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| E & J waiting to go on the Finding Nemo ride at Disneyland |
We recently took a trip to Disneyland for three days and I wanted to dress the girls in matching Disney attire. After searching around the internet I realized that I didn't want to pay what people were asking for the personalized homemade outfits (that honestly, looked like homemade outfits. I knew I had enough skills to make simple personalized t-shirts and dresses.
Total cost: $28
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| E with Jasmine and Aladdin (J wouldn't go near anyone in costume) |
The shirts were darling, but once I made them I realized I could do pretty much the exact same thing with fusible web.
So the next set I made myself. I found a of siloutte of Cinderella using google and traced it onto Steam A Seam. After pressing it onto black fabric, I cut it out and ironed it on shirts the girls already had.
I had some iron on letters in my stash which I used to monogram E's shirt.
Total cost: ZERO
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| E on the Redwood Creek Challenge Course at California Adventure |
I then decided I want to do something other than shirts, so for the third day I decided to go with pillowcase dresses. I knew I could sew them fast (I was doing this project the NIGHT BEFORE we left for Disney.)
I had previously let the girls pick out a yard of fabric when it was on sale at JoAnn's for $2.99. E picked pink Cinderella and Belle and J picked purple Princess and the Frog. I had to buy purple grosgrain ribbon for J's dress ($3) but I had black on hand for E's.
To personalize the dresses I traced letters onto Steam A Seam the same way I did the silhouettes.
Total Cost: $9
I originally had paired the dresses with long sleeve shirts, but the weather was so great the eneded up wearing the dresses without a shirt underneath:
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| At Mickey's House in Toontown |
They had a great time and I actually got a couple compliments on the dresses from perfect strangers!
Not bad considering I spent an average of $6 per outfit!
Ooh! I really like the silhouette shirts.
ReplyDeleteLove this especially the Cinderella one. Wonder if I could attempt something like this for our upcoming trip...
ReplyDeleteLove it. I bought a princess sheet at the goodwill for $1.19 and I am trying to decide if I will make a pillow case dress out of it or if I need to line it first. Talk about cheap outfits.
ReplyDeleteI love the stencil idea, might steal that one. I love that you personalized them. You did a great job on the letters! Definitely looks store bought. I thought you at least bought the letters.
I love, love, love fusible web! Makes me want to walk around and laugh at people's expensive shirts!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!