the shoes.

So, on Halloween night when T went trick-or-treating she wanted to wear her coat because it was cold and wet and really, what more could we expect in the Pacific Northwest? Joe took her because again, too cold, too wet for the littlest bug to be out and about and it was her bedtime. Anywho, at first Joe was disappointed because T was wearing her coat and no one would see the costume that I had worked so hard on and no one would know who she was.

It turns out that even without seeing the Tinker Bell dress they still knew who she was because of those signature shoes. Cool, huh?

as usual:

In my lame blogger form I’m just now getting to posting anything about the very anticipated Tinkerbell costume. So here it (with a sort of Tinker Bell shoe Tutorial):

These were T’s very well worn and LOVED black shoes that she refused to part with. Oh, and they’re a size too small BUT because she wore them religiously every chance she got (even to bed sometimes) she’s strechted them out enough to still be able to wear them comfortably, so she says.

I slapped a couple of coats of white acrylic paint on them…

Then green paint…

GLIIIIIIIIIITER!!!

And then out of felt and some left over batting I had I made giant pom-poms and embellished them with a cute little satin something which pulled it all together.

And they were perfect

I knew when I started them that they’d be cute but I didn’t think they’d turn out as good as they did. As for the matching dress, here it is:

Front and back.

And it fit her perfectly.

I did make wings for the costume and they were–well–less than impressive. Don’t get me wrong–shape and size wise they were perfect–ability to not flop over wise not so perfect. And as much as I’d love to tell you how I ended up buying two yards of fabric and cutting six pairs of wings before I found a way of stiffening the fabric that I thought would acutally work (though it really didn’t)–I just don’t have the energy. But I will say that I learned something–next time, buy the effing wings.