The Sewing Mom

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My daughter attended a school dance on Friday night and the theme of the dance was Superheroes. This was a strange theme for 7th graders and it made it difficult to dress for the occasion. I had suggested to my daughter to wear all black and go as “Cat Woman”, but, not surprisingly, she didn’t go for it. Apparently, most of the kids who did dress for the event basically wore a cape and said they were a super hero, no particular super hero, just A super hero!

The process of deciding what to wear to the dance did get my daughter thinking about Halloween though and what she might wear as a costume. The past few years, I’ve made her costume myself. One year it was a witch (still my favorite costume that I’ve made), the next was an Egyptian Queen (the most complicated costume) and last year was a bag of Sugar Babies candy (the easiest and cheapest costume). All of these costumes were fun to make, some more complicated than others, but always cheaper to make than to buy. This was especially true because my daughter could never find the costume she really wanted and so I created them for her.

This year looks like it will be different. My daughter has gone online looking at costumes and has found a fun, inexpensive costume that I think she would have a lot of fun with, a taco. You read correctly, she is thinking about being a taco! Here’s a visual aide.

Come on, tell me that’s not a great costume! To go along with the theme, she could get our dog dressed up in the Lil Bandito costume, check it out! Of course, both of these costumes are extremely reasonably priced and available from buycostumes.com where we’ve purchased costumes from in the past. I’m confident she’ll find something she likes from their site, even if she decides not to be a taco!