My Butterflies

Here are my two favorite monarch butterflies.  So excited to go trick-or-treating!  We went to my parents for Halloween this year, the girls were thrilled because they got to go with their cousins.

I had fun making these costumes.  I bought the orange and black wings at Jo-Ann Fabrics and added my own white dots at the edges.  We also used black leotards that I trimmed with little black feather boas at the neckline and around their wrists.  I made Kayla a tutu with some bright orange fabric and netting.  Haley preferred a black ballet tutu that she had.

For their headbands, I re-purposed some old headbands from a birthday party.  I added some butterflies from Michaels and some wired crystals for sparkle.  I used some of the leftover black feather boa to top off their antenna.

Little Mermaid Cake

 Kayla wanted a "Little Mermaid" Cake for her third birthday.  I wasn't up for fashioning my own Ariel, so we used one of her toy figures and set it on top of a fondant rock.  I believe we used a toy Sebastian and a little seahorse too.  We had a really fun time making up the rest of the cake with fondant.  We made a turtle, an octopus, a snail, starfish, a clam, and lots of coral.