11/1/2025 - Halloween not-so-woes and some-woes

It's Saturday... you know what that means! It means I blog for a bit. And confidentially, yesterday was Halloween! 

I actually had no idea what I was going to be for halloween. This is an issue every year. I cosplay... I wear fun clothes... but halloween... it's hard to figure it out. My favorite karaoke bar has a competition every year, which I've placed in for the past 2 years, but this year I didn't feel like competing as I was getting too concerned with it. Halloween and karaoke is supposed to be about having fun, so this year I felt like I needed to like, take it easy.

But then came the costume... oh god what was I going to be?! I have so many cosplays but I didn't feel like they'd make sense for halloween. In a way, since I dress up a lot for funsies already, but there still was a weird pressure in the back of my head... even though there wasn't. If that makes sense. I am very harsh on myself and constantly strive for improvement, so I was just... very mad. But also I wanted to be comfy.

Also for the first year I had too many options on what do to do which I think lead to some fomo today... should I have bar hopped? Party hopped? By October 30th I decided I'd just wear a Pokemon Kigurumi. 

But then... I said fuck it... let's go to Savers and see if I can get anything to make Felicity Shagwell. Why Felicity? It's been in the back of my head, and I figured let's do a fun halloween version for now. Sadly, no jumpsuits at the 3 Savers I went to LOL. I ended up getting a denim shirt and some jeans which I cut into shorts, along with a belt with a gold buckle. There was a michaels next door so I squinted at the pictures on my phone to figure out colors, and also found some felt pink butterflies... bless.

So October 30th Crafting: 

I ended up pulling out the sewing machine to bring in the waist on this shirt dress thing and made it too tight. Like I had to rip the shirt at the sides a bit and like squeeze my chest through it to get it on. I was already feeling defeat but after I got it on... I was like... ok I can do this. This is still happening.

I also took the butterflies and painted on a totally not accurate orange detailing, and let that dry over night to attach to my old Byleth boots (will probably try to salvage these to re-wear next time I decide to be Byleth. Then the last item for the night was the belt. 

I ended up buying a tan belt, and for some reason thought I could posca paint on the belt but that was proving very unhelpful early on, so I was like... welp... what do I do... and then I was digging through the craft room and found dark blue leather paint. Now why do I own dark blue leather paint? Why did I buy it? I honestly don't remember. I remember using it for Rhea last minute to fix an ironing issue but I cannot remember for the life of me why I initially bought it. But it saved me a lot of time. After it dried down, I glued down these fun little ribbons, and retired for the night.

The last step was to glue on the zipper (which was not accurate) and trim on the shirt, and then glue the butterflies on the boots. For a 24 hour costume project... not bad.  

There was also the wig, which I originally cut up an old lacefront I had sitting around but realized I cut it waay to short, so I took an old wig and just steamed the bangs back. There was not enough time to make the hair like super perfect but that's ok. 

Overall, the costume was comfy, and slowly fell apart during the night but ... it was Halloween... who cares. I did not see a single Austin Powers. I heard there was one and was devastated I missed them.

My Halloween was just at the local karaoke spot! I think I made the mistake of going out too early and I really should've taken a nap. I never let myself take a nap and force myself to go early... but in the future... naps. Naps are important. 

I did feel a bit of fomo for not bar hopping... but I know myself... I really can't!! I'm getting old!!! LOL!! I yearn for the party life sometimes but I have never been built for it. It can stink sometimes, but I have to remember I had fun overall! :) I did get overstimulated at the end but that's halloween for you I guess... LOL!

I do want to try to seriously make this costume for the future....... yes...