I found myself dreading making costumes this year.  I no longer get to choose (or at least strongly influence) like last year.  Elsie wanted to be a big scary spider, Anne wanted to be a penguin, and Cal wanted to be a spiky caterpillar, a bunny, a spaceman, a skeleton, a witch, a spider, and a pengiun.  Hmmm.  

First Lesson Learned~ don't ask your children what they want to be unless you are prepared to just make whatever they choose (which I was not).

So with help of friendly advice due to lots of complaining about getting motivated to make these costumes, I just went online and let them choose costumes!  This was so great.   They were happy, I was relieved, a delightful solution all around.

Second Lesson Learned~ when you order halloween costumes online, make sure you do it like 3 weeks in advance.  

Guess what?  the costumes didn't arrive in time for class parties.  Tears and drama followed when yesterday afternoon the package was still not here!  

I made the choice to start sewing a super scary witch with below fabrics.

Third Lesson Learned~ don't start making a costume the night before the Halloween party.

Fourth Lesson Learned~ if you make above mistake, at least check and make sure you have 1/4" elastic before you put in over an hour when you should be making dinner and helping with homework.

Fifth and Final Lesson ~just call up some friends with older kids and borrow costumes before doing all the things above.

She wouldn't take pictures unless she got to wear the teeth.