Halloween

In 1983, I made this costume for Daughter Sarah

Dad was an Operations Supervisor for McDonalds

And we thought Ronald McDonald was a great costume!

I took a regular pattern and modified it to make this Ronald costume,

it was certainly a labor of love and took some creative sewing.

But then I liked to sew!

And years earlier,

The very first costume I made for Sarah

Which she wore for four years --

I made it big so that we'd get a lot of wear out of it --

And we did!

And this year, that same Sarah

asked me to make a costume for her daughter, Lucy

This Nana who hadn't sewn for 31 years

(well, you can't count curtains and cushions and mending --

that isn't sewing --)

We shopped for pattern and fabric

And cut out the pattern on her dining room table

And I took the pieces home to sew

And I did find that sewing was like riding a bicycle

You never really forget how!

First the cape . . . 

Then the knickers

And the bodice

Sewing whenever I had a chance

And the Friday before Halloween,

I put this into an envelope and mailed it to Minnesota

It arrived Monday

And we had a trial run

 I think she makes a smashing 

Little Red Riding Hood

And after the costume was mailed to Minnesota,

I got busy in the kitchen

Pumpkins

and

Ghosts

Wrapped in cello bags to be mailed to Minnesota

and given to children  and grandchildren of our friends

And in a forest of Kansas City

A long long time ago . . .  

There was a little girl

Who didn't seem happy with her Halloween costume

For it's uncertain whether she's a witch or a Little Red Riding Hood

This little girl

Grew up to be a BIG witch!

Sitting under the portico handing out

big

candy bars to the trick or treaters!

It's Halloween -- do you know where your candy is tonight?