I am leaving town to go to a PKD Foundation board meeting and instead of packing the night before I was making a mummy costume for Gage. I would have been making it Sunday night to prepare for a dialysis Halloween Party on Monday but there is a party this Saturday for the kids and so there I was, with muslin on the evening I should be packing.
I love making the kids costumes. Love it. Everyone looks at me like I am crazy when I share this secret. I know, I know – it does in fact sound crazy. But making their costumes is something I WANT to do. Quinn is going to be a dragon, but only because Annie Mac gave Quinn the best, cutest dragon costume ever.
So, for your viewing pleasure in light of my late night sewing her are some homemade costumes from previous years. Before you roll your eyes that I make costumes amid all of this kidney drama you must know one thing: it was quick and painless when I put up the needle and thread and heated up the glue gun.
(I made the jacket from an old raincoat and added the little emblems. On the back I had ironed on: STAY BACK 50 FEET
And well, I made Gage’s lion costume. And although I never really put a clasp on the hood it didn’t matter – a safety pin worked just fine.
Halloween was always my favorite holiday when the kids were young. We too did the fire fighter and dalmation. And that year, Ed pulled Daniel and Becca in the fire truck wagon he constructed. I remember sewing on the spots to Becca’s costume in the wee hours of the morning so she could wear it to day care. And there was Batman and Catwoman – with the wagon transformed into the Bat Car, and Capt Hook and Tinkerbell (I don’t think there was a ship that year – the kids were getting too old and too heavy to pull at that point!) Oh for those days! And let’s not forget all the candy! YUMMY – said the Chocoholic!
Safe travels and know you’re in my thoughts,
Miss Jo-dee
Those are great pictures!! Safety pins can be a lifesaver!!
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