A Halloween Throwback

 

Woohoo!  

It's Friday and we're on the verge of Halloween 2010... it's wild how fast time goes!

I just couldn't resist doing this Halloween throwback post showing several of my Halloween costumes throughout childhood and into adulthood starting with the one above where my aunt dressed me as some type of Egyptian princess and ending with my hippie costume... which I will be reinventing once again this year, stay tuned for a picture of that on Sunday!

What are your plans?  

Whatever it may be I hope you all have a safe, spooky,  
Happy Halloween!

Back in the carefree good-ol' days... I was one happy bunny...

As a sweet little ode to my father's heritage, my parents dressed me as a Spaniard - complete with Castanets and a Basque leather Bota (a wine pouch - it was full of water of course)....

My sister Danielle and I.... Native American and Jack-O-Lantern bonding...

That's my mother and I as Wicked Witches and me as Cat Woman another year...

That's me below as a Cave Woman, which is by far my least favorite costume growing up - I had a blacked out greasy tooth, huge black painted on eyebrows and a tangled black wig that itched like hell!!!  

Oh well, the next year was better, I dressed as my favorite TV Land lady I DREAM OF JEANNIE!  Yes, I realize how terrible that yellow hairspray was, I should have just left my hair natural brown, instead I stubbornly tried to make that long blond Jeannie wig piece blend in, to no avail!  Too bad I never took a closeup picture of the Jeannie bottle I made for the outfit, it was awesome!  By the way, that's my little brother on the far right with me, you know, back in the Power Ranger crazed days, hehe....

 

 

Now, flash forward a few years (because I have a serious gap in my Halloween photo archives) to a couple years after I graduated high school .....

I guess I was a Vampire....  that was just one of those years where I made up a last minute costume....

Ah yes....the year my uncle (who has been a City of Miami Firefighter for ages) lent me an authentic firefighter's helmet and jumper... This was a real attention getter and by far one of my favorites ;)   

 And last, but certainly not least because it's obviously my all time favorite costume... as evidenced by the fact that I have dressed in several variations of it for the past three or even four years!  Well, what can I say?  I'm a natural!

No need for a store bought hippie costume here folks, I'm the real deal!!

2006....

 2007....

My brother joined me... isn't he a devastatingly handsome hippie?

Fun times in Coconut Grove.... my friend and I were the hippie groupies and my boyfriend at the time dressed as Jimi Hendrix, guitar and all!

I love the faces my brother was making in these pictures, too bad they are such poor quality...

This was when I worked for Red Design Group in 2007.... everyone got a kick out of my hand-painted posters with the peace sign and "Make Love Not Babies"... which, looking back, really should have read "Make Love Not War" instead.... who knows where my head was :)

(All images in this post are my own personal photographs)