I have a tale to tell you. My favorite 6 and 4 year olds are coming to stay with me this weekend (and their mom). They're my nieces and I'm especially excited that they'll be here instead of me driving there. These particular nieces are particularly spoiled, especially by me. I make their costumes for halloween each year. And I let them choose what they want, so they tell me all year long what they want to be.
I enjoy it, but we all know I have this laziness thing that I also enjoy. So putting these two things together- costumes with a deadline and laziness- never turns out well (only for me tho!). I thought I would share with you my awesome phone pics of their costumes from the last couple years as I proceed to procrastinate longer on finishing those costumes. Oh, didn't I tell you? It's Halloween and my nieces will be here in under 7 hours and their costumes are not finished. In fact (might be TMI here) I just started them last night. Yeah, I've had 3 hours of sleep. Here's to hoping my current Halloween Horror doesn't end up full of blood and gore and stained/ruined costumes! But on with the cuteness...
This cutie is my older niece who was sooooo into "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" two years ago that she wanted to be a pirate. I painted the fabric for those pants myself cause I couldn't find anything I liked for pirate pants. She was truly adorable (and still is).
This cherub is my younger niece who was soooo into princesses... Wait, she never outgrew that, she's still soooo into princesses. Anyway, with her older sis being a pirate, she had to keep up but also beat the game. She wanted to be a princess pirate. You guys, I had (have) no idea what the heck a princess pirate is! I totally just made a costume full of pink but hopefully a little edgy-ish (for a toddler) and piratey.
This is last year. They were both super heros, but little niece had to up the ante again because she was not only a super hero, she was also a princess (again). Ladies (and gentlemen?) I present to you The Flash and She-Ra!
They're definitely off to save the world here, pretty sure that's why we're all still alive. I mean, who could live without this kind of cuteness in their life?
THIS year, they've actually chosen completely unrelated costumes, which kind of makes me sad. At first they wanted to be Elsa and Olaf from "Frozen" but let's be real- who wants to sew an Olaf costume? I tried to be as non-encouraging as possible while encouraging the older niece to choose whoever she wanted to be (I rock this auntie stuff, right?). Then they wanted to be Princess Peach and Mario from the Nintendo game Mario Bros. I was all for that- how awesome are my nieces? But alas, their final unrelated choices are Elsa for the younger and Captain America for the older. Not complaining or anything but Elsa...
THIS year, they've actually chosen completely unrelated costumes, which kind of makes me sad. At first they wanted to be Elsa and Olaf from "Frozen" but let's be real- who wants to sew an Olaf costume? I tried to be as non-encouraging as possible while encouraging the older niece to choose whoever she wanted to be (I rock this auntie stuff, right?). Then they wanted to be Princess Peach and Mario from the Nintendo game Mario Bros. I was all for that- how awesome are my nieces? But alas, their final unrelated choices are Elsa for the younger and Captain America for the older. Not complaining or anything but Elsa...
Yeah, every other little girl out there is going to be Elsa too. Haha! At least my niece's Elsa will be different than every other Elsa. I mean, who doesn't take creative liberties when sewing children's costumes? Or is that just my laziness speaking...?
What do you guys have planned for Halloween? Any fun costumes? And are they handmade or store-bought?
