Halloween Costumes

Halloween costumes has always been a big deal.  It was a huge deal when I was a kid.  We would get measured by a seamstress, either a friend of the family or my Grandma Hutchinson.  We would choose our outfit and begin the process in the summertime before Halloween.  Needless to say, my costumes were pretty awesome costumes!  It was always so planned out in advance.  So out of tradition I suppose, I carry this mindset into my own family.  We plan out our costumes early.  Some of them we buy, but I just love to put the costumes together.  I'm not the best seamstress, but I love to create and try.  So here is what we came up with for Halloween this year:

Jaxton is Harry Potter.  With a sweater and tie, Griffandor badge, wand, glasses, and scar.  We lost the glasses a couple of times and the wand.  Luckily, at the most important times, we found them! 

Cooper is an old man.  Church pants that are a bit big, suspenders, suit coat, glasses, hat and cane.  After wearing this costume to one event, he decided at the next to throw out the cane and be a "dancer."  You can only imagine his suave dance moves in this costume!  

Kaylee was Jasmine from Aladin.  We bought her costume, and then added accessories, hair, and shoes to it.  We spray painted her shoes gold, got her a black wig, and tied it with golden bands.  We made a headband for her with extra toole fabric and eyeshadow and mascara on her eyes.  She was stunning!!

Dawson loves Curious George.  But every monkey costume I found was so big and bulky and unflattering.  Since we had a stuffed animal George, we decided to dress him up as the Man in the Yellow Hat.  He loved this idea.  He knew who he was and he was so proud of this costume.  We found him yellow pants and dyed a white church shirt yellow.  We made a tall yellow hat out of stiff felt and elastic.  He wore a black belt and black boots and a homemade felt tie with polkadots.  He carried his George around everywhere he went.  He was absolutely adorable!

Nathan's hair is orange.  It was fitting that he was a pumpkin for Halloween.  And one darn cute pumpkin he was.  I bought a costume which was a cheap one that could not do any justice.  So I decided to just make a costume the way I imagined.  I found some ideas on pinterest and bought some fabric and got to work.  I had to re-do it a couple times till I got it right, but once finished, he looked so darn cute in that thing!!  The first event we went to, he wouldn't wear it.  It was so big and bulky.  But he got used to wearing it by the 2nd and 3rd Halloween event and he would waddle around in that big costume with his hat on and try to carry his pumpkin bucket all at the same time.  Cutest baby ever!