This Sister LOVES Halloween

Okay, so I know Halloween is still forever away.... But a good costume takes extensive planning. And as some of you know, I am slightly obsessed with the Avengers, so I was looking at costumes for Avengers, and was getting slightly disheartened by the fact that they're all either expensive, or in "sexy" form. I don't do sexy. For one, I'm LDS and have standards. For two, it don't work on me.

So I was searching costumes trying and failing to find modest costumes.... and I found this:

It's cute, no? Simple, gets the point across... and I'm pretty sure they stuffed her shirt, but whatever. You get it. So that picture is what started it all. I had some time on my hands this afternoon after finishing my laundry... so I put together some do it yourself costumes and I tried to use articles of clothing that I know between the sisters (okay, mainly Caite and I) already own, or articles of clothing that would be easy enough to find.

So here goes. Starting with the Avengers!

Here we see Captain America:

Allow me to highlight some of these costume features: a simple shirt with the Captain America logo, a belt that I love but I'm not sure how easy it would be to find, a pair of jeans (which all three sisters have, no sarcasm), a pair of shoes that I already own, and a DIY Captain America hat. I already have the yarn.

Here we have Thor:

Thor is very simple. The t-shirt is awesome, and the helmet you can get (I think) in the kids toys section at Walmart, or it could be omitted entirely. This costume features a pair of black skinny jeans (easy enough to get) and a pair of basic black boots. I know I have a similar style of boots, and I think Caite does too. You will see these same jeans and boots in many other costumes because oh yeah, there's LOTS more to come.

Here is Iron Man (or the costume, I guess):

I love this costume. That t-shirt is just plain AWESOME. I've already mentioned that I own the shoes, and here we see the pants again. The hat is pretty sweet too, and that ought to be easy enough to acquire.

Here is the Incredible Hulk! costume:

This costume is pretty plain, but you know, Bruce Banner doesn't wear much when he's the Hulk. I found a Hulk muscle shirt, the cliche purple shorts, black converses which I think Caite has, and a cute little Hulk hat that brings a smile to my face.

Here we have Hawkeye:

I like Hawkeye. I was just basically trying to bring together some basic elements, going back from the Avengers movie to the original Marvel Hawkeye. I found a basic t-shirt, a purple belt, and brought back the pants again and the boots. The purple headband I think is just plain adorable and could be omitted, or it could add just the right touch to the costume, in my opinion, since I couldn't find Hawkeye headgear of any kind, even though he doesn't have it in the movie. He does in the comic. Don't argue with me. I like it.

Here is one of my favorites, the Black Widow:

I found a pretty sweet Black Widow t-shirt that I might need to get whether or not it's used for Halloween, and brought back the black pants again. I thought it would be easy to find a belt but it's not, so we get a DIY Black Widow belt. The boots, however, are not the same as before, because I feel that the Black Widow needs some high heels. I seem to think Caite has a similar pair; if not, she ought to.

So that's it for the Avengers. But being a HISHE fan (not as much as Ashy and her husband) but a fan nonetheless, I just had to do a couple more...

"Shh... do you hear that? Is that the Justice League?" "....I don't hear anything." "Exactly!" "Ohhh! Captain America burn!"

So here we have.... dun dun dun DUUUN! THe Justice League!

Starting with Superman (not because he's better than Batman, but because I feel he just goes first):

This costume features a Superman shirt similar to one we have floating around... I left it behind when I went to college and Caite was supposed to go through all the clothes I left behind... I don't think I meant to leave that shirt behind, so Caite if you didn't reclaim it, I want it back if you still know where it is. I also included a basic pair of skinny blue jeans and a basic yellow belt, and I felt this costume needed some red boots that would be expensive and difficult to find, but I like them for this costume so shush it. I guess that, failing to find the boots, red Converses could be substituted.

Next we have BATMAN:

I picked the shirt because I think it's cute, and a Batman belt is necessary because he always has his utility belt. Here are the pants yet again, and a cute DIY hat like for Captain America. I chose the hat because should this costume be used for a church function, masks would not be allowed. However, I believe a Batman mask can be found in the kids toys section at Walmart. The shoes I chose specifically because I know Caite has a similar pair of awesome Batman shoes. I know she has a Batman hat too, but I chose this hat because it makes it more costume-like.

And lastly in the series of Meems costumes, we have Wonder Woman:

I think this one is also one of my favorites. This costume features a basic Wonder Woman shirt, the black pants again which could be substituted with the basic blue skinny jeans which I know Caite and I both own. This costume features a Wonder Woman accessories set, which I found online for roughly ten dollars. And black high heel boots, because Wonder Woman needs them.

I know the question on you mind now is what I've decided to be for Halloween. Or the question is on your mind now if it wasn't before, because I said it and made you think about it. Anyway, I think I would like to be Wonder Woman, or the Black Widow, although I'll probably be whatever I decide to be closer to Halloween. I just like to keep my options open for a while to give myself time to plan the best costume ever and show everyone else up.

I think Caite should be Batman. I suggested the Batman costume just for her.

Ashy and Dan should dress up this year and not be lame and they should do a couples costume because I love couples costumes. I decided last year that they should be Waldo and Wenda. They didn't do it, of course, so maybe they should go my DIY superhero route this year. Or they should dress up like this for Halloween:

Because it would be HILARIOUS. It really would. I would dress up like this for Halloween this year if I had someone to partner with, but alas, I'm still single as a Pringle.

So this post does two things.... describes what I've been up to today, and gives you an idea of what I've been up to lately. I don't get out much. I'll write another blog post later, and talk about other things then.

Thus concludes our two-month early Halloween special! (It's about two months because we have the rest of September and all of October... right?) Don't touch that dial, though, because one of the Sisters will soon follow with another post!

Signing out,
Meems