Be Original This Halloween

You want this upcoming Halloween to be one like no other. You want to decorate with more innovative ideas than just the hackneyed Skeletons, Witches and Pumpkins. This should be the most memorable Halloween yet, and the best thing is that you still have plenty of time to plan it. Careful planning will make the kind of resulting difference that everyone will notice.

So you start brainstorming about costumes, then you wonder how you'll decorate your home for the much-anticipated Halloween party. You have come to the perfect place to start outlining your ghoulishly fun event where your goal is for your invitees to see things their eyes have never encountered before.

So let's begin with your costume: As the hostess, you will need something very original. The words, "Oh, I have never seen your costume before!" will be the best Halloween Costume-winning comment you will hear. And this will surely put a smile on your face as well as give the utmost satisfaction of a well-planned, appropriate disguise. You don't necessarily have to do-it-yourself in order to attain the heights of originality. You can also look through our vast selections of thousands of costumes for that rare gem of a costume that will stand out in the crowd.

• Instead of the mermaid, try a variation as a Sea Horse, which can be feminine too. Or make it a male Sea Horse to accompany the Mermaid all night long. This costume idea is great for both kids and adults. For the Sea Horse Costume you can create a headpiece of gray silver or purple hues with a long, protruding snout over your forehead and fish-like scales over your head. For boys, a matching silver/purple jumpsuit with attached curly tail, and for girls, a matching long-sleeve leotard with attached tutu skirt, curly tail and draping scales hanging from the sleeves. You'll be remembered for sheer originality.
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• An Aquarium Costume full of colorful fish is also an original costume idea especially for kids. It can consist of a lightweight rectangular box with transparent plastic sides, filled with all types of fish (even Halloween-themed fish, such as Ghost Fish, Devil Fish, Zombie Fish). You can design the box to put it over the head so that the head is part of the underwater menagerie of sea creatures or place it around the torso (be sure to wear a blue shirt) and wear an appropriate seawater-related hat. Everyone will be looking at all the creatures inside your aquarium.
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• For the art lover in your life, an Artist's Palette Costume makes an interesting and fun costume, which can be made up of a pre-cut sandwich board in the unique shape of an artist's palette then decorated with all the colors of the rainbow and a big paintbrush. Additional costume accessories include a little black mustache and a traditional painter's beret.
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• Grandfather Clock Costume will be hilariously funny when you're standing up against a wall and suddenly move! People will just jump! Get creative and invent this costume by making boxy sections in brown cardboard and necessary paint for detail. Each leg gets a boxy cover for easy walking, which when placed together look like one unit. Your head will get the boxy cover with the clock's face with movable hands (make sure to create an opening for your eyes). As with your legs, each arm can have a boxy cover, which can look like part of the whole unit when you adduct your arms.
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• A Crystal Ball on a Table-Clothed Table Costume will have people making double takes. (Only your head pops up from above the light, cardboard table top). Around your head is a clear plastic sphere with a circular opening so you can breathe. On the table you can glue tarot cards, coins, candles or other fortune-telling related items. Lines will be forming for their turns to hear you speak. We predict a very fun, dance-all-night, bewitching, future.
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• Build a literal house of cards around you and astound everybody's sight as you don't tumble. You'll need enough glue to patiently put all the cards together in this architectural feat. This will be a most original and affordable costume design for all card lovers.
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• There is a Chandelier Costume on the market featuring a short black dress with printed chandelier bodice design and short cylinder shaped dress with ornate crystal drops hanging from the skirt. Other original designs are comprised of white or gray under dresses with open hoop skirts and strands of refracted-light crystals reaching all the way to your ankles, making an illuminated, motion hula skirt. You'll definitely be the "lamp" of the party especially with a lighted, crystal chandelier hat. As the lights hit you in the dance floor, you'll create beautiful diamond-like effects everyone will enjoy.
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• And last but not least, a Haunted House Dress Costume… have you ever seen such a fashion creation? We haven't. So let's begin with a knee-length or full-length black, plain A-line dress with short, puffy, ruffle-trimmed sleeves and skirt edge. With a cutout stencil in the shape of a haunted mansion (looking from the ground perspective so as to fit the A-line contour of the dress perfectly), rectangles for windows can be created, as well as doors and wall outlines, etc. throughout the bodice and skirt. You can wear a short-sleeved undershirt (or a tank shirt) with printed interior rooms (visible upon unbuttoning the front part of the dress) and a gable-inspired hat with attached chimney. You can get as creative as you want while decorating all sides of the "house," including a mailbox even (as a purse). As your party's hostess, you will portray the haunted house everyone will be surprised to see for the first time. Think about it, this will be such a fun, limitless imagination project, where you'll be able to glue or sew Halloween-colored sequins and holiday-related appliqués of only your choice. Designing your own dress will make you look and feel spooktacular!

Ultimately, the best decorations in your party will be the actual party-goers themselves with their equally fascinating costumes. So we recommend you focus on the delicious food, delectable drinks and happy music to have yourself the fantastic Halloween experience you've always imagined but have never had, until this year. Good company is at the heart of all good-time parties. Happy Halloween to all!