Halloween!

Whew, October was a busy month! It's been silent over here, but I've been one productive momma :). I finished a re-brand of my friend's hair salon, designed my sister's album cover/interior (2nd album due to release this month), made birthday presents for my boys, and got the Halloween costumes done on time! I've got some catching up to do, so I'll start with the costumes. We had a great weekend—good food, time with family, fun costumes, and of course candy. My kids had a lot of fun walking around the neighborhood this year.

On to the costumes:

Olivia was a horse, of course. She has a deep love for horses and if she's not drawing one, she's pretending to be one. Her costume was super simple but I think it turned out great. I just embellished a brown hoodie with yarn hair and felt ears. We added her horse tail, which I made for her birthday last year, and completed the look with a painted blaze and an oat sack for her tirck-o-treating bag.

Jackson was a super hero. I had made him a cape for his birthday (which we celebrated the weekend before), so that played as the main costume element. I added some felt accessories. The cuffs were inspired by these and I used a mask template found here. I lined the felt with scrap jersey so that it would be soft next to the skin. His t-shirt I appliqued with $1 solid shirts I found on clearance. My husband sketched out the emblem for me. The applique isn't perfect, it was a first attempt with appliqueing jersey on jersey. Next time I would add the step of ironing on my design before stitching it, then the knit wouldn't stretch and move around so much. But Jack was happy, so I was happy.

Henry was a little lion. This costume has gotten a lot of mileage. We bought it for Olivia for her second Halloween from Old Navy. Both of the boys have now worn it on their first Halloween. She was nearly two when she wore it, and they were barely one :).

That's this year's costume line up. Next year we'll have four little cuties running/crawling around in costumes :). Hope you had as much fun this weekend as we did!