bonnets & bloomers

this year i worked smarter...

and had my kids pick their halloween costumes in august!

i told them we needed to get creative and 

use costumes we already had or make them ourselves.

my girls decided they wanted 

to be laura and carrie from

 "little house on the prairie".

while the boy-boy decided to reuse 

his monkey costume and be curious george.

we had a dress that was the girly-girl's inspiration

and a sweet friend lent moo-moo 

her prairie dress and apron.

so all we needed were bonnets 

and a pair of bloomers for the girly-girl.

i made the bonnets from this tutorial.

they were super easy and 

turned out to be really cute!

i made my own pattern for the bloomers 

and added a little lace to the bottom.

here we are at the school for 

"literary character dress-up day".

what do you think?