First gingerbread house
10 years ago
Sunday 12 June 2011
Nothing fancy about it
When did it become the thing to buy, rather than make, your child's fancy dress costume? The boy and I went to a 'do' today to raise funds for the local maternity hospital, and the fancy dress parade sported only one homemade costume (and thus to my mind only one contender for a prize) - a rather fetching Dalmation puppy, otherwise known as Leo. The judges were not of like minds. What would they have made of the line up of rag-tag costumes sported by myself and my class mates at an infant school fancy dress in honour of the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977? Presumably not much. Bah, bah, humbug.
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This gets me annoyed too. Whenever it's a costume day at school, pretty much all the outfits are bought. I realise people don't have much time to play with, but it can't be that hard to adapt something that's lying around the house...Millie's last Angelina Ballerina costume just involved cutting 2 ears out of felt and then attaching them to a headband she already had. And then a bit of mascara for a nose/whiskers...
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