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How are we all today? Doing well on this bleary, wet and dreary week of October, I hope. Today I thought I'd share a bit about our Halloween costumes this year to brighten this week up a bit! Now, as always my family are HUGE procrastinators. When I started writing this it was October 28th and now as I'm finishing it, it is November 12. Halloween is the 31st and we were just then finishing costumes. Somehow that's how it happens every year. Usually we're always running around scrambling for last minute ideas and trying to find a costume in our size. But these past few years as we've been getting older we've been wanting to start actually getting more into making our costumes.
Now, usually we say we're going to make our costumes but then we never do or we get too lazy. But this year we somehow managed to quickly piece together super cute, super super easy costumes!!
Naomi + Lana
Okay, so we'll start with Lana and Naomi's costumes. I don't know how or when they came up with the idea but the girls wanted to do something together, which is super cute. I've always wanted to do a couples costume. Or even a group costume. A few years ago two of my friends and I dressed up as the Scooby Gang and that was awesome. We were missing a Daphne, but we ended up just saying that was our mystery. Anyways, back to the girls. Both of them have been practically obsessed with this Five Nights at Freddy's...videogame? Jeez, I don't even know what the dang thing is. All I know is personally I think it's terrifying and I don't understand why kids can thing evil Animatronics are cool but a doll isn't. Some one please explain that logic to me. Thank you.
Apparently there are different like versions of these characters as well and instead of doing the main versions the girls chose to do Fun time Freddy and Bon-bon. Now, what I did not know is that apparently Bon-bon is Funtime puppet. So basically my little sister agreed to be my stepsister's puppet for the night and the thought of that honestly cracked me up.
So, those are what we ended up with. I think they are the ABSOLUTE CUTEST! When I found out the girls wanted to do these crazy costumes I was like boy, that'll be fun. We're either going to just buy the costumes and theyre going to be big and bulky and awkward on these little tiny girls OR maybe they'll think the tutu idea is cute. I've been seeing these cute tutu group costumes pop up for years now. People will take the most simple characters or sometimes even more complicated characters and make them so simple and often super cute! I first suggested the idea to Naomi when she didn't seem to be liking the ideas my mom was sort of thinking we could do for her. I fully expected her little eight year old self to immediately shut down the idea but she actually seemed to ponder it. So, I found some examples and showed her a few to make sure she understood what I meant.
Yet she still liked the idea. The next hardest part was going to be convincing Lana to go along with it, or so I thought. She agreed to it almost just as easily and honestly I was shocked. I thought they would've wanted it to be almost exactly the same but I'm so glad that they did want to do it! Now, the easy part about the tutu costumes is that once you select your character you just need a color that fits them perfectly, and depending on who your character is a shirt too match. For the girl it was easy enough since most of these Animatronics are one color.
For Naomi's costume we got the skirt, pants and shirt, I believe, at Walmart. Lana's we bought the skirt at Meijer. But honestly you can probably find the tutu's at any major retailer that sells Halloween costumes. Lana's leggings came from Target because I knew we had white leggings for girls and we couldn't find them anywhere else apparently. For the chest pieces we painted Naomi's directly on the shirt and Lana's was a piece of pink felt that my mom just safety pinned to the sweatshirt. The bows were easy. You could very, very easily make them but we just bought Lana's black bow at Walmart and we already had Naomi's which came in some sort of hair chalk thing we'd bought previously.
Now the ears were fun. Lana's were made out of like hard green foam that reminded me of the foam that you stick fake flowers in to keep them upright in vases, but I think it was just a hard green foam that we found which was the perfect size. I believe they just painted them white and then glued some more of the pink felt on the center (I kind of missed that part as I was at work when they made those). Then all we did was get a plain black plastic head band and we used some simple wire to wrap around the headband and we just stuck the wire through the center of the ears and then we just kind of sat the hat on a twisted piece of the wire to look like a spring. It stayed better than that sounded like it would.
Naomi's ears were made out of the green foam fingers from the pointing fingers board game. She painted them herself with two paints I had previously bought from Target and we put them on a head band same way as Lana's. And with Lana's microphone we just used the one that came from my Trolls karaoke machine.
Kaley + Isabel
Next, there was me and Isabel. Ours were WAYYYY more last minute. But easily just as simple. Basically all we did was get a tutu in the color that matched what we were going to be and we used it. Once I had explained the idea to Naomi about the skirts I had decided that it was easy enough that maybe I could go on ahead and make one myself to wear while we went trick or treating with the girls since I had a small shift that day and would be off in time to go with them. Originally, Isabel had been telling me to go as Thorin Oakenshield, the 'King' Dwarf from the Hobbit, because they were all convinced I could pull it off, mainly just because of my hair. I was on board for the most part but then we just ran out of time and with this year being as crazy as it was, I decided to just go with something a bit more simple. So while I was looking through the cute tutu costumes I found this Cat one and I was like well heck I already have a long sleeve black shirt and black leggings all I need are some ears and a skirt! And thus we thank Amazon for my costume.
Now, for Isabel's it was also a last minute thing and she didn't even get to go with us because she DID have to work however, the costume itself was still super adorable and easy to put together. Basically, we just bought one of those kits that has the ears, tail and gloves in a pack from Meijer. She wanted to be the dalmatian and it was so cute! Something about it just fit her perfectly.
