Catch up

Whew! I can't believe today is the last day of November.... guess I'm over a month behind.....

Better late than never....

Here is the costume that I made for my 3 year old for Halloween.

It was quite an accomplishment for me to finish, I have not sewn since high school home economics and the sewing machine just would not cooperate. 

Thanks to an early Christmas present one part was solved!

And the project began....

K had decided she wanted to be an Orca - that is what watching Diego will get you...

Here is starting to layout the teeth.

 It seemed pretty easy.....

 But, alas... I ended up undoing everything and making them smaller.... not sure if I have a photo of that later....

Here are the oversized Orca teeth.

Well, I thought I had taken more photos... but I guess you'll just have to settle for some finished ones...

 As you can see it still needed a little altering.... the tail I tied up with fishing line. It lasted until the last 2 blocks of the night. And I had to pin the sleeves up because the smallest hoodie I could find was a Men's Small.

 This was pretty funny, when K realized I had done something different with the tail... she was looking for it.

 She was very happy with her costume. One house tried to say she was a Killer Whale & she sternly told them "NO - I am an Orca."

Daddy and K did a lot of walking and we are still eating on the Halloween candy a month later....

Here is where I found the idea that helped me create this:

http://karascreativeplace.blogspot.com/2010/10/whale-of-costume.html

And now I am on the look-out for hoodies for the kid's in different colors and sizes.... we could have monkeys, dogs, cows, etc for future Halloweens.