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  • It’s a Small World After All

    It’s a Small World After All

    One of my best childhood memories is the Small World ride at Walt Disney World. The ride is just my speed, I love all the cultural costumes and sets and most of all the song. Not only is it just a sweet melody, but echos such a simple, innocent message of world peace. Here we have representatives from Russia, China and India. Again, I hope this is not offensive to anyone. It’s simply a celebration of many nations.

    Okay, enough of my hippie stuff, on to the costumes. It all started a couple years back when I bought the Mandarin style dress at our favorite consignment shop during an after season clearance event. They mark these things down to a dollar! Then during the spring I saw this Sari style dress at the Goodwill. I love the fabric in these Indian dresses and couldn’t resist it. But Harris was my wild card. I had to decide what country he would represent. I thought in my head that Russia would be easy. Hmmm. Well I used that old hat of my mom’s again. I had some slouchy pants of Scarlett’s. I thought we had some fake Uggs but could only find one so a last second, rash decision to put my socks over his sneakers. We pulled the fur off of a Christmas bag and stuck it in there. I found the shirt at the Goodwill earlier this week. And that gold belt has been used quite a few times. I think it was from an old dance costume.

     

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  • The Mythical Cherokee Princess

    The Mythical Cherokee Princess

    I can’t speak for the rest of the nation, but down here in the south nearly everyone has a trace of Cherokee in them and many will tell you their ancestor was a princess. Well I recently learned this is but a myth. I haven’t done enough research on the subject to say for certain, but I’ve gathered that they didn’t have princesses. It’s possible it was a loose translation for a chief’s daughter. Don’t shoot the messenger here. I wanted to go with the mythical aspect because it has a fun and lighter air to it. Something that isn’t real so doing the whole pink and purple princessy theme kind of worked. I hope. It’s supposed to be historically inaccurate since she didn’t exist in the first place. See, costumes can be enlightening as well. I’m all about pushing the envelope but not into offending an entire race of people. Most of these costumes are based on an item of clothing already in the house. I really wanted to use these pink moccasin boots. Native American was the first to come to mind. While I’m sure it’s a minute little drop, I’ve always been proud to say I had a little Cherokee in my blood. As a child I was certain that the right side of me was Native American and the left, witch. Yeah. Totally normal=)

    So the cute boots are from Zulily. We reused last years Daphne dress. I self-fringed some baby pants that weren’t worth donating and pinned and glued to the dress. I can’t sew. For the headdress I pulled out an old belt from high school. Let’s face it. I’m not going to wear that again so I went to cutting. Glued the feathers and the applique things on and attached elastic to wrap around her head. We used her Merida bow and arrow. I would say this has a total Disney theme but I guess they did Pocahontas so never mind.

    As usual, I didn’t prompt this expression. I don’t know how, but she usually nails it. This solemn face was just right.

    Hope everyone is getting their costumes ready! Only five days left!

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