Oh goodness, life has been full of ups and downs lately.
My family has been working on a HUGE project...
building a new house!
We signed a contract to build, put our current house up for sale, sold it in 11 days, quickly found a temporary rental, made all of our architectural and design choices for the new house, and moved out all in the last month and a half or so. It has been INSANE. (And that doesn't even include all of the non-house related life events going on...)
In all the craziness, I did actually manage to plan Halloween costumes, but they didn't get finished until the night before (of course). My little man's costume was a big hit, though!
My son is almost 2 and very opinionated, so I knew I had to keep it simple. No hats, masks, face paint, etc. OBVIOUSLY a Ron Weasley costume was in order. He is a ginger, after all. :) I wanted to do something different than the usual black Hogwarts robe & wand, so I went with Ron Weasley--Gryffidor Quidditch keeper.
As I said, the costume was done last minute so I don't have a tutorial, but I can give a basic description of what I did. The broom was easy peasy. I bought a wood dowel and a grapevine decoration (in the wreath department) at the craft store. The dowel got some brown craft paint, then I hot glued the grapevine twigs to the bottom. I wrapped some grosgrain ribbon around the twigs to keep them secure and to give it that "broom" look.
For the quidditch uniform, I used an XL men's tee for the fabric. I used one of my kiddo's shirts to trace the pattern for the sleeveless top and quickly sewed that up, not bothering to hem anything since it's just a costume and knit won't fray. Then I used extra fabric from the original tee to create the robe/cape effect in the back. I just gathered the top, then sewed it to the hem.
The yellow lettering was done with fabric paint & freezer paper stencils. (Check here for a freezer paper stenciling tutorial and here for info on how to run freezer paper through your home printer!)
I also stenciled these "Gryffindor Quidditch" baseball tees for my husband & I to wear. We were just supporting cast members...we all know the cute kid is the star of the show.
I tried to get some pics of my son & I together, but he was too busy getting some trick-or-treat practice in. :)
Hope you all had a fabulous Halloween!
I'm excited to get into my new house in a few months so I can finally get some crafty posts up. I know there will be TONS of little decorating projects to do. Can't wait!
Thanks for sharing!! I just found your stencil tut on pinterest this week and I used it for an ugly Christmas sweater party that we attended last night.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if you use any special software or machine (like the Cricut) to create your stencils or do you make them all by hand with an Xacto knife??
My art instructor in college told us this gruesome story about slicing his thumb and I kind of want to avoid that lol. Thanks!
You can definitely use a silhouette or cricut to cut freezer paper stencils, but I do most of mine by hand with an xacto. (I don't have a silhouette and my cricut doesn't hook up to the computer.) Make sure you have a nice sharp blade. It gets easier with practice.
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