Sure, she gets into things, bothers her brother and makes lots of messes, but Abby really is a good, sweet little girl, and that's why she's an angel for Halloween. Well, that, and it was the only idea I could come up with at the last minute. 
You know when you start something and halfway through you begin to feel like you're in an I Love Lucy episode? The shell of her costume was a sleeveless fairy princess costume, size 4-6x. So I cut off the bottom to make sleeves, except I was working with ravelly silky material, and my sewing skills are pretty lame. So I got the sleeves made (after having a knock-down drag-out with the bobbin,) and tried to sew them on to the costume but realized the sleeves were too small to manuver into the sewing machine. So I hand sewed one sleeve on but it was getting super late so I went to bed. The next morning was a play group halloween party and the costume only had one sleeve so I got out the heat and bond tape and patched the sleeve on ten minutes before we left. Hey, it works! The wings were from the One Spot at Target, the fuzzy boots were $3 at Walmart, and our neighbor gave us that awesome halo after taking pity on our makeshift foil one. I think it turned out pretty cute. 
This was Abby's first time trick-or-treating, and I think she liked it!
Especially the candy part.
9 comments:
That is a cute costume. Well done Mandie! I am glad Abby had a good time. Halloween... what fun! :-)
That is a great costume!!!! You are very creative, & crafty!!!!
Very cute! It looks like she had fun! Do you have pictures of Carter?
You are on the ball! We noticed last night you already had these pictures up. She looks darling. I love the boots.
Cute angel. Way to encourage angelic behavior. You get an A for being inventive. The sleeves, wings, shoes and dress all look good.
Now you totally should have put Carter in Ben's devil costume from last year because that would have been too perfect! Oh well. Abby still looks adorable. And the wings are so cute!
Soooo cute! I always love a good angel costume :)
What a doll! I love it!!!! Hope you guys got some good stuff.
You are so creative! I still remeber her cute parrot costume from last year. She's a cute angel, too!
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