Halloween was great this year. We went to a costume party, which was a lot of fun... and I decided to make my family ... the Toadstool Family.
And now for two collages of photos from the evening.
Funny thing is, our costumes won quite a bit! At the party my daughter won in the girl's category, my son in the boys, and my husband and I in the couples. Then, on halloween weekend we went to the mall and I entered the kiddos in the contest there (for 5 and under)... and out of what seemed like 50 kids, we won second prize. Go figure. For costumes that took maybe $10 and hours of my time!
I just think the toad and toadette hats are the cutest thing ever. :)
Hope you all had a safe and fun Halloween.
3 comments:
Wow you have some talent! This made me smile :)
Ever gone to E3 with the whole gang? We're thinking about doing that this year.
Too Cute!!! Any tips on making the costumes? I want to make the toadstool and toadette costume for my 3month old boy/girl twins.
To make the toad/toadette costumes is rather simple. Mainly white clothes with a pink dress and red vest (make yourself, generally) for Toadette, and a blue vest for Toad. The head piece is a basic shape, kinda like a pointed U, four of them sewn together except the bottoms. These are gathered and sewn to the bottom of a touque, and stuffed before closing. I like to sew 'embroidery' style, for the red/white dots on the hat. I do this on the seams, and one on the very top. For toadette, I made a pink tube with a larger bulbous end, stuffed it, used elastics to make it have the 'balls' look you see, and glued on white circles in a similar pattern as the top of the hat. Both costumes took me about 10 hours to make, together. :)
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