Back in Time

A few years back my oldest wanted to be a "sock hop girl" for Halloween. This costume was soo simple.

I took an old curtain and made a large circle skirt with an elastic waist.

I found a color page with a picture of a poodle. I traced the poodle onto a piece of white felt.

I then hand stitched the poodle onto the skirt with black thread. I wanted the poodle to have an outline in black. I then stitched the lines that were supposed to be on the inside of the poodle.

Using black yarn, I made a leash for the poodle that circled around and up the skirt. The yarn was sewn on with black thread.

We finished it off with a borrowed sweater and a pony tail. Her hair ribbon was more of the curtain fabric used for the skirt.

Total spent? Zero!

Tinkerbelle

This Tinkerbelle costume had to be on of the cheapest ones yet. We didn't care for the frilly poufy Tinkerbelle costumes you could find in the stores. They didn't look quite right.

I found a little green nighty at Goodwill. After getting it past the creepy-feely check-out guy, I took it home and took it in on the sides, stitched up the front so it was less revealing, and shortened the straps.

Next came the wings. We had some left over from a previous fairy, I just spray painted them blue.

Finally the shoes. I found some cheap slip-on shoes for like a dollar and died them green. I then raided our craft cabinet and found little poof balls in blue.

Some tights to keep warm and a pony tail completed the project for a very realistic looking Tinkerbelle at around six dollars.