Saturday, November 1, 2008

BEFORE & AFTER


Never being one to leave things as they are, I just couldn't use the store bought costumes without making them my own. Take a look...

BEFORE
This is the girls fairy costume, cute but I thought it could use a little something.

AFTER
I removed the velour green leaves at the shoulder and replaced them with a black sheer cap sleeve. Then I removed the gold trim at the top and replaced that with black ric-rac. My favorite part is the addition of the black velvet cats that I cut out and added to each of the petals. It doesn't show in this photo but I also added a black tutu underneath for a little extra poof! Kate tooting her own horn!

Logan's costume came with a cute foam mask but he wasn't crazy about wearing it. I removed the elastic string and attached it to a black crepe paper covered stick and embellished with a little bit of orange and black tissue festooning. He LOVED it!

A $1.00 plastic trick-or-treat pumpkin covered in layers of orange crepe paper and embellished with black glitter. The plastic handle was removed and replaced with a festive ribbon.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So fun! The kids costumes were great and your party was so pretty- I mean very ghoulish and creepy-:)