Sir Sunderland found a Princess Leia baby cosutme long before I was even pregnant. He's fawned over it since the day we found out we were having a girl. When the time came to order it, we looked closely. $40 for a crappy costume? We can do better than that.
The deets:
Dress: a 4T turtleneck, no joke.
Belt: sleeve of a turtle neck cut and sewn into belt secured with a button and elastic looping on back
Octagon and circles cut out of stiffened felt and hot glued on.
Hair: yellow polka dot beanie dyed brown with RIT dye. Brown yarn pinned onto beanie and sewn down the middle. Buns were 20 strands of yarn grouped together, tied in a not, then hot glued to a circle piece of felt into a spiral. Then hot glued onto beanie wig. The wig was the most difficult part of the costume and definitely paid off.
Total cost: $20.
I was telling my husband that somewhere deep in every mother is the desire to create your children's Halloween costume. I honestly didn't think I was capable of doing that, but this was a nice surprise.
We went to two Halloween parties over the weekend and I have to admit, I feel like Halloween is over. But there is still a Halloween party to go to, and of course trick or treating to be done at our local children's museum. She's definitely getting use of her costume!
Linking up to these link parties.
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