We were thinking of setting up some tiki torches and a cauldron (sp??) with dry ice in it outside, so we'd have a good atmosphere.

powerpuff girl sounds very cute ... which one would you be? would the boyfriend be mojo jojo?

i like couple/group costumes; they're so cute. some really good costumes from last year: the Flinstones (Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty, and they did a REALLY good job of deciding who should be who; they also arrived in a Flintstones-style car that they'd made); the Little Prince (another group costume complete with good props); various very-elaborately-crafted bug costumes (as ginsu mentioned).

ginsu and i went as pumpkinheads last year. we each bought these enormous styrofoam jack-o-lanterns from Target, cut out a hole for our heads, and plopped them on. since that didn't seem quite hilarious enough, we made ourselves disco pumpkinheads -- totally arbitrary, they just ended up being the funniest clothes we could find at the thrift shop. he wore an excellent powder blue leisure suit and i found a fabulously hideous jumpsuit. totally dumb costumes, but we made a pretty hilarious sight trying to walk next to each other with these big pumpkins on our heads (ginsu's was around two-and-a-half feet or so in diameter, mine about a foot).

One of the best I ever did was Fred Flintstone. I took a couple of yards of orange material and sewed it into a tunic, went crazy with a wedge-shaped sponge & black paint, and made a raggy blue tie with some scraps from the fabric shop. It helped that much more that I am 6'3" and bear a striking resemblance to John Goodman.

Group efforts are great--my apartment mates and I went as the Iwo Jima memorial one year--all in fatigues and one of us had a flag. Every time somebody yelled, "Semper Fi" we did the pose or had to drink. By the end of the night we had a hard time doing the pose and some of our attempts were downright unpatriotic, to say the least.

That same year, our friends upstairs, who spent all their time in our apartment playing Nintendo 64 anyway, came to our party as famous works of art. Very good stuff. We had David, The Scream, God and Adam from the Sistine Chapel (a two-man effort, on "Fiat Lux" they had to do the pose or drink). The fifth guy in their apartment came as Picasso's Blue Period and offended several of our lady guests.

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Every time somebody yelled, "Semper Fi" we did the pose or had to drink. By the end of the night we had a hard time doing the pose and some of our attempts were downright unpatriotic, to say the least.

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For food we made deviled eggs but colored the yolk green or blue and made them into eyeballs by putting a sliced black olive on top. We also bought some of those jell-o molds that look like brains and hands and served up brains on platters of lettuce.

I could go on! I am a marketing director for a mall and am in the process of planning a party for 800+ kids 12 and under so I really do a lot of research on this subject!

Oh, I almost forgot...the best thing we did was take black thread and fishline and taped various pieces to the ceiling. People couldn't see it, but the thread feels really gross rubbing people's faces and we just died watching everyone wipe their faces every time they entered the room.