C'est L'Halloween

Sophia's Cinderella - Uncle Brad's CBR Pumpkin- My ghosty pumpkin

and Dan, Still hard at work!

His new fallout pumpkin

the back of Brads CBR - The back of my ghost

Wearing the tutu I made, and her ruffle shirt

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

Princess Sophia, wearing the Tutu I made, and her table cloth dress

I went as myself ;-D

Gift bag from Uncle Brad, if you have any little people in your life, Please do this! Way better than bringing over more Candy. they got Yop, juice, fruit, banana chips, pepperoni snacks, lots of granola bars, and trick-or-treat bags

Thanks Uncle Brad!!!

Off we go

Paper Pumpkins

I'm not "all about Halloween" but I want it to be fun for the girls so I decided that Sophia and I would decorate a bit. The goal was to spend $0 and have Sophia fully involved. We traced the lid from our animal Crackers bin and Sophia and I cut out Orange circles for our pumpkins, Next we cut little stems and faces out of Green and black, and start sticking them on. we used double sided tape because I couldn't find the glue stick. Sophia got pretty inventive with some of her pumpkin faces, and named them all.

Princess Larvie:    I cut most of the features since Sophia cut her black paper into long thin strips

Ava

Ifem, but I call him Emo

Fraoma, she has a mustache

Ima, the Girlfriend and Mustache boy, the boyfriend. They have legs so they can walk, and go on a date.
Sophia made Mustache boy all by herself, he's my favourite!.

Fazha - he must be dutch, das is veird yah?

Aisha

Aiia

We rolled out a ribbon and stapled the pumpkin on, hiding  them behind Eyes.

All strung up.
If you make some paper crafts send me pictures and let me know how it goes, I love Ideas.

Table cloth to princess gown

Sneak peak; Well I have to save something for a Halloween post!

What does Sophia want to be for Halloween? Why a princess of course! So We looked at several stores, I really didn't want to spend $30 or $40 on a Disney princess dress. Oh brother, Disney princesses. You'll see 100 Belles, and Cinderellas, and Auroras, and... well I could keep going and name them all since I have a 3 year old girlie girl. I'll be nice and spare you ;-).I had made Sophia this Tutu a little while ago and put it away for Halloween, But a tutu? For a princess it just didn't seem right, I need a gown, a big twirly dress. Sophia said she wanted a white dress (weird right? I 100% expected Pink!)

 So instead of buying fabric I ran down into my dungeon and found this.... Ahhh My clearance table cloth. I had snagged the last three of these at Extra Foods before my wedding thinking I'd use them. But I didn't. Did you see the price? How could I resist. And believe it or not, I paid 50% of the clearance price, You got it I paid $1.42 for this beaut. Two of them made their way home with my Mom since I don't have a 90" long table. The other one has sat around for 2 1/2 years waiting to be used for something. The game plan, to make a dress and use the tutu as a crinolin. Completed with some cheap princess accesories and voila!

I used a dress of Sophia's to roughly estimate the top. Remember to leave room for seams, and for growth. Plus there's a good posibility that Sophia will have to wear a winter jacket under this dress.

I cut them out and for the front piece I added an interesting neckline, and the back I cut down the middle, so I can add velcro and have an adjustable opening

Then I folded in the neckline and sewed it in. I should have used bias tape, but I didn't want to go to the store, and Hey, it's just a halloween costume!

I sewed the straps together, and the two back pieces (Remeber I cut it in half) to the armpit of the front piece

For the skirt I wanted a good 'twirl' so I decided to make a circle skirt. I cut a large circle by folding the table cloth into triangles and rounding the edges. I made the waist opening about 2x bigger than needed so I could gather it and make it poufy.

Then I folded in the edges and sewed, I found it easiest to just fold as I went. Since this is just a costume I didn't worry too much about the finish of it. If I were making a 'real' dress I would iron and pin. But I prefer to wing it.

I sewed a bast stitch (largest stitch on the machine) and pulled the back thread carefully to gather it up and make the waist on the skirt the same size as the waist on the top.

Pin and sew the top to the gathered skirt










try it on for size. Not too bad, It's big enough to layer underneath!

I cut two strips that were about 4" wide and long enough to attach to the armhole plus 2"








Pin the arm to the armhole (make sure right sides are facing!) I did two pleats on the top of the arm (hence the extra 2" that I added)







try on model to check out fit. Looks great!

I sewed some velcro to the back, If this was a 'for real' dress It would be great to have snaps or buttons back here.







Check it out. It's cute but still a bit plain looking, Time for some toule accents on the arms to match the crinolin/ tutu, and accessories















There, Long white gloves, pearl necklace, also a tiara and Wand. Stay tuned for the Halloween pictures.

Thanks for checking it out. I adore comments and if you try a dress like this please send me pictures!

TuTu-Torial

Aka the easiest thing I've ever made!

 What you'll need

 

• 1 piece of ribbon,  or cording approximately 1 1/2 - 2 times the measurement of the tutu wearers waist
• OR 1 piece of elastic the measurement of the tutu wearers waist, ends sewn tightly together
•  1-2 rolls of 6" wide Toule
• OR 3-6 metres of Toule by the bolt (The more toule you use the fluffier and fuller your tutu will be!!)
• Scissors
• Patience

Cut the toule in strips 2x the final length of the skirt (EG. to make a 12" long tutu cut 24" strips of 6" wide toule). Start tying knots! Keep it tight or tie 3 together before tying to the waistband for the greatest poof impact. Make sure you double knot or it will be destroyed the first time it meets the washing machine. Hang to dry!

*For Sophia and Annalilia's tutu I used Ribbon for the waist and toule by the bolt (Left overs from Jenni and Marcello's wedding) which was the standard fabric width of 44". Sophia and I cut them into 4-6" widths and trimmed 8-10" off the length, which I used for Annalilia's tutu. (total lenth approx 34" = dress length of 17") Make sense???

If you decide to make this PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send me pictures and let me know how it goes!