Happy Halloween

Halloween was a busy day.  I had a costume to finish (making Maddie's pop star dress with no pattern and only vague idea of how to make a dress is not an experience I wish to repeat anytime soon.), shoes to pick up from Walmart (they all wear about the same size shoe and so NO MORE HAND ME DOWNS and it's no longer sandal weather.  Waaahhhh.) went to Maddie's classroom party, took all four girls home from school (since Emma and Elizabeth had performed in the play all day and missed the bus home), curled Emma's hair (when is that girl going to stop being afraid of curling irons???), found white shirts that Annie and Maddie didn't hate to wear with their dresses, made the girls put on their costumes early so we would have good outdoor light for pictures, rounded up the trick or treat baskets (why can I only find 3?), grabbed the candy and away we went to the church dinner and trunk or treat.

But the girls looked pretty darn good.  I made everyone's costume, except Annie's Cinderella dress.  That came courtesy of Amazon.  Also, all of the girls are wearing something of mine.  Annie and Maddie wore my white short sleeved shirts, Emma wore my black tights and flats, and Elizabeth is wearing my black leggings.  I just have to take a step back and shake my head.  How can they be this old already?

 Emma is Little Red Riding Hood.  The cape is held together by fabric glue and ribbon.

 I made the crayon top out of green foam and hot glue and two hair clips.  I printed off the Crayola logo and made the shirt with black fabric and the heat and stick stuff from the craft store.  Voila.

 If you are unfamiliar with the The Crayon Song from Studio C, you will miss why being the green crayon is funny.

 Miss Annie as Cinderella.  I had to BEG Annie to leave her hair down just long enough for these pictures, but then it had to go straight back into a ponytail.  That girl is a little particular about how things are and feel on her body.

 Maddie is Keira from Barbie Princess and the Popstar, and she is "singing" into her purple hairbrush, I mean microphone.  Her dress has two safety pins to get it to lay (mostly) right.  Did I mention I made this thing with no pattern?  At all?  It's in three pieces: the skirt was easy enough, the belt is its own piece held together with velcro, and the top is well....  not too bad if you don't look at it closely.

 It wouldn't be a proper Halloween without some silly pictures.  I'm glad they still like to be silly.

 I made M&M shirts for Ryan and me.  I had no idea that M&Ms were going to be a big "thing" this year.  When I was at Maddie's class party, I saw 4 or 5 M&M shirts, and I heard there were several at Ryan's old building.  Huh.  Who knew?