Joan Ellen Cornell

6:46 PM

{Happy Halloween} || my little octopus ||

6:46 PM

Happy Halloween! {Porter's costume was a HIT! Everyone LOVED it...and took millions of pics of him, so he's kinda like "wh...

Happy Halloween!

{Porter's costume was a HIT! Everyone LOVED it...and took millions of pics of him, so he's kinda like "what the heck is going on?!" haha}

2:00 PM

{Teething} || no fun ||

2:00 PM

This is funny. Well, not pee your pants funny, maybe more ironic funny. Porter's been "teething" for months now...according ...

This is funny. Well, not pee your pants funny, maybe more ironic funny.

Porter's been "teething" for months now...according to the doctor. So often times, when he's not himself, I blame it on teething.

Until a couple of nights ago.

HOLY FREAKING SHOOT.

I went to bed around 12:30am. About 3am, he awakes. SCREAMING. He eats a little bit, but isn't interested. All he really wants to do- is scream. For 3 hours people. THREE HOURSSSSS. In the middle of the night.
And I have a confession to make (momfail?)...

I put in these little pink earplugs I have. We still cuddled, I just had earplugs. You see, he sleeps next to me at night, and i'm not about to give up my bed. Yeah right. So earplugs it was. Well let me tell YOU. Those dang earplugs didn't work like they did at that music festival last year when I was trying to sleep and people were partying until 10am. Porter screaming a foot from my ear is SO much louder.

So yeah. That night was horrible. And the next day he didn't nap very much either, which was also horrible because I couldn't nap, and I got about 3 hours of sleep the night before, if that.

So NOW I know what teething is REALLY like...I wonder what was wrong all those other times? ;)

2:00 AM

{Happy Halloween} || porter overload ||

2:00 AM

8:28 PM

{Octopus Costume} || tutorial ||

8:28 PM

I really wanted Porter to be an Octopus for Halloween, for a while now. I originally was asking my mom to make it, but since I got her old ...

I really wanted Porter to be an Octopus for Halloween, for a while now. I originally was asking my mom to make it, but since I got her old sewing machine, I decided to do it myself. I really had no idea what to do though. I looked online for octopus baby costumes and it literally brought up 1 or 2 handmade costumes. Shoot. Someone had used socks for theirs, so I decided to use tights. I googled Octopuses and looked at a bunch of real ones and kinda went off of that.

So here ya go.

I dyed the white tights green with Rit Dye.

This is what they ended up looking like after being dyed.

I then rubber banded all of the tights separately, and a onesie as well. After they were done, I soaked them in Soda Ash (for tie-dying).

Viola! Done! I used blue and yellow dye and once they were washed and dried-

I cut the legs from the top part of the tights.

I then sewed the feet to be more pointy.

Then, I stuffed each one.

After they were stuffed, I cut out felt circles to use on the bottom of the legs, for tentacles.

Each felt circle was hot glued on.

Sorry for the lack of photos after the last step. I used thick ribbon for the waist and hot glued all of the legs to the ribbon.

And the hat- it's two of the tops parts of the tights sewn together, and I sewed felt eyes to it. It also has stuffing in the top to create a more cone-like shape.

And I sincerely apologize for not having a picture of a person (i.e. Porter) in the costume. He's been teething the last couple of days and PISSED so I haven't gotten a chance to put it all on him at the same time. Soon I promise!!