BLOGAHOMA

This is my husband Michael and my sixth appearance at the Park Tavern Halloween party. And we are all about costumes and accessories. Last year was by far my best as Lizzie Borden waitress at the Damned Cafe so the objective wasn’t to top that but to have an unexpected but interactive costume without spending a bunch of money or time in preparation. Okay, at least the money part we are graphic artists afterall.

Maybe it was my addiction to all the election coverage but I had a dream about what our costume should be for the Park Tavern Halloween Party. The idea harkened back to the old 1940 movies about investigative reporters and photographer that were in all the vintage cop movies like Citizen Kane, Ace in the Hole and After Office Hours. Our costuming needs were not so expensive as previous years. They consisted of a couple old suits from Goodwill, Fedoras and novelty ties (Michael’s had cameras on his and I had fish on newspaper) off of Ebay, an oversized pencil from a Novelty shop and the Graphix Camera. The original cameras still command a hefty price so Michael made his own from styrofoam and a lot of ingenuity. He made it so that our digital camera could fit in it and yet no one could tell it wasn’t the real deal. He definitely pulled it off with comment such as “Can you still get the film developed?” and “That must cost you a pretty penny!”. Of course we needed names and press passes. I found a picture of an original one on Google images. Michael used it as reference and made our’s up. He became Flash Shutterbug, photojournalist and I was Walter Willtell, reporter (after the famous Walter Winchell) for the Medicine Creek Tattler.

Once at the party I went around doing some investigative inquiring while Michael snapped pictures for the Park Tavern website. All I can say that the costumes worked like a dream.

photo courtesy Vycke McEwen