Still talking about Halloween

It's 72 hours old, but I don't even care. The best part about Halloween was spending a month perfecting my costume, and I was so stoked with the way it turned out.

As I mentioned in the post before this, I was Princess Peach, and I spent less than $30 on it.

Thrift stores are always my friend, and that's especially true for certain events that require special attire: ugly sweater parties, costume parties, and of course, Halloween.

I bought that little pink, napkin-sized dress for $7.99 at the Salvation Army. Before finding it, I knew I wanted to be Princess Peach, but I didn't plan on going for such an, um, "updated" version of her, if you will. I talked myself into it though, since Halloween is all about dressing as something you're not, and I built the rest of the costume from there.

The blue accessories are earrings -- one pierced pair that I used as actual earrings and one clip-on pair, which I used as the little "jewel" at the neckline of the dress. They were $1 a pair at a thrift store, and I painted them with a 50 cent tube of paint.

The crown I found on clearance at Claire's for $2. It was originally pink and purple and silver, but I painted it with another 50 cent tube of paint.

The gloves, while not quite as feminine as I would have liked, pulled the outfit together, and I spent $3.50 on them in the Halloween section of Walmart. I also bought some white fishnet stockings (not pictured) there for $4 because Halloween night was below freezing and I thought bare legs was a bad idea.

I used a pair of shoes I already had in my closet and some pink makeup I already had in my collection. So my grand total of things I bought specifically for this costume comes to just over $20 -- even less than my estimate of $30 from my last post.

I'm already anxious for next Halloween. Maybe I'll have to throw a costume party between now and then to hold me over.