Dorothy Wizard of Oz Costume

Updated Dorothy Wizard of Oz Shoes

These are the shoes I ordered from Zappos for my eight year old granddaughter's Dorothy costume. Zappos is a great online store, mainly because they have free shipping....both ways, so if they don't fit, no problem.  

Having gotten the pattern (4948) for her Dorothy dress from JoAnn Fabrics when they had McCalls patterns for $.99, I made her the dress, also. (Simplicity also has one.)  I couldn't find real woven gingham, but settled on a printed light blue gingham lookalike.  Not reading the pattern piece for the skirt back, which said cut 2, I made it with only one back, and think it looks fine. So there is a savings of fabric doing it that way. Here she is...

Christmas before Halloween?

At Macy's last week, they had Christmas decorations up along with a Halloween display and it is one month before Halloween, which is three months before Christmas! This is just crazy...much too early for Christmas displays. Does anyone remember when they used to wait until Thanksgiving to put up holiday decor? Then it was moved to after Halloween. Now, evidently, the first official day of Fall must mean to retailers it is Christmas. It didn't even feel good to see it at this time of year...almost repulsive! Especially with the 70-80 degree temps we are having here in the Midwest.