Halloween!! Costumes!

...so what were we for Halloween? Well, Bennett was a robot. We toyed with different styles, and had a lot of awesome bells and whistles (foil dryer tubing "joints," awesome lights and dials) but per Bennett's requests (read: vehement vetoes) it was a simple cardboard doublet with cutouts.
We spray painted it silver, added some knobs and let him go to town with the glitter glue, added a couple of reflectors, and presto!


Underneath I bought a pair of simple grey fleece pants, a grey sweater, and he was as happy as a clam with his costume!



Norah went as a spider. I made her a pair of webby shoes using a bit of Echino I had around.I had big plans for buying a black onesie and sewing on two pairs of stuffed black socks for arms, then using a little black pilot hat, etc... But, when I stumbled across this outfit for $1.75 at a kids consignment store, I was sold. There was no way I could have made her outfit for that!
Now we just have to wait until the sugar wears off. Candy anyone???

Halloween!!

We have been short on time around here... I honestly don't know where the month went! It feels like a haze of fall walks, work, nursing marathons, laundry, work, and just a dash of sewing around washing diapers. We didn't even make it out to a pumpkin patch this year. Instead we made these awesome luminaries (thank you Momtastic!) using old jars and some painter's tape and tempra paints. Super easy and SUPER fun!






And here is how they looked on the porch. Awesome, no? We used some battery operated tea candles to keep them cool.

To the neighbors and beyond

So this was the first year lil' B went door to door for Halloween. We wanted to make his costume so bad but he wanted to be Buzz Lightyear and wasn't having any of our other suggestions. So we bought an off the shelf Buzz costume and I built the jet pack. G also made him a custom trick or treat bag.

Always test your equipment before the first flight.

Ready for duty.

You can barely see, but I built lights into the wing tips and the exhaust of the jet pack.

Hitting our first house, more amazed than scared!

We really thought lil' B was going to give up after couple houses but he kept going for over an hour!

the Rogue Garden Gnome

Well, the costume was awesome.

For about ten minutes. Then he disassembled it and was running across the yard chasing various vampires, corpse brides and even a storm trooper missing the hat, beard, and one boot and sock.




HAPPY HALLOWEEN!