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A yarn ball costume DIY!

October 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

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If you aren’t new here, then you know that one of my most favorite trips every year happens in October….a get-away up to Northern Wisconsin with my knitting friends (the KNITCH). We travel to the tall pines and lock ourselves into a big barn for a long weekend to knit, drink wine, eat, knit, drink more wine and eat some more. It’s where memories have been made, wounds have been healed, life has been relaxed and restored ANDDDD where our yarn and knitting creativity flow endlessly!!!!!!

So, *NATURALLY* this month I just HAD to make a costume in honor of the KNITCH and our annual trip…..this month’s installment of the costume challenge is a YARN BALL with some knitting needles! 🙂

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A bouquet of newly sharpened pencils costume (and how much I love “You’ve Got Mail”)

September 25, 2019 Leave a Comment

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“What will NY152 say today I wonder. I turn on my computer. I wait impatiently as it connects. I go online, and my breath catches in my chest until I hear three little words: You’ve got mail. I hear nothing. Not even a sound on the streets of New York, just the beating of my own heart. I have mail. From you.”
BEST . MOVIE . EVER! So, naturalllllly just *HAD* to make a “You’ve Got Mail” inspired costume for this month’s installment of my 2019 costume project……..can you tell what it issss????

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A DIY picnic table costume + an homage to my creative Mom!

August 31, 2019 Leave a Comment

How to make a DIY picnic table costume with fake food and a table cloth

This month is an homage to a costume that my Mom had made when I was in high school. I was trying out for the varsity hockey team my Freshman year and didn’t have my license to drive myself yet. So, my Mom came to pick me up on the last day of try-outs, which happened to be Halloween. I came out of the ice rink, sweaty and tired only to look up and see MY MOM walking towards me wearing a picnic-table costume complete with a can of sprite and blue plastic cup hot glued to a hat! Um. What?!

Yup! You heard that right. A vulnerable freshman, trying out for her first varsity sport and this is what happens amongst all of the “cool” upperclassman. Oy!

She’s flailing her arms, as if I didn’t notice her, yelling “DID YA MAKE THE TEAMMMM??? EM! EM!? DID YA?!?!”
I think I turned 90 shade of red and dramatically motioned for her to get back in the car. I’m sure I was yelling through clenched teeth “MOMMMMMMMM. WHAT ON EARTH?! Get in the car. Please. Just. No. Please, get in the carrrrrrrrr!!!!”

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