It’s Halloween time in Houston again and kids of all ages are primed for candy, parties, and frights.
Random Halloween stores began popping up all over town in disused retail strip centers around late August and everywhere you look there are pumpkins, paper skeletons, and cavity-giving candy tempting us at every turn.
Each year there are hot costumes that everyone will be donning. This year will be a big year for little girls to become their favorite characters from "Frozen," while once again zombies and zombie hunters will remain the norm for adults.
Houston pop-culture is rife with Halloween costume ideas, from our bearded sports stars to our favorite politicians.
Here are just a few Houston-centric Halloween costume ideas if you find yourself tapped out of creativity this year.
Just a tip: steer clear of Ebola-related costumes, unless you want to end up on the news. Stick with fun stuff like the lady with three breasts (it was a hoax) or Zombie Abe Lincoln, which is always hilarious.
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Several women that meet weekly at Denver United
Several women that meet weekly at Denver United Methodist Church have made a global impact with their sewing machines.
Church members Faye Helton, Jean Durham, Connie Berry, Wanda Reynolds, Judy Martin and Margaret Reep came together in May of 2011 after seeing a dress pattern on a television show. With that dress pattern, they’ve impacted men, women and children in the countries of Haiti, Armenia, China, Belize, India, Peru, Honduras and Guatemala and in various countries in Africa.
lingerie wholesalers“There’s a show on television called ‘Nancy’s Notions,’” Reynolds said. “And they were talking about these little dresses. So we got the pattern and started making the dresses.”
“We did pillow cases for another group,” Helton said.
The small sewing group gets the fabric for the dresses mainly from donations, although some of the trim and incidental sewing needs that are required to complete the dresses are out-of-pocket expenses. To date, the ladies of Denver United Methodist Church have sewn 47 shirts, 60 pants and 1,650 dresses. The dresses are donated for mission trips for various churches in Lincoln County and the surrounding area.
“If we hear of someone going on a mission trip,” Reynolds said, “not necessarily from our church, then Faye talks to them or we talk to them and tell them that we have these little dresses that we will give to them for no charge.”
The standard number of dresses any group takes usually runs between 20 and 25, but there are large orders.
“We’ve sent out up to 100,” Helton said.
The group has an efficient assembly line. One woman cuts the pattern while another irons the fabric to prepare the dress for sewing. Another woman adds trim and yet another laces the elastic. Dress sizes run small, medium and large.
“The large can fit a small adult,” Durham said. “And we’ve made special requests before.”
The women are passionate about their work and have gone to great lengths to make sure their mission remains intact.
Helton and Reynolds have traversed through large containers full of bolts of fabric and the entire group will pay out of pocket to make sure all of the items required to make the dresses are available. The church donates finances to the cause and they have a few patrons, but the women are always on the lookout for any help they can get to help the little girls around the world that wear their dresses.
The group meets on Mondays from 9 a.m.–noon at Denver United Methodist Church at 3910 Highway 16 in Denver.
Donations of fabric, materials or finances should be sent to the church.
Church members Faye Helton, Jean Durham, Connie Berry, Wanda Reynolds, Judy Martin and Margaret Reep came together in May of 2011 after seeing a dress pattern on a television show. With that dress pattern, they’ve impacted men, women and children in the countries of Haiti, Armenia, China, Belize, India, Peru, Honduras and Guatemala and in various countries in Africa.
lingerie wholesalers“There’s a show on television called ‘Nancy’s Notions,’” Reynolds said. “And they were talking about these little dresses. So we got the pattern and started making the dresses.”
“We did pillow cases for another group,” Helton said.
The small sewing group gets the fabric for the dresses mainly from donations, although some of the trim and incidental sewing needs that are required to complete the dresses are out-of-pocket expenses. To date, the ladies of Denver United Methodist Church have sewn 47 shirts, 60 pants and 1,650 dresses. The dresses are donated for mission trips for various churches in Lincoln County and the surrounding area.
“If we hear of someone going on a mission trip,” Reynolds said, “not necessarily from our church, then Faye talks to them or we talk to them and tell them that we have these little dresses that we will give to them for no charge.”
The standard number of dresses any group takes usually runs between 20 and 25, but there are large orders.
“We’ve sent out up to 100,” Helton said.
The group has an efficient assembly line. One woman cuts the pattern while another irons the fabric to prepare the dress for sewing. Another woman adds trim and yet another laces the elastic. Dress sizes run small, medium and large.
“The large can fit a small adult,” Durham said. “And we’ve made special requests before.”
The women are passionate about their work and have gone to great lengths to make sure their mission remains intact.
Helton and Reynolds have traversed through large containers full of bolts of fabric and the entire group will pay out of pocket to make sure all of the items required to make the dresses are available. The church donates finances to the cause and they have a few patrons, but the women are always on the lookout for any help they can get to help the little girls around the world that wear their dresses.
The group meets on Mondays from 9 a.m.–noon at Denver United Methodist Church at 3910 Highway 16 in Denver.
Donations of fabric, materials or finances should be sent to the church.
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