I love Halloween, but I’ll be honest, I don’t usually go above and beyond. I appreciate it when other people do, but I’m not much of a decorator or party thrower. It’s just not my bag. We decorate a little. And carve pumpkins – almost always with my sister, Cait. And bake cookies and pumpkin […]
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I love the crisp autumn weather, the changing leaves, the flickering jack-o-lanterns, but most of all I love the costumes. There’s something magical about dressing up and transforming into someone or something else. Despite failing Home Ec (I refused to sew trace all of the pattern markings on […]
Well…it’s that time of year. T-minus six days ’til Halloween and I’ve been chained to my sewing machine. This year, I don’t have as many costumes to make as usual. Corwin wanted to be a Clone Trooper more than anything, so he saved up his birthday money and bought the voice changing Clone Trooper helmet […]
Halloween Costume Update: Wendy Darling, Tinker Thug…I mean Tinker Bell and the Goth Gypsy are done, as is the emergency replacement Dorothy Gale blouse. The Dwarf has suddenly morphed into an executioner – or a ‘headsman’ as my child so quaintly calls it – and should require virtually no sewing. The weird Naruto anime thing […]
So it’s October 25th and I’ve got six days to make six costumes. Yep…right on schedule for the sewing frenzy (the next one will be scheduled the week before Christmas) Today it’s the Goth Gypsy for one of my daycare kids.Tomorrow Wendy and Tinker Bell for my sister-in-law and niece.Saturday a dwarf (unfortunately not the […]