Getting Ready

Last night I started working on Punkie's halloween costume. She's going to be a tomato. She LOVES tomatoes. Green, yellow or red; she ate them right off the vine this summer. She loves to eat them "like an apple"; meaning she doesn't want Mama to cut up the big tomato for her, she would rather just dig right in.

She really doesn't want to be a tomato though. Here's her list of what she would rather be:

A scary ghost

A bat

An ugly witch

A pumpkin

I almost gave into the pumpkin idea but was having a hard time finding an orange sweatshirt. I found a red sweatshirt so the tomato idea won. I told her next year she can be whatever she likes but this year she's going to be a tomato.

It's a pretty simple costume to put together. I first found the idea in Parenting magazine last year but it was too late to do since I had already purchased her costume (Holly Hobbie) - I'll post a picture. She looked too cute as Holly Hobbie.

Amelia - Halloween 2007

This year, Parents magazine featured a tomato costume as well. Guess it's popular. So I'm taking ideas from both magazines and creating my own version. Pretty much a "no sew" costume. Last night I worked on getting the green felt leaves on the collar. I checked it this morning, the glue held well. I'm excited. Next on my list is to fuse pockets of fabric to the inside of the sweatshirt so that I can stuff it with poly-fil. Just to give the round tomato look.

Amelia wants "tomato shoes" and I thought that would be pretty easy to do. Buy a cheap pair of white Keds knock-offs and stencil/paint a tomato on the toes and change the white laces to green or red ribbon. NOT SO! I'm having the hardest time finding white fabric sneakers. PLAIN white fabric sneakers. I have to keep looking. And a hat. Both patterns say to use the sweatshirt sleeves that you cut off as a hat. Well, Amelia's head is too big for that. I'm going to have to measure out her head and using both sleeves, sew them together to make a hat of some sort.

I'll post pictures of the costume when it's finished. Hopefully soon. I don't want to working on this last minute... which I'll probably end up doing.

Enjoy your day!

Jen :)