Halloween 2010

This is being posted late because I never got around to it, but here are the Halloween costumes and outfits.

I only made the 2 Flairies and Batman. Cayden & Mia brought their own costumes and our friend of course brought hers as well.

For the Flairies I made tutu's, Fun Fur Jackets (to keep them warm) and painted their faces. I'm pretty sure this isn't what a "Flairy" looks like but I did what they wanted. Batman is a costume I made for Cayden last year. There are a few pieces missing ie: Batman's belt and arm bands, but Traver didn't care and he looked SO cute. We had to cut the sleeves off the costume just so lil chunker could get his arms in LOL

Trick or Treating was on Saturday in Magrath. Since the "real" Halloween is on Sunday, I made the kids all matching outfits for church. They are going to look back and hate me for this when they are older, but it's still cute to me and I can get away with it :)

Preemie Blankie

My used-to-be visiting teacher was pregnant and due about 2 weeks before me. I didn't even realize she was pregnant until a little while ago and then right after I found out, she had the baby. So I thought I would do her up this special little blanket - because preemie babies are just a teensy bit more special.

Pink Lemonade Pants

I knit up a pair of newborn longies out of plain old boring white.

I thought I would give ruffles a shot. There isn't instructions for them on the pattern so I made them up. First of all, I put in a couple pearl rows to make it easier to pick up stitches.

Then I used these instructions to add some ruffles. I decided not to do the 3rd row and the second ruffle covers the pearl row so all is well.

Then I mixed up my Pink Lemonade Kool-Aid.

And let it soak.

Then Ta Da! Pink Pants with Ruffles. (For next time I will definitely dye the yarn FIRST so it gives it a more even look).

Keira's First Official Birthday Party Preparations

Keira is turning 5 on November 10th. She's also in Kindergarten so I thought this would be a good time to start doing the 'real' birthday parties - you know, the ones with all the screaming kids, colored icing all over my carpets, and treat bags!

I just did up her Hannah Montana party invitations that she will write her friend's names on when she gets home from school. Then I thought I better get the treat bags together now or its not going to happen.

So here's what we got in the bags:

Candy Necklace

Lollipop

Playdoh

Mini Pad of Paper

Crayons

Bouncy Ball

Noise Maker

It was a little tricky trying to not spend more money than I needed on gender specific stuff. Luckily the Dollarstore split most things in packages the amount I needed. One little boy is going to get a Tinkerbell pad of paper though but he will have Spiderman crayons.