Ahndea May: Kids Halloween Costumes

With back to school begins the countdown to Halloween! The one day it's ok to dress up in costume and collect as much candy as possible! In our home, we are not celebrating halloween we are celebrating Fall... the beginning to our favorite season, with colored leaves, crisp air and cinder doughnuts. When I was in school, we had parades, costume contests and candy eating... these days... it's a bit more scaled back with fall festivals and fun apple bobbing contests.

All moms know the costume... is most important! Some of our kids, start talking about what they will be for next year, this year. Sewers make their own costumes, and non sewers like me wait till the night before and spend way more than I care to admit, just to see those smiling faces! Well this time, I've learned a few things and gotten a bit more savvy about costume shopping.

As with everything else, shopping online has become such an easy and stress free way to find what you want, compare prices and not have to get out of your jammies! The idea of going to one of the box pop up halloween stores and spending a fortune for the 7 additional accessories you need to buy to complete the costume all while being exposed to the disgusting scary gools and bloody heads is pretty much how I felt while watching Miley perform at the VMA's last night. Boo!

Have you heard of Chasing Fireflies? It's an online children's boutique with adorable clothes and shoes and yes over 800 costumes in their Wishcraft line. What I love... is that the costumes are complete, they come with the hair piece, and the shoe covers and the leg warmers etc. They are beyond adorable and unique and the quality! Can we just talk quality for a second... I have bought costumes for $30 that have seriously ripped before Halloween! That super thin stretch material with velcro that doesn't hold, ya not Wishcraft! And whats even better is that you can purchase shoes that can be worn with the costume and then worn again as a fall shoe! So not the super cheap throw on that you waste $15 buying but an actual shoe like personalized chuck taylor's or Ugg boots. You can even do a little Christmas shopping with their great selection of toys.

So.. what did I pick for the twins!!! A glitter jelly fish and an elephant! Yes two adorable yet totally different costumes. People often ask if I dress them alike... answer... no. They are nothing alike and it seems strange to buy 2 of the same thing anyways. Adie is this sweet and loving, soft spirit. Like the jellyfish, dancing and hovering around. Arlie, runs with a tilt like an animal charging it's pray! She means business but is so cute and cuddly! I am in love with these costumes and the adorable pink chucks!