Little Jo's Halloween Doll Party at the Fairy Gardens

Some of the cousin dolls and a few of their friends were dressing up to go to visit the Fairy Gardens and to go Trick or Treating so they could see the ghosts, witches and scare crows that have been hanging out in the fairy garden lately.

James did not dress up.  He said that he wasn't a baby anymore but he would go to help make sure his sisters and his cousins were safe from the ghosts and the witches and the dragon that hangs out there most of the time.
He agreed to put a hat on and pretend to be one of the Little Rascals so he could at least collect a little candy for himself while escorting the others.  It does look like he was having a bit of fun in the picture below.

All of the dolls wanted to see the witches and ghosts up close so they had James push up some of the baskets and tables close to the gardens so that they could stand on them and peek at what was going on. Little Jo is wearing her same costume from last year and Sammy is in her ballet Tutu (her most favorite outfit in the world)

Our new friend JoAnn is dressed as a mermaid  and pretty Alana is dressed as a Greek Goddess.

Maggie has a fall hipster outfit on - it looks so nice with her lovely red hair. Cindy has a pretty pink princess dress and Kathleen has her blue princess dress on.

 See the jack-o-lanterns and the ghosts behind Cindy's head?

 So cute!

Tina is dressed in her mermaid costume.  Grandma added lots of sequins to make it sparkle for Halloween.

Here are some more photos of the group having Halloween fun in the fairy garden.

 

 

 

Happy Halloween to Everybody.  I hope you can get out and Trick or Treat

like you are a kid too.

BOO!!

 

Little Jo's Doll Party - Cindy gets a New Fall Jacket and skirt

Cindy Came to us from Ebay,  she was adopted along with her older sister Becky.  Both have been patiently waiting for clothes for school and most of all, a Halloween Costume.  It seems there will be a Halloween party next week and all of the dolls want to go.  Cindy is very quiet and undemanding, it would be easy to overlook her in the crowd of all of the others.  We try to keep her in mind at all times because of this.  Cindy had a pair of green polka dot pants and a colorful striped shirt made for her right away which we have not shared yet and she now has new shoes to wear about as we go out shopping.  Cindy watched as we picked a pattern for her jacket.

We used a Simplicity Pattern.   We copied the jacket pieces and reduced them to 90% of the original pattern size. We used this pattern to make the leggings too (at regular size).

 Our fabric for the outer shell of the jacket was from a green cloth napkin bought at Marc's.  The lining was cut from material included in a bag of fabric remnants from The Volunteers Of America.

We bought the bag of remnants on the last Tuesday of September at the monthly half price sale.

A tee, leggings and skirt were made to go with the jacket too.

The tee and leggings were cut from a tee-shirt bought from Marc's as a slightly imperfect shirt for $1.39.

The skirt was made from three different remnant pieces and a piece of remnant lace.  The skirt did not come out as well as we would have liked and may go through a redo in the future.

 Little Jo has not taken off her Halloween costume all week, she even wore it out to the pumpkin farm.

 A few pictures from the Amish farms where we bought apples, pumpkins, and butter for the fall baking.

 What a little ham!

A few more views of Cindy's new jacket.

Thanks to the generosity of a kind mother and her daughter for donating a bag full of doll clothes and shoes from an American Girl doll to Goodwill last week.  Now all of my dolls have shoes.  In addition to the seven pairs of shoes that were donated there were several AG outfits that will eventually go to one of our grand daughters. 

Be Sure to visit JoAnn Here at her Wednesday Wee Ones post  and visit Diane to see what she has made for her dolls this week Here.

Have a wonderful week,
Big Doll Hugs,
Candy