Halloween

Happy All Hallows' Eve! This time of the year fills my husband with terror and dread. It is not the scary movies, ghastly decorations, or the hordes of trick-or-treating ghouls and ghosts. You see, Chris is haunted by the horrors of costume making! Perhaps rightfully so. After 3 weeks of cutting, shaping, glueing, painting - it all comes down to one day! This year it came down to one drizzly wet day with a costume made of cardboard!

Design Stages (lots of movie watching):

First Fitting:

Worked to the final minute. And finally the reveal: ta-da!

Soundwave (Decepticon Transformer) - a throwback to our childhood!

Jayden received a lot of fanfare and attention that day. Jay was so excited to parade around in his one-of-a-kind costume that dad made. Chris said that this would be the last year of  elaborate home-made costumes. But once he saw how happy Jayden was, I saw that glimmer of a smile on Chris's face and in that moment, it was all worth it. Now this starts the countdown of dread for next Halloween!