P. Kelly Smith
Welcome to Freebie Friday! Last week we bid a fond farewell to the last days of summer. And while I always mourn the loss of my flip-flops and snow cones, I know all good things will eventually come around again. So let’s embrace fall and all the colors, smells, textures and yes, even the cool air. For everything there is a season…
And before you know it, little ghosts and goblins will be creeping up your walkway in search of sugary treats for their plastic pumpkin pails. Whenever Halloween rolls around, I always think of my little two-year-old cousin. He’s now a cool dude of 11, but once upon a time he couldn’t pronounce his s’s very well. We were out trick or treating and he saw something that frightened him. He grabbed his mom’s hand and said, “Mommy, that was pooky and cary!” Add the s’s to front of those words and you’ll get what he was trying to say!
If you enjoy celebrating Halloween and paper crafting this “pooky and cary” time of year, we’re here to help! We have some frighteningly fun titles/quotes in the Simple Sentiments column (p. 89) of our September/October 2009 issue. Did you know that you can download every one of them right HERE?
Here’s a few of my favorites:
And because we’re always here to inspire you, look at the cute card our managing editor Brandy made with the “Beware” quote:
Bump in the Night Card by Brandy Jesperson
Who doesn’t like free quotes? I guess you could say today’s giveaway is for everyone! For those of you who need real, tangible product to awaken your inner paper goblin, you’re in luck! I have two Halloween collections (Spooked, Night Light) from My Mind’s Eye. Leave a comment telling me your favorite childhood Halloween costume and I’ll randomly pick two winners. All comments must be received by midnight (MST) on Sunday, Sept. 13.
Happy Downloading,
Kelly
P.S. Today is our former art director’s birthday! Since Halloween is Stace’s favorite time of year, I thought I would share this groovy picture of her:
Would anyone care for one of Stace's "magic" brownies? We dressed as hippies last Halloween, so her carrying a plateful of brownies actually made sense!
P.P.S. For those of you attending CKC-Nashville this weekend, make sure you say hi to two of our very own Paper Crafts peeps! Both Susan Neal and Susan Opel will be teaching some fun card classes you won’t want to miss!
My favorite Halloween costume was when I was a teenager…I dressed up my little sister – age 4 – as a hershey candy bar. Unfortunately, the box was a little long an dshe could not manipulate steps…it was hysterical watching her try!
My favorite costume was a sheet tied up any which way to make me a “vagabond” – I was 4 what did I know!
I once dressed as Little Red Ridding Hood and my brother was the Big Bad wolf. It was the most fun EVER!
oh how fun! i’ve never played with digital paper/sentiments/anything before so i will have to give these a try.
I’ve always loved Halloween and my favorite costume would be when I was a tiger. It was handmade by my grandma and had been worn previously by my aunt. It fit me perfectly when I was in 6th grade and I loved having a hand-made unique costume.
I love Halloween time. My favorite costume was a Princess. It was from one of my Aunt’s Prom dresses! Of course all in Pink. My Mom then made a wand and crown to complete the look.
In France where I grew up we don’t have Halloween but you dress up in costumes for Mardi Gras. The costume I loved the most was a ladybug. I looked so cute in it and since then I have a real fondness for this adorable critter.
my favorite costume is tigger from winnie the pooh with whiskers drawn on with a black marker (very hard to wash off ) but as kids who knew that?
My favorite costume was when I was a mouse…The costume was made especially for me during my 2nd grade school play and has a cute headband and a sparkly skirt with a tail attached! BTW, the brownies look amazing!
My fav costume was the year my three kids and I made their costumes, My oldest son was Captain Hook, his brother was Peter Pan – green tights and all and the baby girl was Tinkerbell. They were so darn cute!
And those brownies were “magic” love the hippie theme!
It seems like my memories are of dressing up as a hobo!! I feel like I threw the costume together every year. My mom verifies it!!
I remember one of my costumes from back in the late 50′s. It was not my favorite. As a matter of fact, it was the worst because I could not manuver myself in it. It was pure missery. This is why I will never forget it. Robots were popular at that time and my Mom found an article about taking a box with two eye holes over your head with the old T.V. tubes attached to it. It was bad!!!
My favorite costume from my own childhood was the ONLY costume I ever had. It was a Barbie costume that my sister had handed down to me. We didn’t have much, so we all took turns wearing it for a couple of Halloweens.
Now…ask me about my KIDS’ costumes, and I could name a couple…Bob the Builder and a “rock-star” look for my son, a little ladybug and Pooh for my daughter…since I didn’t have much as a kid, I like to different things for my own kids every year!
Thanks for the chance to win these awesome Halloween products!
Mine was a gypsy – not sure why but I loved being able to pile on the bling
When I was a kid, I liked clowns so much, I dressed as one for TWO Halloweens!
I was from a large family..4 boys & then 2 girls..I’m #5. My brothers were always bums..so that’s what I wanted to be too. My little sister too. Not much imagination there but as a group we made quite a sight!!!
I remember dressing up as the “doodlebug” from Wizard of Oz (the musical, not the movie!) Blue faces, white lips, and big red furry pants held up by overalls… CA -UTE!!! We always did the parades through town!!
as a teen it was an alien. pink-footed pajamas, foil wrapped motorcycle helmet with antenna, and green face paint on the hands and feet. we got more candy than we knew what to do with that year lol.
My mom never was too into Halloween costumes when we were little- looking back it was probably because we didn’t have the extra $ for them! I remember she took down some curtains that were red with white pom-pom fringe & made us skirts- I think we were gypsies. My Mom still doesn’t sew except to fix buttons, so that was pretty awesome!
Oh geeze… definitly my blue bunnie costume… so warm and cozy and received so many compliments when I was young wearing it!
I remember being a cute little white rabbit with my mom’s powder puff pinned to my bottom for my rabbit tail.
a friend of mine had made a eye ball costume for me one year. i love it. at the time i worked with kids and they thought my costume ROCKED!!!!
I have two favorite costumes. My Mom made me into a dice one year, it was so difficult to walk but I remember getting to help her color in all my dots, even the little dice box on my head! I loved it, since I got to help! I also loved being this pumpkin thing, it was not a pumpkin, but I look happy in the pictures and my brother didnt scream at me LOL!
i have one favorite costume it was when i was 4 years old and its so hard to belive that i still remember as if it were yesturday i was a clown my grandpa and mom painted my face and my dad got the video camera and video taped the whole thing the reason this is so special to me was because it was the last halloween i would ever spend with my grandpa i still remember his sweet old face smiling at me telling me i was the most prettiest clown he had ever seen lol gosh im tearing up lol it been awhile since he passed but i miss him and still have the many memories fresh in my mind
It would have to be the one my mom made me, it was an angel!!
As a teenager, I made an m&m out of fabric and hoola hoops. It was SO awesome, and many people borrowed it for years after!
My mom made me a Little Bo Peep costume out of pink and blue crepe paper when I was in first grade. I won the prize for prettiest costume at my school party. She was awesome!
My favorite childhood costume was a cat… just black leggings, black shirt, a tail, a black headband with the ears, and painted on whiskers. Ahh, the memories. : )
i think my mom just threw together anything we had around the house for my costume. sad…but now, i go all out for my boys!
My favorite costume was when I teamed up with my best friend and I went as the headsmen and she went headless. The costumes were, of course, homemade, and they looked great!
I bought a piece of orange and white houndstooth plastic sheeting one year and made a rockstar outfit…it was definitely the COOLEST custume I ever wore!
I actually didn’t have many costumes as a child and the one I loved the most was a TV character dressed all in red. I can’t remember the name, but I remember that nobody knew who I was!
I had a Snow White mask with red red lips. And I wouldn’t let my mom cut a slit in it so that I could be hear when I talked. The lips were just gorgeous!!!!
My favorite Halloween costume was a picnic table. Yes, a picnic table! My outfit was out of a table cloth and then we glued plastic foods too it! I won “most creative” that year at school.
That makes me wish I still lived in Nashville. I guess one costume I remember from Halloween was being a gypsy. It was a quick costume to throw together in the last minute with things we had around the house, but it was still cute.
My favorite Halloween costume was a pink butterfly. We lived in WI at the time and my Dad spent a lot of time crafting my beautiful pink wings. I had a pink leotard, pink tights and pink shoes. I was so excited – until – it snowed all day on Halloween. I ended up having to wear UGLY snowboots and a coat over my beautiful costume. I remember being SO devastated. I can look back on it and laugh, but back then it was not so funny at all. LOL Thanks for a chance to win some awesome goodies, too.
PS
Happy B’day to Stace, too.
My favorite costume was the year I dressed up as a hobo and looking back on that picture…all I can say…is UGLY!! lol That has to be the worst looking costume EVER but I had a blast making it!
My favorite costume was dressing up as Cat Woman from the original (1960s) Batman movie!
My fav costume was as an adult, a friend and I dressed up in poodle skirts, letter sweaters, pearls, saddle shoes and cat eye glasses! We loved our costumes!
My favorite costume when I was a child was one that my mom and me made together. We took a huge box, cut a neck hole and two arm holes, painted it white and then put dots on it. I dressed all in black and I was a die. You know one of a pair of dice. I think doing this project myself and working with my mom made it such a special memory. Thanks for the free quotes.
xoxo, Christine
I don’t remember any of my childhood costumes. But one of the bars in my hometown has a halloween party every year and encourages costumes. So I took a black sheet and cut a hole in it, found the ugliest witch mask, a pointed hat, put on black fake nails and then in one of those plastic pumpkins I put some of those fake plastic eyes and lots of plastic bugs. I went around the bar not talking to anyone, but pretending to pick things out of their hair or, when they weren’t looking, dropping one of my eyes or bugs into their drinks.
When I was a child I dressed up as a loaf of Wonder Bread… I used a sheet as the body of the costume and stapled big circles of construction paper to the sheet.. We tied a ribon around my neck as the bread tie. It turned out super cute… and so economical! I won the costume contest!
What fun to remember….2 friends and I made black & yellow bumble bee costumes complete with antennae!
Remember Sheri Lewis and her cute sock puppet Lambchop? That was my favorite costume at age 4! Too cute!
I don’t remember it but there is a picture of me at about 3 in jailbird costume. I think it was a pair of jail stripe pjs that I had already and some how they attached a ball and chain to me. I won a prize in a halloween contest.
I carefully scrolled to make sure I had not already done this, if I have please check it up to a senior moment. My favorite would have to be the time I went as an outhouse-fashioned out of a washing machine cardboard box,it was truly hilarious!
My favorite Halloween costume was a Geisha girl – my Mom had a real kimono from Japan and did my makeup. I felt so grown up. Thanks for the chance to win!
I was a baton-twirler one year and got to wear my sister’s spangly sequined outfit…but I had to wear my coat b/c it was freezing that year. bummer.
I was a punk rocker, complete with pink hair, and I thought I was pretty cool!
My fave was Raggedy Ann
I would have liked to dress as a princess … but in my childhood country they do not celebrate Halloween ….. so I make up for it now by being a princess year-round.