{"id":1370,"date":"2007-10-15T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2007-10-15T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T20:02:00","slug":"history-of-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1370","title":{"rendered":"History of Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been asking Emily for about a month what she wants to be for Halloween. Finally, this week she settled on a costume.<\/p>\n

<\/a>For a few years, she wanted to be a pig. I got pink leggings and a pink turtleneck, sewed a piece of velcro to a pink pipe cleaner for a tail, and cut out and glued pink foam ears to a headband. I also made a snout with a piece of elastic. I have pics, but I can’t dig them up. She was too sick to go trick-or-treating that year.<\/p>\n

The next year, she wanted to be a cat. I got black leggings and a shirt and used fusible interfacing to adhere white felt to the front. I took a piece of cording and encased it in black T-shirt material and sewed it to the seat of her pants for a tail. Unfortunately, she was too sick to trick-or-treat again. Talk about bad luck.<\/p>\n

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\nOne year she wanted to be Jo Jo the clown. That required a trip to the Disney store.<\/p>\n

One year, she wanted to be a princess, a decision she made on Halloween evening, requiring me to McGyver together various pink and purple bits of fluff into a costume.
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\nThis year? Well, this year she is fascinated with ghosts and vampires and such, and she remembered watching Charlie Brown.<\/p>\n

Find a worn-out white sheet in the closet. Cut out the elastic, since it’s a fitted sheet. Snip out two eye holes.<\/p>\n

Easiest. Costume. Ever.<\/p>\n

Thank you, parenting gods, for smiling upon me this year!
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