Harry Potter Party

Chloe was invited to Kailynn’s Birthday party over the weekend and she had a Harry Potter theme–she even got to go dressed as her favorite character!   Of course, Chloe thought it would fun to be Hermoine but, alas, we had NONE of the parts of the costume… Nothing.  Ugh.

Enter Goodwill.

I was on a mission to find usable pieces of clothing that were close to the costume and didn’t cost an arm and a leg… oh and I only had 15 min to do it and Chloe wasn’t with me, so I had to guess on sizes.  All that said, I’m quite proud of how it all turned out.  In fact she might just have to use the costume again for Halloween since it came together so nicely.  Hah!

Here was the inspiration picture…

Yup, pretty close if you ask me.  And she can use all the pieces again separately (well, except the boys will probably use the clip on tie rather than her…)

And the party was a smashing success, of course.  She came home full of stories and goodies and smiles.  Josiah was quite bummed that he didn’t get to dress up as Harry Potter, so he declared that his next Birthday party was going to be a Harry Potter theme.   But you should also know that he has also asked to have a Lego party and a police party and a Batman party and a Unikitty party and an Angry Bird party… so it really depends on the day you ask him!  Ha!  I’m at the point now where I say–“ok, Josiah.  You just keep that in mind and we’ll decide when it gets closer.”  I expect him to change his mind about 10 more times before his party actually gets here!