Halloween pictures

They look like a lot of fun!

Nice work. I like them a lot. Claire

Great job Sharon! Harry Potter was real popular here on Halloween too. The witch and dracula also came out very nice. Aren't we glad when Halloween is over too!

Kirsten Sollie

Here are mine! Not great pics, but enough to get an idea....

oh... and if I EVER start talking about sewing something in a stretchy knit or with sequins or with stuff glued on to it.... someone somewhere PLEASE give me a good knock upside the head and stop me!!!! Love the results but soooo very much do not want to do that again!!!

HarryPotter's (aka Jacob) cape is reversable. Solid black on one side and a sparkly stretchy glittery see-thru something or other fabric on the other side. It kinda resembles the dissapearing cloak from the movie....I finally figured out that if i used my good thread and my walking foot, life would get a tad easier on me..... All 3 kids now have matching capes and they are long enough to last them many years of dress-up play. My older daughter's fits me!

Kellie back to quilting with cottons.....

Kellie,

They are darling! (kids and costumes!) I know what you mean about stretchy stuff with sequins already on it. That's the kind of thing that usually leads to me being the woman in the corner muttering to herself while rocking back and forth. LOL But now, you see, you've gone and done it. The girls will think "well she did dresses like that once.....I bet she can do it again!!"

Sharon

Thanks Kirsten! I know what you mean. I'm whooped now. lol I'd like to take a vacation, or maybe just a nap. But is that **ever** in the cards for Mom?? lol

I got those cranked out. Now today I had to alter a dress for a client. She's in her school play (senior in high school.) She's a very well endowed girl. The dress that looked best for her character was about 11" too small in the bust. No, that is not a typo. Just under a foot too small in the bust. Luckily it was 12" too long. So I had that fabric to make upside down godets. It has froo-froo that floats around the top of the neckline. That will help disguise the work I did. I did what I could do. And I prayed fervently to the sewing goddess all the while. Normally, not an alteration I would even attempt. I'd just say "let's copy this and make a new dress." But there just wasn't time. She brought it to me last week, while I was finishing up Halloween costumes. She starts dress rehearsals tomorrow (Monday.) Talk about skating in under the wire!!

She is coming over this afternoon to pick it up. I'd appreciate crossed fingers and good thoughts. :) I'll let y'all know how it works out.

Sharon

Thought I'd add my DD's pics to the mix. The big picture in the middle was run through an editing program, so the colors are a bit brighter than in reality. The scrunched-up face is because it was very sunny when I took the pictures:

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Beth she is so cute, and the costume is lovely too. Great job, it's so nice when the children get in on the designing. Claire.

That is so cute!!! What a great job.

Sharon

Ladies - great work from all of you.

Here in the boonies in France, not one witch or goblin did we see. With houses half a mile apart in open country, the poor kids have to get their parents to arrange 'trick or treating' with their neighbours beforehand and drive them over, which dents the surprise rather....

:) Trish

Yes, it is REALLY nice when they design nice stuff. Joy

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We're in "the boonies" also as you know Trish but somehow the Halloween thing has just grown and grown. The local childrens club CLAE has taken over the affair and turned it into an autumn féte with village repas and bal dansant!! It kind of joins in with the féte de vendage.

Profits go to the CLAE which is the french version of the afterschool and summer club, which is a great association working between our village and the next one. Trick or Treating doesn't acctualy happen, but the littlest children get to parade around the square in the afternoon and our few shop keepers offer them sweets and the evening party féte keeps everyoe else happy. Great solution for all of us who live way out in the countryside with frustrated children. Do you feel a féte coming on for next year Trish? Claire.

This is what many churches here do these days, too. There's a lot of backlash against the "satanic" holiday, and so there are a lot of organized "Harvest Parties", where the kids can dress up in non-demonic costumes and have safe, organized activities.

However, a bal dansant sounds like a LOT more fun--everything sounds like more fun in French. LOL Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

My best friend is on the local comité des fetes, as well as being on the PTA committee and a school governer, so I'll have a word with her. Her daughter, Scarlet, would lurve such a party - any excuse to dress up. The kids get a big fete at Christmas, and for Bastille Day, but not for Hallowe'en.

How are your local events shaping up? We have choucroute coming up, which marks the official start of the season, so there'll be plenty of fete des chataignes, etc, coming up in the near future...

We're not in a wine area, so there's no vendage, but I notice the lambic is making its way round the neighbourhood, though I'm sure NONE of my neighbours are illegally brewing calvados in their barns. Those big piles of apples are just for decoration, officer.

:) Trish

Ah! we are in armagnac country and are expecting the Flamme d'Armagnac to make it's way to us on the 22nd Nov, yet another repas, how will I ever get that diet started!!! No plans for the chaitaignes though so maybe I'll get a month of before Christmas and Revillion. Although the PTA is planning to sneek in an extra féte for Carnaval in Feb/ March on the grounds that winter is too long, and the adults fancy dressing up insted of just the children for the school parade. We are talking of using it as a device to raise funds for the School Cooperative sounds as good a reason as any to me. Claire.