Whooooo's the cutest baby girl?!

I spotted the most adorable Halloween costume a couple of months ago when Pottery Barn came out with their costume line for this season.  I knew I had to have it. I knew sweet baby Kate would be the cutest Hoot Owl for her first Halloween. 

But....I didn't order it as early as I should have and they sold out. Bummer. So I hopped over to ebay where I hoped someone had bought one and changed their mind. Wrong. Yes, people had them for sale, but they were jacked up to over double the original price. That's right, over $100 bucks for a stinkin' Halloween costume. Uh, don't think so!

Sooooo, the crazy mom that I am, that was determined to dress my child as a hoot owl did what only one can do and made it.  I love to sew, but making sweet baby Kate's costume was never really on my to-do list due to the LiviKate's Collection orders that have required my time and sewing machine lately.  But, I'm pretty sure sweet K trumps anything else I have going on, so the creation of a hoot owl began.  I used a pic of the PB one as my inspiration and a combination of a bumble bee costume pattern for the body and one of sweet K's bonnets as my pattern for the head piece.    Honestly, I didn't know how it was going to turn out when I dove into this project, especially since I didn't really have an owl pattern. But after a couple of late, late nights and having my own model to "fit" every so often, I am SO incredibly proud of how it turned out. Take a look.....

our sweet lil' hoot owl.  at the mall to see some friends in their costumes too.

look at that "mom, i'm really hot, can't even turn my neck"face :)

With the Duncans- Woody and Jesse from Toy Story. 
Poor Eli was sick :(
Abbey made all their costumes too!

there's my sweet smiley girl.  

LOVE. THIS. SWEET. BABY.

so glad Honey and Poppy came over and spent the evening with us!

And Aunt K

And we can't leave out sister ;)

Happy Halloween!!!

Love,

The Johnstons :)