I saw your tweet about going to get supplies, and I wondered what everyone was going to be. I love watching what your family does for Halloween!

I'm feeling like that too - I think it's the end of the summer that never was - a weird restless transitional thing. I have to get started on the Halloween costumes for the grands. The oldest wants to be a dragon & I found a great dragon hat on Costume Express as well as a very cute Sea Turtle costume for M (she's so little that sewing up those tiny curved seams is a pain & the costume cost about what it would have to make it.) So all I have to do is sew up the dragon jump suit for the oldest & a Sea Turtle costume for the middle child (that is why M wants to be a Sea Turtle - she wants to do everything her big brother E does.) It dawned on me that the basic costume jumpsuit is the same on almost all costumes & the pattern I have covers from size 2 to 12. So I bought a bolt of flannel backed gingham check vinyl. I'm going to cut the pattern pieces out of it & then save them for future use. It might also work well for warm jammies. I love that Butterfly costume - so cute - can't wait to see Wee One in her costume. The boys costumes might not be so bad. Looks like regular denim overalls would work for Mario but you'd probably have to sew purple ones for Wario. And then find the appropriate color of tshirt. The hats might be a real bitch tho.

I haven't had a vacation this summer and I feel the same way. Maybe it is just that weird doldrums from how non-summer like Boston has been this year?

Yes, get going on it already!!!! I have been patiently waiting to see the buttercup finished up.

(LOL, I know what you are going through. If you could only see the pile-up in my sewing/yarn/craft room.)

don't feel bad. sean has been sonic the hedgehog and roy (from supersmash brothers). liam was a barrel of toxic waste (from calvin & hobbes)

they are what they do, lol

Tee hee! My oldest one when he was still just a short stuff in elementary school wanted to be Link from Legend of Zelda! That was a fun costume to put together. :o)

This year Dear Daughter, who is six, says she wants to be Godzilla! Now, I gotta go dig out a dinosaur knitted hat pattern....LOL

I haven't been reading or knitting: just going to bed early. I'm hoping to snap out of it, too.
My baby is 16 and makes her own marvelous costumes now. But a hallowig might be a good start.

The Mario and Wario shouldn't be too bad to make ... White stretchy gloves (dollar store), th overalls would be somewhat easy and would be nice in bright coloured polar fleece (Halloween night can be cold!), a coupla t- shirts in yellow and red, and the hats ... you could knit them in the colours needed - this pattern looks close - http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/buggerloo and pretty cute tooo!

The blue flutterby is going to be sweet ... little one is obsessed with the butterfly?

My son was Waluigi last year. I had fun, plus it was pretty simple. I bought cheepo sweatpants and sweatshirt and used felt to simulate a bib and straps for the overalls (because Waluigi wears black with purple shirt) and then a cheepo cap with felt logo cut out and glued. Fake moustache. White gloves. Amazon has a surprising number of items that people clearly buy for Halloween--it was great!

Be sure to check out the Topi hat mods on Rav. There are several people who made those hats into Mario and Luigi hats. It is a quick knit.

if you need inspiration, visit this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizettegreco/286200565/

i love it!! :)

I love the Wario/Mario idea for the boys (I'd better be careful; my boys would jump right on that). It could be worse - they could have picked Bowser or Birdo!

Good luck on the costumes - I can't wait to see them all.

Sometimes it a brain vacation to read beachy crappy novels even if it is starting to get cool outside.