A New Adventure

Alison decided that she would like to be Belle for Halloween... but not the Belle at the end of the movie in the yellow ball gown. (You know, the one that the Disney store sells?) Nope. She wants to be the Belle at the beginning of the movie where she walks through town with a basket full of books. While I applauded my daughter for making this "intellectual" choice, I groaned inside as I wondered how in the heck this was going to happen!? Thank goodness for my mom... she coached me as I sewed a Belle costume! Ali gave us very specific directions as to how to make it... and although you can't look too closely at the stitches... I was pretty dang proud of myself.