Trick or Treat

It all started years and years ago

When I chose to make a Halloween costume for

Daughter Sarah's second Halloween

A clown costume

Big enough that she wore it 3 or 4 years before we had another costume

She was a cute clown!

Last year, she asked me to make Grand girl Lucy's costume

And chose Little Red Riding Hood

This year, she asked once again for a costume for Lucy

Alice in Wonderland!

Last year's pattern refitted to make an Alice dress

And of course, Alice has a white apron

Which I had no pattern for --

But I was able to somehow make an apron!

She wanted Grand girl Piper to be 

"The White Rabbit"

and I said that I'd make her a costume

but Sarah said "no"

I don't always obey so . . . 

I took a pattern for a "dog" and made it into a rabbit

Alice's dress finished

And Piper's White Rabbit

(complete with clock -- for the rabbit is always late!)

All finished and pressed

ready to be folded and packed into a box and mailed.

They arrived

Sarah was surprised (and pleased) by Piper's costume

And since I had made the costumes

"blind"

(not being able to have a fitting before I finsihed them)

Piper's fit's perfectly

(and she seems intrigued by her "watch")

And Lucy as Alice . . .

It fits as well.

Why, you might ask, does she have a black boot on her left foot?

(why, she fell down a rabbit hole, I answer, and broke her toe!)

The girls have worn the costumes twice already

Once to a trunk or treat in their town

And again to their day care Halloween party

But tomorrow night is the night

And I can't wait to see Alice and The White Rabbit

all ready for Trick or Treat!