I found myself dreading making costumes this year. I no longer get to choose (or at least strongly influence) like last year. Elsie wanted to be a big scary spider, Anne wanted to be a penguin, and Cal wanted to be a spiky caterpillar, a bunny, a spaceman, a skeleton, a witch, a spider, and a pengiun. Hmmm.
First Lesson Learned~ don't ask your children what they want to be unless you are prepared to just make whatever they choose (which I was not).
So with help of friendly advice due to lots of complaining about getting motivated to make these costumes, I just went online and let them choose costumes! This was so great. They were happy, I was relieved, a delightful solution all around.
Second Lesson Learned~ when you order halloween costumes online, make sure you do it like 3 weeks in advance.
Guess what? the costumes didn't arrive in time for class parties. Tears and drama followed when yesterday afternoon the package was still not here!
I made the choice to start sewing a super scary witch with below fabrics.
Third Lesson Learned~ don't start making a costume the night before the Halloween party.
Fourth Lesson Learned~ if you make above mistake, at least check and make sure you have 1/4" elastic before you put in over an hour when you should be making dinner and helping with homework.
Fifth and Final Lesson ~just call up some friends with older kids and borrow costumes before doing all the things above.
She wouldn't take pictures unless she got to wear the teeth.
She looks like she loves it! And adorable! I am so happy it all worked out! :)
Posted by: Amy Dunn | October 30, 2010 at 04:41 AM