Texas Hold'em Massacre 2013

The 7th annual Texas Hold'em Massacre was full of fun and friends.  Here's a preview of the costumes from this year. Happy Halloween!

COSTUMES!

It's that time of year!  With Halloween just around the corner it's countdown to this year's costume choice for the annual Texas Hold'em Massacre.

A quick preview of costumes past:

1. Magic 8 Ball: 8 months prego with nothing that fits other than yoga pants and sports bras.  Cheap black and white face paint for the belly 8 ball, a top hat and magic wand with a little bag of answers.

2. Afro-American: Native American Indian outfit with an Afro and braids.

3. Fallen Angel: hand-sewn bodice and skirt over a tutu with wings, crutches, arm and leg brace (hence 'fallen').

4. Edwina Scissor Hands: mostly store bought with the scissor gloves and dress, added the tutu/boots/ripped hose, and crazy wig.  A tattoo scar across the face/lips made the makeup.

5. Zombie Happy Bunny: Bunny ears, zombie makeup, pajama footies with a bunny tail, smart-alec t-shirt.

And this year's contenders:

1. Goldie Locks: blonde curly hair, black dress w/gold locks all over it.

2. Diet Dr. Pepper: scrubs, stethoscope, chili peppers and slim fast bars attached to the scrubs. (done a previous year, but not for the Massacre).

3. Teepee'd: Wrap up in toilet paper, add warrior paint and a feather headdress for accessories.

4. Calendar Girl: any outfit will do with calendars pinned to it.  Oh, and it helps if you're a girl or you could just pad a bra and add a wig ;-)

5. Altophobia (fear of heights): Play on words here, where a music symbol for alto and carry a stool so when asked what you are dressed as you can stand on the stool looking down scared...okay, it's geek humor, get with it.

6. Coulrophobia (fear of clowns): Dress up as an evil clown.  This is funnier for everyone else that has to look at you and you realize how many people are terrified of clowns.

7. Boxed Wine: Boxing gloves, cardboard box decorated like a fine red or favorite white Zinfandel, black-eye makeup.

8. Boxed Wine II: Boxing gloves, purple balloons/some deflated attached to a shirt, black-eye makeup.

9. Little Red Riding Hood: Red hoodie and talk gangster.  Seriously, so stupid it's funny.

10. Runaway Bride: (as seen before) Running shoes/shorts, bridal veil and white gloves.  Add accessories like a water bottle and bouquet.

11. Energizer Bunny: Pink-all-over outfit with a bunny tail and ears, dark glasses, any big popcorn tin / drum strapped around the neck or shoulders, two big cardboard rolls on the back painted to look like batteries.

12. Mr. "Tea": Any type of tea bags and pin them together like a necklace, the signature mohawk, and a tea cup.

13. Vampire Cullen style: Vampire teeth, white face paint, add glitter spray for the sparkle effect in sunlight.

14.  Miss America: Dress as Captain America but add a pageant crown and sash.

15. Here's Johnny!: Red shirt, crazy Jack Nicholson eyebrows and smile, poke the face through an axed cabinet door.  Classic Shining.

That's all I've got this year.  If you come up with any ideas please post them in the comments.  Most important, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Edwina Scissor Hands

Fallen Angel and 'Sweet Cheeks'

Never going to beat the 'Magic 8 Ball'

October 19th Costume of the Day

A Lady Gaga tribute...

Poker Face: Draw the four suits on your face (heart, diamond, clubs, spade).  To really add to the costume you can pin cards in groups of a full house, four of a kind, flush, etc. to a shirt.

Sunday Synopsis: Wednesday's version

Oh what a weekend! So much went on that I have to break it down day by day just to get it straight in my mind!

Friday (Oct. 24th) was the day of my interview for the court job. I get up to the court house (in Viera) by 10:30 just to be sure of where I was going and lo' and behold I'm suppose to be in Titusville! I have never been to Titusville, so the 45 minute drive there was enough to discourage me from wanting the job in the first place. When they realized they had mistakenly pulled my application for the wrong location I was relieved and peeved. Relieved that the position in Viera was still available, and peeved that I wasted $20 in gas!

So I make it home in time to check my oldest son out of school and hunt down the remainder of his costume:

Yes, he wants to be MJ for Halloween! You should see the video of him dancing...Lord help us.

Saturday (Oct. 25): First thing Saturday morning I had my monthly STAR meeting. The Deep Dish was fantastic and I'm still editing from the comments everyone made on my first chapter. I'm so excited, but that's another post!

Then I had to get home to take the boys to our oldest son's Fall Festival at school. Fifty tickets and four won sodas later we headed home to get ready for his game. Baseball fields were flooded so we had a two hour reprieve from watching little league and chasing our 10 month around the playground. Yeah, he's walking that good now.

That night we had a Halloween/costume/Texas Hold'em/Birthday bash for a friend. Our oldest also had a Halloween party that started 30 minutes before ours. This put my husband and I in an awkward position of dropping him off in full costume:

My hubster was the Tooth Fairy, and I went as a Native American with an Afro...and Afro-American! The night ended with a three way tie on the Texas Hold'em tournament and the hostess winning the best costume. It's always fun when you mix costumes, alcohol, cards, and friends.

Sunday (Oct. 26th): We rested. Cleaned house, grocery shopped, and rested.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and I'm looking forward to this Friday. Halloween with the boys will be fun.