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Nov
2
2009
Make 1,000 Lovely Things: Fishy and Jellyfish Costume
Behold! The cutest little fishy on the face of the planet.
And his little fish bum too! Oh. My. Goodness. The glue-gun burns were a small price to pay.
Bryan was a sea captain.
And I was a jellyfish. I made my hat from a lampshade.
The joy buzzer was the best part of my costume.
The whole costume only cost me like $11. Before going out for the night I added tentacles and a sweater. Surprisingly, there were tons of jellyfish on the street, the best one being a girl who had affixed blacklights to the underside of a white umbrella. I practically genuflected in the street. Happy Halloween!
This is awesome!
You are lovely. I genuflect in your presence! (Tons of jellyfish? really?)
If I ever get dressed up for halloween again, can I steal your idea (with full credit to That Cool Girl Maggie Whose Blog I Read, Here, Let Me Give You The URL)? I absolutely LOVE it!
PS: The costume you made for your boy makes me want to have kids AND to make stuff for them for halloween. No small feat!
I love the little fish and jellyfish costumes. Great homemade charm!
These are probably the best family costumes I’ve ever seen – so fantastic!
We totally need to get your hank and my Alex together:
http://www.chookooloonks.com/blog/2009/10/31/bonus-shot-her-majesty-princess-chookooloonks-of-the-deep-bl.html
Glad you had a great Halloween!
K.
There were tons of jellyfish in Brooklyn, too. I have no idea why! The buzzer is an excellent idea.
Adorable! I hope you do a how-to on the goldfish costume.
I think there was a Real Simple magazine bit this fall suggesting an umbrella jellyfish as a straight forward costume idea- might explain the numbers? Love your umbrella-less version though.
Love those!
Adorable goldfish! Hurray for a costume with a hat he would wear! Or is it out of the no-hat phase? I’m guessing it’s either that or the chocobribery worked again.
Brilliant X 800,000.
Wonderful fish costume! I want to make one now too!
The fish and sea captain are both great, but that jellyfish costume ROCKS. The joy buzzer is genius!
love all three of them!
Begrudgingly I bow with the masses.
This is so clever! If I steal this idea next year can I pretend that I was clever and came up with it myself? Please?
So cute, so clever! I’ve added your site to my blogroll because you always have such good content- Love that you cover so many topics, not just one thing!
You are, as always, my hero!
Precious! You are an inspiration!
Martha Stewart listed jellyfish as one of her easy no-sew costumes. I think Maggie’s is cuter than hers. I do love the idea.
Hank’s costume, btw, made my ovaries twitch. So cute! I love the back view. It make me happy that people still make Halloween costumes instead of buying them.
Love the costumes!!!!
You’re the most elegant jellyfish I’ve ever seen!
OH MY GOSH, Maggie! Your costumes are ADORABLE! The Jellyfish is such a gorgeous idea. And Hank looks out-of-this-world adorable. Jolly good!
You’re a genius. Happy Halloween!
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Lands’ sakes, you have a lovely child. I have seen Victorian paintings of beautiful women with less glow about them than he has.
Also? I think the picture of the fish caught by the fisherman is pretty much the best father-son image ever captured. I am not teary about it, though. At all.
I am a little late to this (comment) party but just discovered your blog and want to say, I adore this costume. This is cuteness, defined.
what a funny costume! How creative and fun!