For this week’s 7 Quick Takes, I thought I’d post some photos of some of the things I have been for Halloween in the past. I’m also including a couple that my family has been. This year, hubby and I decided to stay home and hand out candy. It will be our first time doing that since buying our home over 15 months ago (last year we went out for Halloween and our neighbors were sad that we weren’t home). We plan to have hot cider and beer available for our neighbors when they come by.

Feel free to link me to photos/posts of your Halloween costumes!

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When I was younger, my mom made a lot of our costumes. She’s very artistic so she was great at imagining something and putting it together. Here is my brother and I Halloween…circa 1990. I am a cat from Cats and my brother is Captain America (I think). I wish you could see my face paint better – I actually won a school contest with that face paint!

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Same year, but this is my dad…as a Ninja Turtle! Excuse the sign language – I just think it was a fun costume!

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I’m a huuuuge Wizard of Oz fan so it’s only natural that I be Dorothy! This costume got a lot of use – I wore it a couple of halloweens and one of my roommates did as well! The shoes I always wore were my junior prom shoes and Toto is a beanie baby!

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In 2002 Wendy and I scored tickets to the Boo Bash which is a huge Halloween party thrown by a local radio station. They usually have a couple of musical artists (I think Dirty Vegas was one of them that year….). Since we decided to go so last minute, we whipped up some costumes. Wendy had a corset/shirt from a Renaissance fair so I borrowed that to be a pirate wench. Wendy’s costume was great though – she was a greek goddess and she used sheets and gold rope! I still can’t get over how well it came out!

Yes, that is my old bedroom with a poster of Ben Affleck! Lol!

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Ok, so this one is my brother-in-law Craig. He works for Disney World and is great at putting together costumes! He works on them forever and you can tell in his attention to detail. This is a photo of him….maybe 3-4 years ago as Jack Sparrow. Amazing right? His costume was so good that when he went to DW with it for the Halloween party, they asked him not to take photos with others! I think a girl even asked him to go to prom!

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On our honeymoon, we spent part of it at Disney World. They throw this huge Halloween party called Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. Scott and I went and had a fabulous time! We had dinner at a restaurant with the characters and even they are dressed up for Halloween. Here I am with my I skull Pirates shirt and Goofy

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Last year we went to a sports bar with a bunch of friends for Halloween. Hubby borrowed a real surgical uniform from his mom who works at a hospital. We were not allowed to put fake blood on it (yet it still sits in Scott’s closet!) so that wasn’t fun. I decided to get a nurse uniform so we can be all barfy and couple like. It was fun. Our friend Andrew suprised us and dressed up like our patient! My favorite costume was our friend Bill who was Shaun from Shaun of the Dead! Loves it! Here’s most of us that night.

What are you going to be for Halloween? What have you been in the past?