Halloween 2012

I absolutely LOVE Halloween. It is my favorite holiday. I love to dress up, and I love candy, so Halloween has always been a win-win in for me. I especially love it now that I have kids to dress up! This year Jadyn was pretty sure that she wanted to be "Alice" from "Alice in Wonderland." It is her favorite movie right now and she spent large amounts of time detailing to me exactly what I needed to get for her costume. Including a new kitty named "Di." (Joe was all for that idea). McKay wanted to be a horse of course. He is obsessed with all things horse related and rejected all other costume ideas.  I called my mom who is an amazing seamstress to get her opinion on how best to go about making these costumes and to see if she had any patterns or fabric that would work. Luckily she had both! She was hired to make a lion costume for her local theater last year so she sent me the left over fake fur for McKay's costume, and some old blue Lycra and chiffon for Jadyn's. I love to sew, but these projects were way outside my comfort zone. I had never worked with ANY of those fabrics before so I was pretty nervous about how this was going to work. Did I need to buy special needles for any of them? how was I supposed to keep the darn stuff from fraying without a surger? I got started the first week of October so that I would have plenty of time to come up with something else if they didn't turn out. Amazingly, both costumes came together perfectly!! The patterns were sooooo easy to follow and my new sewing machine handled the different fabrics just fine.

After I finished Jadyn's blue dress she prompting changed her mind about being Alice and declared it to be her Cinderella costume. I figured it would be easier to make a few changes to the dress then to sew the Alice pinafore, so I was perfectly happy to let her switch! i hadn't hemmed it yet either, so it was still long enough to work as for a Cinderella costume.  plus, now I wouldn't have to be mean about denying her a kitten. I changed the lining on the sleeves and took the skirt off to add the hip flounces and it became a cute little Cinderella costume! I was pretty burned out after sewing the two costumes, so it was another week or so before I got around to glittzing her dress up with rhinestones, but I cam so glad I did! She loved having sparkles all over it. I will say that next year, I won't start nearly so early making costumes. At least not when my kids can see it! They had such a hard time waiting until Halloween to wear them.

I tried to get McKay to take a picture without his binky.

Jadyn got invited to a Cinderella birthday party the week before Halloween!.

She was SO excited to get to wear her dress early!

All ready to go trick or treating!

I woke up Halloween morning with food poisoning/stomach flu. It was so miserable and I was so bummed because I knew that I wouldn't be able to go with Joe and the kids to our Church's Halloween party or Trunk'or'treat. Jadyn tried to cheer me up about it by declaring that she would share all of her candy (cute girl!). I got them all ready and then sent them off with Joe to have a good time. They had a blast and came home with waaaayyy too much candy!