Tuesday10- Or Maybe Just 6? ~Halloween Costume Edition~

So, this is my first time linking up at the Tuesday10 with Lena B, Actually.  This week's theme is Halloween costumes and I knew I had to jump right in there! ;) I love Halloween.  I have since I was a kid.  Every fall I would toss around my ideas with my mom for that year's perfect Halloween costume.  My mom is crafty and a bit of seamstress, so we never wore store bought costumes.  I have fond memories of my mother sewing myself and my Cabbage Patch doll matching yellow princess dresses to wear for trick or treat one year.  And there was the year I HAD to be a mermaid.  Using wire and sparkly mesh, that woman made me a mermaid tail.  There was also the year that I was a Rubik's cube fashioned from a huge cardboard box with pieces of colored construction paper glued to it's sides to make the squares.  These days I go with store bought costumes.  I cannot sew, and I am not an entirely crafty person.  But I do still like to get as creative as I can each Halloween.  My parents host an annual costume party, so I still have a reason to dress up even at 34. ;)

I couldn't find 10 photos of me in my Halloween costumes, but I did find 6!  I present them to you all below in no particular order...

This year's costume- A Geisha Girl

A Flapper (my husband, then boyfriend was a mobster ;) )

Okay, so this was not for Halloween.  I wore this Tinkerbell get-up while I was in Disney a couple of years ago.  But YEARS ago, I did dress up like Tinkerbell once for Halloween- that is the very same dress I wore then too actually. 

Last year I dressed up as a knocked up pirate wench.  I was pregnant with baby girl then.

Oh, my younger days... ;)

Do you have a favorite costume you have worn as an adult or maybe as a child?  Tell me about it... :)

Disney in Color- Green

So I have been anxiously awaiting this GREEN Disney in Color post.  And when you scroll down to my last photo you will see why. ;)

My son and two of his friends with one of the green army men from A Toy Story at Disney Hollywood Studios.

My son and I being goofy at Animal Kingdom

And now what you have been waiting for...  

Me dressed as Tinkerbell! ;D

Hey, I wasn't the only one dressing up!  This is me pictured with two of my fellow teachers and one of our students.  We all dressed up for our last night in Disney. We did it for the kids.  Wink, wink. ;)

Neat story, but "Alice" and I were waiting to catch one of the shuttle buses back to our resort when a mother with a very sad little girl dressed as a princess got in line behind us.  The little girl had obviously been crying.  Her mother's face lit up when she saw myself and "Alice".  The little girl who had been clinging tightly to her mama sobbing turned her head and saw us and immediately started grinning.  Apparently, the poor little thing had waited in line for a very long time, but didn't get to meet any of the princesses and was so sad and disappointed. "Alice" and I played our parts, took photos with the little girl, and signed her Disney autograph book.  I even gave her my magic Tinkerbell wand.  

I almost teared up when we boarded that bus.  That little girl was beaming.  <3