Joust In Time For the Renaissance Festival!

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April 9, 2008

If you’ve never been to a Renaissance Festival then you should definitely make 2008 your year to go!  As they say, it’s like 400 years of fun in a single day!  This year the 19th annual Ohio Renaissance Festival runs from August 30th thru October 19th.  What better way to spend a nice fall day than to be entertained by valient knights or swindling pirates?  The “Open-air Marketplace” is amazing with all the arts and crafts from a time long, long ago.  It’s always fun to do a little 16th century shopping with 21st century plastic!

By today’s standards it’s almost impossible to find a place to go as a family where everyone can have fun and enjoy themselves no matter what their age.  The Renaissance festival is one such place!  Furthermore, they encourage visitors to enter into the spirit of things with costumes and audience participation.  What better way to do this than by wearing one of our Renaissance costumes when you go.  We have them in all sizes for men, women and children.  So grab a costume and step back to a historic time of jousting, Robin Hood and Queen Elizabeth I.  You’ll be glad you did!

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Summer Blockbuster Movies

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Adult Costumes, Costume Suggestions, Kids Costumes, Movie Themes, Superheros, Teen Costumes, Toddler Costumes

April 7, 2008

If your children are like mine, they base their Halloween costume on whatever character catches their fancy over the summer.  Last year a few of them were Hannah Montana, The Simpsons, Shrek the Third, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and Spider Man 3.  As we all know, huge trends for Halloween costumes are geared toward characters from movies that are released over the summer.  Here are just a few of the big summer blockbuster movies being released this year that will definitely be huge costume sellers at Halloween Express over the coming months:

Iron Man – “Heroes Aren’t Born – They’re Made”

Speed Racer – “Go, Speed Racer, Go”

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – “A New Age Has Begun”

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – “The Adventure Continues”

Kung Fu Panda – “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting”

Hellboy II: The Golden Army – “Humanity’s Only Hope”

The Dark Knight – “Gotham Needs You”

Horton Hears a Who – “One Elephant, One World, One Story”

The Incredible Hulk – “Our Only Hope is Something Incredible”

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Were You an “April Fool”?

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April 2, 2008

I hope everyone enjoyed the month of March – and now we’re heading into April.  Yesterday was the 1st of April or better known as April Fools’ Day!  Although it’s not an actual holiday, people in many countries still love to celebrate it by playing pranks and other pratical jokes on family, friends, neighbors and enemies alike.  April Fools’ Day is a “for-fun-only” day.  We’re not expected to buy gifts or take our loved ones out to a nice dinner and nobody gets the day off work or school.  But no matter how “fun” it is, nobody is safe from pratical jokes.  We’re you an April Fool yesterday?

A little insight into April Fools’ Day around the world:

  • France – the person fooled is known as “poisson d’avril” (April fish). This tradition is where you attempt to attach a paper fish to the back of your friends shirt without being noticed.
  • Belgium – The Flemish tradition is for children to lock out their parents or teachers, only letting them in if they promise to bring treats the same evening or the next day.
  • Poland -  A day full of jokes where various hoaxes are prepared by people of the media.
  • United Kingdom – Tradition requires jokes to be played before midday.  If somebody pulls an April Fools’ trick after midday, then the person pulling the trick is actually considered the fool and this rhyme may be chanted:  “April Fool’s has come and gone, who’s the fool that carried on”?

There is a great quote by Mark Twain regarding April Fools’ Day – “The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year”.

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Take Me Out To The Ball Game!

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Adult Costumes, Family Fun, Kids Costumes, Teen Costumes, Toddler Costumes

March 27, 2008

Tuesday was the opening day of one of our nation’s favorite pastimes – baseball!  The game between the Red Sox and A’s, which was played in Japan, is apparently a very positive event for the game of baseball.  From everything I’ve read, Major League Baseball’s decision to hold opening day in Japan is another step in successfully growing the game internationally. 

Opening day is always exciting for the Major League Baseball season.  Every team starts off with the same record and every fan jumps on the bandwagon in hopes that their team will go all the way this year (although everyone knows that a “true” fan never jumped off the bandwagon to begin with – even if their team was doing badly)!  Monday, March 31 is the opening day game for my favorite team – the Cincinnati Reds.  They play against they Arizona Diamondbacks and it will be a great game!  Our weather is finally warming up and it’s going to be a beautiful spring day in Cincinnati.  Every year my husband and some of his friends take off work and make a day of it by going to lunch down on the river and then walking across the bridge to see the Reds play their opening day game. 

If you’ve got an opening day game coming up, be sure to check out all of our baseball costumes and accessories – you’ll be the life of the party!  

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Spring Break Florida Style

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Family Fun

March 25, 2008

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter holiday.  I had my family over for a big ham dinner and everyone had a really nice time.  The best part for the kids was the Easter egg hunt we do every year.  There is one “golden” egg that we hide for the older children that has a $50 bill in it and it’s hidden so well in the backyard that it’s always the last to be found.  My nephew Taylor found it this year.  It worked out well for him because he’s getting ready to go to Panama City for Spring Break with some of his friends and of course who couldn’t use some extra cash for that! 

Speaking of spring break – my children are off school next week for theirs.  We’re not going any where this year so I’ve decided to take them someplace fun each day, even just for a day at the local park so they can run off some energy and play with their friends.  It seems the younger they are the easier it is to entertain them!  My brother has a daughter that is a senior in high school and she’s going to Florida with some of her friends for the week.  His wife is actually going too with a couple of the other moms and staying at a hotel a little further up the beach.  

I remember going to Daytona Beach my senior year with a bunch of my friends and we had a great time just laying on the beach all day and walking up and down the strip at night meeting so many kids from other schools.   Back then it was all innocent fun and none of us got in any trouble.  But I’ll tell you what, I am not looking forward to my kids heading off to Florida for their spring breaks when they’re in college.  Just watching MTV and seeing how wild college spring breaks are now makes me a little nervous.  It’s a whole different ball game now!  Although thankfully I’ve got plenty of time to worry about that since my oldest boy Caden is only eight years old.  My brother and sister both have children in high school and college this year.  While they’re freaking out about letting their kids go, I just say ”don’t worry they’ll be fine”.  However, when it’s my turn to let my kids go to Florida for spring break when they’re older you can bet I’ll be freaking out!

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