Except, if you haven’t sewn with tulle before? Brace yourself. It wasn’t rocket science by any stretch pretty easy to pull together. So, I got to work making the ballet costume from the pattern. Me: (squashing all Type A tendencies to Do Things Accurately) Anika, do you think that sometimes Angelina *borrows* Alice’s tutu?Īni: (completely OVERJOYED) YES!!! YES I think she does!!!!!!! Me: Well that’s true, but…we aren’t making an Alice costume? So…maybe we should do pink still? Me: Anika….we’re doing Angelina right? She wears pink?Īni: Yes…but sometimes Alice wears purple (sidenote: Alice is Angelina’s friend).
We were looking at the tulle and I was all set to grab the pink when I noticed my little girl looking rather…forlornly at the purple tulle. So we found some great pink stretch fabric to make the bodice out of, and Ani chose some COMPLETELY AWESOME hot pink sequins to put around the neck (and possibly the armholes, if I get to that. We found this one and figured we could make it work nicely. I debated making a mouse mask but ultimately we decided that a little makeup to make some whiskers ought to cover it.Īnika and I trotted off to the fabric store and found a pattern for a ballet leotard and tutu. Oh, and a way to make her arms and legs white (and ideally warm, since you know, we live in Canada and it’s the end of October). So obviously we needed a pink ballet dress, mouse ears with a pink ribbon, a mouse tail, and ballet shoes.
I laughed, and then I cried a little (because sewing with tulle is…a REALLY BIG HASSLE) and then we went to the fabric store. So it is hardly surprising that when Halloween rolled around, she wanted to be – you guessed it – Angelina. Her Papa gave her two of the books last spring and she has them both memorized – it’s pretty funny she “reads” them to Sam.
But she especially loves ballet, and ever since discovering the Angelina Ballerina books at the library she has been IN LOVE. (And the fairies, and the princesses, and the sparkly, shiny PRETTY PRETTY). So it should probably not surprise anyone that my darling daughter is all about the ballerinas.
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