Mother Daughter Witch Party

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On Friday night my girls and I were invited to a Mother Daughter Witch party. I had never been to one before and didn’t know what to expect, but I was so excited to go! It was a last min thing, so I only had half a day to come up with costumes. Lucky for me Char had a costume she had made for her daughter that she let me borrow, Walmart had a super cheap one on sale for my older daughter AND I found some great black items at DI.

The dress we borrowed was a few inches too long so to bring it up quickly I used elastic thread on all the seam lines and it pulled right up! My own skirt was a bit long too, so I used some elastic thread to pull on on leg a bit. But I only was able to do one skirt layer before I ran out of thread. Then I was out of time, so that was that!

Here we are, all ready to go. My Mother in law told us to look scary, but I was the only one who got the message. I think we turned out really great for just half a day’s shopping/sewing/putting it together! Oh, my top/jacket? It was a maternity empire waist blouse and I cut off the bottom! I liked the sleeves and collar, but didn’t need the FULLness below.

The host made these AMAZING felt/cotton bags for each of the daughters. AMAZING! There were like 40 of them. The Naked one (who stayed dressed, BUT she kept lifting her skirt up to her waist to run) picked out the only one with a spider (she knows how SCARED I am of them). Of course it also totally matched her dress, so it looked super cute.

Inside the bags were these great lists. A scavenger hunt for the daughters! I wasn’t sure how she’d pull of some of these items, but they were all there an all SO fun!

The Naked one was OBSESSED with this eyeball (you can also see the cauldron in the top right). I have like 12 pictures of her and this eyeball, not kidding. Yesterday morning she woke me up by asking where it was (she had already eaten it the previous night)

Here is The Reader playing with the Spider, broom, bell and ball. She had a GREAT time playing with those items. Sadly, even though there were a ton of other girls there she spent the whole evening playing by herself. How do you teach someone naturally unsocial how to make friends. I know she wanted to play with the other little girls. It didn’t help that most of the others at the party were related.

After the scavenger hunt we had food. It was a potluck with a Mexican theme. It was so fun. There was a terrific soup, fresh shells and taco salad stuff, dips, etc… Just wonderful. The Naked One ate tons of grated cheese, her favorite thing ever. And the homemade donuts… Mmmm Amazing! Since I spent the morning trying to put the outfits together I didn’t have time to bring anything. Which totally bums me out. I have GREAT Mexican dishes AND great Halloween treat foods. Next year for SURE!

After the meal we all went outside and found seats around the bonfire. My kids are kind of Pyro’s (they get it from me!) and they both loved the fire! It was HUGE and very warm, which was nice because the night was SO cold. Then the witchy stories started!

The naked one started getting tired, pretty soon she was falling asleep on my lap. AND it was getting cold, REALLY cold, so we decided to leave early. It was a totally fun evening. I think next year I’ll not only attend this one again (a neighbor just a few doors down) but maybe throw my own for my husband’s family members who live around here! ORRRR maybe my local blog readers!

One final note: check out this amazing hat hairdo! Yup, all hair. I wish I had a better picture, The Naked One took this one for me!

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