Kiki and Clifford

This summer we had fun watching Kiki's Delivery Service.  We did it one night with friends and my Moosh watched it a number of times while I put L2 down for his nap.  So when Halloween came, she decided she wanted to be Kiki.  I decided I was going to make the costume using stuff we had, and I did, with the exception of two bottles of acrylic paint that we used to get the right shade for the bow and shoes.  On Halloween night we only got a couple sodden pictures, but one afternoon recently she put the costume on and I decided to get some better pics. 

 

She helped me make the broom out of packing materials left over from our trip, and Jiji was made out of one of her Baba's old socks. 

On Halloween her har was long and we'd tried to pin it up into the right style. Here she's just had it cut.  She'd asked to have a style like Kiki's, insisting on short bangs that fell in clumps.  (She's very detail oriented, like her Baba.)  We even put the little high oval rouge spots on this time.



She got the idea that the rouge spots only looked right when she wasn't smiling, so she tried to keep a straight face the whole time: 

I, of course, was trying to get a smile:

 

 

Or something.

 

 

 And Mr. Lou was lurking (mostly) just out of the camera's range the whole time:

Why didn't I take some with him?! 

He was Clifford for Halloween:

ears

tail

I admit, all my energy went into the Kiki costume.  And for him we were recycling a very minimal costume I'd made last summer.  But he was happy with it.