quick! avert your children's eyes!
Halloween Butterfly
OOOH NOOO!!!
It's Alex, as the KILLER BUTTERFLY!!!! Run for your life!!
THE HORROR! THE HORROR!!
Happy Halloween!
Once your heartbeat returns to normal, here's wishing you a Happy Halloween!
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Hey Butterfly Fairy!! Alex looks so sweet! That costume is absolutely beautiful.....and well, those buttefly Robeez are TO DIE FOR!!!
Posted by: Lorri | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 12:40 AM
Appalling, just appalling.
Posted by: Menita | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 01:57 AM
eeek! good thing my child already went to bed! :-)
karen, what an adorable costume. the colors are perfect, the fabric is shimmery sweet-looking and most important of all, alex seems to know something special is going on. good job, mom!
i also like that you made a costume for her in which she can be comfortable and run about. when i was little, if your mom wasn't a seamstress--never saw my mom pick up a needle except to remove a splinter from my finger--your option was what the drugstore served up. not good. i guess i'll never forget wearing those plastic masks, my face all sweaty, managing a muffled trick-or-treat as we prowled about for candy. seemed like there was always some tag or piece of material sticking in my skin. i guess i didn't care so much because i was having such a good time but come on: halloween was painful.
couldn't resist: dd is going to be a princess AGAIN this year. well, a princess in high tops at any rate. hey, next year she'll be telling me what she wants to be, right? but i thought, why not mix it up and at least make her a *fairy* princess. so i dropped by old navy because i'd spied several sets of wings there back in early october.
but they were all gone.
now i see who took them, and painted them. thanks, alex.
:-)
Posted by: brat | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 02:40 AM
p.s. what's that in her hand in the top picture?
Posted by: brat | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 02:42 AM
She is really just too cute. I don't know how you don't just eat her up!
Posted by: LB | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 02:44 AM
I was a butterfly too... but nowhere near as beautiful and exotic as Alex. But I did have a smashing time dancing til the wee hours of the night... wings and all. Happy Halloween!
Posted by: Keelin Burrows | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 03:33 AM
Brat --
That thing in her hand in the top picture would be a grape. Because, clearly, the costume was incomplete without it.
Also, I'd like to clear something up: no WAY did I MAKE this costume -- are you kidding me? I'm useless at that! This was courtesy of "The Children's Place," in Houston, Texas -- one of my favourite not-expensive kid's stores.
Well, and the shoes were Robeez. I couldn't resist.
K.
Posted by: Chookooloonks | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 07:02 AM
Oh my lord. This time when I ate her, I got an antenna stuck in my teeth.
Posted by: Mir | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 09:33 AM
What a cutie pie she is!
Posted by: Dee | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 10:04 AM
She looks absolutely adorable! Happy Halloween
Posted by: Katja | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 10:06 AM
Sighhh...I'm so in love.
If only butterflies were as beautiful!
Posted by: divinecalm | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 10:08 AM
I am sorry she is just to beautiful to be a killer butterfly! Didn't try this last year making the cutest bunny rabbit something out of the Mighty Pythons or something! LOL! Cant't fight the cuteness!
Posted by: Sylvie | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 11:01 AM
She's the cutest butterfly I've ever seen!
Posted by: Bekah | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 11:20 AM
What an absolutely adorable child and costume! Wonderful pictures!
Happy Halloween ... (here via Divine Calm)
Posted by: Weary Hag | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 11:21 AM
She's more like a colorful angel than a butterfly! What a beauty!
Posted by: theAdoptShopMama | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 11:45 AM
She is just too damn cute for words! How precious!
Posted by: CJ Field | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 12:32 PM
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: tanyetta | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 12:43 PM
OMG!!! She is DELICIOUS!!!!
Happy Halloween!!
Tanya who is missing Maraval today!
Posted by: Tanya | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 12:51 PM
Wow. She is gorgeous here, and so is her costume!
Posted by: Bella | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 02:30 PM
Grapes are a part of every butterflies recommended daily intake ... glad to see that Alex is up on her Butterfly Husbandry.
Her costume is adorable. We're into Halloween Gruesome around here -- my eldest is going to be a mummy, and my daughter is going to be a werewolf. The baby wants to be an unholy mixture of "little Buzz Lightyear" and Mr. Incredible.
Posted by: Ruth | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 04:07 PM
Gorgeous as always! Did you make that costume?
Posted by: Aitch | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 05:01 PM
Oh, that is just gorgeous! She looks adorable!
Posted by: jody2ms | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 07:07 PM
OK OK...I CAME BACK FOR ANOTHER LOOK...BEAUTIFUL.......
Posted by: tanyetta | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 08:19 PM
Most beautiful butterfly ever. And the shoes definitely complete the look. She is toooo cute!
Posted by: halloweenlover | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 07:41 PM