Halloween 2005

We went to a great party at Ingrid & Jim’s on the Saturday before Halloween. It was fun to wear costumes again! Stan pinned small cereal boxes on his open shirt with steak knives sticking out of them, smeared a little ketchup on his face & undershirt and went as a "cereal killer." He was a huge hit! Ingrid invited all her Japanese friends – those to whom she teaches English, and I’m not sure they quite understood Stan’s costume. He tried his best to explain “a play on words.”
My Shirley Temple worked out well. I found a white woman’s sailor suit top at the thrift store & a very large red shirt. I wanted to adapt the uniform top, so I could make it look more like a costume, so I made lots of changes. I made my tie (I forgot what it's really called in military jargon), bows for my hair & shoes from the red shirt that I cut up. I rolled up white pants & wore red socks & sneakers with bows on them. (How I wished for some of Holly’s old tap shoes!) My friend Jill, sewed a nametag that said, "S Temple" and I made & sewed on a few stars. I printed out a small old B&W picture of Shirley Temple and I "autographed" & handed them out when I arrived. Stan made me a huge all-day sucker out of cardboard with a small dowel for the stick. He printed & glued on two huge circles of a multi-color pinwheel. Of course, my hair was the easiest since the perm. Actually, my hair is what gave me the Shirley Temple idea in the first place. All I had to do was put it up in small pink sponge rollers while still damp & when it dried, I just removed the curlers, clipped in the big red bow and viola -- I had curls all over! (Some of you reading this may remember when I was a little girl & actually wore my hair this way!) As always, Ingrid & Jim were the perfect hosts & the food was great & everyone seemed to have such fun being someone else . . .