I hope you have all had a good week. Yesterday, I went to pick up my children from school and I was reminded that today was dress-up day for Book Week. EEEK!!
For those overseas, Book Week is an annual event in many Australian schools where kids celebrate books and reading. As part of Book Week, the kids also dress up as their favourite book character for a day.
Anyway, with all of the busy-ness of my life at the moment, it had completely slipped my mind that it was Book Week and of course, had completely forgotten about dress up day. So there I was at 4pm with no real plans for their costumes today. My daughter wanted to be "Tiger Lily" (from Peter Pan) and my son wanted to be "Harry Potter".
I almost caved and bought some costumes for them. I also almost fell over in shock at the cost of their costumes ($30 for a Tiger Lily costume and $55 for a Harry Potter costume?!!). So in the end, I went home and made this:
Tiger Lily's clothes were made using a large costume given to us as a present last year. I altered the teen-sized shirt into a dress by laying one of her dresses on top and sewing in the sides and arms. Ribbon, feather and ribbon belt were from the craft pile (which meant that I would've gotten them from an op-shop):
Harry Potter's clothes were made using a black flat bed sheet, cut up and sewn into a cape (using these instructions). Underneath, he wore more black vest and his cream polo top. The tie was a strip I cut off from some striped fabric offcut. Wand was a chopstick. The only thing I bought were the fake glasses ($5).
The whole costume-making thing took me 30 mins to do.
Both kids were very happy with their costumes. I have to say, I think they looked quite good.
Did you make any costumes for Book Week? Care to share?
5 comments:
You really are incredibly talented!
I suffer from "perfection paralysis" which stops me doing so much.
Totally fabulous!!
Isn't motherhood incredible - the things we end up doing!
:)
Irene x
They look great!
What a great story! And I love your costumes. I am working now to ramp up to a dressier wardrobe for a new job I'm starting Sept. 7th, but I can't buy any new clothing until Jan. 1st, 2011. So, I'm reworking stuff I have and also going to the thrift shop and browsing. I have had the luxury of a very casual workplace the last 7 years so it's a bit of a job!
cheers
Tara
ps: let me know if another no spend week comes up. I could use the incentive :)
Hi there!
Just wondering if you are interested in trying another No Shop Week? I was thinking of looking into when buy nothing day is in November and trying to figure out a week around then that feels possible.
Let me know your thoughts!
cheers
Tara
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