ode to plastic costumes
The cooler temperatures are putting me in a GREAT mood. I love this time of year. Just wanted to share a blast from the past.
Those 5 boys are my brothers and the plastic princess in the middle -- that would be me. I can totally remember the feeling of trying to breathe with that quality mask strapped to my face. You guys remember that?
Ahh. Good times.
Happy Fall everyone.
Those 5 boys are my brothers and the plastic princess in the middle -- that would be me. I can totally remember the feeling of trying to breathe with that quality mask strapped to my face. You guys remember that?
Ahh. Good times.
Happy Fall everyone.
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I loved plastic costumes too. What memories. Your brother, K, took my kids trick or treating two years ago with his kids. Nice, cause my husband was out of town. So which one is he?
this is a CLASSIC...brings back GREAT memories of being a kid...
thanks for the smile you inspired!
Oh yes, I had Smurfette. I remember my mom saying, "Smile! SMILE!" and thinking, "I AM!!!" I think that was how she got her kicks and giggles...no smile appeared through the plastic mask...
Oh do I remember those costumes! What fun it is to be a kid!
Your costume reminds me of my Jem and the Holigrams costume that I had. I thought that was the coolest.
LOL! Karie, I was Smurfette, too!
I feel a little left out, being the only one not getting to wear a mask. What a great shot of us hoodlums!
This pic gives me hope. My only daughter is about to get her 4th brother and she thinks it may be the end of the world! I'll have to show her this pic and tell her you had 5!
Oh that picture brings back memories! My sister and I were Bert and Ernie one year and rocked those plastic masks all over the neighborhood. :)
Totally classic! I love this picture. The plastic costumes remind me of when you would stay out really late trick or treating and you would hit as many houses as you possible good. Dump the bag and go again. Ahhh, the good old days!
Thanks for sharing Becky
Hilarious and so very cute. I am the youngest of 5 and your picture brings back a lot of memories for me of my childhood!!!!
Happy Fall to you!!
Carolyn
this picture could be straight from my childhood album... what memories!!!
Lisa
Oh and remember the smell of those plastic masks? That's what I immediately thought of when reading this post. Good times.
Cute picture. I just love this time of year and here in Yuma, we are finally getting some cooler temps. Just wanted to let you know that I made your Taco Soup recipe last night and it was sooo.. good! I think I would even make that recipe for our son (he's a chef in Phoenix), but maybe not let him see all the cans. Hee,hee!
Thanks, Becky, for being who you are. I am such a big fan.
Sincerely,
Carol in Yuma, AZ
This is classic, Becky! I totally remember these "plastic" costumes and have some family photos just like this, except there were 4 of us! Thanks for sharing!
I had a orphan Annie plastic mask for Halloween one year!
Oh boy do I remember those costumes. My most favorite was Witchy Poo!! Oh the lovely feeling of moisture buildup in freezing Halloween evenings. What a ball!! LOL.
Thanks for the memory, I had the same one.
love the pic! i think i wore some of those too...although my mom also made our costumes to save money. haha! i bet those costumes were $5-10 then. so funny
OMG what a classic picture! I sooo remember those costumes! Thanks for the good laugh!
I posted about you today on my blog...and gave you an award...
Wow what memories this picture brings back for me. I have been telling my 7 year old that costumes today are so different from when I was little. What memories I can still smell the great plastic smell when you opened the box. I recall trying to get it to fold back perfectly in the box. I also recall that by the end of the night that costume was coming apart. Kids costumes today while they really do have it all.
HA-Larious! that is just too much fun :)
Hi Becky-I am just wondering if you have the originals for that Life Story book you did back in July? I'm so mad at myself. I didn't save it and thought I would just go in and copy it later and now the link is gone....Is there anyway you could post it again or send a link to my email: kathyg89@gmail.com??? I wanted to make them for Christmas Gifts and also use them for Girls Camp next summer-I'm incharge of the projects each year. Thanks a million!!! Kathy
Oh my goodness! I had the exact same costume - I believe it was in 1971!
I had the SAME plastic princess costume!! When I was little!
Lol...yes, but mine was a witches costume and I loved it so much that I wore it until it wouldn't fit me any longer. I LOVE Halloween!
Holy cow! I had the same princess costume! How funny - and what great memories!
Oh your photo brings back memories. While I don't have pics like that.. my parents just didn't take them, I remember those days. My mother actually took a rag mop and dyed it and dressed me up like Raggety Anne. Thanks for brightening my night!!
I remember those costumes. I felt so bad because I wanted one so badly, (everyone else had one), but I had to wear the costume my mother sewed for me instead. Funny when I look back at it now.
That is great! So random I was looking at the rest of your blog and tried to download the journal pages that you did at girls camp but the link isn't working. Is there another way I can get these pages?
I was only lucky enough to have one of these costumes once (my mother sewed every other year) and I was a Strawberry Shortcake character!!! Loved it.
The weather here in Ohio is incredible. It is very chilly and windy today but I am loving all the colors we are getting.
Becky, any chance of you posting a new layout?? You are so inspiring; I love your style. I picked up the November CK and was sad that next month will be your last sketch column (this was the only reason I bought the magazine). I am anxious to see what you create next.
OH MY GOSH! I have a picture of myself in that exact same princess costume!
Thanks for sharing this picture Becky. You just inspired me to do a page for the album about my childhood. My mom usually made our costumes, but we were an army family and sometimes we were moving or about to move and she just couldn't. Other than the princess costume, the only other time I wore a store bought costume I was...get this...a KILLER WASP! Ha! We had just moved, it was the day before Halloween, and that was the only costume left in the store on base! The picture from that Halloween is hysterical! My new little friends were dressed as Raggedy Ann, a princess, and a ballerina. And I'm standing next to them in my killer wasp costume! I was so mortified at the time, but now when I look at those pictures or tell the story I crack up! I've got to get the killer wasp pictures and story down on a scrapbook page. So, thanks for the inspiration Becky!
My favorite Halloween memory was how you'd dress up in the costume and then have to wear a WINTER COAT over it because it was cold in the Midwest. :) Jerry Seinfeld has a joke about how he was pretty sure Batman and Superman's mother didn't make them wear winter coats. :)
Erin
OH YES!!!!!!!
I had that very CASPER costume one year. ANS YES----I remember trying to breathe in that thing----
Becky-
A long time ago you had a link for a bunch of tags and labels to print out to make up an album all about yourself. Do you remember that? Or where I can find that link?
Hi Becky,
I'm still having difficulty downloading the files for the school book. what am i doing wrong?
thanks for your attention to this. I loooove the idea and would desperately like to create one for my boys.
I had Strawberry Shortcake and I won 2nd place in my school's best costume contest:)
that totally cracks me up. i think i actually had that SAME princess costume (i was casper once too!)
That photo brings back so many wonderful memories :) My favorite plastic costume was Smurfette. I am going to have to now scrap some of our old halloween photos - thanks for the inspiration!
Love this blast from the past! I remember wearing a plastic snow white costume when I was 5. The smell. Remember the smell?
Becky,
Could you post more photos of your new scrapbook organization that is the photo on the front of your blog page? I'm planning a new scrapbook room for a house we are building and would love some ideas. Already found some of those cool boxes you used, too. Thanks!
my worst experience was when my BFF & I dressed up like an old man & woman...we wore those heavy plastic masks that practically smothered you...it was one of the best trick or treating nights...'cause nobody knew who we were...but it's a miracle we lived thru it! LOL! Thanks for bringing back that MEMORY!
OMG, Becky, you just made me laugh SO hard. I totally remember! By the way, LOVE your blog. Thanks for doing what you do!
Oh my! Thanks for that memory-trigger. Totally remember those masks...
Hi Becky,
Just a couple of questions.
Firstly can you do another video showing us a little more of Crew's baby album. Especially showing the month by month layouts.
Secondly back in a 2007 blog (I think) you showed the entire mini album you had made for your son Porter. Do you have one of these for Claire and if you do would you mind sharing. I just loved the one you did for Porter. I used some ideas from it to make a mini album for my son who was 10 last year. It had photos from his first 10 years of life and we had it out on display at his 10th birthday party. I now have a daughter who is close to 10 and I would like to do one for her. Some ideas from your mini album for Claire would be great.
By the way love the new blog and I am waiting in anticipation for your new projects and ideas.
Thanks
Joanne
I totally had that Casper costume, complete with the plastic mask. Remember how they came in the little box that you could buy at the local drugstore?
Thanks for the memories. Now I need to look and see if I can find those pictures to show my kids...
One year I was Smurfette compliments of a plastic Halloween costume. I can still smell the plastic!
Oh yes! I remember those plastic costumes. I was a pony from My Little Pony one year and Wonder Woman another year. I remember my face getting so hot and sweaty behind the mask that I would have to take it off every now and then to get a breather. :o) Thanks for the blast from the past! :o)
I printed out your photo and showed my girls (14 & 11). I told them that this is what we had for costumes when we were little. I even remember the boxes with the clear plastic window, revealing the mask.
My girls just rolled their eyes. They just don't get it. Aah, life was so simple then!
love that photo... too cute. ~ kim
Hi Becky - I have a HUGE request...I know you are always juggling a lot of things at the same time - how do you keep track of everything? Do you use a specific planner? I have been using the same monthly calendar for years, but, now the daily blocks aren't large enough for me to write everything down!! I am losing my mind trying to keep track of my kids' and my schedules!! Help!!! Thanks!
Hi Becky!
Love this fall season and all it brings with it- the costumes, leaves, weather (even if it is snowing right now where we live in Colorado!).
I know you have done some really fun projects with your kids classes at school before (like that kinder memory book- SO CUTE!). Have you ever done anything with gratitude journals for children? I'm trying to come up with an idea for 29 second graders (my daugher's class) with limited funds & time to make them in the classroom. Couldn't think of a better place to get a clever idea from you or your readers. HUGE thanks in advance. XOXO
Tiffany
Those masks were so hot even on cold Halloweens. So glad we can see the cute little faces in most costumes now.
I was wondering if you designed a Christmas Card kit this year? I got such great feedback on ones I sent out last year.
Yes! I remember those masks! The tiny hole for the mouth to breathe through...you'd get all sweaty-ish from your breath, LOL!!! :D
Thanks for the trip back in time, Becky!!
I was wondering if anyone has the link for the meal planner becky posted a few months back?
The link no longer works and I had not saved it onto my compueter : (
Please email me at
superorganizerblog@gmail.com
Thanks : )
Hi Becky,
Wondering if you will be doing another Christmas card kit this year. I bought your kit for the last two years and would like to keep the tradition going. And, how about another 12 days of Christmas? You don't have to give anything away - just fun video clips with good ideas that you seem to have plenty of up your sleeve. You are such an inspirations on so many levels!
Thanks Becky!
-Denise
Becky,
I was just wondering if you were going to have a Christmas card kit available this year? Also, any word about the 365 kit?
Becky, I am SO glad to see your post. I was a fairly new subscriber so I'm not sure what's going on but I get the hint that you are starting a new blog elsewhere. I absolutely LOVE the journal ideas for kids and I would love to participate in the word docs that you have listed. However, they are no longer active... IS there anything that can be done to make them active again?
I cannot wait to see the rest of your amazing collection when you kick back up again :) Congrats!
Kim Smith
Hi Becky,
I tried to open the links you posted for the Word versions of the school scrapbooks, but something popped up saying it didn't exist. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong? My mom teaches Kindergarten and I wanted to use those templates with her students. Thanks so much!
Ashley M
momoftwo - if you are looking for a bigger wall calendar try flylady.com or I have found a good one for 1.50 at Michaels. Lots of space to write in.
Alison
I am doing some Christmas planning and for the last couple of years I have ordered your holiday cards (and loved them by the way)! Are you planning something again for this Christmas? Thanks!
This is hillarious. I wouldn't have remembered these costumes without these photos. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Hi Becky,
I really hope you read all your messages because I am in desperate need of your help. We are having a RS Super Saturday Craft day this Saturday in our ward. We offered your Life Pages book as one of our items. (We absolutely love it!!!) Anyway I neglected to save the document when we first found it because I just assumed it would always be available on your blog. Unfortunately it is not available anymore. When I click on the link it comes up unavailable. Is there anyway you could email the adult version to me? I would be so very grateful.
Thanks so much,
Valarie Theurer
valtheurer@hotmail.com
Becky
I was wondering if you could send me a link to the life story pages...I'm activity days leader and somebody directed me to your blog, but when I click on the link it just says oops blah blah blah. Thanks mattandkeely@gmail.com
Thanks, Becky! I needed a good laugh tonight! :) You rock!
You must be on vacation:( Come back....we miss your blogging;D
Carolyn
Thanks for the good laugh! I remember these costumes fondly; I always got so excited to go to the store to pick out my costume for that year. :)
Carrie :)
ha-ha-
I showed my teen daughters this pic and told them I remember wearing a "Lucy" from Peanuts plastic mask and "sheath" or whatever you can call that outfit! I vividly recall the hot, moist, almost smothering to death feeling of wearing it. Thanks for sharing your pic.
Becky, I think I had that same exact costume :)
Cathy in NY
oh yeah, a certain Scuby Doo costume comes to mind!! hehe Good times!!
Hi Becky! Do you still have the Snapshot of Me downloads you posted a while back. I have looked everywhere for them and can't find them. I really want to make that album. Thanks!
Becky
I'm pretty sure I had the exact costume one year for Halloween when I was a kid!! (the princess one!) I hadn't thought about those type of costumes in a lifetime. Thanks for helping me remember. :)
Hugs, Nanette
i think i had that casper costume. my favorite was my wonder woman costume. trying to breathe and getting the stupid elastic tangled in your hair!
Oh my goodness. I was just talking to a gal pal the other day about my plastic smurf costume! It didn't make it 5 houses before it split right down the middle of the butt as I was climbing back in the car.
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