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Last Minute Slackers

So it’s Halloween and you have completely blown off getting a costume.  Now what?  You have a party to attend and there’s nothing left at the store but some elephant ears, clown shoes and a Harry Potter wand.  What are you going to do?

Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered.

All you need is a candle, a wine cork and some fire.


With this burnt cork, you now have a million possibilities.

You can be pig-pen from Charlie Brown…just carry a dirty blanket and suck your thumb.

You could be an angry pirate…get out a bandanna and an eye patch from your last bout with pink eye.


You could be a spooky ghost with a beard, just cut a face hole in your old sheets.  It’s a stretch but will work…remember you are desperate.

Or you could just be yourself, with a dirty face.

One Halloween I was in the same predicament, no costume, party was at 7 and I had to work all day.  What was a girl to do?

I got out a cork, burned it and instantly I was the bearded lady from the circus.  It was awesome.


Halloween-A-Day-Photo

Moon over the pumpkin patch. 

Enjoy your night and have a safe Halloween.

Comments

  4. What a memory jog! I remember my father putting shaving cream and coffee grounds on my face to make me look like a hobo for a costume party. The burnt wine cork seems a whole lot easier.Happy Halloween to you and yours!

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  7. HAPPY HALLOWE’EN!!!

    Another idea for the beard: throw on some jeans, flannel shirt and work boots – if you have a kids’ construction set, all the better to be either a wood cutter (just keep the saw) or a construction worker (tool belt).

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  8. Those are such great pictures of him! B&W for those shots is just right. We have a woodstove so I’d have no problem finding soot, but the cork idea looks more user friendly.

    Like the pumpkins with the moon. Happy Halloween!

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  12. Your little hooligan is quite the actor! Looks like he has a fun time with Halloween…it must run in the family. When I was in elementary school, for Halloween, we used to wear our father’s long sleeved white shirts over a pair of jeans, put freckles on our faces with a Mabelline pencil and wear a man’s hat (My father happened to wear a Texas style western hat) but most girls my age wore a Fedora type hat. I don’t know exactly what we were supposed to represent, but we looked mostly like hobos. Our mom’s didn’t have to sew us up a costume or we didn’t have to go out and buy one and we were happy that way. The cork idea would have worked really better for us rather than the freckles. Wish we would have known about it then.

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  16. Who woulda thunk that there were so many other USEFUL uses for a wine cork. And here I thought all it was good for was as a replacement pacifier for babies.

    BTW, your son is a darned good sport – what to let his mom muck up his face and photograph him looking the part of a hobo…

    Happy Halloween!!!!

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  18. Those pictures are too cute! I just realized why I’m so drawn to your son, he looks like my dad in his childhood pictures. But seriously, we ant pictures of you as the bearded lady 🙂

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  20. First of all, that’s one cute little fella you’ve got there! And what a great sport to be your model! 🙂 Great tips about using the cork. I never would’ve thought of it. (No surprise there!)

    Second, have a safe and fun night yourself!

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  23. Gotta tell you, I made kitty litter cake for the company halloween bash and it is a HIT! I happened to have a stuffed cat at home, and one of the Vice Presidents here staged an entire cat-pooping scene. It’s good to bring interactive food. Thanks for the recipe!

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  25. One year I had no idea what to be and I looked at everything and anything in my house with a possible eye. I had 2 pieces of cardboard. Hmm. I cut them into kites, covered them in wrapping paper, hung string from the bottom with wrapping ribbon into bows, taped string so they would hang sandwich board style on my shoulders and covered my face with blue eye shadow for the sky. A bunch of cotton balls on my head would have been a great cloud but I forgot. Cheap, easy, had the stuff and no one else thinks of it. You son is sooo cute, how do you not have lipstick kisses all over him (it would make him a rock star costume). Than you so much for a very fun month. Happy Halloween. Really nice last photo also.

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  27. Fantastic Black & Whites! Great Subject Matter! Quite an adorable face! Enjoyed all your Halloween blogs! Thanks for sharing your world… you are quite the entertainer!

    Have a spooky Halloween!

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  28. I still like Grace’s idea: wearing a sign that says “Nudist on Strike”. I went to the fabric store on Sunday, and sewed like a crazy woman yesterday, and my costuming is now complete. If I had to go out, I’d carry a blanket and go as a sleep deprived mom.

    Love your pictures of your son. Of course, he would cooperate. What boy doesn’t love to be grubby?

    Happy Halloween!

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  29. Happy halloween.
    Oh, he is so adorable! I love his 3rd phose, he seems to try to scared us, uhhhh
    That pumpkin over the moon is so beautiful.
    Thanks for sharing such a great idea for the last minute panic, cathy.

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  30. One year when my first wife and I went trick or treating, this was routine in our neighbor hood, with or without kids. She wore a fur coat, heels and a flesh colored bikini. We got candy, she would flash. Usually we got a second helping.

    The candy went to her church for distribution to the homebound the next day.

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  31. Cathy this is too darn cute!!! What an adorable little guy! Love his ghosty face…

    Slackers abound here… The pumpkin pulp and seeds have been sitting in the fridge for DAYS waiting to be cleaned and roasted…

    Costumes are a go…amidst a few tantrums…

    I am going as a witch… yes, I do dress up! If I’m going to be carting these guys around I’m going to have me some fun!
    Thanks for all the cool Halloween goodness!
    And dude above me! First wife sounds like she was a hoot!

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  32. Cathy, you are very creative. I NEVER would have thought of using a burned cork to draw a face on with, lol. Love the idea of the bearded lady at the circus, lol.

    Happy Halloween to you and yours!

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  35. Happy Happy Halloween Cathy! Have loved the month’s images…and today’s top ’em!

    Hey, could you please keep coming up with creative cork usage options? I’ve got quite a collection going…

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  37. Once upon a time, in a fancy (very) restaurant, after closing, we played a drinking game – every screw-up got a mark with a burnt cork…”ibble-dibble”.

    Your day has arrived!

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  46. Happy Halloween to my fellow Halloween loving blogger!
    And I think if you use your trick, tie a bandanna on the end of a stick, wear some old clothes, you have a perfect hobo costume.

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  50. I was recently in Northern Cal and I saw a pyramid of pumpkins it was so cool but I was too late to snap a photo cuz we were in a hurry. Shucks!!! Anyway I love this photo. Have a happy Halloween! I have loved perusing all your fun October blogging you are the best!!

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  51. That kid is absolutely scrumptious. Really. Bearded or not.

    And I love your photo. Been lurking around for a while and know you are a pal of Evil Chef Mom and NTSC – just wanted to tell you how cool and funny your blog is.

    Why aren’t you on my blogroll? Let’s change that.

    Kim

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  52. Every time I see that hooligan I marvel at your resistance to have more of such adorable munchkins I think I’d want a six pack. A mess of sons to work a vineyard may be a pretty good idea.

    So how did you meet the Wild Boar? Did you suit him up at Nordy’s?

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  53. How clever! Much better than the store bought stuff any way. AFTER we got the kids all painted up and ready to go I noticed the face paint packaging warning that the paints contain lead!

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