who's idea....

who's idea was it to make grant's costume myself??? someone remind me in a week or so that it was all worth it!!!

so, as i said in an earlier post....he is going to be the lollipop munckin.... green plaid shirt, shorts with little pockets, whole nine yards...i will not take the credit of actually sewing the clothes myself - i have not become that crafty yet! i managed to find some look alikes....but i did have to do some alterations....that's when trouble started....

i cut the shirt to get the jagged edges.....did pretty good, not too bad for eyeballing it.....i round up my munckin to see how the shirt looks on him and there it was - the issue - his big ol' buddha belly! i did not take that into consideration when hacking off half the shirt.....what does any good non-sewing mother do??? pull out the iron-on hem tack! i managed to put his shirt back together with my iron and these little god-send pieces of sticky stuff.....for the love!

but then there were the striped stockings....UGH! think, think. ok, he will be wearing a pair of his sister's old tights tomorrow - you all can use this against him when he is older, i give you permission :) of course, remember he probably will end up being bigger than all of us! now, i have the tights but no stripes.....green washable marker and an hour later we have striped green socks and i have green finger tips.....i'll get you my pretty!!

is it over?? i hope so, but we will see for sure in the morning when i dress BigMan....why are we doing this so soon you ask?? tomorrow morning is audrey's fall festival at her school....fun, fun ~ wish me luck :)

fyi ~ audrey's dorothy costume was bought ready-to-go at Target....worth every penny!