Costume Couture

My mind is drifting in, out, and about different costume ideas for the boys this Halloween...  I of course probably have something much different in mind than Sebastian does;although I feel like this might be the last year that a "subtle suggestion" might actually be taken to heart...  I know that I want them to be something together, part one and part two... a and b... you get the idea...  In four years time, Sebastian has been dressed as the following for Halloween... 

Year one, a pumpkin... 

Year two, a lion... 

Year three...Thomas The Tank Engine

Year four...a spider...

So year five is upon us and our hunt is on for the winning idea... What will it be?  Not even I know at this point...

 Here is what we have come up with thus far... Sebastian originally had wanted to be Popeye and so I was looking forward to darling pictures of a spinach yielding sailor and his drooling buddy Bluto...  Although within the last week or so, the tide has turned toward s a very familiar face in our home... that of Disney Cars star Lightning McQueen... "Really ?"  I asked... "I think that there has got to be someone else that you would rather be that McQueen.." I know you think that I am terrible for trying to talk my child out of his desired Halloween costume but you have got to be sympathetic to the fact that there is not a single day that we are not inundated with Lightning McQueen inspired quotes, statistics and licenced paraphernalia...not one day...  So I wished that this idea would quickly pass and, voila!  It looks as though my wish has come true!  After a trip to Target to get inspired by the different costume offerings, we left renewed and excited about the prospects!  I had really hoped to make each Sebastian and Brooklyn's costume this year... I still hope to be able to do so...  I love the home made look of Momma fashioned costume couture... Which makes me think fondly of the numerous Halloween costumes that both my mother and my Nana worked on feverishly, up until that momentous night, when it would be displayed from door to door...  The majority of the years I spent dressed as a princess or some sort of glittering royalty... My mom tells great stories of me wearing my princess tiara and magic wand weeks prior to the holiday as well as throughout the months that would follow... I once dressed up as Snow White, once as Madonna... yes, Madonna... not the biblical version but the pop music version... It was the eighties, I was probably seven, I'm sure you can imagine... Once a firefighter, and ah yes, my very first Halloween, a pumpkin... completely fitting of my stature at that point in my life.  Come to think of it, I might not have ever had a store bought costume... I had never realized this... Thank you loving hands that stitched and sewn these creations to my liking... I can only hope that I can do as well with my boys costumes, as you did with mine throughout the years...