Inspiration can come from strange places

This fall our family went to the annual Pumpkin hurl and medival faire in Snohomish.   It was quite fun, I'm pretty sure we all enjoyed all of it.

I was hit by a small bit of inspiration while walking around looking at booths.  I found this...

I would assume by now your asking, "What is this thing? is that a hat? what the heck?" Well my friend, yes, it is a hat. This wonderful crafter makes these gorgeous hats as you see and while I fell madly in love with this particular piece it was priced at $55. I looked at this and thought, "I could totally make that." Why would i do that you ask? Well you see...In my past life I was a preschool teacher. My favorite book is "Where The Wild Things Are." I get such joy out of reading that book aloud to kids, I can't explain it, I just do. So, serioiusly since I've had my son, I've been wiating for just the right time to dress him up as Max, the boy in the story for halloween. I've been trying to figure out just how to do this. Literally like two years now.
I found a girl through work who knitted a hat for Jaxon to look like wolf ears.  $20
Then, about a couple weeks went by and I decided to go to a thrift store to try to find some hats i might be able to use.  I spent a good week looking around trying to find things to use for our costumes. I ended up buying a couple of hats and an awesome brown velvety dress (it looked like soft fur to me). Total spent $6.50
About a week later I took myself to the fabric store and bought some felt and fur and a much needed new pair of scissors.  Total spent after coupons $22. 
I literally spent 3 weeks of my life crafting, creating, working in my free time to make 3 wild thing hats, and turning one pair of little pj's into a wolf suit.  I did at one point ask a friend to help who had a sewing machine, just with the feet and crown.  Otherwise I sewed the entire project by hand. My husband helped one night iwth some of the teeth because my hands were in such pain from my tendonitis.  so, I can't entirely say I did it all by myself.
Basically I created the most awesome halloween costumes ever for our entire family and I'm quite proud of the outcome.  We were a bit silly if alone...but if we were all traveling together we were quite the team.

Ignore my freakiness...and simply adore the kids...I said ADORE!

My husband and I...go on, say it...aaaaahhhh

Max, the wolf is quite busy

Max is charming those wild things again

Let the wild rumpus start

Front of his costume

I've seriously never gotten more satisfaction from a project.

trick or treating

I adore this one. The man who sets up the greatest Halloween display I've ever seen, loved the little man. jaxon about freaked when he knelt down to talk to him. lol

one more trick or treat

Now, its simply time to clean the house.  I have ignored it for a month.