Another fabulous handmade Halloween is in the books! This year Arden chose to trick or treat as Honey Lemon from Big Hero 6 and Hadley went as a Unicorn. Honey Lemon evolved from a first request for a generic scientist. While I was willing to make up a lab coat and accessories, I didn’t think {…Continue Reading}
Another fun Halloween is in the books! Â Halloween is a big deal in Verona so we have no shortage of creepy backdrops to use for photos. Â In fact we had to move a few houses down because the zombie behind me in the first few shots was creeping the girls out too much!! This year {…Continue Reading}
Another fun Halloween is in the books. Â The girls get to choose their costumes, and once I’ve bought fabrics and start sewing there’s no changing. Last year they went as a pair of gnomes, and I lalaloved the coordinating costumes. Â Plus, those quilted dresses were (and still are) worn for lots of other events from {…Continue Reading}
Tinkerbell and Cheese Mouse made for a successful Halloween 2013. I shared the construction of the various pieces of the Tinkerbell costume previously, and now I’ll show you the costumes in action as well as the details for the cheese mouse costume. The timing of the prelude Halloween festivities had me on a stock count {…Continue Reading}
I’ve been getting at least one hour of sewing/costume making in each day this Kid’s Clothes Week, but this is the first opportunity I have to post about it. That also means I don’t have modeled shots, but I’ll share some when both girls are all dressed up for the big day. This costume arrangement {…Continue Reading}
Who’s behind that false face, Nobody knows but me, Who’s behind that false face, Nobody knows but me, I won’t tell you, you will have to guess, If your guess is right, I will answer “Yes!”  Did you do a costume parade when you were growing up? We would go in a long line {…Continue Reading}
I’m kind of a big deal in certain circles. Those circles being my friend’s son Victor. He requested a cow costume for Halloween a couple of years ago and has since named me his personal costumer. He wanted to be a tree this year, which seems a relatively easy request – sort of. This is how {…Continue Reading}
Did you guess? Yup, I went with the silver pleather. The black just seemed to contrast-y and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to use silver pleather. I mean when else except Halloween and maybe dress up can you say that? I still used the black felt, but more as a stabilizer in between each {…Continue Reading}
I’m not sure I should be allowed to be this excited about something I made, but I seriously love these little ladybug wings! They took less than an hour to make and turned out soo much better than I had envisioned. I used some of the leftover polka dot fabric from her dress and I had bought {…Continue Reading}
So far, so good! I worked for about two hours and was able to draft, cut, and sew Hadley’s ladybug dress. It went faster than Arden’s because I didn’t have to think about each step to be sure I was doing what I wanted. I know pink with white polka dots isn’t necessarily very ladybug-ish, {…Continue Reading}
