Inspire Me Please: Halloween Awesomeness

Once again, I am going to try a link-up party via a blog I follow, House of Rose.  You all should follow her too.  She is funny, inspiring and keeps it real.

So, it’s September now, which pretty much equals fall, right?   Football, crock-pot, canning are all things to look forward too.  In fact as we speak, I am in the process of pickling watermelon rind (sounds gross, but trust me, it’s so yummy), while I have my crock pot going.  Added bonus?  NFL starts today!  Which means it’s time to route on the Lions as well as my fantasy players (yes, that’s right I am in a fantasy league with my husband).  In addition to all of that fun stuff, fall also brings Halloween!  I love Halloween and can’t wait to dress up Annabelle in adorable Halloween gear.  Halloween onesies are expensive though!  20 bucks for an outfit she will only fit into this season?  Ummm… I think not.  So I made my own!


Here are some of the onesies/skirts I made.  Orignally I was trying to make a onesie dress as seen here.  However, it was very hard to get on Annabelle, and since she would be a bit bigger in October I feared that it wouldn’t fit.  So I took the skirt part off, and just turned it into a separate skirt by creating a casing and feeding some elastic through it (that’s the purple one).  I used the same method of creating the purple skirt to create a reversible skirt (once again, I created a casing to feed the elastic through), adding a ruffle on at the end.  I, by no means, am a seamstress, so if I can do this you can too!  If you are looking for an easy (and cheap) way to create a skirt for your little one, check out the link above.  Each skirt only used a 1/4 yard of fabric (well the reversible one used 1/4 yard of each type of fabric).
So I had these adorable skirts… but no tops to go with them!  I had to fix that!  I bought a packet of long-sleeved onesies (on sale, score!) and some Heat ‘n Bond.  This stuff is great!  You iron it onto fabric of your choice, then you can cut out whatever shape you would like and use it like an applique.  For the pumpkin and the boo I just printed the images off of Microsoft Word, then traced them onto my fabric which had the Heat ‘n Bond attached.  You do have to make sure to flip your image over when tracing.  See here for pictures on how this process works (sorry I didn’t include pictures, but when the baby only naps for 45 minutes, your time is limited ;)).  For the cupcake onesie, I just cut a cupcake from some of the left over fabric from the skirt, attached the Heat ‘n Bond, and ironed it onto the onesie.  Easy-peasy lemon squeezy!
I also made two other onesie dresses, after doing a bit of research I found Barefoot in the Kitchen which explained how to attach elastic to the skirt before attaching the skirt to the onesie.  So thats what I did for the following two, and I have to say it worked pretty well! 
Hope I have inspired you to create some of your own onesies or skirts!  It’s not hard, really!  If I can do it, so can you! 🙂  Stay tuned later for 6 month photos of Annabelle along with a tutorial on how to make a skirt from an old t-shirt. 
PS: Thanks to Mandy from House of Rose to introducing me to PicMonkey!  I have just started playing with it to make my picture collages.  Can’t wait to play around more with it to really make my collages look top notch.

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