Tutus!

Wow, I am so far behind.  I just found pictures from the beginning of October that I haven't put up yet.  Stay tuned for those.  I promise I'll catch up :).

Okay, so I love my boys... but I'm a girly-girl.  I like pink and frills as much as the next chica.  I finally decided I'm going to have to satisfy my craving for tutus and ruffles with my friends' kids.

I just went through my friends in my head... most of the them have boys.

Thank you, Erin, for having a little girl!!!

She just celebrated her birthday a couple weeks ago, and I had the chance to finally put my girly Pinterest ideas to use!

TUTUS!!!!

Her favorite princesses are Sleeping Beauty and Tinkerbell.  (I think I had a little too much fun with Tinkerbell).  Treasures for Tots has a great tutu tutorial here and here.

Sleeping Beauty:

I made the length twice as long as in the tutorial to make it look more like a ball gown.

Tinkerbell:

Sorry there's no tutorial for the accessories (I, like normal, waited until the last minute to make these).  For the headbands, I found soft foam-covered headbands in the sewing section at Walmart and wrapped them in leftover ribbon.  The shoe clips are pompoms glued to those long snap hair clips.  The wings are tulle and ribbon wrapped around and hot-glued to molded floral wire, hot-glued to a ribbon-wrapped cardboard base.

My Two Superheroes

Lucas, just like every other little boy right now, has a small obsession with superheroes.  Batman, Hulk... Superman, Captain America... DC, Marvel... makes no difference.  It's cool to him!

At first, Lucas said he wanted to dress up as Batman, "so I can go get candy."  He told me that Jackson had to be Robin, "so we can go fight bad guys."  Then he was introduced to the "Aventures" (Avengers) and decided he wanted to be Captain America.  After that, he didn't care what I dressed Jack up as.  I figured Superman would be an easy enough costume to make.

At Halloween at the Y a couple weeks before

Both costumes are completely made from Goodwill finds (okay... except for the shoes...).

Captain America:
Shirt... a slightly large child's Under Armor shirt with batting folded and sewn underneath for muscles, and felt hot-glued on the front.
Pants... I found workout pants in navy blue with silver stripes down the side.
Mask... I made it from a blue fleece blanket, but he has a big head... I misjudged size :)
Shield... a wicker paper plate holder thing (you know what I'm talking about, right?).  I just hot-glued felt to the front and back.  The back actually had a compartment to hold candy.

Superman:
Blue Pants
Top... I cut and pieced together a blue onesie and a red onesie.  The Superman logo was freehand cut from felt and hot-glued on the front.  This Frankensteined onesie is snapped over the pants.
Cape... a red piece of felt hotglued to the shoulders.

One house had small apples mixed into the candy... Lucas picked out 3 apples and left the candy... ???

 

I generally don't let him have more than a couple of pieces that night, and he averages 2-3 pieces of candy per week... I just don't bring it up, and he frequently forgets about it... (mean mommy). Do you ration the candy? Or do you let them get their fill in the first couple days?

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