Halloween 2014: Jake and the Neverland Pirates

Jakes Boots

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Halloween 2013: Wreck it Ralph

When I asked my son what he wanted to be for Halloween this year, his immediate response was to be Felix from Wreck it Ralph. I thought perfect, our family matches the characters almost perfectly! I love homemade costumes so much more than store bought, so I tried to be as creative as possible in putting our costumes together. Ngatoa's was pretty simple, we got his shirt and hat from Savers and I used felt to make the 'FF' logo on his cap. I made his and my husband's gold metals out of cardboard which I spray painted gold. As for my husband's costume, i had to put a little more thought into it. I searched high and low for brown overalls and was out of luck. No one, not even older Tongan men own overalls anymore. I considered buying a new pair but I decided it was a complete waste of money for one night. So I ended up buying brown pants from savers and I cut up a brown sheet to make the top half of the overalls, which I simply tucked into his pants. genius! at least in my books. ha! As for Leila's costume (who was dressed up as Venelope- and you can't really tell) I made her sweater out of a shower curtain (made out of fabric), her skirt out of the same brown sheet that I made David's bib, and her leggings were made out of an old sweater. As for my costume, I slapped on a blonde wig and declared myself Sergent Calhoun.

The Polynesian Cultural Center's 50th Anniversary

I danced at PCC for many years growing up and had the opportunity to dance again during it's 50th anniversary. I only participated in the Tongan section and I made my own costume. The material is red velvet and although you can't tell with the mat (or ta'ovala) around me, the costume was a puletaha with a sweetheart neck.

I also made Mary's puletasi top.

Halloween 2012

For Halloween this year I had the intentions of making costumes for all three of us (four if you count the peanut =) but of course that didn't happen.

My inspiration for his costume this year: Since I've been sewing a lot lately and because I can not get rid of this child =O, he is constantly getting into my thread, needles, scraps, fabric, etc... one day he decided to dress himself in the scrap material I had laying all over the floor. He wrapped a piece of material around his head and waist and started dancing in front of the mirror. Watching him, I instantly thought of a lamanite warrior (random thought with absolutely no connection but whateva!)

His costume: I took tapa from a pile that's been laying on my parents bedroom room for years and stained it  with wood stain. As it dried I cut up an old brown skirt that I had in my scrap pile and sewed it the tapa and made his "dress". His wrist and head band were made from the same materials. For his sandals, I cut out his shoe size from an old pizza box that was just put into the recycling bin and stole brown shoe laces from my dad's shoes (which I've never seen him wear) and vola, lamanite sandals. It was all pretty simple and easy peasy sewing.

Getting ready to go trick or treat. I had a hard time getting him to put on his costume and shoes but once he associated his costume with candy, he was all for it!

My cute little lamanite/nephite/stripling warrior/nephi/any book of mormon charater really!

Halloween Night was soooo much fun. This was my son's first year trick or treating and he got the hang of it instantly. He was not interested in eating candy every time he got a piece, he just wanted more and more! He literally ran from one house to another as we walked behind him. We had a great time and our community really is the BEST PLACE in the world to trick or treat and the hundreds of people that come here can attest to it.

Costumes

We needed an extra shirt for David for a show we put on in Montana. So with left over material I made David's shirt. The talented Tali Hafoka, made the dresses.


BYU Luau 2010. I was asked to make these dresses for the Tahitian section. I made about 16 of them! I was definitely sick of turquoise after this project!

I was also pregnant during the luau but after I gave birth, my sisters and I were asked to perform at a cottage meeting for BYU a couple months later. So I mustard up enough willpower to make one more for myself.



When my sisters and I were asked to perform at a PLC meeting for BYU, we decided that we needed new costumes, so I made these red dresses.


We used them again to perform at the Liahona Reunion in July 2011, performed for the queen of Tonga!