Tis the season …. for costumes!
Halloween season has truly arrived. I know this because today was the day that I pulled out the big red bags o’ costumes and demanded that the kids make their final selections. I have to have time to get costumes made. Even more important I have to have time to scrounge so that I can get costumes made cheaply. Gleek has been telling me what she wants to be for Halloween almost every day for a month. Unfortunately her choices changed each day. Fortunately Kiki has consented to allow Gleek to duplicate her Ice Princess costume and I’m confident that while Gleeks choices will continue to fluxuate from day to day, when the actual day comes she’ll be happy to put on a costume like her sister’s. Link has stuck steadfastly to his decision to be Shark Boy and Patches doesn’t care and so he’ll probably end up wearing the costume that caused Link’s online nickname: Link from legend of Zelda.
All of this is good news for me because I already have most of the large peices that are necessary. All that is left is to accesorize. Well, that isn’t entirely true in Link’s case. For him I’ll be making a tunic & cuffs to go over grey sweats and a gray shirt. A little more work, but still essentially accesories.
I’ve got a cloak that I’m re-working for myself. It was given to me by a friend who no longer wanted the emotional baggage that was attached to it. The cloak has no baggage for me, so I’m happy to have it. Unfortunately it was designed for a person 6 inches taller than me, so I’m having to shorten it some. I also want to put on detail work to make it pretty. I doubt I’ll have the time or energy to make the dress I envision to wear with the cloak. Not to mention fabric. I don’t have the yards of fabric either. Besides a Shark Boy tunic, Ice Princess accesories, and a cloak is probably plenty of sewing to keep me busy from now until Halloween.