Some Halloween behind the scenes, because I got to be pretty crafty this year! I hate the idea of single use costumes, and some single use aspects were unavoidable to make this costume work (when will I ever wear a blue yarn wig again?) but I did my best to mitigate it.
My sweater and J's sweater + pants were thrifted, and are totally able to worn again, as all the modifications were not permanent. I thinks J is a perfect subtle but still spirited Christmas sweater too. The undershirts and shoes for both of us were already owned.
The pants I'm wearing in the dressing room photo I also got with the intention of making into the doll pants, but ended up liking them so much as regular pants I couldn't bring myself to destroy them. My original plan was to use a pair of waaaay too small jeans that I've been holding on for years hoping they would one day fit to cut up and place patches on top of the pair of thrifted jeans that actually fit. So plan B became to take a second pair of too small pants I already had and cut them both up to hopefully make a pair that at least semi fit? It did technically work, though I had to add additional holes along the seams so I could bend my knees lol. I tried sewing them and after the first patch got frustrated with how long that took for how bad they still looked, so I hot glued the rest and just hoped I would not bust through the seams like a Pillsbury biscuit that comes in the cans. Yarn for the stitching was random yarn I already owned.
Our buttons and Dr. Hakim we're made from a cardboard box I had medicine shipped to me in, and scrapbook paper + ribbon I already had in my craft collection. It actually worked out really well the box had a corrugated insert, because it made book pages for the side with very little effort on my part. The vines were from an old wreath I had taken apart and just safety pinned to the outfit, I used the wood from those vines to make the stem of the leaf head piece.
Buying new, I did get a head band from the dollar tree for the leaf + the fake moss, and I got the two blue yarn beanies from there as well. I hot glued blue yarn on one beanie to fill out the wig, so the only future use for that is as a cat toy, but the other beanie for the top bun part is perfectly fine. The yellow ribbon in the wig is actually reused from Mary's quidditch Halloween costume a few years back!
Bonus craft: I made little graveyard puddings for the party, and instead of buying plastic cups to put them in, I reused a couple of jam and peanut butter jars instead
