Something you should probably know about me is ... I am obsessed with costumes. Even more so if I have an excuse to make one myself. When I sold/donated all of my belongings (except four boxes and two suitcases) to leave San Francisco and move in with my then-boyfriend in Chicago, my tub of costumes made the trip. My mom explains that I can't help it. "It's in your blood!" she says. Her side of the family is from New Orleans and they are constantly dressing up well into their senior years (God, I love them!). My husband and I joke that making costumes for babies was among the top reasons for ...