Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

31 October 2016

An Ewok Hallow's Eve

Jay and I knew from the moment we watched Star Wars together as married couple that our first child needed to be an ewok for Halloween. That's not a joke. We've been patiently biding our time until Rory was old enough to toddle around, because that really makes it. And this was our year!

My sweet Jay humored me, and I went to work sewing my little heart out to make it a family affair. I really didn't want to have to buy anything new this year, so everything we're wearing is either pre-owned, thrifted, or made from thrifted materials! 

So Jay's vest is a $3 fuzzy vest that I cut down to size, cut the zipper off,  and sewed over the logo.
My dress was an XXL, which I cut down, sewed, and made a choker out of the spare material. 
And Rory's suit I found at DI for $4, cut it down to her size, and made a hat with ears out of the extras! (if you could see under the sheet, it's a little small because I ran out of scraps!)
So in all it probably took less than $20 and a few hours of sewing.
And kudos to Jay who made his own Hans Solo leg wrap/gun holster out of a black tie down strap!

Also our sweet Ewok won't stay still for a picture to save her life these days, and some of these are a little blurry because well... #life We hope your Halloween was as fun as ours! We went to a party Thursday, a restaurant grand opening and the rec center Saturday, and trick-or-treating on Halloween night! Rory loved it all, aside from our rather tall neighbor Paul who wore a scary mask, and the house next to his who had a witches hand in the candy bowl. I've never seen the poor dear so scared. So many tears. But also so much candy. So I think it was a win overall in everybody's book. 







30 October 2015

Happy Halloween: year of the tiny unicorn

This year Rory and I were Unicorn twins. It all started when we were trying to think of what to be without buying too much new stuff. We aren't going to be home for actual Halloween, and Rory can't really be into it all too much this year anyways, but we had to do something! I mean look at the cheeks I have to work with!

Anyways, on a Harry Potter themed string of thoughts I had visions of unicorns and it was history from there. Some pink felt, white t-shirt scraps, and leftover craft flowers later, we had ourselves a tiny unicorn. 

I tried to get some smiles out of her before the party, but it just wasn't happening. I even enlisted Boo, but she ended up being more in the way than helpful. So I gave up and waited for Jay.  As I anticipated, daddy got all kinds of smiles out of her. Forgive the horrible church building lighting, but pictures of a us as unicorn twins are worth all the bad lighting in the world for this mama.