But I got all the costumes done! Check out my kids as a pigeon, a snowy owl, and a tapejara:
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Showing posts with label snowy owl. Show all posts
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Halloween Costumes 2014!
Trick-or-Treat is tonight in our neighborhood, which at least does nighttime Trick-or-Treat. There will be Trick-or-Treat in the rest of Milwaukee in the daytime on Sunday. I have no idea if anything Halloween related is happening anywhere on Halloween.
But I got all the costumes done! Check out my kids as a pigeon, a snowy owl, and a tapejara:
But I got all the costumes done! Check out my kids as a pigeon, a snowy owl, and a tapejara:
Friday, October 10, 2014
Snowy Owl
Two down, one to go. I'm heading into the homestretch of the Halloween costume making. Quinn's pigeon costume is essentially finished. And now Aden's snowy owl is done!
I'm glad Aden wanted a costume. She's worried she's getting too old for it, but I believe you can wear a costume at any age. People I think get rightly annoyed with teenagers trick-or-treating who just walk around in normal clothes with a bag, but wearing a costume for Halloween is fun at any age, and people appreciate grand displays of imagination. Why not be a snowy owl for a day?
I started with a basic fleece jumpsuit, but with a wider hood than normal and an extra piece fastened with Velcro across the front of the neck to kind of blend her head into her body more like an owl would be. I have to say, I am getting fast with the jumpsuits and I make fewer mistakes. They aren't perfect, but I can trace the kids on the fabric and then pretty much sew the whole thing without them around and just have them try it on again when I finalize the hems, etc. I used to have to do the whole thing up in safety pins and have them keep putting it on and taking it off and I'd make lots of adjustments. But after so many years I've got the basics down and can just see it in my head enough to do it on the first try.
Anyway, this was the plain jumpsuit and hood:
I'm glad Aden wanted a costume. She's worried she's getting too old for it, but I believe you can wear a costume at any age. People I think get rightly annoyed with teenagers trick-or-treating who just walk around in normal clothes with a bag, but wearing a costume for Halloween is fun at any age, and people appreciate grand displays of imagination. Why not be a snowy owl for a day?
I started with a basic fleece jumpsuit, but with a wider hood than normal and an extra piece fastened with Velcro across the front of the neck to kind of blend her head into her body more like an owl would be. I have to say, I am getting fast with the jumpsuits and I make fewer mistakes. They aren't perfect, but I can trace the kids on the fabric and then pretty much sew the whole thing without them around and just have them try it on again when I finalize the hems, etc. I used to have to do the whole thing up in safety pins and have them keep putting it on and taking it off and I'd make lots of adjustments. But after so many years I've got the basics down and can just see it in my head enough to do it on the first try.
Anyway, this was the plain jumpsuit and hood:
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