As a wise man once said, "Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."

Totally fun costumes. Thanks for the photos!

Here's the pic of my costume that's been circulating at work-

Jon Bon Jovi's Dignity R.I.P.

Dio de los Muertos altar
 

Finally had a chance to upload pics, in between all the Indian deities

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My roomie's Mom

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My little boy Dancer and my Dad

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It was fun to do, we're leaving it up for a bit, then we'll start pulling down all the Xmas stuff.

Wow, super cool! :snap:

Wow, legit altar. What inspired you?

Great altar Snowy!

Well, love the stuff and I missed the celebrations proper in Mexico last year when I was there (I was sick as a dog, duh). My roomie is all about getting back to Mexico, so I suggested that we do an altar.

So I treked to a cool shop in the Mission that carries all the stuff you would ever need (and I probably paid more than I should have for some of the things) and we did it (she did most of the work, she's more artistic than me). It was fun.

Then on the day, we toasted everyone and had traditional mole and tamales (the tamales were not traditional, but they were YUMMY, butternut squash and corn).

I am sure we will do it again next year. Sadly, so many lost friends, in the move back and forth (and Dian cleaning house while I was in VA) disposed of many pics from parties with now absent friends I and she would have loved to have had up on the altar.

next year, I'm going to the parade in the Mission, some pics can be seen here at fogbay.com (go to the last page).

Thanks everyone for the nice comments, I really enjoyed putting this together.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I would love to do something like this for my dad.

That is so cool. Excellent altar. I should check out that place in the Mission, though if it's pricey I probably actually should not; but I'd love seeing it. There used to be a place on Haight that sold all the stuff too, but that was years ago, it might be gone now.

Mole and butternut squash tamales? Sounds heavenly.

Is that a working fireplace? The mantle is so awesome. I miss living in SF. The last house I lived in on Page St. had a lot of beautiful old details like that. But our fireplace could not be used.

And CM?
Bon Jovi should be honored. That costume just rocks.

Okay, bought the stuff here. It was not too expensive, but I bought several items. Average price per was about $5-6, the maracas were $15 each and same for the larger skulls.

The tamales were from Primavera $10 for 4 at Mollie Stones Market. There's a list on their page of groceries all over the Bay Area that carry them. They were awesome, believe me.

I think, dear Deebs, you absolutely MUST do one for your Dad. Since I could not put a steak up on the mantle, and they do not make Olympia Beer anymore, my Dad had to do with a Bohemia! ;) My boy kitty had some kibble and his favorite mice toys.

Yes, the fireplace is a working fireplace. Our building was constructed in 1940 and you can see the building lobby here. Most of the apartments renting now have had many of the vintage touches removed. They've been (sacrilage!) redoing the gorgeous deco bathrooms in some of them. Thank goodness we've been in this apartment for 21 years, rent control rules! Otherwise, I'd be living in a crackerbox out on Geneva and Naples.

And, I concur, Matt's costume is incredible!