Great pics guys! You deserved your wins!!

Aww Dolly, I'd love to have seen a picture of that! It sounds fun!

I've never entered any competitions myself - but when the kids were younger they won a few prizes with costumes i made myself - i have old printed pics but no scanner at the moment. I did son as the riddler the year that jim carrey played him - used an old green curtain - doubled it - son lay on floor & i drew the shape round him leaving space for sewing. so it was an all in one with a zip up the back. i cut out question marks out of felt & sewed them all over. then i spray painted his hair orange & he had a green sparkly bowler hat. daughter's name is Robyn & when she was at nursery (about 4) i made her as robin hood. she wore one of my green tshirts with a belt at the waist to look like a tunic, green tights, tied her hair back in a ponytail & drew a little beard & moustache on her. she had a little green felt hat with a feather & a green felt bag slung over carrying her arrows & of course carried a bow she looked so cute!

i dress up differently for the kids coming to the house every year & plan to be a grey lady ghost. i always put the costumes together myself - either from old clothes/charity shops or ebay - plus some sewing or distressing. this year i have a decent digital camera so will definately take pics!

just a note about son's costume - he may go as the riddler this year (he's 21 now so doesn't fit in the old suit!) - with the new batman film a few of his friends are talking about using that as a theme - and rumour has it the riddler will be back in the next film! so do it now before everyone does it next year!

maleficent, these are great pictures. rookie should have them in our album. you make an adorable peep, but that bike wins it. how original. you really look like death in the one. wow

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poo, i hope you can post. now that is the kind of creativity i like

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i will try too - i also made up daughter as aladybird - took me hours to sew the costume by hand! she was as cute as a button

a lady bird? would love to see that! i made my daughter up as a jack in the box, a devil, a witch, a ghost, a vampiress, and a purple people eater. for the ghost, we painted her face white, put her head through a sheet so it rested on her shoulders, donned her with white gloves, and got a big white soft sock she wore as a cap. that way a lot of the sock hung over and gave her that look they always have of a ghosts head kind of flopping over.

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my daughter as a jack in the box

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my daughter with her face painted like a cat

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Hallo I love that jack in the box costume.

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thanks mal, you can't see it, but she had a rose in her hand that she would offer everyone. no one took it though. i guess no one appreciates a dead rose like a clown.

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