Gonna take your momma out all night...Further Adventures of Homemakers

It's getting more interesting around here since I am looking for entertainment in my routine. I have started Yoga every morning for 25 straight minutes. I found it sad when I run, my ass moves in the opposite direction of my legs. I thought it was time to do something about it. That shook things up so I thought I would try something else...Cooking. As my previous post, I tried to recreate the dish I am missing from a Greek place that closed its doors. So between the laundry, the cleaning and all that I do to keep busy , I decided to get Crafty-Ass and pull out all the stops for Halloween. I did it Cheap-o AND with my own Creativity! It was easy and fun fun fun. I just had to manage my time to do it around when The Monkey and the Capt. wasn't around, which was mainly after bedtimes and traveling out of town.

I first brainstormed. Since there was always time for the princess and the fairies...I wanted to do something else. I was watching some bollywood with a friend and thought it would be awesome if we could do something like that for Elise. My friend was moving and had YARDS of different fabric and told me to sort through it and take what I wanted. I found this beautiful Blue with a gold Pattern weaved through it....and some Blue VERY thin material, the kind that makes you say OOoooh shiney! There was an extra trip to Hancock's Fabric for a sequence edging. I came home and took inventory on what Elise had(Turtle necks, stretch pants, tights) so that it would add to her costume. I was ready!

Here I was sitting around...at my sewing machine thinking "where do I start". Most of the time people have a pattern to go off of with directions, and well...I didn't. So that is why I sat for a bit. My little Monkey is tall and skinny...and fast. So rather then take a measuring tape to her...I decided measuring the length of the skirt was going to be measured to the length of her cute little stretch pants that one of her grand parents gave to her. I cut the light blue fabric Length wise in half. With the help of Google, I found out how to wrap a Sari and wrapped the material around the pants as IF i was wrapping a sari around my daughter. I then sewed the material wrapped around the pants, so that I would come untucked whilest she was Tricks or Treating. I hemmed the bottom of the material to make it look a little cleaner. The rest of the wrapping is left for when she wears it. Just one or two safety pins are needed for the shoulder. TADA!!! your Sari...

I then took the shiny material and folded, and sewed the raw edges. That shiny material sucked eggs to work with, because it came unraveled if you looked at it wrong...or cut it, or sewed it wrong. The Sequenced around the edge was glued with Fabric jewel glue(another Crafty Ass project for a later review) and then SEWED on. This makes the Bollywood veil. I marked where I wanted the veil to sit...then had sewed a hair comb so that it wouldn't slip off her head. See? The necklace was giving to me with a set of earing...that were broken. I looped and earing through the sequence to give it that extra razzel dazzel. I chose to glue a little something something (sequence over the eyes).

When I look at these I think....not bad for a couch dwelling, Bon Bon eating, story watching Happy Hippy Homemaker.