Happy Halloween! This is me when I was two. My Mother loved to make Halloween costumes. I am so glad she put an undershirt underneath my bikini top.
Here I am a year later, trick or treat! I am dressed as an Indian maiden, the costume was made from a burlap sack. I grew up on a farm (see the cows in the background,) feed sacks made great Halloween costumes.
Note my little hand sticking out, I am not posing. I remember this moment like yesterday... That costume itched! I stuck out my arm because my Mother told me not to scratch, but that costume was rough! Dig the moccasins?
This is me at three years of age, (the last Halloween photo of me and my Mother's Homemade Halloween costumes... I bet you thought you were going to see me in costumes from the age of two to fifty...sorry ghouls. Though I wish I had a photo of when I was dressed as a lady bug at Twenty Eight! Or a photo of myself dressed like a mermaid and out of gas on the freeway at midnight.)
My Mother made matching Mr. and Mrs. Ghost costumes for me and my brother. My brother (Marty commentor name: Orama) is younger than me, my Mother wanted me to dress as the Mr. Ghost since I was taller. I threw a fit and refused to be the guy at Halloween. My Mother was disappointed but agreed.
I love the eyebrows, don't you?
Just look at you! What a creative Mama you have.
Posted by: herhimnbryn | 31 October 2007 at 09:17 AM
I know now where your creativity comes from..you are such a lovely babygirl
Posted by: Mélanie | 31 October 2007 at 09:51 AM
Corey,
Those were the days!
Today you should wear your "granmother' cosume for M. ;)
rel
Posted by: rel | 31 October 2007 at 09:53 AM
How sweet and precious is all that you share.....I love those pictures.
I love you.
Trick or treat..............
The voice of the heart needs no translations!
Posted by: Jeanne | 31 October 2007 at 11:02 AM
I LOVE these Halloween costumes! So creative, so cute!
And you were quite a cute little girl!
Posted by: Beverly | 31 October 2007 at 11:58 AM
Lol What a hoot! Thanks for sharing. Happy Halloween!
Amanda (aka Cottage Contessa)
Posted by: Amanda (aka Cottage Contessa) | 31 October 2007 at 12:06 PM
How dang precious are you?? Great pictures. I kinda wish you had more.
Posted by: Candy | 31 October 2007 at 12:08 PM
Too cute! You don't see so many homemade costumes these days. Clever Mom you have.
Darla
Posted by: Darla | 31 October 2007 at 12:18 PM
Aw, Corey. Too cute! I really like the lil' Indian girl costume. You look too cute!
Posted by: My Melange | 31 October 2007 at 12:26 PM
How cute! Does France have a holiday like Halloween where the kids get dressed up?
Posted by: Travelingmama | 31 October 2007 at 12:31 PM
Wow what amazing costumes, I especially love when you were an Indian madian!
delphine
Posted by: delphine | 31 October 2007 at 12:44 PM
Marvelous pictures of a time before every Halloween girl became a Disney princess.
Posted by: karen | 31 October 2007 at 01:22 PM
You're brother is clever spelling his last name backwards.
I think it's sexy to wear a long sleeve t-shirt underneath a bikini top ;)
You looked like Groucho Marx's ghost.
Posted by: Shannon | 31 October 2007 at 01:48 PM
I was just thinking....if you lived on a farm, the houses must've been far apart. How did you get from house to house and how many were you able to hit?
Posted by: Shannon | 31 October 2007 at 01:50 PM
Such wonderful costumes and an adorable girl!!
Posted by: jzr | 31 October 2007 at 01:52 PM
Ooh, the first costume I made for L was a ladybug. As a matter of fact, that is the symbol she and her godmother share. Her gm said it seemed just yesterday she had on that costume, and it's fourteen . . .
Posted by: tut-tut | 31 October 2007 at 02:05 PM
These photos are simply wonderful! So lovely to see you as a kid in all your Halloween Regalia. Thanks for sharing :-) Boo!
Posted by: Chantal | 31 October 2007 at 02:30 PM
I love the Halloween photos! Cute costumes! I bet you got some strange looks as a mermaid along the highway... LOL That would have been a fun photo to see.
Posted by: Ariane | 31 October 2007 at 02:50 PM
I love your wonderful photos!
Your little hand is dying to itch some more in that picture :o)
I can remember being Raggedy Ann. My mother dyed a mop red for the wig.
Bless her heart!
Posted by: Miz Booshay | 31 October 2007 at 02:51 PM
you look lovely in all of those costumes! have a happy halloween =)
Posted by: pusa | 31 October 2007 at 03:01 PM
Oh my gosh, these are WONDERFUL.
Corey, your best post ever !!
BOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Paula | 31 October 2007 at 03:15 PM
I love these vintage images, especially since they're YOURS! Please retrieve the e-card I concocted for the bloggers I admire and know here: http://www.banjobunny.com/viewcard.php?reqid=4728892d598a9
Happy Halloween to you too!
Posted by: susan | 31 October 2007 at 03:15 PM
What wonderful photos those are! I was once a bathing beauty, too, around age 4, and I had a shirt and long pants under my swimsuit (it was cold that evening!).
Posted by: Jill | 31 October 2007 at 03:38 PM
What wonderful photo memories you have of your mom's creativity and your childhood.
Posted by: martina | 31 October 2007 at 03:49 PM
I love those photos so much.
And I love Halloween. Even as a 48 year old -- I just think it's such fun. Over here in England I find that people don't really make a fuss over Halloween... although each year we get a few trick or treaters. Which reminds me, I need to go buy some candy just in case...)
Anyhoo... one of these years I want to have a big ol' Halloween party.
Kim
Posted by: kim | 31 October 2007 at 03:56 PM
Now we know the genetic link to your creative genius. I do want to see ALL the costumes!!!
Posted by: Sheba | 31 October 2007 at 03:57 PM
Soooo cute!!! Homemade costumes are the bomb...there is life and spirit to them. I l laughed out loud at the ghost story..kids are so funny. My sister (younger) and I went as clowns one year with store-bought costumes that had been handed down to us. The one I wore (because I was taller & slimmer) had no hat..the one my sister had did have a hat. I kicked up such a fuss about not having a hat that my mom put the one to my sister's costume on my head and my sister wore an old rain bonnet!!! Sometimes age has it's perks!! :)
Posted by: Cherie | 31 October 2007 at 04:13 PM
I would throw a fit too, why not girl ghosts among the cowboys!!! You are a treasure - then and now! Happy Happy Halloween dear one!
Posted by: Ulla | 31 October 2007 at 04:16 PM
Oh, I love your outfits! Happy Halloween :)
Posted by: Felicia | 31 October 2007 at 04:18 PM
I love this post, great costumes! You were adorable!! (obviously you haven't changed)...Happy Halloween.
Posted by: cruststation | 31 October 2007 at 04:20 PM
You look so cute and wonderful.
Just like now.
Thinking of you!!
Posted by: rochambeau | 31 October 2007 at 04:30 PM
too cute!!!!!!!!!!
I remember some itchy costumes too
probably my favorite costume
was when I dressed like a beatnik...
permed hair!?!, gray sweatshirt, plaid pants,
tennis shoes, a beret...
the time my sister and I were orientals...
that was nice - silk pjs...
come on over and see my sister and I
as the little witches...
we are wearing some nice shoes
xox - eb.
Posted by: eb | 31 October 2007 at 04:43 PM
My, how you've changed since 1962.
Posted by: Di Overton | 31 October 2007 at 04:46 PM
Happy Halloween! :)
Posted by: A Novelist | 31 October 2007 at 04:47 PM
love these costumes...
one of my favorites as a kid
was when I dressed like a beatnik:
permed hair with beret,
gray sweatshirt,
plaid pants and tennis shoes...
and then when my sis and I were orientals...
oh those silk pjs... nice
come over and see us as the little witches
our shoes are pretty cool...
xox - eb.
Posted by: eb | 31 October 2007 at 04:49 PM
repeating myself -
thought a ghost grabbed my comment!
xox - eb.
Posted by: eb | 31 October 2007 at 04:50 PM
Mom was creative for sure. But as years passed home made costumes where the only solution in disguising brother Marty; as store puchased masks were much too small for his large head. Clever indeed!
Posted by: Brother Mathew | 31 October 2007 at 04:53 PM
I love your little bangs & sweet face in the first 2 photos ~ You are so adorable!
Posted by: Kas | 31 October 2007 at 04:55 PM
Great stuff Corey, happy Halloween to you. By the way Vanessa tells us that you gave her some tips on getting her blog to load faster? I wondered if you could tell me how to do this when you get a minute. Thanks.
Carolyn
Posted by: Carolyn | 31 October 2007 at 04:57 PM
I guess every american kid loves this time of year ! it seems like it's geting around here too ;-)
Posted by: Eivlys | 31 October 2007 at 04:58 PM
Great photographs, is Halloween popular in France? Happy Halloween to you, enjoy the party.
Posted by: The Fairy Godmother | 31 October 2007 at 04:59 PM
Priceless!!! So fun that you have these photo's still!
Yes...LOVE the eyebrows AND I can just feel you poor little one...itching in the burlap!
Posted by: stephanie | 31 October 2007 at 05:31 PM
Happy Halloween Corey!!
Love your costumes. You were adorable and you still are.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Rosemary
Posted by: Rosemary | 31 October 2007 at 05:44 PM
How cute! Love the costumes.
Posted by: Leigh | 31 October 2007 at 05:49 PM
Love the pictures. Happy Halloween and if you have the time check out my corner of the party.
Posted by: Ninnie | 31 October 2007 at 06:05 PM
Cool eyebrows. Pitching a fit suits you. LOL
Posted by: AnnieElf | 31 October 2007 at 06:05 PM
I love the costumes. I have none of my childhood costumes.
Have a good ghoul party!
Posted by: scarlett | 31 October 2007 at 06:06 PM
Oh, Corey you are so cute! Love the sweet little Indian. My mom made us be the Three, Little Indians too. Rene', Shawn, and I when we were little. I still remember those itchy gunnie sack! Yikes! You have a happy Halloween, miss you Denise
Posted by: Pinkie Denise | 31 October 2007 at 06:07 PM
How cute! I have ZERO pics of me in my costumes & mom used to make mine too.
Posted by: Sandy | 31 October 2007 at 06:29 PM
Yes, I do!
Happy Halloween Corey!
Posted by: Mrs.Staggs | 31 October 2007 at 06:39 PM
Happy Halloween! Wonderful pictures, Corey!
Now I am inspired to go search for my family Halloween photos.
Posted by: Alison Whittington | 31 October 2007 at 07:09 PM
What a cute little ghost you were!
Sandra Evertson
Posted by: Sandra Evertson | 31 October 2007 at 07:13 PM
how sweet you were & still are!!!
Posted by: qualcosa di bello | 31 October 2007 at 07:23 PM
Love The Pictures & Great Costumes, Happy Halloween :)
Angie
www.scrapnmomsmoments.blogspot.com
Posted by: Angie | 31 October 2007 at 07:46 PM
Trick or treat cutie ?
Posted by: Julie Ann | 31 October 2007 at 07:51 PM
Wow, great old photos Corey.
The love and care Mom put into those homemade, one of a kind outfits, for you and I was a reflexion of how much she loved us. Funny, how after Mathew was born we started getting the cheap 5 & dime costumes.
Posted by: Orama | 31 October 2007 at 07:52 PM
Such gorgeous pics to have and I was looking forward to your whole history of costumes up to the present day!
We didn't have the tradition of Halloween - had to wait for Bonfire Night on the 5th of November and then the dressed up one was the guy to go on top of the fire, so we didn't wear masks just in case!
Posted by: Kit | 31 October 2007 at 08:02 PM
I want more pictures!!!!
I was scrambling to find some old ones of my own, but couldn't. I had a few from the 70's but I wouldn't want anyone to see those!!!
Happy Halloween
Posted by: Karen Cole | 31 October 2007 at 08:07 PM
Great memories, eh!! Wish my folks would have taken pictures...
Connie
Posted by: Connie...Altered Route | 31 October 2007 at 08:07 PM
Supercalifragilistically adorable!!!!
Happy H-Day !!!
Posted by: Jungle Dream Pagoda | 31 October 2007 at 08:12 PM
So great! I love it. Perhaps I will post a picture of me when I was little, dressed as a peanut vender or tube of toothpaste.
Posted by: Blondie | 31 October 2007 at 08:28 PM
Great photos! Happy Halloween
Posted by: Ursula Shaw | 31 October 2007 at 08:52 PM
Happy Halloween to you too:-) Awwww I so loved the pictures of you in your Halloween costumes as a little girl, so adorable! I remember people using burlap bags to make costumes...itchy just thinking of it! lol xo
Posted by: PEA | 31 October 2007 at 09:00 PM
The pictures are adorable. I wish I could see your mermaid outfit too
Posted by: Shin | 31 October 2007 at 09:36 PM
So like your mother, so much detail to each costume. You were a doll. Happy Hollow
Posted by: julieholvik | 31 October 2007 at 09:45 PM
Woo-hoo!! Check out the "gams" on that little Indian Maiden!
Happy Hallowe'en Corey!!
D.
Posted by: Donna O. | 31 October 2007 at 10:02 PM
The photos are so cute..!
I can imagine how itchy that sack was..!
Posted by: Sheila | 31 October 2007 at 10:02 PM
Great images! I'm going as Lizard Girl tonight. She was an underrated super hero. You might not have heard about her.
Happy Halloween. E
Posted by: Ellen Cassilly | 31 October 2007 at 10:11 PM
cute, cute, cute! What precious pictures and memories. Happy Halloween Corey!
Posted by: Betty @ She's Sew Pretty | 31 October 2007 at 10:15 PM
Adorable! Wish I had pictures of myself in costume...alas, none survive! Have a great time at the party!
Posted by: Jo Anne Owens | 31 October 2007 at 10:29 PM
How adorable!!! Love these pics and this post.
Posted by: fleur | 31 October 2007 at 10:40 PM
Treasured photos of a precious girl (lady)! Happy Halloween!
Posted by: beachy | 31 October 2007 at 10:45 PM
my mom made those cloth masks
for us, too,
where you cut the holes in fabric.
:-)
i wish kids
had that kind these days
rather than those plastic ones...
hard to take good snapshots
and they look so charming...
Posted by: somepinkflowers | 31 October 2007 at 11:28 PM
happy halloween! I love the pictures of you !!! your mother is very creative! I always made my kids costumes too. sort of miss that!
have a great night!
Posted by: vivianneroni | 31 October 2007 at 11:57 PM
Awwww! Those are terrific homemade costumes and what wonderful photos of you, Corey. So cute! Happy Halloween from the States! :)
Posted by: susanna | 01 November 2007 at 12:11 AM
*giggle*
I hope you had a fun Halloween Eve!
I used to also make the costumes for my kids.
One year I did the ghost version. Very close to your mother's, only that I wisely used a separate piece of fabric for the head. No rope around the neck, but they looked you know like those brothers from the Clan. ooooooooooooooohoooooo :-(
Posted by: M erisi's Vienna | 01 November 2007 at 12:23 AM
How precious! Thanks for sharing these pictures. My youngest son is named Corey.
Great name.
Posted by: Leslie M | 01 November 2007 at 12:52 AM
You are so very precious!
cute as a button!
or a little ghoul!
Posted by: maddie | 01 November 2007 at 01:30 AM
OH priceless pics Corey. Aren't we the lucky ones to have been born at that time? It really was just the best. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: jen | 01 November 2007 at 01:49 AM
cute corey. i think it is wonderful that you have access to these photos. really wonderful!
happy halloween!!!!
Posted by: elsa | 01 November 2007 at 01:49 AM
Oh those are precious! I love that you have little masks on in the first two photos. My mom made all of our costumes too and I loved seeing what we would come up with each year. It's such a fun tradition!
Posted by: MaryC | 01 November 2007 at 02:46 AM
Oh my gosh- I could eat you up! Too cute!!! Your mother certainly knew how to put a costume together...
Happy Halloween my Dearie!
Posted by: queen of the carnivale | 01 November 2007 at 03:36 AM
Corey, I love the fact that you have photos to capture your childhood, especially during Hallows Eve. Mommy Amaro is sooo cool with her creative costumes! Do I see a "hula girl" in the first pic? :-) The indian costume is soooo adorable...sorry it itched like crazy, but you looked so darn cute (what's the saying? it's better to look good, than to feel good..LOL) The ghost is hauntingly funny!
Posted by: Hasmin | 01 November 2007 at 04:01 AM
What super cute photos of little you!! Just priceless!
Posted by: bejeweled | 01 November 2007 at 04:05 AM
((((((((HAPPY HALLOWEEN)))))
I just flew in on a witches broom!
I am having a blast visiting all the
(((GOULS))) in Bloglandia!
Sweet photos and memories!!
witches hugs and bats Anna xo
Posted by: naturegirl | 01 November 2007 at 05:09 AM
Love the darling costumed toddler pictures (especially that you had to have a mask on as part of those costumes as well).
I am older than my brother and we 'had' to dress up the same for a number of years as well. I think we were clowns for three or four years in a row. (Unisex costume! As I got too tall for mine, he inherited it, and mom just made a larger one for me... I so hated that costume by the time I was able to talk her out of it!)
Posted by: tlchang | 01 November 2007 at 06:12 AM
Priceless pictures!
The first costume, I remember, was me dressed as a gypsy. I was in first grade and had long hair. I must have looked pretty glamorous, because I remember a boy in my class, named Lee, who gave me a kiss.
Actually, I do remember seeing gypsies and thought they were beautiful with their brightly colored skirts, and all the bracelets. This was in Los Angeles, CA around 1957.
~elaine~
Posted by: Elaine L. | 01 November 2007 at 07:46 AM
I'm never disappointed with what you share. I love that your mom made the costumes. The good old days, huh?
What do you mean you didn't have your camera with you as the ladybug and when you were stranded on the side of the freeway? I mean, "REALLY" Corey! tee hee
xo
Posted by: cheeky | 01 November 2007 at 07:47 AM
So many comments already, Yesss the costumes are beautiful. Same smile now and then.
Posted by: Kitem | 01 November 2007 at 10:24 AM
Love the photos ...thanks for sharing!
Happy Blog Party and Halloween!
Posted by: Paul-ene | 01 November 2007 at 10:28 AM
Oh I love mermaids - I wish you'd had a picture of that, too - though sorry about the 'being out of gas' part! Love these little costumes - I can imagine how itchy the burlap must have been though - I remember being one itchy little scarecrow! Though it's late, I'm wishing you a Happy Halloween dear Corey~xo
Posted by: tinker | 01 November 2007 at 10:36 AM
Love these! I have no pictures of myself in costumes...we are the same age so these could have easily been me? Or not, they are you, but I'll pretend they could have been mine! Thanks for sharing these precious pictures!
Posted by: *Heidi* | 01 November 2007 at 07:09 PM
you are just too cute for words!
Posted by: la vie en rose | 01 November 2007 at 08:00 PM
Thank goodness for photos. Today's children's memories may be lost because they are on digital and most people I know don't print the pictures and they are easily lost with one little technical glitch. I know, it has happended to me.
Corey you were(are) adorable.
Posted by: Tamara Giselle | 01 November 2007 at 08:21 PM
lovely !!!
Posted by: mary | 02 November 2007 at 12:27 AM
You are too cute!!!
Posted by: Jenny Rebecca | 02 November 2007 at 04:49 AM
ohhh Dear Corey,
your photos are priceless-just like you.
What a Blessing to have your entire history so lovingly documented.
Thank You for sharing
xo
mb
Posted by: marybeth | 02 November 2007 at 06:17 AM
Corey - you're only a year older than I am! :) Love your pics, wish my parents had taken more of me. I use them alot in my artwork. Marva
Posted by: Marva | 03 November 2007 at 04:49 PM
Such sweet old photographs. Sorry 'bout the use of the world "old". It's not just you. My childhood photos look vintage now too! I'm glad you threw a fit and got to be the girl ghost. The eyebrows are the "cat's pajamas".
Posted by: Laume | 03 November 2007 at 09:47 PM
and the word should be "word", not "world" - the entire WORLD isn't getting old! Just my fingers at the keyboard apparently
Posted by: Laume | 03 November 2007 at 09:48 PM