{happy halloween ~ costumes galore}

I did a little sewing for Halloween this year.  Above is my oldest daughter.  I made her shorts and her mask (she painted it and I sewed it) and she made her tutu and painted the spider on her shirt.

Above is the dress I made for my oldest daughter's best friend.  She was an ice princess.  I wish I could have gotten a picture of her all dressed up with her hair and make-up done and with her tiara on.  She looked really good.  This dress was very difficult to make.  I've made several formals now, but this one by far was the hardest.

  Minnie Mouse is my 2nd oldest daughter.  I made her dress and she made her ears.

These are my 3rd and 4th oldest girls.  On the left is my 15 year old, doing face painting at our church's trunk-or-treat last night.  I never got a good picture of her costume.  She made her tutu.  And my 13 year old daughter (on the right), she's the only one I didn't have to make anything for.  My 15 year old did the 13 year olds make-up.

My oldest son was a mummy.  My husband and I tore up an old sheet and another large piece of fabric that I had into strips and tied them together.  It literally took almost an hour to wrap him up.

And my youngest boy was a lumberjack.  My husband made his axe and the rest was all stuff we already had.  My 15 year old daughter did his make-up for his beard. This was a very simple costume. We had a lot of fun this year.   

I always love seeing the creative ideas my kids come up with.   Happy Belated Halloween!

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{mustache's & rock band's t-shirts}

Makyla saw me making a little toddler t-shirt like this one and loved it so much that she begged me to make her one, so I figured... this would be a perfect Christmas gift.  She literally screamed out loud when she opened it on Christmas morning.

And Cammi wanted a Downtown Fiction t-shirt.  Well, every website I looked on was sold out, so what did I do?  Made one.  She was so excited because this is her favorite band right now.

  

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{a skateboarder & a camaro ~ freezer-paper stenciling}

Here are some more t-shirts I painted using freezer-paper stencils.  I love this technique, although the patterns that I chose for these two shirts were very intricate so they took quite awhile to cut out.  Next time I do one of these shirts I will take pictures along the way & do a tutorial.

Caden told me he wanted a camaro for Christmas, so this is what I came up with.  

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{muggles and soccer t-shirts}

I decided to try my hand at freezer paper stenciling.  Some of my friends have done this several times and I finally decided to try it.  Spencer wanted a Harry Potter t-shirt & since I know nothing really about Harry Potter I had to do a little research and asked my friend, Jen, a lot of questions about all of the different things that  I was finding on the internet.

The other day while we were driving around, Spencer said something about Muggles and I asked him what Muggles were and he told me "non-wizards". So I asked him if that makes him a Muggle and he said "Yes".  He said it so matter of factly, like "duh, mom, don't you know this already".  It was kind of funny.  Then, yesterday, when he opened his t-shirt he read it & said "muggies", even funnier.  I guess the "L" does look kinda like an "I".

  

And this is the other t-shirt that I painted for Spencer.  He loves to play soccer, so I knew he would like this one. Sorry for the wrinkles. He already wore it yesterday so it was already wadded up & in the laundry basket when I asked him to get it for me this morning. 

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