Why Can't You Just Be a Princess?

I know, I know....I should be encouraging individuality with my daughter but if you saw what I'm sewing up for her Halloween costume this year, you might be on my side. "Why can't you just be a Teletubbie?" I may ask her as we're browsing Halloween Alley, answered with silence and the "look". Don't know where she gets that from.

Over the years I've had to put together a costume or two...sometimes purchased and sometimes put together creatively . My daughter is 13 and still loves dressing up for Halloween. Her brothers were done with dressing up for All Hallow's Eve by that age. Raelynn is going to be....you know those kind of people....the ones that are 35 years old and go to work for their 8-hour shift in full clown attire and feel totally comfortable with it.

Really, I am okay with making her costumes.

The school girl uni still needs some touches but I've got the major parts done.
Ooops....don't look at the fireman's calendar to the right.

This year she is some sort of anime character, I think? I don't know, but I do know that I'm sewing up a black and red Japanese school girl uniform. To order the uniform was to cost a ridiculous amount of money but going to Fabricland when they have the Buy 1 Metre, Get 2 Free Metres Event was priceless. (I'll need lots of fabric because there's a good possibility that I'll screw it up the first time.) I love it that Raelynn doesn't mind homemade costumes because they're usually a whole lot nicer than the store-bought ones that come in a 9x12 plastic bag and thinner than tissue paper. Besides, you can be much more creative and authentic-looking if you can put together your own costume.

Coleson & Raelynn...Coleson's is homemade, believe it or not

Here's a few costumes of Halloween past...

I think this is Brody

This is Brody but Coleson also wore
this costume 5 years later.
This one
is also homemade....my first!

Brody is a ninja....homemade costume

Raelynn is a ....fairy? The store-bought little girls' costumes all look the same to me....princesses, fairies, they're all the same

Our house isn't quite as busy at this time of the year as it used to be. Now that the youngun's are getting bigger, I can make the time for Raelynn's costumes. She approached me sometime in August with her ideas and together we figured out how we could make it happen.

Gone are the ghosts, grim reapers, princesses and fairies that I used to buy off the Wal-Mart shelves.