We didn’t buy costumes this year, especially since the prices are pretty ridiculous and most of them are borderline disposable anyway.

Jessica on the left and Alexandra on the right.

My youngest Jessica went as a witch, using a costume she wore last year (yep, it was a tad short) with some long black leggings with silver stars on them and a new hat I bought her.

Jessica the purple witch

My eldest was a bit harder to figure out. Someone had given grandma yards of this weird gold material (it’s pretty but not very easy to work with) and grandma told Alex we’d use it for her costume. So guess who played toga designer? We ended up with a Roman goddess (someone even asked my husband which goddes she was).

Alexandra the Roman goddess

I added elastic straps to her costume before sending her out. It kept slipping down in a rather naughty fashion. As you can see, she already thinks she a model of some sort.

They brought in waaay more candy than they needed and grandma and I already picked through the chocolate…yum!