We didn't want to 'celebrate' Halloween this year by trick or treating, decorating, or anything of that sort, but I do love costumes so very much! My daughter had 'costume day' on the 31st at her school, and wanted so badly to be Mary Poppins... in the white dress... which she decided a week before she needed the costume. I said there was no way I'd be able to do it if I didn't have a dress to modify... and I didn't. So, she said she wanted to be Alice in Wonderland. That I could do! I was fairly certain we had a blue dress for her that she wore during the summer, and so on Saturday, I sewed the apron from some scraps of white fabric I happened to have on hand.
Turns out that the blue dress was FAR too small.
Out came some old blue fabric that has been sitting in my fabric drawer for over 10 years, and I sewed a circle skirt on Sunday out of that. Nice thing was that it didn't need hemming. That fabric was perfect for the job! And the skirt will work for so many other costumes my little girls are going to want to wear eventually (Ariel's blue dress, Belle's blue dress, Anna's blue skirt...).
Monday I sewed the 'shirt' portion of the dress, and found a black ribbon in my scraps which became the headpiece. M was thrilled! Here she is, modelling the costume with A by her side.
Friday morning, all ready for school, we took some 'tea party' pictures with the white rabbit she brought with her... as part of her costume of course.
I absolutely adore how it turned out! And I was able to borrow a few petticoat type skirts for under the skirt. I only found out later (after school) that I should have pinned the skirt to the shirt, as the fabric is so slick that it kept sliding down while she was in school (probably due to how she sits down, actually. Been trying to teach her to sit instead of slide into her seat). But she is so cute!
We had some grocery shopping to do, as well as hair cuts, so we grabbed some costumes for our younger two while our oldest was in school, and off we went to town. A garnered quite the attention while running around as a little pony all over the grocery store.
Our evening consisted of watching Lady and the Tramp while noshing on homemade pizza, and other sweet treats I made myself. No bake Snack Bars (they taste a lot like Eatmore bars... but next time I'll add more cocoa and less dates), pumpkin fudge (another one without sugar... they need to stay in the fridge/freezer), Caramel corn, and pumpkin rice krispie squares (the pumpkin in the squares makes the rice krispies a little soggy in texture, though. The flavor was wonderful!). The caramel corn is such a hit in our house, I may need to start making a double batch. I think we ate half of it before the movie! It was gone by the next day. The other treats are still around, although the rice krispie square only has about 3 pieces left (probably gone by the end of today) and the other two are in the freezer (they needed a food processor, and while I was making the first one, the processor broke and wouldn't work anymore. So... the texture isn't as good as it should be. They still taste great, though, and my arms got a workout in chopping and mashing dates and nuts).
And here is our little cutie with a bag of chips she got from grandma and grandpa. They came over earlier in their costumes. They had quite the adventure going to their grandkids houses that weren't trick or treating and then later to the store. Makes me want to dress up for fun again. Not easy to do with my giant belly, haha.
We do love treats! Especially since mommy rarely buys any of these things. At all.
Hope you all had a fantastic October! November is upon us... and with that are thoughts of CHRISTMAS!
