So, I absolutely LOVE Halloween but, this year I was having
the hardest time trying to decide what in the world to be! I finally decided
that I would be a Loofah and my beau could be a bar of Soap!
To make my costume: I had an old pink romper in my closet
that I only use for a swim suit cover up so I thought I could use that as the
base to my costume. I went to Jo-Ann’s and got about 20 yards of pink netting
(not tulle, the netting looks more realistic). I also picked up a yard of white
rope, a cheap headband from the dollar store, a rubber ducky, and a TON of
safety pins! To make the actual Loofah, I just started at the top of the romper
with the netting and started pinning. (It would work out a lot easier if you
had a friend that could help so that someone could actually be wearing the
costume while you do this so that the fabric of the romper is stretched.) I
wrapped the netting around the romper, bunching it as I went. After I ran out
of netting, I found a good spot to pin the rope, pinned that, and then starting
“fluffing.” I just went around the costume and pulled apart the pieces of
netting that were too compact. Then, for a little something extra, I hot glued
a rubber ducky to a headband and wore that on my head.
To make his costume: I
got 2 pieces of white felt and used a hot glue gun to glue them together. Then,
I turned it inside out (it was sorta like a felt pillow case). Then I cut holes
for his arms and head. I then cut the word “SOAP” out of blue foam and hot
glued the letters to his costume. For a little something extra, I glued some
bubble wrap to his costume to look like bubbles.
All night people were telling us how awesome we looked and
kept asking for our picture. We even were selected to compete in the costume
contest and won 3rd place! Also, a woman that has her own natural
soap shop asked if she could photograph us for her website!
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