fabric queen helps halloween

How sad and pathetic am I? I was IMing with my cuz last night, and she mentioned that she was considering making a scarecrow costume for her dd for Halloween this year. She was going to go look for some fall-ish fabric patches to sew on some overalls or something. "Oh," I say type. "I have some. I'll send 'em to you." And you know what? I did. I shoved some cool oranges, yellows, and reds into a 5x7 envelope, slapped some stamps on it, and away it went to the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country.

I am going to try to recycle C's costume from when she was 2. She was a big 2, and as of last month, it fit L. We didn't know where it was last year, or we've used it then. It's a great costume. I'd had a nice, orange top for C, and I was JUST going into the fabric store to get orange fabric to make pants and a tail, then I was going paint black stripes on it and voila... a tiger. But then the faux fur attacked me in the store, and dragged me to the patterns and I ended up spending a week on a wonderful, faux fur lion costume. I think I burned ever finger on my left hand hot-gluing ribbons around the opening of the hood for a mane. It's a great costume, but sheesh... do you have any idea how hard it is to cut that darned faux fur? The "fur" is attached to a thick, fabric backing, and to cut it without destroying the fur, you have to get your scissors under the fur and clip in little, tiny bites. I tried a razor blade, x-acto knife, my quilting rotary cutter... the darned clipity-clip with the shears was all that worked. It really is a great costume, though.