The 2011 Leonard Halloween Extravaganza

If you haven’t gathered from the graphic above or the thirty times I’ve mentioned it, we had a Halloween party this past weekend.

I LOVE Halloween. I love the candy, I love the decorations, and I especially love the costumes. We plan ours out months ahead of time and I love to carefully thrift or sew each part of the costume.
This year we were…..

DRUMROLL PLEASE

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Bellatrix Lestrange, Dumbledore and Harry Potter!

Unfortunately, these are the best pictures we have of all of us together.  
Luckily, my friend Betsy took one on her phone


I am really happy with how our costumes came out.
I’ll be back with more details on how I made them later in the week.

 
We also had appearances by Joaquin Phoenix and Mary Poppins.

 
Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

At least until they were struck by a spell from Dumbledore’s wand. . .

Richard Simmons and one of his exercise girls graced us with their presence as well

J.K. Rowling forgot to mention that Dumbledore could magically tap a keg

OMG Zombie priest and nun!

(And duh, Speed Racer)

This is the only picture we have of Lois as Harry Potter but I love it so much.

Mary Poppins was handing out spoonfuls of sugar limoncello

Yes.

Times a thousand.

 
You know, because Mary Poppins and Luigi would totally be friends.

Did I mention Charlie Brown and Lucy were there too?

   Sistas.
I was sewing sequins on that damn vest until 5:00 Saturday afternoon.

Jo made the cutest scarecrow

Anna has a bun in the oven!

THIS.

Can’t. Stop. Laughing

We had a blast hanging out with our friends and seeing all the creative costumes. It was our first holiday party to host in the new (actually, it’s been almost a year since we bought it) house and I can say for certain it won’t be the last.

Ugly Christmas sweater party anyone?