Halloween!

 We already had our church Fall Festival and Trunk-or-Treat.

We're down to 6 kids at home wanting to dress up and celebrate (though my adult kids do dress up and celebrate, too).

Ladybug as Princess Tiana was my great triumph of creation this year.

I took our curtains down to wash them, and even though I was so careful, the fabric backing came off in places, rendering them useless as curtains.

With the help of a set of thrift store curtains (the green) and 13 hours of work on my part, they became Tiana's ballgown!!

The little girls at the party asked, "Are you Tiana?" with stars in their eyes.
And then they followed Ladybug all night because they thought she was really Tiana come to life.

Lola was inspired to share her tiny crocheted frog so that Tiana would have her prince!

Mister Man became Jack Skellington with a thrift store jacket and pants and a set of white paint pens.
Oh!  And some face paint!

Lola's costume came from Amazon, but she found shoes at a thrift store, mixed up matching fabric paint, and made a set of pom poms for perfectly matching shoes!


Baymax was very happy with a t-shirt ordered on Amazon, a pen borrowed from Beowulf, and his old wooden sword (covered in aluminum foil) to turn himself into Percy Jackson.

And these two!  They cracked us all up wanting to be 6-7.
They got more than one laugh at the church party.

Today they're all having candy for breakfast.

I was going to make some bacon to give them a bit of protein, but I just looked at the clock, and it's too late for that!!!

We're off to church!

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