October 13, 2025 • 37 mins
For Tori, Halloween isn’t just a holiday - it’s a family legacy. Dynasty designer costumes, an infamous egging incident, and DIY food-themed kids’ costumes - she’s spilling all the spooky secrets in this trip through generations of Spelling family Halloweens.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Misspelling with Tory spelling and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Okay, so it is my favorite time of year. It
is the spooky season, it is October, and I would
be well not Tori if I didn't discuss costumes. Halloween
costumes have been such a huge part of my life
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literally like since I was born. Actually, so I got
to start with my childhood costumes because my childhood costumes
were like next level. Growing up, my mom had Nolan Miller,
who was an amazing designer, not just an amazing designer
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and you know, did every movie Stars, Academy Award gowns
and everything, Elizabeth Taylor and just everybody, but also he
did all of the wardrobe for Dynasty and all of
my dad's shows. He created everything. So he was also
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like my quote unquote uncle, like uncle Nolan, and I
used to love going to his shop and visiting him
and getting to see him do all these amazing costumes
for actresses and TV shows and movies. And then my
mom had him create our Halloween costumes. So just setting
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the stage because our Halloween costumes were literally next level.
I just remember, as far back as I can remember,
my very first costume, I believe was like a cat costume,
and I'm not sure if he made it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Was that a black cat costume or.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No, it was a white kitty cat costume, and it
was like one of those heads of toe fur costumes,
not real for where just like my face stuck out.
And I remember what I loved about that costume is
it kind of stayed in the family because my brother
then wore that costume. I think it had like a
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pink bow and then she changed it to a blue
bow when my brother wore it. I think we both
wore it like age two, So that's like my first
memory or not memory, probably looking back at photos, I
would see that Halloween costume. But from then on, the
costumes just like went next level. I remember my brother
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and I he was five years younger, is five years younger.
We would always have like cohesive costumes. And one year
I was a flapper and he, you know, had the
zoot suit on or whatever and like a little machine
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gun and a little hat, and I had the most
amazing it was like a Dancing with the Stars costume.
But I was like eight and it was just my
mom would always do my makeup. I was a bride
one year, and I think The most memorable costume was
I was Marie Antoinette one year and my brother was
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at Louis the fourteenth, would that be correct? And these costumes,
this was one I think I was probably like, gosh,
I was still in elementary school, so maybe I was eleven. Yeah,
I must have been like ten eleven. I had on
the full on Marie Antoinette costume. I'm talking about the costume.
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It was like such a huge costume. It had like
not the hoopskirt, would it be the hoopskirt underneath? Like
I couldn't walk in it. It was like ginormous. I
couldn't sit down in it. I don't think I can
go through like a door away in it. And then
on top of that, I had the ginormous powdered wig,
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which in itself I just remember being so heavy. It
was like it was so heavy. And I think that
was the year that as I look back at the
photos now and I appreciate them so much, and I'm like,
that was next level brilliant costume. It was so gorgeous.
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But at the time, you know, you always the grass
is always greener, You always want what you don't have.
I remember all of my friends having like store bot costumes,
and I was always like, gosh, you know, I really
just want one of those package costumes that you know,
you can go and you open it up and there's like, well,
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they're all different now, but when I was young, it
was like a plastic mask you would put on and
then you'd put on like just the package suit. And
I was like, can I just be like I don't know,
I don't know what I wanted to be, but it
was definitely like all my friends had that, and I
had these very extravagant costumes. And it also when you're
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a kid, like you want to run and go trick
or treating and you know, be with your friends. And
when I was growing up, we would go tricker treating
in the flats of Beverly Hills and I could barely move.
We would go in my parents' limo and I remember
getting out that took like ten minutes just to get
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out of the car. And my mom would always get
us those you know, plastic pumpkins that we would hold
to go get our candy, and which I still do
those plastic pumpkins for my kids because it's what I
have memory of from childhood. So we would have our
plastic pumpkins, and I couldn't get out of the limo
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because my like hoop kept going up and I was
like pushing this skirt, this costume down, and I was
the top of it. The corset was so tight I
couldn't move. And then I had this ginormous powdered wig
that was like March Simpson like height, Like it's just
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it had to have been like three feet on top
of my head and I had to maneuver that out
of the limo, and I just remember feeling like ooh
this And I didn't even know who Marie Antoinette was
at the time. I mean now looking back, it's quite comical,
like Marie Antoinette like it kind of was very fitting
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for the life I grew up with. But yeah, I
just remember going to like one or two houses and
barely being able to fit up the driveway or the
walkway because all the kids were coming, you know, you know,
kids get their candy and they run back from the house,
and I was like, okay, let me try to get
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up to the house, but I couldn't move, and then
I would get my candy and be like out of breath. Like, okay,
now I got to go back down and try to
get to the next house. And that went on for
a few minutes, and then I felt something and I
was like, whoa, what's wet? And it was like the
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equivalent like did a bird just poop on me? And
I realized the kids were laughing at this extravagant costume
I had and I was being egged and they were
like literally throwing eggs at me in my marine to
a costume.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh my god, that's awful, I know, Oh my god,
that is right.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And they were all, wait, how how old were you again?
Probably oh, I would say eleven. That is so mean.
And I just remember looking at them and they were
like pointing at me and laughing, and I was thinking, oh,
damn it. It's the costume, isn't it. It's the costume. Shoot.
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So then I remember I was like defeated, and I
was like, can I take my wig off? So then
we had to go back in the car and my
parents helped me take the wig off, but then you
have like a stocking cap on, so then I felt like,
oh my gosh. So I just took that off and
I had like pin curls underneath, and it was just
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at that point I was like, oh my gosh, I
think I'm over this.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Wait, did your parents like yell at the kids or
they like very.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Often remember terrible? Oh yeah, my parents not happy. I
think we moved to a different street, but like you know,
they my mom was trying to create this magical, great
experience and she didn't know kids would respond like this.
But it definitely like had a memory that stayed with me,
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and I was like, oh my gosh, I just remember
after that, I was like, really, I think I really
just want to store costume from now on. And I
was you know, when you're eleven, like you're getting to
the age where you're starting to not like be as
into costumes. But the very next year, I did a
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bunny costume that was made for me, and that was
a big bunny costume from head to toe and my
face was out and I can't remember why I wanted
that costume, but I had I had an allergic reaction
to it and I had to take off the bunny costume. Anyway,
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long story short, these like amazing impressive costumes that took
probably months to make. I was like, oh my gosh,
I'm over costumes. So as I got older, I was like, Okay,
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you know what, when I have kids, I'm going to
do store bought costumes. I'm going to make it easy,
Like that's the route I'm going to go. But you know,
it was ingrained in my soul to really create an
experience for Halloween and around costumes especially, And while you know,
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my life with my kids is very different than the
life my parents gave me and my brother growing up,
it was always in my DNA to create and want
to do. Obviously, I wasn't able to have a costume
designer come in and execute all these amazing costumes for
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my kids. But as soon as I started having kids,
I was like, DIY or the Highway, Like I'm going
to make these incredible costumes. So I also didn't know
I was going to have five kids, so I started
di wying their costumes. And I'm not even sure why,
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but I always when they were young would diy food costumes.
I don't know where that came from, and it's so
kind of weird when I think about it now, and
I say to the kids, like, oh my gosh, you
don't remember this costume. But like, for instance, Hattie she
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was well her birthdays in October, so she was like
two weeks old or three weeks old when Halloween happened,
So she was a newborn. So I was like, okay,
we couldn't take her out, but I wanted to do
a costume for her so we could all take like
family photos. And then I was just also recovering from
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a C section, so I don't think I could even
go walk around. So Dean took Stella and Liam, who
were very young at the time, but I made Hattie
into a DIY turkey on a platter, still to the state,
one of my most impressive DIY costumes. I think amazing,
because you know, she was so young. She had to
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be swaddled, and I then like literally took a foam
I made a foam turkey and cut it out so
we could place her in it, so her little head
was just sticking out, her little newborn head, and then
she was a turkey all around her. And then I
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made a platter, but it was all like a foam
platter with like vegetables on the platter around it so
we could just hold her.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That is incredible, really incredible. Okay, wait, question, we're Stella
and Liam like cranberry sauce and baked potatoes or math potatoes.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
A theme, no, because here's the thing. I always wanted
to do themes but or make it cohesive with each other,
but it didn't always work out that way. And I
was also fighting my urge of let the kids be
what they want to be, Like, you know, they want
a Storebock costume. So like I would always kind of
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go back and forth between like my DIY needs and
what they wanted to be. So a lot of the
times there were a lot of superheroes going on. So
I remember that particular year. Gosh, I feel like I
have to go back and look at photos. I feel
like Stella was probably a princess or something. Liam and
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Dean I think were matching and they were like Wolverine
or Yeah, it was like a lot of superheroes when
Liam was little and Hattie was a turkey on a platter,
and I had literally just had a baby's and was recovering.
So I I di wide. I was like a version
of like Alfred Hitchcock the Birds, and so I like
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did my makeup and I put like black, like I
went to Michael's and got like the black crows and
just had them. I huglued them all to this like dress.
I had this like flowy like dress I could wear
after recovery basically. So yeah, it wasn't like a family theme. Hmmm.
I would always every year like come up with mood
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boards and like go to Pinterest and like you know,
pull reference photos and I would say to the kids,
like we could do this, we could be this, this
is a family and they'd be like, nah, I don't
want to do that. I'm like okay, okay. The good
news is there was always like school things. Then we
would go to like you know, some Halloween party or
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an event. So I don't know why I would do
this to myself. Often I would make multiple costumes. It's
exhausting just thinking about it. But like, yeah, I made
so Finn his first Halloween. I made him a piece
of sushi. He was a salmon egg sushi because he
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was a newborn and well a guest. He was like
a month and a half. So I swaddled him and
his little face was sticking out and it was like
he was I got like balls, the plastic balls, orange ones,
so they were like the salmon egg sushi on him
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and made it so he was like sitting on a
piece of rice and had cute little chopsticks on his
little because he had to wear his little his little
baby hat like a little beanie they wear anyway. So
I had chopsticks like on the back of that. So
but it placed nicely so if he moved his head,
it wouldn't hurt him or anything. Yeah, So he was
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a piece of sushi. And then that same year, Hattie,
they're only ten months apart, I made her spaghetti and meatballs,
and I made like suspenders, and I made like a
big bowl so it was like the bowl was around her.
And then she was spaghetti with the noodles and stuff,
and I made like foam meatballs in the bowl, and
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I put like sauce on her face. Oh my gosh,
I don't I should ask my therapist. There's probably something
here about why I turned my kids into food. Maybe
because I was just really hungry. I think I was
still like, yeah, like breastfeeding, so I probably like was
just so famished, and I had two newborns at the
same like ten months apart. I was probably just so
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hungry that I just wanted to was thought about food
all the time and just had two backed back pregnancies.
It's probably as simple as that. When you're an adult,
it just doesn't doesn't have the same impact. But then
then I always did really like dressing my bump, my
pregnancy bump when when I was pregnant. So like one
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year when I was pregnant with bo I made my
baby bump into a gumball machine. So I was like
a gumball machine and I had a plastic thing with
gumballs inside on my baby bump. That was really cute.
Oh my gosh. I was so creative when I wasn't
so old and tired.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It was.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah. And then like and then like we would make
matching costumes. Oh my gosh. Now I think about it
and I'm like, I don't really diy anymore. Yeah, I
miss those days. Like diying was so important to me
and I loved doing it so much, but it became
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such a thing. I mean, it would take you guys know,
I'm not an organizer. So it's not like I started
making these costumes like months in advance. Like it would
be like weeks before Halloween and I'd be like, oh
my gosh, I remember some costumes. And then like Stella
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is ornately like just an organic diyre. I say, like
she came out of you toot like crafting like me,
and she would be like, Okay, we're gonna make my costume.
We're gonna make my costume, right, and I'd be like yeah.
So then, like as I started to could have more
kids and be more tired, I'd be like, okay, wait,
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that's what costume. Sounds real good to me. And she'd
be like, what do you mean We're not making my costume.
I'd be like no, no, no, we're making your costume, and
like yeah, even when she was like ten, I want
to say she wanted to be like Candy and I
literally hot glued Candy onto a costume like head to toe.
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It was really great. Yeah, those costumes were awesome. Now
I'm like Spirit Halloween anyone and Poor Bo, but not
poor Bo like being number five. I don't think he's
ever known a DIY costume. Don't tell him like he
he's had a store bought costume. Oh my god. He
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was like Bob the Builder his like first costume and
like that was a package costume. Like but he doesn't
know any better, so he's just like every year he's like,
let's go to Spirit Halloween and he's like, I let
me look at my costumes and he's in his section
looking for it, and I'm like, what he doesn't know,
won't hurt him, Like of course, Like it's in my
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soul and my brain. All I want to do is
be like, you could be this. Oh you want to
be this, We could make it. And then I'm like,
sh keep that voice in your head, like don't tell
them anything, but yeah, diying five costumes got got a
little exhausting every year, and then it got to the
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point like I used to love Halloween so much in
my own like brain thinking of costumes that I would
be working so hard on their costumes and then oh
the DIY costume, like the day of Halloween preparing them
and trying to time that out of getting them all
ready in their DIY costumes and the makeup and the
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hair and the costume itself and a lot of it
had to be like positioned and on the day kind
of constructed. Oh my god, I would have plans for
a costume, it'd be time to go trick or trading
and I'd be like, okay, never mind putting on like
mouse ears or a tear and like I'm just going
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out the door like this, and then I'd be like,
oh shoot, like I love costumes and now I don't
do them anymore anyway. Yeah, So I'll be curious to
know what my kids will do when they have kids,
because it's been like it'll be three generations of like
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costumes on some level. So like my experience growing up
with like the designer made extravagant costumes to then having
my own kids and doing them all completely myself making
DIY costumes, and I wonder what my kids will do
for their kids. It'll be interesting or you know what.
By then I'll have it had a break. I will
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maybe I'll be energized again. I'll be like, Okay, Grandma,
here is gonna DIY all the grandkids costumes. That's a plan.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You're so creative. I think you should start your line
of folloween costumes for kids.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Oh I could, but I feel like, yeah, like is
that that's like we need to bring that back because
I feel like.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It's like when I was growing up, storebock costumes were in,
and then I feel like they weren't. It was like
very much about like making your own costumes and everyone
was diying and got back into that, and now I
feel like store block costumes are like back in, but
you know there's ebbs and flows. Everything that's old, it's
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new again. Everything comes back in. So yeah, I feel
like if it was something that was accessible costumes for everybody,
that would be a good idea. Okay, added to my
list of ideas that I'll never accept. Wall no, that
you no, I will execute. I am executing yes, yes,
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which brings me to the point now that here we are,
it's October, We're in it. We're in it to win it.
At this point, I haven't gotten my kids costumes yet
have they?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Have they told you what they want or who they
want to be?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Or what they want to be nope?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay, I have a question. Here's a question.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, if it was up to you, what would you
have each of them be for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
All your choice and they were thrilled?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Do you have like a ooh, it would be so.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Fun to have. That's a great question. I got nothing.
I don't know. I'm looking at this picture right now,
and I made Finn and Eminem one year, I made
Hattie cotton candy, so it wasn't just when they were newborns.
So I take that back, like they were like three
and four and I was still making them into food.
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That's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You're gonna do a food wine of Halloween costumes.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's gonna be your first. Oh okay, yep, yep yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And then we'll do a runway show and have all
the little kids dressed up. It's like totally cool food
that you did.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I see it. I love that, Okay, I'll go with that. Yeah,
Oh my gosh. And then I used to and then
I used to dress the animals up like I used
to be excessive. How did I have this much energy?
I don't know. Yeah, our pig, Wilbur, I used to
dress him up. Our dogs, Oh my gosh. I think
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even the chickens had costumes. When we had chickens, it
was just it was something so uh so one year,
you know how it is very in and was very
in and the clown from it was the thing. Does
accomb from it have a name? Oh my gosh, I'm blanking,
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and you guys don't like her. I don't anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
One year in this penny Wise, thank you, Oh my god,
Adrian for the wind. My mom brain is mushed this month. Okay,
penny Wise. So one year there's this this clown called
mister Floats and it's in LA and he drives around
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it looks like penny Wise, dresses penny Wise and in
a van and gets out with like the red bloon
and like hands out cards and it's very kind of
like ooh, creepy, but like what's going to happen? And
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you can look up mister Floats in Los Angeles and
he goes around everywhere in La areas and you can
actually like follow him online and figure out where he's
going to be. And I believe we were at the
Tapanga Mall. I believe, you know. I know exactly where
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I was at every point in life. I can't remember
the name Pennywise, but I know where I was eating
at a certain date. We were at Maggiano's having dinner
in October at the Tipanga Westfield Mall, and all of
a sudden, we heard this like creepy ice cream like
music from a truck, and the kids and I turn
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around and we see this like penny Wise esque van coming.
It says, mister Floats across and we see him getting out,
and I was like, oh my gosh. So I go
up and I was like hi, I was like, can
we take a picture with you? And anyway, we exchanged
information and it's actually him and his wife that run
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this company. And long story short, on Halloween, they came
to our house, and I feel very special about this
because I know he had a million other stops, so
they were going to be in our neighborhood at a
certain time. And did I want him to come over
and see the kids. I'm like yes, yes and yes.
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So this wasn't even my Halloween costume, but I think
I had like a day's notice. So I quickly went
to Spirit Halloween and I got a Penny Wise costume,
and I got a rainslicker for Bo so he could
be like Georgie, and I got something for Wilbur so
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that he could kind of fit into. Anyway, So Bo
is young, and they pull up in the van and
he gets out, and I'm like, oh my god, this
is cool. I'm like, look at me. I have my makeup.
I've done like diy makeup, and I have my outfit on.
I mean it was a little bit of like slutty
version of like female penny Wise, but that's okay. I
was going with it. I had like the high like
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knee socks on little dress and I'm like, oh, this
is going to be so cute. So I bring Bo
over and he does it in the voice like hello
Georgie or you know whatever. I can't do it, but
and I was like, oh, this is so fun. And
when we had seen him at the mall in a
different context, everything was fine and Bo was super excited
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and he had his rainslicker on and he was coming up.
And when he came over to take a picture with
him and handed him the balloons, Bo took the picture
and he goes, did you take the picture? Do you
have it? And I go yeah, isn't this cool? And
he's like looks at me and I'm like oh my,
oh no, and he burst out crying and I was
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like stop, everyone stop. And then he was like, oh,
what's okay, Georgie, It's okay. And I was like, oh no, no, no,
we got a problem. Kid crying, kid crying, and poor
Bo was so terrified. And I was like, oh no,
this isn't a happy moment. So I have the photo.
You have to look at it, and bo is standing
next to me and the penny Wise mister Floats character,
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and he's taking the photo. But you can see on
his face that he's just like holding his little hands.
He's like okay, okay, and just like burst out crying.
So anyway, uh, how do you solve any problem when
a kid's crying? Quickly took him inside game candy. He
forgot all about it in two seconds. Don't worry, He's
not scarred at all. And then I was like, wait,
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mister Floats, do you mind if we take one more photo?
Before I know? You have to go many kids to
scare this Halloween, my pig Wilbur, and so Wilbur came
out and had his picture taken with mister Floats, and
I have to put that picture online. It's so cute,
like red balloons and Wilbur and so anyway, now it's
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this Halloween. I was just thinking about it because I
was like, oh, mister Floats. I wonder where mister Floats
is going to be this Halloween. I should reach back
out to him because now but would be super pumped
and psyched anyway for this Halloween. My kids haven't mentioned it.
I feel like I better start asking or I'm just
like self sabotaging myself on a really scary deeper level
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because I don't want to wait till like days before Halloween.
And then all of a sudden, it was like, oh
my gosh, I remember last year. Was it last year
or the year before? Finn wanted to be art the
Clown Terrifier, and I was like, oh, no problem, I
got this. I can put this together. This is easy.
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And it was sold out if rewear, it was sold
out everywhere, to the point where I had just art
like being inventive of like what mask would look like
art the clown that we could turn into art the
clown if it was a different mask, it was like
one of those. And I was like on Instagram like
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dming like local makeup artists, like anyone, anyone, can anyone
make my kid art the clown terrifyer mask. It was great.
If you haven't listened to the episode where David Howard
Thornton is on who plays Terrifiers Art the Clown, listen
to it as well, because that is a great episode.
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We're such huge fans. Anyway, that year, I did so
much research. I was on Amazon Prime, I literally was
calling Halloween stores that were like hours away, being like,
tell me you have a terrify Er costume? Left, and
long story short, I think I finally found it at
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like some tiny Halloween store to hours away. And then
two days before Fenn goes, yeah, I've decided I don't
want to be Art the Clown. I was like, oh,
fuck my life? What? Like, no, what do you want
to be? He's like, I just want to be a
ghost face from Scream. And I'm like, okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I would be like, oh, now you are going to
be Art the Cloud, of course I would.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Is that my personality? No? Nope, people please, You're like
to a fault.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You're like, okay, you can just be the ghost face.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah. I was like inside, I was shitting myself inside.
I'd worked so hard in this art the Terrifier Clown.
But I was like, sure, whatever you want. I want
you to be comfortable. It's your holiday, it's your Halloween.
Ghost face sounds good and to you. Then on Halloween,
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try to draw to a spirit Halloween to get the
exact knife the ghost face uses the fake knife. Those
are all sold out right, and and the looks on
people people that work in costume stores. God bless them,
God bless them. But the eve of Halloween and the
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day of Halloween, they just look defeated. They you go
in and they're just like, you know, they've been asked
fifteen million times do you have this? Do you have that?
And they've had mad rushes of people just in and
out and inundated, and they're just like, it's how I imagine
like the elves feel like the day after like Christmas,
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it's just or any parents, like it's just you're just
they're just exhausted. But yeah, like going in and being
like hi, and you say, it was such hopefulness, right,
my kid is going to dress up as ghost Face
and I was wondering if you might be able to
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help me and find me the knife the ghost Face uses.
And it's just that dead look behind their eyes and
they're looking and they're like, no, that's been sold out
for a moment, and you're like, okay, well do you
have another knife? I remember that day. So I came home.
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I came home with like a fake meat cleaver, and
I was like, oh boy, I and I tried my
best and I won't stop. I don't take I always
tell everyone I'm a driven person and I'm I'm a
fighter and you can't tell I believe no is the
first word towards yes. So you tell me no, and
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I'm like, oh, you want me to do anything in life,
just tell me no and it is done. Like so
uh yeah, so I wouldn't to I was like, okay,
you don't have the ghost face night here. Let me
like yelp when we find another Halloween store, you know,
in the ten mile radius, like oh my gosh, I
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am out of time. And yeah, I was defeated. I
came home with a meat cleaver, a fake meat cleaver,
and the kids thought that was really funny and everything.
But anyway, Finn was fine. He wanted to hold his
bag and get candy. Now the new thing is my
kids take pillowcases, which I know, like our parents used
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to say, like, well, when I was young, we didn't
they didn't make things to carry your candy in. We'd
you know, we would just take a pillowcase and go
with it. And we didn't have money, you know, that
type of thing. But now the cool thing is to
like go back to like pillowcases. I'm like, okay, sure,
and he was like one last thing you have to buy.
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This is true, but I love those like pumpkin, the
pumpkin ones, just like the ones I had when I
was little, So I still have to get those every year.
I know, we haven't even gotten our pumpkins to car
for this year. We every year, I say I'm gonna
get it done in time. I say this about every holiday,
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or every birthday or every day in my life. I'm
gonna get a ton. Yeah, we have not gone to
the pumpkin patch yet. You know, we did nine of
the jack which is great, but I still there's so
many more Halloween things to do. So yeah, okay, now
I just literally plummeted myself inside. And I really need
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to ask the kids what they want to be for Halloween.
But they are some of them are older, so like
you know, Liam's eighteen, Stella seventeen. Like they'll do like
a version of a costume, but it's more like they're
hanging out with their friends, you know, so it's more
of like an adult costume like kind of thing. So
I don't have to worry as much about that. Pattie
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and Finn, I don't even know if they feel like
dressing up this year. You know, well, you might get lucky.
You know, I'll make it lucky. It might just be bo.
Oh no, won't be so sad though. If it's just
bo to dress up this year, I guess I'm going
to feel really sad. So I'll take on some other
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people's kids to DIY for
Misspelling with Tory spelling and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Okay, so it is my favorite time of year. It
is the spooky season, it is October, and I would
be well not Tori if I didn't discuss costumes. Halloween
costumes have been such a huge part of my life
(00:35):
literally like since I was born. Actually, so I got
to start with my childhood costumes because my childhood costumes
were like next level. Growing up, my mom had Nolan Miller,
who was an amazing designer, not just an amazing designer
(01:00):
and you know, did every movie Stars, Academy Award gowns
and everything, Elizabeth Taylor and just everybody, but also he
did all of the wardrobe for Dynasty and all of
my dad's shows. He created everything. So he was also
(01:23):
like my quote unquote uncle, like uncle Nolan, and I
used to love going to his shop and visiting him
and getting to see him do all these amazing costumes
for actresses and TV shows and movies. And then my
mom had him create our Halloween costumes. So just setting
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the stage because our Halloween costumes were literally next level.
I just remember, as far back as I can remember,
my very first costume, I believe was like a cat costume,
and I'm not sure if he made it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Was that a black cat costume or.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
No, it was a white kitty cat costume, and it
was like one of those heads of toe fur costumes,
not real for where just like my face stuck out.
And I remember what I loved about that costume is
it kind of stayed in the family because my brother
then wore that costume. I think it had like a
(02:25):
pink bow and then she changed it to a blue
bow when my brother wore it. I think we both
wore it like age two, So that's like my first
memory or not memory, probably looking back at photos, I
would see that Halloween costume. But from then on, the
costumes just like went next level. I remember my brother
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and I he was five years younger, is five years younger.
We would always have like cohesive costumes. And one year
I was a flapper and he, you know, had the
zoot suit on or whatever and like a little machine
(03:09):
gun and a little hat, and I had the most
amazing it was like a Dancing with the Stars costume.
But I was like eight and it was just my
mom would always do my makeup. I was a bride
one year, and I think The most memorable costume was
I was Marie Antoinette one year and my brother was
(03:34):
at Louis the fourteenth, would that be correct? And these costumes,
this was one I think I was probably like, gosh,
I was still in elementary school, so maybe I was eleven. Yeah,
I must have been like ten eleven. I had on
the full on Marie Antoinette costume. I'm talking about the costume.
(04:00):
It was like such a huge costume. It had like
not the hoopskirt, would it be the hoopskirt underneath? Like
I couldn't walk in it. It was like ginormous. I
couldn't sit down in it. I don't think I can
go through like a door away in it. And then
on top of that, I had the ginormous powdered wig,
(04:22):
which in itself I just remember being so heavy. It
was like it was so heavy. And I think that
was the year that as I look back at the
photos now and I appreciate them so much, and I'm like,
that was next level brilliant costume. It was so gorgeous.
(04:46):
But at the time, you know, you always the grass
is always greener, You always want what you don't have.
I remember all of my friends having like store bot costumes,
and I was always like, gosh, you know, I really
just want one of those package costumes that you know,
you can go and you open it up and there's like, well,
(05:07):
they're all different now, but when I was young, it
was like a plastic mask you would put on and
then you'd put on like just the package suit. And
I was like, can I just be like I don't know,
I don't know what I wanted to be, but it
was definitely like all my friends had that, and I
had these very extravagant costumes. And it also when you're
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a kid, like you want to run and go trick
or treating and you know, be with your friends. And
when I was growing up, we would go tricker treating
in the flats of Beverly Hills and I could barely move.
We would go in my parents' limo and I remember
getting out that took like ten minutes just to get
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out of the car. And my mom would always get
us those you know, plastic pumpkins that we would hold
to go get our candy, and which I still do
those plastic pumpkins for my kids because it's what I
have memory of from childhood. So we would have our
plastic pumpkins, and I couldn't get out of the limo
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because my like hoop kept going up and I was
like pushing this skirt, this costume down, and I was
the top of it. The corset was so tight I
couldn't move. And then I had this ginormous powdered wig
that was like March Simpson like height, Like it's just
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it had to have been like three feet on top
of my head and I had to maneuver that out
of the limo, and I just remember feeling like ooh
this And I didn't even know who Marie Antoinette was
at the time. I mean now looking back, it's quite comical,
like Marie Antoinette like it kind of was very fitting
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for the life I grew up with. But yeah, I
just remember going to like one or two houses and
barely being able to fit up the driveway or the
walkway because all the kids were coming, you know, you know,
kids get their candy and they run back from the house,
and I was like, okay, let me try to get
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up to the house, but I couldn't move, and then
I would get my candy and be like out of breath. Like, okay,
now I got to go back down and try to
get to the next house. And that went on for
a few minutes, and then I felt something and I
was like, whoa, what's wet? And it was like the
(07:44):
equivalent like did a bird just poop on me? And
I realized the kids were laughing at this extravagant costume
I had and I was being egged and they were
like literally throwing eggs at me in my marine to
a costume.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh my god, that's awful, I know, Oh my god,
that is right.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And they were all, wait, how how old were you again?
Probably oh, I would say eleven. That is so mean.
And I just remember looking at them and they were
like pointing at me and laughing, and I was thinking, oh,
damn it. It's the costume, isn't it. It's the costume. Shoot.
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So then I remember I was like defeated, and I
was like, can I take my wig off? So then
we had to go back in the car and my
parents helped me take the wig off, but then you
have like a stocking cap on, so then I felt like,
oh my gosh. So I just took that off and
I had like pin curls underneath, and it was just
(08:48):
at that point I was like, oh my gosh, I
think I'm over this.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Wait, did your parents like yell at the kids or
they like very.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Often remember terrible? Oh yeah, my parents not happy. I
think we moved to a different street, but like you know,
they my mom was trying to create this magical, great
experience and she didn't know kids would respond like this.
But it definitely like had a memory that stayed with me,
(09:18):
and I was like, oh my gosh, I just remember
after that, I was like, really, I think I really
just want to store costume from now on. And I
was you know, when you're eleven, like you're getting to
the age where you're starting to not like be as
into costumes. But the very next year, I did a
(09:39):
bunny costume that was made for me, and that was
a big bunny costume from head to toe and my
face was out and I can't remember why I wanted
that costume, but I had I had an allergic reaction
to it and I had to take off the bunny costume. Anyway,
(10:01):
long story short, these like amazing impressive costumes that took
probably months to make. I was like, oh my gosh,
I'm over costumes. So as I got older, I was like, Okay,
(10:23):
you know what, when I have kids, I'm going to
do store bought costumes. I'm going to make it easy,
Like that's the route I'm going to go. But you know,
it was ingrained in my soul to really create an
experience for Halloween and around costumes especially, And while you know,
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my life with my kids is very different than the
life my parents gave me and my brother growing up,
it was always in my DNA to create and want
to do. Obviously, I wasn't able to have a costume
designer come in and execute all these amazing costumes for
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my kids. But as soon as I started having kids,
I was like, DIY or the Highway, Like I'm going
to make these incredible costumes. So I also didn't know
I was going to have five kids, so I started
di wying their costumes. And I'm not even sure why,
(11:29):
but I always when they were young would diy food costumes.
I don't know where that came from, and it's so
kind of weird when I think about it now, and
I say to the kids, like, oh my gosh, you
don't remember this costume. But like, for instance, Hattie she
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was well her birthdays in October, so she was like
two weeks old or three weeks old when Halloween happened,
So she was a newborn. So I was like, okay,
we couldn't take her out, but I wanted to do
a costume for her so we could all take like
family photos. And then I was just also recovering from
(12:11):
a C section, so I don't think I could even
go walk around. So Dean took Stella and Liam, who
were very young at the time, but I made Hattie
into a DIY turkey on a platter, still to the state,
one of my most impressive DIY costumes. I think amazing,
because you know, she was so young. She had to
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be swaddled, and I then like literally took a foam
I made a foam turkey and cut it out so
we could place her in it, so her little head
was just sticking out, her little newborn head, and then
she was a turkey all around her. And then I
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made a platter, but it was all like a foam
platter with like vegetables on the platter around it so
we could just hold her.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That is incredible, really incredible. Okay, wait, question, we're Stella
and Liam like cranberry sauce and baked potatoes or math potatoes.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
A theme, no, because here's the thing. I always wanted
to do themes but or make it cohesive with each other,
but it didn't always work out that way. And I
was also fighting my urge of let the kids be
what they want to be, Like, you know, they want
a Storebock costume. So like I would always kind of
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go back and forth between like my DIY needs and
what they wanted to be. So a lot of the
times there were a lot of superheroes going on. So
I remember that particular year. Gosh, I feel like I
have to go back and look at photos. I feel
like Stella was probably a princess or something. Liam and
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Dean I think were matching and they were like Wolverine
or Yeah, it was like a lot of superheroes when
Liam was little and Hattie was a turkey on a platter,
and I had literally just had a baby's and was recovering.
So I I di wide. I was like a version
of like Alfred Hitchcock the Birds, and so I like
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did my makeup and I put like black, like I
went to Michael's and got like the black crows and
just had them. I huglued them all to this like dress.
I had this like flowy like dress I could wear
after recovery basically. So yeah, it wasn't like a family theme. Hmmm.
I would always every year like come up with mood
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boards and like go to Pinterest and like you know,
pull reference photos and I would say to the kids,
like we could do this, we could be this, this
is a family and they'd be like, nah, I don't
want to do that. I'm like okay, okay. The good
news is there was always like school things. Then we
would go to like you know, some Halloween party or
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an event. So I don't know why I would do
this to myself. Often I would make multiple costumes. It's
exhausting just thinking about it. But like, yeah, I made
so Finn his first Halloween. I made him a piece
of sushi. He was a salmon egg sushi because he
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was a newborn and well a guest. He was like
a month and a half. So I swaddled him and
his little face was sticking out and it was like
he was I got like balls, the plastic balls, orange ones,
so they were like the salmon egg sushi on him
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and made it so he was like sitting on a
piece of rice and had cute little chopsticks on his
little because he had to wear his little his little
baby hat like a little beanie they wear anyway. So
I had chopsticks like on the back of that. So
but it placed nicely so if he moved his head,
it wouldn't hurt him or anything. Yeah, So he was
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a piece of sushi. And then that same year, Hattie,
they're only ten months apart, I made her spaghetti and meatballs,
and I made like suspenders, and I made like a
big bowl so it was like the bowl was around her.
And then she was spaghetti with the noodles and stuff,
and I made like foam meatballs in the bowl, and
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I put like sauce on her face. Oh my gosh,
I don't I should ask my therapist. There's probably something
here about why I turned my kids into food. Maybe
because I was just really hungry. I think I was
still like, yeah, like breastfeeding, so I probably like was
just so famished, and I had two newborns at the
same like ten months apart. I was probably just so
(17:01):
hungry that I just wanted to was thought about food
all the time and just had two backed back pregnancies.
It's probably as simple as that. When you're an adult,
it just doesn't doesn't have the same impact. But then
then I always did really like dressing my bump, my
pregnancy bump when when I was pregnant. So like one
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year when I was pregnant with bo I made my
baby bump into a gumball machine. So I was like
a gumball machine and I had a plastic thing with
gumballs inside on my baby bump. That was really cute.
Oh my gosh. I was so creative when I wasn't
so old and tired.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It was.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah. And then like and then like we would make
matching costumes. Oh my gosh. Now I think about it
and I'm like, I don't really diy anymore. Yeah, I
miss those days. Like diying was so important to me
and I loved doing it so much, but it became
(18:05):
such a thing. I mean, it would take you guys know,
I'm not an organizer. So it's not like I started
making these costumes like months in advance. Like it would
be like weeks before Halloween and I'd be like, oh
my gosh, I remember some costumes. And then like Stella
(18:27):
is ornately like just an organic diyre. I say, like
she came out of you toot like crafting like me,
and she would be like, Okay, we're gonna make my costume.
We're gonna make my costume, right, and I'd be like yeah.
So then, like as I started to could have more
kids and be more tired, I'd be like, okay, wait,
(18:48):
that's what costume. Sounds real good to me. And she'd
be like, what do you mean We're not making my costume.
I'd be like no, no, no, we're making your costume, and
like yeah, even when she was like ten, I want
to say she wanted to be like Candy and I
literally hot glued Candy onto a costume like head to toe.
(19:11):
It was really great. Yeah, those costumes were awesome. Now
I'm like Spirit Halloween anyone and Poor Bo, but not
poor Bo like being number five. I don't think he's
ever known a DIY costume. Don't tell him like he
he's had a store bought costume. Oh my god. He
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was like Bob the Builder his like first costume and
like that was a package costume. Like but he doesn't
know any better, so he's just like every year he's like,
let's go to Spirit Halloween and he's like, I let
me look at my costumes and he's in his section
looking for it, and I'm like, what he doesn't know,
won't hurt him, Like of course, Like it's in my
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soul and my brain. All I want to do is
be like, you could be this. Oh you want to
be this, We could make it. And then I'm like,
sh keep that voice in your head, like don't tell
them anything, but yeah, diying five costumes got got a
little exhausting every year, and then it got to the
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point like I used to love Halloween so much in
my own like brain thinking of costumes that I would
be working so hard on their costumes and then oh
the DIY costume, like the day of Halloween preparing them
and trying to time that out of getting them all
ready in their DIY costumes and the makeup and the
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hair and the costume itself and a lot of it
had to be like positioned and on the day kind
of constructed. Oh my god, I would have plans for
a costume, it'd be time to go trick or trading
and I'd be like, okay, never mind putting on like
mouse ears or a tear and like I'm just going
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out the door like this, and then I'd be like,
oh shoot, like I love costumes and now I don't
do them anymore anyway. Yeah, So I'll be curious to
know what my kids will do when they have kids,
because it's been like it'll be three generations of like
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costumes on some level. So like my experience growing up
with like the designer made extravagant costumes to then having
my own kids and doing them all completely myself making
DIY costumes, and I wonder what my kids will do
for their kids. It'll be interesting or you know what.
By then I'll have it had a break. I will
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maybe I'll be energized again. I'll be like, Okay, Grandma,
here is gonna DIY all the grandkids costumes. That's a plan.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You're so creative. I think you should start your line
of folloween costumes for kids.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Oh I could, but I feel like, yeah, like is
that that's like we need to bring that back because
I feel like.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It's like when I was growing up, storebock costumes were in,
and then I feel like they weren't. It was like
very much about like making your own costumes and everyone
was diying and got back into that, and now I
feel like store block costumes are like back in, but
you know there's ebbs and flows. Everything that's old, it's
(22:44):
new again. Everything comes back in. So yeah, I feel
like if it was something that was accessible costumes for everybody,
that would be a good idea. Okay, added to my
list of ideas that I'll never accept. Wall no, that
you no, I will execute. I am executing yes, yes,
(23:04):
which brings me to the point now that here we are,
it's October, We're in it. We're in it to win it.
At this point, I haven't gotten my kids costumes yet
have they?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Have they told you what they want or who they
want to be?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Or what they want to be nope?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Okay, I have a question. Here's a question.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, if it was up to you, what would you
have each of them be for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
All your choice and they were thrilled?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Do you have like a ooh, it would be so.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Fun to have. That's a great question. I got nothing.
I don't know. I'm looking at this picture right now,
and I made Finn and Eminem one year, I made
Hattie cotton candy, so it wasn't just when they were newborns.
So I take that back, like they were like three
and four and I was still making them into food.
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That's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You're gonna do a food wine of Halloween costumes.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's gonna be your first. Oh okay, yep, yep yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And then we'll do a runway show and have all
the little kids dressed up. It's like totally cool food
that you did.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I see it. I love that, Okay, I'll go with that. Yeah,
Oh my gosh. And then I used to and then
I used to dress the animals up like I used
to be excessive. How did I have this much energy?
I don't know. Yeah, our pig, Wilbur, I used to
dress him up. Our dogs, Oh my gosh. I think
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even the chickens had costumes. When we had chickens, it
was just it was something so uh so one year,
you know how it is very in and was very
in and the clown from it was the thing. Does
accomb from it have a name? Oh my gosh, I'm blanking,
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and you guys don't like her. I don't anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
One year in this penny Wise, thank you, Oh my god,
Adrian for the wind. My mom brain is mushed this month. Okay,
penny Wise. So one year there's this this clown called
mister Floats and it's in LA and he drives around
(25:46):
it looks like penny Wise, dresses penny Wise and in
a van and gets out with like the red bloon
and like hands out cards and it's very kind of
like ooh, creepy, but like what's going to happen? And
(26:07):
you can look up mister Floats in Los Angeles and
he goes around everywhere in La areas and you can
actually like follow him online and figure out where he's
going to be. And I believe we were at the
Tapanga Mall. I believe, you know. I know exactly where
(26:27):
I was at every point in life. I can't remember
the name Pennywise, but I know where I was eating
at a certain date. We were at Maggiano's having dinner
in October at the Tipanga Westfield Mall, and all of
a sudden, we heard this like creepy ice cream like
music from a truck, and the kids and I turn
(26:47):
around and we see this like penny Wise esque van coming.
It says, mister Floats across and we see him getting out,
and I was like, oh my gosh. So I go
up and I was like hi, I was like, can
we take a picture with you? And anyway, we exchanged
information and it's actually him and his wife that run
(27:07):
this company. And long story short, on Halloween, they came
to our house, and I feel very special about this
because I know he had a million other stops, so
they were going to be in our neighborhood at a
certain time. And did I want him to come over
and see the kids. I'm like yes, yes and yes.
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So this wasn't even my Halloween costume, but I think
I had like a day's notice. So I quickly went
to Spirit Halloween and I got a Penny Wise costume,
and I got a rainslicker for Bo so he could
be like Georgie, and I got something for Wilbur so
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that he could kind of fit into. Anyway, So Bo
is young, and they pull up in the van and
he gets out, and I'm like, oh my god, this
is cool. I'm like, look at me. I have my makeup.
I've done like diy makeup, and I have my outfit on.
I mean it was a little bit of like slutty
version of like female penny Wise, but that's okay. I
was going with it. I had like the high like
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knee socks on little dress and I'm like, oh, this
is going to be so cute. So I bring Bo
over and he does it in the voice like hello
Georgie or you know whatever. I can't do it, but
and I was like, oh, this is so fun. And
when we had seen him at the mall in a
different context, everything was fine and Bo was super excited
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and he had his rainslicker on and he was coming up.
And when he came over to take a picture with
him and handed him the balloons, Bo took the picture
and he goes, did you take the picture? Do you
have it? And I go yeah, isn't this cool? And
he's like looks at me and I'm like oh my,
oh no, and he burst out crying and I was
(29:00):
like stop, everyone stop. And then he was like, oh,
what's okay, Georgie, It's okay. And I was like, oh no, no, no,
we got a problem. Kid crying, kid crying, and poor
Bo was so terrified. And I was like, oh no,
this isn't a happy moment. So I have the photo.
You have to look at it, and bo is standing
next to me and the penny Wise mister Floats character,
(29:21):
and he's taking the photo. But you can see on
his face that he's just like holding his little hands.
He's like okay, okay, and just like burst out crying.
So anyway, uh, how do you solve any problem when
a kid's crying? Quickly took him inside game candy. He
forgot all about it in two seconds. Don't worry, He's
not scarred at all. And then I was like, wait,
(29:42):
mister Floats, do you mind if we take one more photo?
Before I know? You have to go many kids to
scare this Halloween, my pig Wilbur, and so Wilbur came
out and had his picture taken with mister Floats, and
I have to put that picture online. It's so cute,
like red balloons and Wilbur and so anyway, now it's
(30:05):
this Halloween. I was just thinking about it because I
was like, oh, mister Floats. I wonder where mister Floats
is going to be this Halloween. I should reach back
out to him because now but would be super pumped
and psyched anyway for this Halloween. My kids haven't mentioned it.
I feel like I better start asking or I'm just
like self sabotaging myself on a really scary deeper level
(30:29):
because I don't want to wait till like days before Halloween.
And then all of a sudden, it was like, oh
my gosh, I remember last year. Was it last year
or the year before? Finn wanted to be art the
Clown Terrifier, and I was like, oh, no problem, I
got this. I can put this together. This is easy.
(30:50):
And it was sold out if rewear, it was sold
out everywhere, to the point where I had just art
like being inventive of like what mask would look like
art the clown that we could turn into art the
clown if it was a different mask, it was like
one of those. And I was like on Instagram like
(31:12):
dming like local makeup artists, like anyone, anyone, can anyone
make my kid art the clown terrifyer mask. It was great.
If you haven't listened to the episode where David Howard
Thornton is on who plays Terrifiers Art the Clown, listen
to it as well, because that is a great episode.
(31:34):
We're such huge fans. Anyway, that year, I did so
much research. I was on Amazon Prime, I literally was
calling Halloween stores that were like hours away, being like,
tell me you have a terrify Er costume? Left, and
long story short, I think I finally found it at
(31:56):
like some tiny Halloween store to hours away. And then
two days before Fenn goes, yeah, I've decided I don't
want to be Art the Clown. I was like, oh,
fuck my life? What? Like, no, what do you want
to be? He's like, I just want to be a
ghost face from Scream. And I'm like, okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I would be like, oh, now you are going to
be Art the Cloud, of course I would.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Is that my personality? No? Nope, people please, You're like
to a fault.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You're like, okay, you can just be the ghost face.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah. I was like inside, I was shitting myself inside.
I'd worked so hard in this art the Terrifier Clown.
But I was like, sure, whatever you want. I want
you to be comfortable. It's your holiday, it's your Halloween.
Ghost face sounds good and to you. Then on Halloween,
(32:59):
try to draw to a spirit Halloween to get the
exact knife the ghost face uses the fake knife. Those
are all sold out right, and and the looks on
people people that work in costume stores. God bless them,
God bless them. But the eve of Halloween and the
(33:21):
day of Halloween, they just look defeated. They you go
in and they're just like, you know, they've been asked
fifteen million times do you have this? Do you have that?
And they've had mad rushes of people just in and
out and inundated, and they're just like, it's how I imagine
like the elves feel like the day after like Christmas,
(33:45):
it's just or any parents, like it's just you're just
they're just exhausted. But yeah, like going in and being
like hi, and you say, it was such hopefulness, right,
my kid is going to dress up as ghost Face
and I was wondering if you might be able to
(34:05):
help me and find me the knife the ghost Face uses.
And it's just that dead look behind their eyes and
they're looking and they're like, no, that's been sold out
for a moment, and you're like, okay, well do you
have another knife? I remember that day. So I came home.
(34:27):
I came home with like a fake meat cleaver, and
I was like, oh boy, I and I tried my
best and I won't stop. I don't take I always
tell everyone I'm a driven person and I'm I'm a
fighter and you can't tell I believe no is the
first word towards yes. So you tell me no, and
(34:47):
I'm like, oh, you want me to do anything in life,
just tell me no and it is done. Like so
uh yeah, so I wouldn't to I was like, okay,
you don't have the ghost face night here. Let me
like yelp when we find another Halloween store, you know,
in the ten mile radius, like oh my gosh, I
(35:08):
am out of time. And yeah, I was defeated. I
came home with a meat cleaver, a fake meat cleaver,
and the kids thought that was really funny and everything.
But anyway, Finn was fine. He wanted to hold his
bag and get candy. Now the new thing is my
kids take pillowcases, which I know, like our parents used
(35:31):
to say, like, well, when I was young, we didn't
they didn't make things to carry your candy in. We'd
you know, we would just take a pillowcase and go
with it. And we didn't have money, you know, that
type of thing. But now the cool thing is to
like go back to like pillowcases. I'm like, okay, sure,
and he was like one last thing you have to buy.
(35:55):
This is true, but I love those like pumpkin, the
pumpkin ones, just like the ones I had when I
was little, So I still have to get those every year.
I know, we haven't even gotten our pumpkins to car
for this year. We every year, I say I'm gonna
get it done in time. I say this about every holiday,
(36:16):
or every birthday or every day in my life. I'm
gonna get a ton. Yeah, we have not gone to
the pumpkin patch yet. You know, we did nine of
the jack which is great, but I still there's so
many more Halloween things to do. So yeah, okay, now
I just literally plummeted myself inside. And I really need
(36:39):
to ask the kids what they want to be for Halloween.
But they are some of them are older, so like
you know, Liam's eighteen, Stella seventeen. Like they'll do like
a version of a costume, but it's more like they're
hanging out with their friends, you know, so it's more
of like an adult costume like kind of thing. So
I don't have to worry as much about that. Pattie
(37:00):
and Finn, I don't even know if they feel like
dressing up this year. You know, well, you might get lucky.
You know, I'll make it lucky. It might just be bo.
Oh no, won't be so sad though. If it's just
bo to dress up this year, I guess I'm going
to feel really sad. So I'll take on some other
(37:21):
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