.  For that year, you could say our costume was Bride and Groom.







My mother passed down the philosophy that costumes are created, using anything in the house, rather than purchased.  She was a master at re-purposing scarves or discarded toilet paper cylinders!  I've kept that practice to this day.  So, everything I am wearing is either a gift (the Venetian mask, the beaded necklace) or from my closet (gloves, lace blouse, floor length skirt, hooded cape).  

Have a wonderful Halloween wherever you are!



21 comments:

  1. Wow you got married on Halloween! I love your costume! What a beautiful hooded cape that is. Have a wonderful Halloween and Happy Anniversary!

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  2. Well happy anniversary :)
    i love your costume, liek a creatue who stepped out of a book just for that night…beautiful.

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  3. You look gorgeous and happy anniversary. Kind of love you for chosing an interesting holiday like Halloween for your wedding day over the cliche Valentine's Day alternative.

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  4. Gorgeous...Happy Anniversary too, I hope you had a great time :)) That's so cool xx

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  5. So smart, you look like an old character of a film. Lovely

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  6. Belated happy anniversary Halloween!
    Your custom reminds me of Mardi Gras, "Eyes Wide Shut", and "Phantom of the Opera". Beautiful choice!
    My dog's birthday is sometime around Halloween so we pick that day to celebrate. She's cool with that. ;)

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  7. I agree with your mum! The best costumes are found in that old corner! Loving the cape and mask!x

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  8. Thanks, everyone. And to Odyssey, I am thrilled you thought of Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" because those images were certainly flying around in my head with regards to this costume! -- J xxx

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  9. Love, love the look!!! You look great!

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  10. Great Pictures! Love your Look!
    follow new ,mind follow back? :)

    Lovely Greetings from Austria ,kisses :)

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  11. the 1st photo is spooktastic..and happy anniversary jenny!

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  12. So glad to see people dressing up in non-slutty holloween costumes! Great blog, want to follow each other?

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  13. I also believe in creating rather than buying.
    What a fabulous costume and pics.
    When I started the bog, I knew nothing, but I love, love, love learning, lol.
    Have a fabulous Sunday, and come visiting more often, my dear friend
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  14. What a beautiful Halloween outfit! It's said it's the time when the veil between the spirits and the living is the thinnest (or did I just hear this in True Blood?). Celebrating Halloween is still a new tradition in Europe, but getting bigger and bigger. xoxo

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  15. You look beautiful and mysterious. You have put the look together perfectly. And happy anniversary. I hope you had a wonderful day. What an amazing day for an anniversary. Xxxx

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  16. love the halloween outfit, amazing cape! you look stunning dear xx

    Letters To Juliet

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  17. Thanks for commenting on my blog. Let's follow each other?

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  18. Wonderful outfit- original and creative. So many Halloween outfits are derivative but this is glamorous and stylish too. Quite a feat of design. Like the setting too. Not corny spookiness but there's something a bit ... unsettling ... about those trees.

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  19. Your mother and mine obviously share at least one philosophy: that costumes must always, always be created from what can be found at home or scrounged. SO much more satisfying and it makes your Halloween outfit so much more special too. Wishing you a belated happy anniversary. I'm wildly impressed that your reason for setting that date was the full moon.

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  20. Just mysterious look...great photo shoot and I love that dress.

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