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When I was a kid, maybe 13 years old, I heard about a Halloween costume contest at a natural history museum.
I wanted a costume somehow science related, so I decided to dress as a mosquito (seems weird to me now, but whatever). My mom sewed together a black felty fabric into a proboscis that went out over my head and a sort of cloak down my back with legs coming off it. We cut a Styrofoam ball in half and painted it yellow for the eyes. The wings were a white mesh fabric on a frame of drinking straws that we taped together.
I won the contest for my age bracket, and the prize was some Star Trek: Deep Space 9 refrigerator magnets. I don't think I have the magnets anymore, but I still have the costume, though it's falling apart a little.
Okay, I have to go text my mom and tell her she's awesome.
+1 your mom is cool. You'd better call her!