Sorry it's taken me so long to update about my Halloween journey. It was a long day. It was a wild day. And it was a long 7 hours of creation.
This is a two part post. This first post is about the creation of the croc.
It all started earlier in the summer. My good friend Mariah had tagged me in many croc memes, but the one that stuck with me was a picture of two girls who had made themselves into crocs for Halloween. I knew I had to do this for a grand high school Halloween finale. And so the journey began.
I needed a material, and lots of it. I came up with the idea to ask a family friend for any leftover cardboard from his company. He brought me a giant roll of cardboard, along with 6 other sheets of various sizes, and he included a very useful tape gun. The hard part was yet to come.
Imagine being a person with limited artistic ability who needs to carve a life size croc. It was frustrating. Luckily, Mariah came over fast to relieve me of my duties. She cut/carved and I painted. Using old house paint, old enough for the can to give me a rusty tin paper cut, I began the therapeutic process of painting two life sized crocs. We had to wait overnight for them to dry.
The next day, Mariah came over again, but this time so that we could begin to tape the crocs together. Let me tell you, if you're looking for a nice and easy costume to make, do not make a croc. It took us 45 minutes to tape together one single croc. By the end, I wanted to punch a wall. We got through the second in 30 minutes, and after that, the hard part was over.
The next step was for the jibbitz. We decided what Halloween themed jibbitz we wanted, printed them, and taped them onto our crocs.
And finally, the advertising. On the back of our crocs was the Croc logo, our croc sizes, and a self-advertising link to the croc blog.
The final task was transportation...
The night of completion
