Happy Halloween

Well, again i wanted to sew the kids Halloween costumes. Again, i was up the night before trying to finish everything. The whole sewing machine experience was COMICAL!

A few moments to remember: (by the way, thanks mom for your help!)

* The needle snapping in half and nicking me in the neck before it flung across the room
(i thought i was bleeding: dramatic, i know)



* the bobbin kept JAMMING! UGH! i cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and CLEANED the bobbin and took it apart and spent an hour or perhaps three putting it back together realizing i had to take it apart again to fix part that i had put together.



* threading the eye that i swear kept closing every time my thread came close (took a good 15 minutes one time with my mom also trying)



* hemming kienan's cape inside out (he never noticed so i left it that way!)



* i measured mackenzie's waist for her "cone skirt." After i finished it and went to put it on her and realized i used the circumference of her waist not the radius. The skirt was twice as big as it should have been. Solution: a "wrap-around-skirt" with Velcro.



* my mom and i measured kienan and he fit a 5T pattern. i assumed his batman hood would be also be a 5T. Ya.... no. So the hood was too small and couldn't close under his chin without some alterations that i had no time for. So kienan transformed into Dracula instead of batman.
(Notice the crooked hood in the first picture and no hood in the second picture :)

And i will do it all over again next Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here is Dracula, the daisy, and an ice cream cone

(that was kiera's costume last halloween when she was just a wee... it was a bunting suit.

My mom cut holes in the bottom to make leg holes!)

We went trick-or-treating at Great grandpa and grandma's house :)



We only had time to completely carve 1 pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern.

We did clean the guts out of the others to roast pumpkin seeds.

i hope to make Pumpkin Soup this year!

Aunt Camille helped with the chaos. Thank you!