This year Halloween was not as frantically chaotic, full of last minute sewing going on into the wee small hours of the morning, and the driven hunt for accessories--that final touch to make the outfit complete. I absolutely love sewing and making costumes and one day I will have a sewing space--perhaps even a sewing room. However that is neither here nor now and let me show you what we concocted this year for costumes. We have the Egyptian Princess, with a near to true Egyptian costume. I spent many hours looking up Egyptian clothing--they were simply dressed folk, so it was an easy get-up to sew up. The Mystic Hippy was nothing but taking the Eldest out for shopping spree on SailorMan's pay. We hit up the mega-chic, reasonably priced, hippy store in the multi-floor (10 in fact) shopping mall called More's City. She put the outfit together herself and I picked out the accessories to make her look more the part instead of just a commune living girl.
SailorMan dressed up as a 90's metal roadie, complete with mullet. He was called away to the ship at the end of trick-or-treating and keeping his costume on, freaked out his MPA that was waiting for him, causing him to nearly be taken down by the poor unsuspecting man who was just waiting for his CHENG to arrive. SailorMan truly looked like he didn't belong,
so the upset was understandable, lol! I wished I could have been there for that one. I dressed as a belly dancing gypsy of some sort and didn't have time to do makeup for it--wish I did, that's the other fun part of costuming: makeup. 
This time pictures were not taken as prolifically as normal since I was trying to get peoples r'et ta'go. Tick-or-Treating officially started on base at 17:00, but with people escorting JN Nationals onto base the whole shindig started pounding on our door at 16:10. While the girls were eating dinner and getting ready. Out the door finally 10min after 17:00.
The loot take was severely small compared to previous excursions years past. The amount of guests that were brought on base truly made a difference everyone's night. Folks ran out of candy in 45min while other were trying to ration out their treats to last at least 1.5hrs. We had fun. This was SailorMan's third time since 10yrs of marriage, that he was home for Halloween. Hopefully we can do Halloween together and go as a theme as I have been dreaming for years. The theme I have been entertaining has been childhood story book characters: Little Bo Peep and sheep; Little Red Ridding Hood complete with lumberjack, wolf, and granny; Alice in Wonderland; you get the idea. Now the touch that will set it all of will be that SaiorStudMan will be the fair maiden in the theme that requires one, or the meek creature in the theme that has one. Oh, this will be fun!!!
I am going to leave you for a bit. Hope you like a few of the photos I found of past Halloween. In The Wild Things picture, Eldest forgot to put on her mits; In the Clown Posse picture, the CrazyOne is getting over a cold--so her snot s clear not atomic green like for days prior. I have 8yrs of costumes packed away here and there in our house. This year is the second year ever that I have not made the costumes. The first year I didn't sew, the Eldest was infatuated with cowhands and went in full real leather chaps, vest, lasso with a real felt red stetson. The CrazyOne was the cow and I was the chuck wagon cook. I have yet to find those pictures. I will once I start to develop the 14 years worth 35 millimeter film rolls I have been ashamedly hording.