Another night That I Transformed into a Cat Lady Oct. 29, 2011

It was Oct. 29, 2011 and I transformed into the Cat Lady again. I don't have a lot of Cat Lady photos to this blog. You can go to me other one to see more of them.

My Makeup is painted on a little different on this night.

We had another costume contest at the Hersey The Cave Bar in Hersey WI. It is about a hour from where we live. Don & I love this bar because the people are so friendly and we always have a good time going there with our good friends Gene & Jody. I met some wonderful people there this time and we now have some new friends. Don & I wish we lived closer because that would be a bar that we would feel comfortable going into to sit and have a drink and socialize with people. I myself told Don many times that I don't like going into bars by myself, but this one I feel good about and I could. This Cave Bar is decorated inside just like a "cave" on the walls and the ceiling, it is a one of a kind bar and it is just so cool! Then they have their Mascot ya know:

The Caveman "Gene" 

There was lots of really neat costumes there that night. I remember seeing a skeleton Bride,Frankenstein's Bride, Frankenstein, Cowboy, 2 women with curlers and rollers in their hair called the Desperate housewives, Naughty schoolgirl, zombies,cat,warrior, beautiful fairy, phantom, goblins, zombie and more.

Desperate Housewives (Christie)

"Radio Drive" played there that night. Great Music!!

ME

A Phantom (Don)

A Fairytale - Little Red Riding Hood (Jody) and the Big Bad Wolf (Gene)

Beautiful Fairy (Heather)

Little red Riding Hood (Jody, Gene's wife)

Surprised!! because of this next note:

I remember something that happen to me that night and I was like ok! but I had to laugh it off though. This woman that Gene & Jody knew could not figure out if I was a woman or and man. She kept staring at me squinting her eyes and trying to figure it out. She leaned over to Gene several times to ask and she kept watching me lol I thought it was so funny. Well I suppose she asked Gene if I was female or male and Gene told well ask or find out, well she didn't ask lol she came over and she reached for my chest and felt around and low and behold I heard her say "Oh my gosh it is a woman under all that stuff." I just laughed so hard, it was funny. Because really it was very hard to figure out if I was a woman or a man. Because men do wear these costumes in "Cats."

Back to the story:

Now it was time for the contest at 1am in the morning. They told everyone that was going to join in the contest to stand up front. So some of us did, It looked like many of them left. Don says maybe because with the way my costume was, maybe they thought that they went someplace else because they knew they weren't going to win. hahahaha oh well what are you going to do ya know.That is how things go. So how did they judge us? By who all was there that night and they clapped and whistled and yelled so whoever got the loudest won. Here we all are starting with 3rd place:

Zombie (Corine) She was even a Zombie at the Village of Terror near Eau Claire. She won 3rd Place here at the Hersey Cave Bar

Little Red Riding Hood & Big Bad Wolf won 2nd Place

and now for the first place winner!!!!!

He stands outside,

She crouches inside,

Both of them waiting for the right moment.

Edging toward the opening on soft, pink tissue-paper feet.

Whiskers twitching,

Sniffing the air for the scent of danger,

She tenses her body.

Minutes pass.

Muscles cry out to be released but remain taut.

And then . . .

Whoosh!

A streak of gray fur shoots from the hole,

And a black velvet paw lands,

She catches the mouse!

1st Place Winner

$75.00

I won a total of $320 this weekend with this costume!

from the Musical called "Cats" but my costume is all homemade.

We had a blast this weekend so now we are recouping from all the excitement!

My Costume for Two different Halloween Parties

OK! This is what everyone has been waiting for...To see my wonderful talent that I have. I want to remind you that I painted this all by hand and I sewn all the fur like pieces on it by needle and thread. I also used a knitting loom to make the fur pieces too. I tell ya my hands, my neck and the headaches that I got through all this, but ya know what in the long run all that pain was well worth it! This is a TOTALLY AWESOME Costume and the best one I ever did before! My Mom is especially going to be amazed! My Counselor is too, she told me to find something else to do then just sit on my butt and do nothing. Hahaha She is going to LOVE this! I know I do!!! I can't wait to put it on Friday!! I will show you my costume stuff for now, but you will have to wait till friday for the Final photo - with me in it!!!

I have been talking about making one of these costumes for two years!! My own wild style and I did it: This right here is just characters from the Musical "Cats"

Cats The Musical Characters

We have two Halloween parties to go to :-) One at the LCO Casino in Hayward (No gambling we don't do that anymore) just the contest! Oct. 28th 2011 wooo hooo can't wait! Then on the 29th we are going to the Hersey Cave Bar over by Gene & Jody...We are gonna have some fun indeed!! This year I decided NOT to dress Scary like. My Costume is a Cat from the "Cats the Musical" This ROCKS!!!!!!!!!! I am SO PROUD of myself!!! Woot woot!!!

Now for photos from the start to the end ENJOY!

I bought a Unitard from Dance Wear Solutions. It was solid black mind you. :-) That is when my mind went WILD and I had so many ideas going on at once in my head!

WATCH!!

Let me tell you about this piece hahaha Well for starters if my friends remember me talking about how I bought that headpiece with cat ears and it was so beautiful and white and had furry pieces to go with it to wear on my hands. Like this photo below: 

Well I called the company and I was disappointed in my purchase from "The Costume Store" and what it was, the edges were like burnt and it never fit my head right, plus it was NOT like the photo at all. So they told me to keep it and they would send me another one. Ok I thought no big deal but I questioned why they didn't take it back anyhow, but hey ok no problem. I received the other one and would you know believe it or not the SAME THING. So I called them again about it and then they told me to toss them in the garbage and they would refund my money anyhow. They did refund my money! Me throw these fur pieces away???? NO WAY! So I used what I could off them and I cut them in pieces to sew on my costume. That is just what I did in different places. :-) as you can see in the above photo. 

Ok so I had to have some different fur pieces, so I got creative! This is what I ended up with in below photo:

Nice eh! Can you believe I knitted about 20 of these on a knitting loom. Not all at once believe me. I tend to get very bored of the same thing over and over and then I can't still. I I did these while watching tv at night, in the car, camping and etc. I was so glad to get them done believe me, oooooo my fingers!!!!

Then I got some of my fabric paints out and my paint brushes ready to go! Yes this is the SAME paint that will be on my skin too. :-) Yes I have done it many times. Read on...

Ok Here is my Hot Foam Latex piece "Small Cat Nose piece" I bought from "North Fur" company. I checked all over the place for one and even ebay. I guess just aren't popular this year and so it was hard to find what I wanted. This will be painted along with parts of my face with the paint that I showed you above. Yes it comes off easy. This is what I use to glue it on my face and take it off. 

Then I bought a pair of long solid black gloves and they had long nails glued to them. I painted on the pads of the cats paw as you see: 

Then here is my wig that I am going to be wearing...Keep reading and then I will show you how I styled it later on. (I have always loved styling wigs!!)

What it looked like when I bought it:

I bought this wig from Wild Cat Wigs. The hair is pointed because they are suppose to resemble cat ears.

I bought these wonderful leg warmers from a gal in Canada and I LOVE these because this is the style around here to wear anytime around your shoes. I have seen plenty around here lately. Cold out maybe.

 Are you ready? 

Get set! 

GO! 

SHOW TIME!!

I worked long and hard on this costume, it took me a Month and a half to get it all done. Yep it is behind me. Are you Ready? 

I was sewing fur on here. 

Yep you can see my paint strokes on this teaser photo. Same one I posted on FB.

Yes I really hand painted this! Cool so far eh? 

I will have BETTER photos of it on Friday for you with ME IN IT!

MORE Photos ...Keep looking below...

The backside

Now for the coat below if I get cold. Ya know there is a couple of items that I cannot wear because it will show lines lol So I am sure I will be cool at first lol Yes I did the same to the coat which is made out of a long sleeve shirt and cut down the middle. Yes I painted and hand sewn on this too.

NOW for my wig that I worked on tonight and Don wore it so I could fix it LOL. He looks so thrilled lol NOT! But he was such a sport about it! LOL

How did I get it to stay this way? Lets say Tacky glue, Hairspray, and I even painted some of the front to wear I need it to be. Oh yeah I even cut it some. 

Poor Don!! lmao

The ears are standing up using just tacky glue. So Awesome!!

Hahahahahaha such a good sport he was but such a goof ball!

So what is my makeup going to look like? Guess you'll have to wait and see eh! 

*wicked grin*

Do I have a LOT of potential? 

Yes I do and one of my dreams was to get my name of the credits on a movie someday. Why do you think I want to live closer to Hollywood in California!

I would love to work in the theater at the Red Barn Theater in Rice Lake and help with the makeup. So who do I get a hold of to help do these things? 

I want to paint body art on people!!

My disability does not have me!!

I am a FIGHTER!!

I AM A ARTIST INSIDE!!

Don's costume tomorrow!