the sallys

Well, I did sew their costumes this year. I think having a back-up plan gave me the extra energy. They came together really fast spread out over a few nights. The fabric was all from my stash, which is so satisfying. I realize they don't really look like Sally's dress exactly, but I have never really liked Sally's dress. I will confess here that I, personally, have dressed up as Sally for Halloween every year since the movie came out except for 2 times. So this is like the dad giving his baby a football for Christmas, you know? I feel like I swayed them to be Sally, but come on! They really did want to be Sally, I swear--just the way they really love ABBA (and will hopefully love rollerskating, and Xanadu.)

So when the girls announced they were both going as Sally this year my friends gave me that look. The "Really, why am I not surprised?" look and so I avoided eye contact . . . anyhoo the point of all this is that I feel qualified to take as many liberties with Sally dress as I want. There will be deadly nightshade in their baskets with a cloth to cover it with and stitches drawn on their faces, of course. They haven't seen the movie, only have the book and the music, so it's fun to see them act out what they think it's all about. I used this blouse pattern and added a skirt to make it a dress. These fabrics are left over from all the clothes I made the girls this fall.

We have recently been singing quite a bit with the fraggles. I found this site with a ton of songs you can download-so awesome. And I am thrilled to report that we now have the songs from Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas from here. Oh, how I love the internet! My brother and I loved this stuff! (He might deny he loved fraggles, but I loved them enough for both of us. And I know he loved the Riverbottom Nightmare Band, for sure.)