can you believe it’s november? anyway, i am quite proud to show off piper jane’s halloween frenzy on here. i want to explain the reasons for going all out with piper’s costumes (this is her THIRD halloween!)..number one, i think i would go all out if she were home, so why not otherwise? also, for the nurses. they make such a fuss over it and it gives me amazing pleasure. they start asking me in august what she is going to be for halloween, it’s the most wonderful thing! i love to hear that people love piper, it warms my frigid sole. <-haha dramatic? i started out with setting pip's hair in perm rods. i got impatient and didn't let it dry all the way, so it wasn't as curly as it should have been. i should have towel dried it a little better after her bath...i did try to blow dry it, but she hated that.

here is the whole look. i love her.

the rest of these are really just different angles of the costume. i’m sorry that there are so many pics, but i love halloween. when else can i just dress piper up as a pixie? i made the little elf shoes out of wool felt. i traced the curly toe from a pattern online, but mostly designed them myself. they were much too big, i really should have measured first. one day i will stop being such a half-a**er.

here is the back of the wings. jake helped me with the wings, because i had a hard time molding the hangers and the pliers were hurting my hands. he did what i couldn’t achieve, in an hour and a half, in about 5 minutes. i covered the molded hangers with brown stockings and the flowers to make it forest-y. que cute! oh yeah, look at pip’s little pixie bum!

matching perm hair. i REALLY want to perm my hair for real. i loved the poof, am i crazy? i really loved having huge effortless hair. also, this is a pretty good view of p’s hair piece, which was a simple big leaf from a silk flower that i applied flowers, toule and other leaves with a glue gun. took 2 minutes, but i likey…

so, she actually didn’t mind the costume so much. i was worried she would be afraid of the tutu (she had a really weird reaction to a feather boa that her therapist gave her), but she played like nothing was different. the tutu was easy/non sew, but took a long time.

i adore this picture. piper looks like just any little kid, chewing on her hand…sitting a little skewampus on her dad’s lap….dressed as a fairy…oh yeah, as for the tights! i nearly forgot! they are just normal circo tights from target that i sharpied some stripes onto to make it whimsical. they are size 9-18 months! i can’t believe that! they are folded over several times, but they weren’t baggy like the 6-12 month tights i had to bag last year in our christmas pictures. they were ridiculously baggy on her boney legs. piper has grown so much!

i wish that i would have made a little top instead of just using a white onesie, but it saved me a lot of time. if i could go back, i would have just made the dang top because then i could say that i made and designed the whole costume head to toe…like maybe one of those bloggers that post tutorials and do give-aways every day. that was a joke, i don’t want to be like that…

remember last year?

what would i do if piper wasn’t such a good sport? i’m really lucky she is, because it gives me a lot of happiness to be able to do these things with her. that pip…oh, that pip.