Zombie Attire

Remember when I did the "Run for Your Lives" zombie 5k with my "book club" girls? Here's the skinny on our costumes. I was really excited to find these jerseys at Goodwill on $1.49 green tag day:

Well that was just the beginning, because after I contributed my shopping skills, Carin & Krista went to work with their crafty skills, and took it to the next level:

HELLO TEAM CHOMPS! How hilarious is this? Just a little fabric paint retouching, and a clever pun comes to life. And what do we "chomp?"

BRAIIIINS!

Martha/magician that she is, Carin made a home-made screen printing set up to brand all of the jerseys, and it turned out so cool!

Team Chomps, ready for lunch :)



We came, we scared, we stuck to the seats...

Zom-being is messy folks. After hours of scrubbing off my transformation from today's Run For Your Lives Zombie 5K, I had to give it a break because I couldn't tell what was the paint and what was damage I was causing by exfoliating too many new layers of skin trying to scrape said paint off. I've still got latex scabbing in my hairline and what looks like a weird rash on my neck that I couldn't quite remove completely, but other than that (and a severe lack of sleep) I'm mostly unscathed. I am having phantom faux blood syndrome remembering the pain of karo syrup blood ripping all my arm hair off, but the blood was actually the easiest part to wash off! Unfortunately, getting up at 4am has taken it's toll, so I'll try to get a recap together soon, but not tonight!

Braaaaaains!

It's clear that the zombie apocalypse has begun - naked dudes attacking and biting people in Miami, guys eating their roommates in Maryland, Canadian porn star canabal sending pieces of people to politicians...if you're not following the news, yes, all that happened recently.

Might as well join the fun :)

I'm up at the crack of dawn to drive down to Millville, Minnesota (?!?) and be transformed into a zombie as well. I'm excited for the professional zombie makeup, and the fact I don't have to actually do my hair or look presentable when I roll out of bed so early - being disheveled will only help the cause. My group decided to coordinate costumes and thanks to Green Tag Day at Goodwill, we're going to be an awesome zombie soccer team! Here's a "before" shot of the jerseys we are working with, there are 4 "players" and one referee:

I am going to try to bring my old point & shoot camera (can't risk my "real" one), so I hope to take a few "after" shots to share once we have made the transformation, fingers crossed.

See you on the other side :)

Looking forward to...

After the last post, I pretty much immediately signed up for the "Run for your life Zombie 5K." The zombie shifts were almost all sold out already, so we'll be getting up ridiculously early to trek out to the middle of nowhere for our zombie transformations, but hey - nobody said zombie apocalypse would be convenient. My friends are considering doing a theme for our undead outfits, but haven't settled on one yet. I love costume planning. :)



A few other things I'm looking forward to -

The "Just Between Friends" kid consignment sales start their spring run next week and there are a bunch of them around my area, so I'm excited for good deals. Just in time too, our early warm up + The Cupcake's hulk-like growth means I'm pretty sick of putting her in the same 3 pairs of pink pants and the small selection of currently fitting shirts that don't seem to match any of them. I'm trying to prep some stuff to sell as well, but it is SO MUCH WORK! If I can make enough back to cover what I sell, it will be worth it.




Summer trips! I'll be traveling for work a big ole' week WITHOUT TC, should be an adventure for all of us. I'm not going anywhere terribly exciting (Indianapolis) but I am still excited for the experience. And potentially sleeping through the night a few times :)

Summer activities! TC LOVES to be outside, and she'll sit in her stroller for hours if you keep her moving. Recently I splurged on one of these:

Kid LOVES it! She's particularly obsessed with the little cell phone toy strapped to the handlebars (teaching them to talk and drive already?!?!) and threw the FUNNIEST fit when I tried to take her off it the first time (it won't be funny the 50th time, but seriously, how is it not hilarious when a kid goes all soupy jell-o on you so you can't pick them up and even put them back on the toy they are mad you took them off of? And it's not like they learn that, it must be inborn. Babies are so ridiculous!)I love the sun shade, and while it's not as easy to push as the stroller (and not as much storage), it feels less weird to have her in that on the sidewalk or driveway where we turn circles for hours.