It's Halloween Time At Our House!!!!

It’s Halloween time at my house, which means I have been a very busy lady!

Bregon had to have a clown suit this year after having seen a few scary clowns in action at a haunted house in Terrell called Thrillvania.

We tried purchasing a clown suit locally, but alas, nobody seemed to have one in his size.

In fact, only one place we went even came close to having a clown suit. Most places had none, which I found sort of, well, odd, actually.

I had always thought that clown costumes would be a staple every year for Halloween.

It wasn’t like last year, when he decided to be something more obscure like Ash from the “Evil Dead” movies.

We searched Wal-mart, Target and even Party City to no avail. Finally, after running an Internet search, we made the decision to go ahead and just make one for him.

Lucky for Bregon, Mumsy can sew a little. After all, a clown costume should be nothing compared to throwing together a full-fledged court dress for a Renaissance Festival, or outfitting the entire King’s Guard in Yeomen attire!

We went ahead and looked at our pattern options on-line before heading out to our local fabric stores to choose the fabric.

I figured if we could knock out some choices at home, we would at least have some idea of what we were looking for and would spend less time on making decisions in the store!

After picking out the pattern, we headed to Hancock’s over on King’s Highway to look for the perfect fabric.

Lucky for us, they were having a sale and we lucked into several bargains!

Our pattern ended up only being .99 cents, so I was able to pick up one for husband too (he is doing some work with a local haunted house and wanted to try on a clown for size!)

We found three different fabrics that we liked for the base material. There just wasn’t enough of 2 of them to even consider making it half of the costume, so the decision was basically made for us!

We settled on primary colored diamond shaped pattern for the overall costume and Bregon found some really awful neon polka dotted fabric that makes my eyes swim for the other half of his.

The only satin we could find that really drew the two fabric selections together was a yellow color, so we went with that for the ruff.

Together, we decided on orange rick-a-rack for the trim and huge red pom-pom buttons for the front.

We finally had a starting point and it was looking fairly positive! We headed home with our selections and couldn’t wait to get started.

Well, he couldn’t wait to get started. I am just not so fond of clown costumes in the first place, so some part of me tried procrastinating, but after the babies went to bed I was a good Mum and started on it.

I managed to get both husband’s and Bregon’s done in about three nights. Not too shabby, considering I can only work after I am sure that the babies will not wake up (which is easier said than done!)

Husband took Bregon out and together they found the perfect clown mask and horn to go with the awful suit. Husband found a rather troll-like wig for his outfit.

The babies are fascinated with both wearing the mask and the wig. They all fight over who is going to get to wear the wig next!

The other night, while waiting for Bregon’s prescription to be filled by the pharmacist, we killed some time by playing in the Halloween department at Target.

I hadn’t planned on getting the babies any costumes for this year because I didn’t think that they could stay up late enough to actually get to go trick or treating.

We had already found them some Halloween outfits to wear for the month of October, but it is just now getting cool enough to wear them!

Each of the baby boys has a little matching jolly roger t-shirt and Vivienne has a “Who needs a costume when I’m already a Princess?” shirt and black-cat skirt and leggings to match.

But when Bregon and I ran across a set of beautiful super-huge iridescent fairy wings, we knew we just HAD to get them for Vivienne.

We did try to find the boys something else, too, but couldn’t find anything appropriate for them.

But anyways, now Vivienne has her first pair of fairy wings and can finally wear them as she goes, “Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle” and flies upstairs to the nursery for bedtime!

Each night the boys put on their “Upstairs feet” to make the upstairs journey to the nursery as Vivie puts on her fairy wings so she can “Fly” upstairs and go to sleep, too.

This way they learn about up & down and get to have fun, too. They are catching on pretty well with it, too. But now Vivie has a pair of real wings to help her “Fly!”

Lucky for her, we were able to find her a pair on the Halloween aisle! I suppose I shall have to take them all trick-or-treating this year after all.

How else can Bregon go if his Dad has to work the Haunted House that night?

I suppose we shall just have to go as soon as the babies finish their dinner, in hopes that they will be pleasant for a time!

I haven’t gone by myself in years, but I suppose with a scary clown wearing a super-headache-inducing suit escorting the trio-laden limo, we should all be quite safe!