Purling Sprite's Costume

A Purling Sprite in full swing! I finally brought to life the wonderful depiction that Cynthia had for me...don't I look just like my banner! It matches almost perfectly. Who knew that almost two years later, I would find the perfect costume to match my banner. When I spotted it on eBay, I thought to myself...hey, that is such a cute outfit, when it arrived at my house and I saw it, I realized that it was meant to be!

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I had to do some minor alterations, which would have taken a professional seamstress a minute to do but it took me two days. I made a skirt--so I wouldn't show my legs and bottom! And, I also put some sleeves (so it wouldn't be see through on the sleeves section). The hardest part of it all: the sleeves. I had no idea how to make them and no idea how to attach it to the costume as the costume has sequin trim which made it difficult to sew directly onto it. In a moment of desperation genius, I grabbed a baby blue bra and sewed the material to it. It worked like magic! Now, if anyone wants to borrow the costume, they would need to fit into the bra first! hehehe.

Overall, Halloween was a complete success. Our house was raided by about 100 little ones and we almost ran out of treats (Kim, tell R to send the candy over). This year for the most part, instead of candy, we gave away trinkets that I got from Oriental Trading, when we started running out trinkets, I started putting pop-corn packets in the bowl. We figure that most children get candy so we decided on a little toy.

Our kiddos made out like bandits too! They collected enough candy to feed a bear and my costume scored me a few chocolate bars and a yummy caramel apple (nope, it wasn't poisoned).

Hope your Halloween was a happy one too!

Comments

[sprite]

Your costume looks great, and so do the kids'. Happy Halloween!

[Mouse]

Awesome costume! You need to take another photo to use that as your profile picture since it matches your header so well.

[Laura]

What a great costume - it really does look like your website header!

[jessica~]

What cute pictures!!! You are sooo pretty in your costume!!

[alwen]

And aren't you all darling! That's the only thing I miss, living out in a rural area, is the little kids in their costumes. No one comes up our long dark scary driveway on Halloween!

[Marisol]

Very very cute and how fitting that you found the perfect costume!

[Jeannie]

Very cute costumes! You did a great job altering the Sprite outfit, you clever girl. It really does match your banner.

Huggz!

[Amy]

Y'all look so cute!

Amy

[Kim]

OH my gosh, you look so awesome! :) YOu do match your banner exactly, haha!