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My children are young enough that they enjoy dressing up together in a theme for Halloween. Several months ago the plan was to do The Wizard of Oz, but after dreading all the tulle I’d need to sew for my epic Glinda costume, Mr. A announced he wanted to be Chewbacca for Halloween. No matter that we’ve done Star Wars costumes a few years ago, we can do it all over again! So with that, the Star Wars threesome was born. See Baby-8 (BB-8) here, and the next one in the saga will appear next week!

Halloween is at the end of this month! Eek!!! I. Am. SO EXCITED! Halloween has been my favorite holiday since I was a kid, and now with kids of my own, it continues to be so. My husband thinks its ironic because I can’t stand scary movies and anything that spooks me, really. But I love the cute parts of Halloween. The cutesy spiders and ghosts, the creative Jack-O-Lanterns, and oh the costumes! I’ve always associated dressing up only with Halloween, but especially with this blog as a creative outlet I realized I can really make costumes all year long. Maybe one a month even! Would you like that? I know I would. 😀

This year’s costumes are featuring the ever popular Star Wars characters. BB-8, or “Baby-8” as I am affectionately calling him, is coming out to play today, and you’ll see the rest of the gang appear over the next month. BB-8 is appearing here as part of the Magnificent Wizards Blog Tour (make sure to stay around until the end of the post to see more entries on the tour). Doesn’t Baby-8 look so soft, squishy, and ready to roll? Mr. L still isn’t quite sitting up on his own yet, so this costume is perfect for letting him practice falling over! And I can just see him rolling over on his belly and back trying to keep up with Rey and Poe on their latest mission.

Hello and welcome to the Magnificent Wizards Blog Tour, where you will discover a magical world of boys parading about in costumed attire. Sewing for boys is a magical thing, as it requires an extra stretch of the imagination in order to make things unique and fun. If you are joining us for the first time, we hope you stick around for future blog tours! Each month there’s a group of special women that come together and sew for the Y chromosome. In the past we’ve celebrated boys in summer, the fourth of July, and even how to turn an ordinary tee into anything but. This here marks our 5th blog tour and I expect it to be the most magnificent yet!

Mr. A loves lego minifigures, or as we call them in our house, “lego guys”. Since he was able to start walking, he’s almost always had something small in his hands. I know what you’re thinking – choking hazard Sunni! What were you letting him do? Trust me, I know! It was hard to let this one go, but he’s never stuck anything in his mouth. It’s just his comfort thing, and it makes him happy. At first it was marbles, and then when big brother Mr. R started playing with legos around him, it transitioned to minifigs. To this day, wherever he goes he has a lego guy in his hand. Going to the bathroom? Put it next to the door! Getting in the car? Need to make sure you have your lego guy. Oh, and you couldn’t possibly sit down to eat without having your lego guy right next to you!

With all the lego minifigs getting spread over our house, we needed some sort of organization for them. So when I was asked to test the Half Moon Coin Purse pattern by Apple Green Cottage, I knew it was the perfect answer for our problems! It has also been a great way to say “sew long summer” as part of the Sew Long Summer blog tour. More time is getting spent inside than out with the seasons changing, and as a result the legos are getting brought out more. So I am bringing you the perfect DIY to organize Lego minifigs!