Who’s Behind That False Face?

Here it is all finished and ready to hand over at a meetup at IKEA (where I was picking up the goodies for my craft table – yay!) since my friend lives sort of close to the nearest one to me.  I’m still a little bent out of shape that the top and bottoms are so far from matching.  I died the bottom half of the hoodie and it came out lighter than I had hoped.  So then I went to plan B and tried to bleach the pants.  I soaked them in a bleach solution three separate times and nothing.  Zip.  Nada.  No dice.  They didn’t change one iota.  I ran out of time and ideas to get them closer in color so it is what it is.

This costume involved quite a lot of hand sewing.  All the leaves on the arms had to be stitched on by hand and I embroidered “VM + candy” inside a heart onto the pants to replicate carving on the tree trunk.  VM is my friend’s son’s initials.

I was informed in no uncertain terms by Arden that she wanted to be a red ladybug and Hadley would be a pink ladybug.  Hey, she’s volunteering for coordinating costumes, so who am I to argue?  Here’s what I shared during KCWC…

Here’s Hadley’s pink ladybug costume during construction.

And in action today.  She does this cute knee walk all the time – does anyone else know a kid who did this?  I think it started because she used to sort of ski crawl – she’d find a book or a toy that would slide and just hold her hands still and crawl with her legs.  When she carries things that don’t slide or she doesn’t want to put down she does this.

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