So, in a very unoriginal fashion, I will send a special surprise hand-sewn gift to someone who leaves a comment on this post .... so comment away, and you could win LOL!!!
These are the costumes I made for Bookweek a couple of months ago. We were too rushed on the morning of the parade to get photos, so I have just got around to dressing the kids up again and taking proper photos. Here is Glamourpuss as Heather the Violet Fairy from the rainbow magic series. Dress made by me, necklace and bracelet made by the fairy herself, and violet socks bought by order of the fairy from Myer LOL!
Tigerboy was very pleased with himself to be going as a Jedi, and I was very pleased to have a relatively easy costume to make.
He is wearing white pants which I actually ran up for Glamourpuss for summer from some stretch cotton. The brown drill cloak was an end of roll bargain from Spotlight made up to an Ottobre coat pattern. 
They are Glamourpuss's boots, an op shop belt, and a very easy tunic made from some white cheesecloth that has been sitting around here for ages.
Finally, here is a rare shot of Technogirl in the jodhpurs I made her. They are rather less tight fitting than is 'expected' but I had to strike a balance between the desired skin tight look, and wanting her not to grow out of them too quickly. 
It's hard to see in the pic but they are a proper jodhpurs pattern with no inside leg seam and reinforcing patches over the inner leg. She is happily wearing her "Angels have the phonebox" shirt from the Dr Who episode Blink. I have a shirt the same (she says with a cheshire cat grin :D )
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Oh my, those costumes are fabulous! I like the Jedi one. Must keep that in mind for DS if we need a costume.
Happy bloggiversary!
60 items??? That is more than one a week! Congratulations on that alone. And Congratulations on 1 year in the sewing group.
Happy Blogiversary!!
I love the action shots in the costumes, especially the fairy ones. I wouldn't mind some of those violet socks myself. They are lovely!
Happyt 1 year blogiverasry TF! 60 things?? Wow! You deserve the prize, not onw of us who post a comment. :) The jumping shots look so cool!
I love the action shots too! Great job on the costumes.. They look fantastic!!!
Everything looks really great, well done and congratualtions on your Blogaversary... 60 items huh? thats over one a week so i'd say thats a pretty good average. LOL
Happy blogaversary! 60 items is indeed very impressive...and the items themselves have also been fabulous - quantity and quality! Love the violet fairy action shots, the very jedi looking Tigerboy looks like he has just walked off the set and honoured to see a rare photo of technogirl in her jodhpurs.
Great job....good to see your kids enjoying themselves
Love the costumes. What fabric did you use for the fairy dress, the colour is just divine. And congratulations on the blogiversary - I also agree that 60 is a very impressive number of items made in a year.
Congratulations on your blogiversary. I agree 60 things wow. I love these costumes especially the action fairy shots
You've done a great job with the costumes for book week! They look fantastic! Were the joddies hard to make?? I am going to be making some for my girls soon as FIL will be teaching them to ride his horses.
Anyway, HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY!
Wow they all look fantastic!!! Congratulations on your blogiversay, I love all the things you've made, well done!
What a great job love the Jedi outfit my boys would love that.
Well done
Kerry
Tigerfilly, I've tagged you
60 items is amazing Tigerfilly, you should be very proud of yourself, well done.
Your Violet fairy looks both delighted and delightful!
Congratulations on your blogiversary too.
I haven't checked your blog for a while but after your email - I can't believe how much they've all grown..... and that it's been over 2 years since we saw all of you. "Tiger boy" is such a little man now!! and "snugglebunny" - I still can't wait to meet her!.
xx C&N
Congratulations on your bloggerversary! May there be many more to come :-)
That purple dress is just so cute!! And the Jedi outfit would make any body feel awesome!
jodhpurs are they horse riding pants? They are a lovely colour.. :-)
Well done on your first year, 60 items, wow would make any sewer proud.
My daughter nearly dressed up as one of those fairies once. www.homesteadblogger.com/ourlittlehouseintown
Hello fellow bloggers. This page was created when I found that it was soon to be my 2 year bloggerversary. I threw the word around jokingly for a few days until I thought about searching online for other peoples bloggerversaries. There was some website out there that tried doing this back in 2006 and it hasnt been updated since. I read about peoples stories and was pleasingly surprised when I found most are more interesting than mine.
I realized that the best "intellectual property" or intelligence is derived from bloggers simply because they are not paid. They dont have a hidden agenda and they provide an inside scoop as to the way things are in their respective cities towns or countries. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT mainly because I know the governments hate it... Anyway, bloggers agendas are laid out flat for you to READ. Please email your most interesting blog post to Gillyroze@gmail.com and I will post it here (unedited) immediately... I hope that this page will give a voice to those that otherwise would not be heard. The page is http://www.bloggerversary.blogspot.com Also soon to come, bloggerversary.com
Please, share your next bloggerversary with the rest of us.
Cheers and luvvv GR
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