Costumes for babies can be kind of a waste of time.

I get it, they can't walk or have any idea what Halloween is, but they are so cute!

Our baby Izzie has  ton of hair, but only on top.

My husband said we needed to plan something around her crazy hair, so the obvious choice seemed a baby Bride of Frankenstein.

Through our church we have an easy way to help families in need for Christmas.

They have a little tree with ornaments and each has a gift and an age so you can anonymously donate a Christmas gift to someone in our town.

I got a gift ornament for "Dress Up Kit" 7 year old.

So I put a few things together, and hope whichever 7 year old girl received it liked it in the end. 

I could have done more, but ran out of time.

I thought actual heels would be better than the plastic wedge flip flops that usually come in dress ups, and they're small enough they'll hopefully stay on, but will be bigger than most 7 year olds actual foot size I imagine.

After the glitter dried for a few hours, I went back and coated the shoes with another thick layer of mod podge to glue the glitter on so it hopefully won't flake off everywhere when worn.

Part two of our Halloween Costumes even though Halloween is now over.

whole family here.

So for the kids we had Gru and a minion from the movie Despicable Me.

So for RJ we had him be Gru, and it's not that much of a costume.
Just black pants and t-shirt we already had with is church shoes.
But we did make the scarf by dying a navy/white stripe knit I had black.

He did have his ghost costume he wore to some things as well that is a little more exciting on its own.

RJ is a very protective older brother which transfers to a controlling master over his minion, which she resents from time to time.

On to the minion.

RJ decided she should be a one-eye minion, and I designed the costume so the mouth was her face.

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I hacked this minion costume together last Friday during her nap barely in time for a party that afternoon.  We got to the house and RJ had to help me force Ellie into the costume, all the while she was crying.  I was laughing, and considering what a ridiculous mom I am shoving a toddler in a costume while she wails, and here's the picture we got.

  The eye goggles on the front were from felt and a mason jar ring I painted silver.

The goggles strap is black elastic I sewed the to outer layer before it was stuffed.

 Happy Halloween!

Here our the Halloween costumes for our family this year:


We're all characters from the kids movie, Despicable Me.
I got the idea for these costumes a few months ago when my belly started showing with this pregnancy.  RJ told me I looked like Vector (who has a middle aged man gut) and would always love for me to say "Oh yeah!  Oh yeah!" and stick my belly out.

If you haven't seen the movie, here is where the Vector character is introduced...OH YEAH!

So trying to think of maternity Halloween costumes led me to go with the whole Despicable Me family theme this year.  Kind of selfish, but our Halloween revolved around my pregnant belly and needing to costume it somehow, luckily the rest of the fam liked their assigned roles...except for maybe Ellie.

In case you can't tell who we are:
Me= Vector: pirhana gun weilding villain

RJ= Gru: villain determined to steal the moon

Ellie= minion: mindless servant to Gru

Rhett=Dr. Nefario: old man scientist who works for Gru in the laboratory

I'm planning to post the other costumes separately this week, so here's a little about mine.

It is a total hacked job during one afternoon nap trying to sew as fast as I could just to whip it out, so the ankles and wrists aren't even hemmed.

I used an athletic mini mesh because it was the cheapest orange fabric I could find, so I have to wear leggings and a shirt underneath, but that's OK since it was snowing a few days ago here.

The front is only a zipper half way, I faked the bottom half by just top stitching twill tape down the center.

This is a funny clip where they discuss Vector's wardrobe and I realized I should have had a black fanny-pack to complete the costume!

It was kind of fun to dress up pregnant actually.

Someone that knows I am expecting even asked me if the belly was real or if I stuffed it.

Oh no, it's real, and I've still got 12 weeks to go.

If I was huge full term pregnant I had an even better Halloween costume idea.

It's a good time to start on Halloween costumes once you're back to school is done!

My kids have been playing in the dress ups lately and we have two little foxes.

RJ has outgrown his fox, but still squishes in it.

Or for a quick easy costume, you can always whip up a dino tail!

I committed to sew some empty tails as charity for a children's museum in Nebraska and I finally got them done and ready to ship off.  I'm slowly getting back into sewing again.

This year I'm really excited for our Halloween costumes, we're doing a whole family theme...hopefully.

I was working on sewing a craft for girls camp when my son came in and noticed I was at my sewing machine again…it had been weeks and weeks since I’d sewn.
He’s been asking me to make him a Link hat for a while, and asked again when he saw I was sewing. 

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So I took a minute to make him the hat.
He and my husband play the Zelda video games, and RJ pretends he’s Link, the main character all the time.

So he found some green fabric that he thought would work and we hacked out the hat.

But then he felt he really needed the “shirt with the slice in the front” and so we hacked that out.
I didn’t even hem the wrists, I was in a hurry and he didn’t seem to care.

So now with his cardboard shield we made earlier in the summer and a plastic sword our neighbor gave him from the dumpster, he’s ready to be Link.
Mainly he likes to jump off things,and asks me if I saw his hat go up. 

I guess his favorite part of the get up is the long hat tail and jumping so it flies up off his back like Link. 

He was pretty excited and wore it constantly until he took a bath and I threw it in the wash. 

It’s kind of annoying to get interrupted with a kid request project, but it’s worth it to me to see how much he gets excited watching it come to life and enjoying it, unlike other things I’ve sewn for him that he just won’t wear.