Eleanor loves Olivia, so we dressed her as her porcine heroine for Halloween this year.
Eleanor’s pig nose was drawn on with liquid eyeliner, which held up surprisingly well. I made the ears with fleece, wire, and a headband, and I sewed the sailor collar to go over her store-bought dress. The collar even has stars on the back (drawn on with a marker) for authenticity.
We hope you had as great a Halloween as we did!
Crafty (& Handy), Holidays, Parenting
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115 Comments
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October 31, 2010
Adorable! Homemade costumes from book characters are the absolute best.
Love it!!
What a cutie pie!
Absolutely the sweetest costume I’ve seen…
That’s so cute.
That is easily the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! What a creative costume. :o)
Okay, I just have to say once again how inspiring this is! I love that you not only gave your daughter an artful and unique costume, but it was based on a book character and not a t.v. character! Seriously, I hope I’m able to do as many fun, loving, and unique things for my kids as you do for yours (when I have them, someday, a long time from now. LOL.)
I saw these on Flickr, they are perfection! What a fabulous costume idea and I can not believe that she is big enough to go trick or treating, she is growing so fast before our eyes!
She is absolutely adorable…and what a super idea for a costume!
Ian Falconer would be proud. LOVE it.
jbhat
VERY VERY CUTE!!!
Girl’s Gone Child did the same for her daughter. I opened them both up today over lunch and was all….hmmmm, Olivia must be popular this year. MUST get my girls some Olivia books!
Aww, she’s darling!
Oh my…. simply cute! I love the dress
Oh, my gosh, cuteness just oozed out of my computer and all over the room! Absolutely adorable!
Ok, this might be the cutest costume ever! I loved Olivia when I was little.
OMG! She is adorable! I love her outfit! Precious!
So cute!
oh my gosh, that is the cutest idea for a costume! Olivia is such a huge hit with kids these days. i’m a kindergarten teacher, and my students are OBSESSED with the olivia books. have you read the haunted house one? it’s adorable!
Love it! She is adorable and I love Olivia too!
Love the Olivia costume! You did a great job…very authentic! And she is darling too!
This is just excellent!!!
Truly adorable. I am completely stealing this idea for my daughter next year. Love it!
Love it!
Really adorable little girl!
she’s so gorgeous nic!!!!! you did such a good job!
adorable!! her and her costume!
So adorable! I have to say, her dress looks so much cuter in your pictures than it does at gap’s site online, too.
Cutest costume EVER!
You couldn’t have done that costume better! Or cuter! So jealous.
So so very cute.
What an adorable costume! We tried to do Olivia, too, but our 2 year old refused:-). Eleanor looks amazing as Olivia, though!!
This is pretty much the cutest costume ever! Love the ears, she wears it well.
very sweet!
My daughter was Olivia when she was two! So cute…
love the costume! wish i was as crafty for my daughter!
Omg this is the cutest outfit on earth!
What a doll!!!!!! Love the expression in the last picture. Priceless!
The most adorable costume of the year!
Fabulous! Adorable!
That is the most adorable I have seen in my whole life! <3
You are the luckiest!
Hugs,
Nina
I really think this is the cutest, most original kids costume I have seen this year.
We love Olivia! Nice job!
that last photo is awesome!
this is brilliant!
This is so adorable!
She is so adorable and I LOVE LOVE LOVE this costume…you are genius…as always :)
We are big Olivia fans at our house, so I LOVE Eleanor’s costume! It is fantastic!!!
* How darling *
omg. the cutest. ever. i love olivia too but have never seen her looking quite so precious! good work!