More Holiness Give Me: Slice of Life #24....Costumes.... my #3

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Slice of Life #24....Costumes.... my #3

Remember the good old days? When no one ever paid money for costumes? When we just got creative and inventive? I loved this year when I was Frankenstein. It was fun.

I remember the year my mom dressed me up more for her than for me! I was in 6th grade and she made me dress up like a bowl of jelly beans. And I mean she MADE me dress up. Basically she sewed some kind of a thick plastic and I had to wear it like a bowl and then she put all these balloons inside to make the jelly beans. And I had to wear a plastic hat for the lid. I had to wear a black leotard on underneath. And there really weren't enough balloons to hide behind. Talk about self concious. 6th grade, people!!!! I was like 12! It was so humiliating.

My mom sewed this costume for me as a toddler.

Nathan as Raggedy Andy -doesn't get better than this!

Rhett my adorable leopard

3 comments:

Carol said...: Great photos! I love that jelly bean outfit, so very creative!; November 2, 2010 at 6:44 AM
Pirate Princess said...: Hahaha Susan!!!! These are so fun, and I am SO SORRY about the Jelly Beans, although you looked awesome. Why did she force you like that?

That Raggedy Andy outfit and the leopard are just too adorable. And my girls still look around and come up with costumes.. last year I took a bunch of fabric and made all the boys capes and masks like Zorro and called them "Candy Bandits." heh heh; November 7, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Susan said...: Camy Carlyle Hertz said... Cute cute!!! Love Raggedy Andy, that's just adorable!!!

Ellie Patrick said... haha! that one in the jelly bean costume looks like kassidy!!

Kim Heinke said... Love this!

Linda Hansen Holt said... Every time I see that Raggedy Andy picture, I think it's mine for a second because I have a picture just like it..... somewhere! I've got to find that!
And the jelly beans are adorable! But you do look perfectly miserable, poor girl!

Nancy Chamberlain said... I can't remember ever making you wear the Jelly Beans. You do look unhappy. Oh, the things we do to our kids!

Susan Chamberlain Nielsen said... Well, you know how memories change. Maybe you didn't make me. But I remember you making me. because I was mortified to be in a black leotard. And you told me it wouldn't even show because of all the balloons. And then you sadly underestimated how many balloons we would need and I wanted more to cover me up. smile emoticon I love you though.

Mary McDowell said... selective memory,my kids have the same "disease" ha

Kirsten Guthrie Hinton said... oh waahhhhhh. Think about all the poor kids in china who never have anybody to make them dress up like jelly beans.

Susan Chamberlain Nielsen said... I am so lucky!; April 17, 2016 at 2:59 PM

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Slice of Life #24....Costumes.... my #3

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