Madame Butterfly

So-
Halloween came and went. XiXi wanted to be an azure butterfly and she wanted me to be a butterfly too!

I was on a quest- make a butterfly costume.

Saw a video clip on Martha Stewart.com

it looked SOOOO easy and doable.

Martha Stewart lies.

I spent days trying to figure out how to make the wire work with the panty hose. no luck. the best I could do was make the wings look like dragonflies. maybe. that would be a stretch.

the wings on Martha's video are fake. at least I think so!

anyway- glitter pant, gems, and lots of pretties later (all added by XiXi) we had a costume.

Assessorized with the help of matching black velvet dresses found on Ebay, 2 head bands, 4 pom-poms, and 4 pipe cleaner.

Ross completed the look by being an entymologist (which he made XiXi learn so she could sound smart!).

we were off on the quest for candy!

the wings didn't look THAT bad!

especially in light of the fake ones on martha's site!